1. Misconceptions about writing a thesis (links) Mike Gould of Communication Consultants Michael Gould Associates BV

2. It’s publish (and get cited) or perish A university department, research organization or individual’s impact factor can be evaluated using web services such as: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge (http://www.webofknowuledge.com)http://www.webofknowuledge.com Elsevier’s SCOPUS (http:// www.scopus.com)www.scopus.com Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com), orhttp://scholar.google.com Microsoft Academic Research (http://academic.research.com)http://academic.research.com For Article-Level Metrics Information, see: http://www.plosone.org/static/almInfo.action

3. http:// pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen The Sokal Affair: an experiment to test a journal's intellectual rigor and, find out if it would publish an article “liberally salted with nonsense if it (a) sounded good and (b) flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions.” The pseudo-paper was published: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair For a similar effect see this spoof lecture by an actor. Google: The Great Dr. Fox Lecture, A Vintage Academic Hoax Do you want to create a random pseudo-scientific article?

4. Some ideas worth considering Should everyone submit the truth, the whole truth (and nothing but the truth)? http://www.reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/RR_ material http://www.reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/RR_ material Free subscription, no author charges, high quality! http://www.jstatsoft.org/ http://www.jstatsoft.org/ Read more about Open Culture http://free- culture.cc/freeculture.pdf http://free- culture.cc/freeculture.pdf Open peer review e.g. http://copernicus.org http://copernicus.org