On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:21:05 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote: >I am surprised that not too many Russians(at least the sample that I have >encountered) seem to know or heard of Pavlov.I find the same of the ex- >Soviet >block countries like the Poles and the Hungarians.But I did find some Uzbeks >and Ukrainians who were familiar of his work.Virtually all the reds knew of >Chekov.(sp) I am curious as to how many Americans have heard of Skinner, >Stephen Black,or Mike Palij?
The database "Web of Science" allows one to do a citation analysis for specific authors as well as get a breakdown of citations by country. Of 970 hits or citations of my publications, 66.80% (648 hits) were made in publications in the USA. England and Germany follow, both with 5.67%, Canada with 4.33%, and the Netherlands at 4.12%. So, I think at least 648 folks in the USA have heard of Mike Palij because they cited something I wrote or co-wrote. I bet most of them pronounce my name wrong. Interestingly, no hits in Russia or Ukraine but 4 hits in the People's Republic of China. However, the website software for certain analyses is not working properly. For example, when I asked for an individual citation analysis for the publications, it did not limit it just to my publications. Consequently, it estimated that I had an "h index number" of about 86 instead of my usual 13. For info on the h number, see the Wikipedia entry (yadda-yadda): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index So, some caution might be warranted in looking at other results as well. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14219 or send a blank email to leave-14219-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
