Subject: Re: Bird literature
Date: Dec 22 13:04:39 1994
From: Christopher Hill - cehill at u.washington.edu





Theresa Michaelson recently wrote:

> One final note - Dennis also recently commented that he probably does
a lot
> of his writing on the net and wished he could publish it. In a way, you are
> publishing it.

How true. And considering a recent study (of how likely new publications
were to be cited), which concluded that, in terms of getting any kind of
dialog going, publishing a paper in most scientific journals was roughly
equivalent to throwing it away, Dennis might have more of an audience
(dare I say a better one?) in Tweeters. There are a lot of journals out
there. Of course the prestige one earns on Tweeters is of a different
flavor...

Incidentally I don't have the citation to the article I mentioned, in
fact I haven't even read it, just heard about it from another biologist.
Now that's ironic, isn't it?

Chris Hill
Seattle
cehill at u.washington.edu