Grant Jacobs • Apr 28, 2010 •
I’d like to invite you to share your thoughts on the future of bioinformatics in NZ over the next few years. On the 3rd of May be a one-day meeting ’Where will New Zealand Bioinformatics be in 2013?’ will be held at the University of Auckland. As the title suggests, this is to be a future-looking … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Feb 19, 2010 •
Last week, John Key signalled in a speech to Parliament that there would be changes to the way the Crown Research Institutes are funded. Indeed, the debate over CRI funding has continued pretty much unabated since they were created. In earlier posts, we looked at the growth in the total bibliometric output of the CRIs and … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Feb 10, 2010 •
In a post a few weeks ago, I looked at the total published output of the CRIs from 1993. Now I want to look at the citations to CRI papers. I will use two citation measures. The first is a two year impact factor, which is a measure that is often used to rank journals. The impact factor … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Jan 26, 2010 •
In a post last year, I looked at New Zealand’s bibliometric productivity in the university and government research sectors using data from the SCImago bibliometric site. Over the next few weeks, I will report on some further bibliometric analyses using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science. While providing substantially the same New Zealand-wide results as SCImago, the … Read More
Peter Griffin • Dec 15, 2009 •
You’ve got to love Bob Brockie’s blunt assessment of the science system outlined in Monday’s science column in the Dominion Post. Sadly it isn’t online, but this cartoon penned by Brockie accompanied the article and pretty much sums it up… Credit: Bob Brockie … Read More
Peter Griffin • Dec 02, 2009 •
Statistics New Zealand has just released some data looking at the financial performance of the Crown Research Institutes, information that comes at a sensitive time, as the CRI Taskforce prepares to finalise its recommendations on the future of the Government-owned research institutions. From a business spoint of view, and lets face it, the CRIs are commercially-focused entities, the most important … Read More
Peter Griffin • Nov 13, 2009 •
The New Zealand Association of Scientists dished out their annual awards last night at a ceremony at Turnbull House attended by a surprisingly high number of science bigwigs. Professor Ian Shaw picked up the Science Communicator Award, which was judged by the Science Media Centre. Ian well deserved the award – he is one of the country’s best science … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Oct 19, 2009 •
To what extent do scientists at Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) collaborate? Using the Thompson Reuters Web of Science, I have constructed the CRI co-author network for 2008. As best I can determine, the Web of Science database contains 1271 papers from 2008 with CRI authors. In total, 4496 authors contributed to this set of papers — not … Read More