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Citation Map Shows Top Science Cities

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 20, 2011 @04:49AM from the not-well-correlated-with-good-beaches dept.

mikejuk writes "Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers? Using a database and Google Maps the answer is obvious. A paper at Physics arXiv describes how two researchers combined citation data with Google maps to create a plot showing how important cities around the world were in terms of their contribution to physics, chemistry or psychology."

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Re:Psychology? by 19061969 · 2011-03-20 05:45 · Score: 4, Insightful

Since it used the scientific method? Don't take my word for it - try reading some papers on working memory, psychophysics or the statistics of psychometrics to realise that psychs have to have a stronger understanding of the scientific method than most other scientists. FYI, read the real papers not the type of nonsense that comes from critical analysis.

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Re:I'm not at all biased by WrongMonkey · 2011-03-20 15:48 · Score: 4, Insightful

Maybe you've never gotten request for TeX because it's free. I'm an academic (post-doc) and I use tech every day, but I've never ask computer support people for it.