Nature vs science: citation impact by field
Thomson Reuters, Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1999–30 June 2009
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Making an impact
"I look forward to increasing everyone's impact." Those were the fighting words of Mr Gerald Thudd, the university's new Head of Research Impact. Mr Thudd, whose appointment is in direct response to...
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Is all this on the record?
Let's not allow recording requests to stifle free exchange, says Tim Birkhead
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Research intelligence: Uncertainty principle
The British Science Festival aimed to bolster public understanding of science's contingencies. David Schley reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Academic or jack of all trades?
Knowledge transfer is a valid concept, but it takes time and effort away from the countless other tasks staff already perform
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From where I sit - History men's impact on events
That scientists and economists influence government is well known, but what about historians' effect on public policy?A biography of Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848-1909), titled An Indian for All Seasons...
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John Lowerson, 1941-2009
The Rev John Lowerson, a leading historian of leisure and locality, has died.He was born in a mining village near Doncaster on 22 July 1941, and studied at Maltby Grammar School and the University of...
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Oxford Brookes University - Piazza non grata
Plans for a £132 million redevelopment programme by Oxford Brookes University have been rejected by the local authority. The university is "taking stock" after Oxford City Council declined to approve...
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First principles define the 'good' academic
Having seen the recent correspondence regarding the administration costs attributed to academic independence, I felt compelled to respond ("Running battles on the governance front line", Letters, 17...
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Dangerous experiment
The least we're entitled to expect from an exercise that claims to assess research excellence is that it embodies research principles ("It's evolution, not revolution for REF", 24 September). When it...
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Against the odds
You characterise Thomson Reuters' success rate for predicting Nobel prizewinners "at about 15 per cent, with seven of its 45 predictions made between 2002 and 2008 proving to be accurate" ("Brits...
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'Partner' is not the word
Your article on the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) ("Saudi Arabia begins putting minds to challenges of future", 24 September) states that the University of Cambridge and...
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Anarchism never left
Alex Prichard celebrates the return of anarchism as an academic subject ("More than mayhem", 24 September), but one might ask if it ever went away. As the convenor of the socialist history seminar at...
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A latte with your alienation?
When I was a postgraduate at the University of Birmingham a few years ago, my office overlooked the Muirhead Tower (Original Features, 24 September). It was generally regarded as the ugliest building...