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by Bert R. Boyce
page 577
GUEST EDITORS: ELISABETH LOGAN AND MARVIN POLLARD
Introduction
by Elisabeth Logan and Marvin Pollard
page 581
by Stuart Weibel
page 583
by Yves Marcoux and Martin SÈvigny
page 584
by James David Mason
page 593
by Sharon C. Adler
page 597
by W. Eliot Kimber and Julia A. Woods
page 603
by Peter Flynn
page 614
by David T. Barnard and Nancy M. Ide
page 622
by Arijit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon
page 629
by Jon Fausey and Keith Shafer
page 638
by Airi Salminen, Katri Kauppinen, and Merja Lehtovaara
page 644
by Charles F. Goldfarb
page 656
More Authors, More Institutions, and More Funding Sources: Hot Papers
in Biology from 1991 to 1993
by Zhang Haiqi
page 662
Haiqi, using 16 issues of Science Watch from 1993 to 1995, identifies
71
highly cited ``hot'' biology papers. Several papers were excluded, some
for
having too many authors. 153 papers were then selected from Nature, 139
from Cell, and 124 from Science. It seems likely that these papers were
those to be found in issues of these journals that contained at least one
of the previously selected ``hot papers.'' Papers with 22 or more authors
were apparently excluded from this set as well.
Authors, unique author affiliations, and funding sources were identified
and counted for each paper. None of the 27 ``hot'' papers in Nature had
less than 3 authors, and only one of the ``hot'' papers in both Cell and
in
Science had less than 3 authors. In the whole Nature sample only 45 of 153
papers had less than 3 authors; 27 of 139 in Cell and 38 of 124 in Science
had less than 3 authors. The mean number of authors per ``hot'' paper is
6.54 in Nature, 6.62 in Cell, and 7.71 in Science. The mean numbers of
authors per paper in these journals were 4.34, 4.55, and 4.41,
respectively. The mean number of institutions per paper is 2.06 for
Science, 1.91 for Nature, and 1.62 for Cell. In Nature 59% of papers are
multi-institutional, 58% in Science, and 45% in Cell. At least two nations
shared authorship in 32% of papers published in Nature, 21% in Science,
and
18% in Cell. The mean number of funding sources per paper is 3.78 for
Science, 3.43 for Cell, and 3.25 for Nature, and the mean number of funding
sources is higher for the ``hot'' papers. Big science as a cooperative
enterprise seems alive and well in Biology.
Qualitative Exploration of Learners' Information-Seeking Processes
Using Perseus Hypermedia System
by Shu Ching Yang
page 667
Six subjects from different disciplines were interviewed by Yang after
they performed tasks on an interactive hypermedia database on Greek
history. The tasks involved writing interpretative essays on assigned
topics which could be approached by way of the system. The subjects were
asked to verbalize their thought process as they worked on the assignment,
were observed doing so, and subjected to a post-task interview about their
decision processes. The result is a model incorporating five activities
and
a series of general statements about observed behaviors.
The Art of Abstracting (2nd ed.), by Edward T. Cremmins
by Carol A. Bean
page 670
Ethics and Computing: Living Responsibly in a Computerized World,
by Kevin W. Bowyer
by Robert L. Battenfeld
page 671
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