Australian astronomy looks forward

The h-index in Australian Astronomy

The Hirsch (2005) h-index is now widely used as a metric to compare individual researchers. To evaluate it in the context of Australian Astronomy, the h-index for every member of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) is found using NASA’s Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services (ADS). Percentiles of the h-index distribution are detailed for a variety of categories of ASA members, ...

Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care looks forward to 2009

Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, which enters its third year of operation in 2009 under the umbrella of BioMed Central, continues to promote and advance open access publishing through universal online access without charge, indexing in PubMed and archiving in PubMed Central, retention of authors' copyright, and expeditious peer review. Notable accomplishments during 2008 included a median...

The Scientiic Potential for Astronomy from the Antarctic Plateau Australian Working Group for Antarctic Astronomy

1 Figure 1: Map of Antarctica and the Australian Antarctic Territory. This sketch map shows the location of sites being considered for astronomy on the high plateau (Dome A, Dome C, South Pole and Vostok), as well as the Australian bases along the coast, Casey, Davis and Mawson, and the US base at McMurdo. 2 Executive Summary Our knowledge of the universe comes from recording the photon and par...

Citations to Australian Astronomy: 5 and 10 Year Benchmarks

Expanding upon Pimbblet’s informative 2011 analysis of career h-indices for members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we provide additional citation metrics which are geared to a) quantifying the current performance of b) all professional astronomers in Australia. We have trawled the staff web-pages of Australian Universities, Observatories and Research Organisations hosting professiona...

Journal of Circulating Biomarkers looks forward after being indexed in PubMed Central