Add Papers to Your academia.edu Profile

Academia.edu is still I think a somewhat experimental social media website. It hasn't got a lot of momentum with faculty members yet - most of the participants are grad students. This is true at Crawford School too. 27 Crawford people are on academia.edu but there are only four faculty members and two post-docs among them. This is because I think the website is most useful for people who don't

Google Scholar Citations

Google is launching a new service: Google Scholar Citations. Like Google+ the service is only available to a select invited few at the moment. It will allow users to update and correct their profiles much like the Author Search service in Scopus but it seems in a more user-friendly fashion. This will include merging multiple entries into a single article, a function provided by Publish or Perish.

Nature Publishing Group Goes Head to Head with PLoS ONE

Nature Publishing Group is launching yet another journal: Scientific Reports. It is an open access journal with the same $US1,350 publication fee as PLoS ONE. Nature recently launched another journal: Nature Communications that charges a $US5,000 open access fee, which is higher than any of the PLoS journals and the highest publication fee that I've seen. It's not a pure open access journal

Crawford School Working Papers on SSRN

I still don't quite get how SSRN works despite having my own page on there. All Crawford School papers that are on SSRN are now included in the Australian National University Crawford School of Economics & Government Research Paper Series. But the Crawford School has also launched a new working paper series on SSRN titled Crawford School Research Papers. We have a bunch more paper series too as

Invited to Publish a Chapter in an In-Tech Book

Open Access chapters in books with pay to publish fees seems to be a new trend. I got an invite to contribute a chapter to a book published by In-Tech. The publication fee is Euro 590. The book is available for free online but a hardcopy is mailed to each author. What I found to be even weirder is this statement:"To preserve the integrity of the review process the identity of the editor will be

A Small World or Not?

Academia often seems like a small world where everyone knows everyone else. But http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top">my experiences on LinkedIn suggest the opposite. Most of the people I am connected to on LinkedIn are only connected to perhaps 1-2 people that I am already connected to and when I browse their lists of connections there are normally only 1-2 other people that I

IAmScientist Again

I finally added a profile to IAmScientist, which I mentioned a long time ago in what turned out to be my most popular post.I was impressed by how it found links to my publications on the web. The site then generates an abstract for each publication. But it doesn't generate links to those publications on the web. You have to upload a copy to IAmScientist.Also its communication and friending

Researcher ID to be More Integrated into Web of Knowledge

Researcher ID allows researchers to "claim" their articles on the Web of Knowledge. Though you can view a researcher's profile if you know their ID number or they provide you with a link, this feature hasn't been integrated with the citation index.Thomson-Reuters plan to change this. The integration is pretty superficial at this stage. Only when you go to an article's full details will you see

Most Popular Posts of 2010

In case you missed one of my more popular posts from 2010, I'm kicking off 2011 with a list of the top ten hits. Actually, I saw a bunch of other much bigger bloggers doing this and was curious what my most popular posts were:1. iamscientist. People are obviously very interested in learning more about this science social networking site.2. 2009 Journal Citation Report Released. And people want to

Getting Around the Great Firewall

As you can see, because Blogger is blocked in China, Stochastic Trend gets no visits from there:I am sure some people visit using a VPN, but I've come up with an alternative solution. Once a month I could post the source code of my blog to my website. I don't know if the images which are still all hosted by Google will be visible or not and all the links on the side that go back to Blogger will

OCEAN-OIL

Boston University, Louisiana State University, and the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) have created a resource that will allow you to explore questions regarding the causes, magnitude and consequences of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, as well as to contribute your own expertise.The Online Clearinghouse for Education & Networking: Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL)

CCEP Debuts on RePEc at 17th in Australia

The Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, which was just recently launched, enters the RePEc ranking for Australian economics institutions at 17th (roughly top 14%). CCEP is a network of researchers working on climate issues directed by Frank Jotzo of the Crawford School at ANU>. We have a working paper series also on RePEc (which I am administering) and a conference/workshop is planned for

World Atwitter

This is just very cool:One minute of global Twitter activity.

Why You Should Have a Blog

(if you are an academic)The vast majority of hits on my website that originate with Google are from people entering keywords closely related to my name. By contrast, Google Analytics shows that almost no-one looking for my name arrives at my blog. So the blog attracts an audience that would be unlikely to arrive at my website and check out my publications on all the topics that I write about on

John Ionnanides

For those of you interested in meta-analysis, the Atlantic has an interesting article on John Ioannidis (needs subscription I think?). I've written about him previously and his paper "Why Most Published Research Results are False". This article gives more color about him and his research group. On a related note, you can now get my article on meta-analysis of interfuel substitution for free at

EERH Research Reports: August 2010

Peter Wood's paper on game theory and climate change continues to be popular this month. Follow this link for all the other stats.

Turnbull on the NBN

Turnbull argues that the NBN essentially is the re-nationalization of Telstra (link requires registration but is free) just like the original RSPT was the partial nationalization of the mining industry.

ANU Speed Test

Yesterday, I blogged about internet speeds within Australia and between Australia and the US from our home in Canberra. Today, as promised I'm presenting the results of the same test conducted from my office at ANU:Within Australia, ANU has access to NBN-like speeds (at least before the new 1GBs announcement). Between, Australia and the US the speed is much lower, though much faster than what we

Internet Connectivity

Joshua Gans has been discussing internet speeds between different parts of the world and running some tests. So I ran my own tests from home and speeds are pretty low just between my home and a server in Canberra:Our ISP sucks apparently, but most of the time I find our internet service to be adequate. Except when it isn't. Here's the test to San Jose, CA:Only a bit slower... What I should do

EERH Research Reports: July 2010

EERH Research Reports continued to enjoy an uptrend in downloads last month. Peter Wood's paper Climate Change and Game Theory was the most downloaded. Globally, RePEc crossed the 25,000 barrier in terms of the number of members with registered publications. I highly recommend all economists who aren't registered yet to register and make themselves more visible to the economics research community.