92: Chaos in the brickyard

Everything Hertz

Dan and James discuss the role of Google Scholar in citation patterns and whether we should limit academics to only publishing two papers a year.

Links and details:

• James has a new Hertz-quarters
• The Metascience conference
• How is google scholar influencing citation patterns
• A slide from @Jevinwest's presentation on Google Scholars
• Is this a symptom of lazy citaton practices rather than the algorithm?
• What are the alternatives to google scholar?
• Should google open up the algorithm?
• GS will find your preprint and link it to the paywall link
• Why is Google Scholar free?
• What would make GS better?
• Using the Zotero plugin for to collected citation info in bulk from search results in GS
• Top recommended articles in GS are phenomenal
• GS is not great for meta-analysis
• GS reduces friction
• Should we limit academics to only publishing two papers a year, as suggested by former guest, Dorothy Bishop?
• Who would stand to lose from this?
• Is this idea practical? What if only a few countries or institutions implemented this?
• The Japanese math genius who posts papers on his own website
• Chaos in the brickyard paper Chaos in the brickyard cartoon Open data isn’t a new concept

Other links

• [Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
• [James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
• [Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
• [Everything Hertz on Facebook](www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/)

Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Episode citation and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, September 16) "Chaos in the brickyard", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast] https://osf.io/xfd2p/

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