The 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE) takes place in Milan next week. With a couple thousand attendees, the conference will publish a lot of papers, some of which refer to OpenSees. Depending on how WCEE authors cite their use of OpenSees, there's usually a bump in OpenSees citations after the proceedings are posted … Continue reading The OpenSees WCEE Bump
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Abstract Frenzy
The deadline to submit abstracts for the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE), the quadrennial venue to share earthquake engineering ideas and research, is right around the corner. Noting that 93% of statistics are made up, WCEE abstracts have an 80% acceptance rate; however, some of the ensuing papers are impactful. And in many … Continue reading Abstract Frenzy
One Citation at a Time
Within the last day or two, I tripped 1000 citations for 2021 according to Google Scholar. Thank you, OpenSees! A colleague in Eastchester asked if the blog has helped my citation count. I don't think it has, except for reminding a couple people to cite OpenSees somehow instead of simply writing "We used OpenSees" somewhere … Continue reading One Citation at a Time
With or Without You
Citation-based metrics are like lottery tickets--they are not for investment purposes and should be used for entertainment only. Unfortunately, some promotion and tenure evaluators treat citation-based metrics like investment decisions. To aid in evaluation, citation-based metrics are readily available online, ranging from Web of Science, which indexes only archival publications, to Google Scholar, which indexes … Continue reading With or Without You
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