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Publish or Perish! The most important CAD/CAM research paper ever………

by on 07-03-2009 09:47 AM - last edited on 07-03-2009 12:22 PM

Last week saw the release of the annual league table of academic research journals. Although the competition for prestige publishing is less intense in CAD/CAM research than say Physics, it is still interesting to check out the performance of one’s favorites. But beyond the commercially calculated impact factors, free bibliometric software is now allowing the automated interrogation of Google scholar’s database to identify all sorts of statistics including “the most important CAD/CAM research paper ever published” (allegedly)! Read more...