Friday, November 2, 2012

Me on the academic ladder


I was filling in administrative forms on ORO and noticed I could find out how many papers each academic could publish. 



If you sort them and log them you can see that they form a pattern. If I was a physicist I would say that academic publishing was 'scale free' because the degree distribution follows a power law.  I would then go on to claim to  now fundamentally understood 'research' and could go on to claim insight into something else. But I'm not a physicist like Barabasi so I won't.  Instead I will point out that if you log anything then you will find some kind of correlation.

I will point out that the red arrow points to my position on the academic ladder.  

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