Do scientific publications change anything?

Do scientific publications change anything?

Website hits as a measure of influence T he ''simple'' answer is it all depends on who you want to influence, what you want to change, and by how much. It may also depend on how optimistic or lucky you are. But the best answer is that it is surprisingly difficult to be certain one way or the other. Journal papers have several audiences: other scientists, clinicians, policy makers, the media, an...

Do Images Mean Anything?

We analyze the operations that form the conceptual foundation of traditional database: the determination and matching of the meaning of a record of data. With a careful definition of the “meaning” of a piece of data, we show that matching can be naturally defined. We then analyze whether a similar concept can be applied to image databases. We argue that several concepts, that led to image datab...

Scientific publications

Scientific Publications

Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications Meet the Web

The world of scientific publications has been largely oblivious to the advent of the Web and to advances in ICT. Scientific knowledge dissemination is still based on the traditional notion of “paper” publication and on peer review as quality assessment method. The current approach encourages authors to write many (possibly incremental) papers to get more “tokens of credit”, generating often unn...