After some conversation with Roozbeh which are "irritatingly useful" :) I found that this site has done already all the calculations we need http://www.scimagojr.com/  except the list of highlycited papers which remains for me the most interesting aspect and which we seem to need to do manually as we did yesterday with IJSS and JMPS at Most cited papers and H-factor of some mechanics journals -- IJSS

Some results are attached as a big PDF file.

Sir Richard Branson has recently announced

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 18

The full list of journals ranked by H index

It is possible to rank journals equally as authors, using e.g. the Harzing Publish or Perish sofware based on Google Scholar. I did the excercise for IJSS. It turns out the H-index is 78 (slightly higher than even the best authors in solid mechanics, but not stellar).  In the most highlycited papers, we find good names, but not stellar papers.

The results may be affected by the limitations of the software.

UPDATE:  IT APPEARS THAT HARZING HAS TWO PAPERS ON THIS IDEA, SEE ATTACHED.

NASA Engineers Work on Alternative Moon Rocket

http://www.scienceblogs.de/lindaunobel/english-reports/

July 13, 2008, 7:31 pm

Schwarzenegger Says He Would Accept Obama Appointment

Melanie Trottman reports on the presidential race.

Guests on the Sunday newsmaker shows, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain adviser Carly Fiorina, spotlighted energy and the economy and paid tribute to former White House press secretary Tony Snow.

These type of projects are interesting, when a mechanics-based one?

http://www.healthmap.org/en

An example of web-based projects

Materials: Colourful clay

 Nature

Materials: Colourful clay

Nature 454, 140 (2008). doi:10.1038/454140c

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Delft 22 - 24 October

Chairmen:    

Tom Scarpas     Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Patrick Selvadurai     McGill University, Canada

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Science's Editor in Chief and "Friends" Discuss Peer Review and Journal
Impact. (July 4, 2008)

Bruce
Alberts1, Brooks Hanson2
and Katrina L. Kelner3 collaborated to write this
week's Science editorial on peer review. And if for no other reason
than the weekly has one of the highest impact ratings, when Science
speaks science administrators listen.

Experts say China’s wind energy could grow 1667% by 2020

http://www.iconflict.com/detail/Experts-Say-Chinas-Wind-Energy-Could-Gro...

Sulston argues for open medicine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7490384.stm

and listen to audio at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7490482.stm

My friend Pugno is speculating beyond the nanomaterial strength.

I was reading this research from A&M Texas on Viagra and Watermelon. 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630165707.htm

I have noticed that it has made the front page news on many newspapers
worldwide in a matter of few days.  Maybe we should move to this field,
and because below I find that there are indeed interaction with aorta stiffness and elastic wave reflections.

So if you are interested in a subject of certain high impact, this is a good idea.

Mike

Important updates (July 8th, 2008:

• Wikipedia on peer review --- an excellent article, an example of wikipedia quality, and interesting anyway!
• Science's Editor in Chief and "Friends" Discuss Peer Review and Journal Impact.
• Nobel laureate Sulston argues for open medicine

Widely disseminated and cited results—with no access restrictions!

Open access

Research Article

Formal Correction: This article has been formally corrected to address the following errors.

I was  reading the rejection of imechanica from NSF

A "Supreme Court" for peer review of papers and proposals

And these sentences came to my mind.....

Important update (July 6, 2008)

• Wikipedia on peer review --- an excellent article, an example of wikipedia quality, and interesting anyway!
• Science's Editor in Chief and "Friends" Discuss Peer Review and Journal Impact.

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