Friday, January 30, 2009

Where is She Publishing?

Using the bibliography of Dr. Medina's journal publications that was mentioned last post (included within the lab's website: http://sequoia.ucmerced.edu/MedinaLab/publications.php) I tried to find out what journals she tended to publish in the most. (These include articles written primarily by her and those for which she is given a lesser credit.) The thought behind this was that those publications she and her colleugues favor for their own articles may be locations that she tends to favor when attempting to keep up to date and informed, as well as, sources for receiving new ideas. (Note: This exercise also gave the author a bit of orientation as to what journals the scientist is familiar with, and widened the author's scope of available scientific sources and those sources pertinent to Dr. Medina's field of science. The shorthand journal titles used in the bibliography sometimes made for an interesting time when trying to figure out the full title, and a little yahoo sleuthing was employed for those that did not have a useable pdf file link. For those with a good pdf, the full journal title was usually found, as most of you will know, along the sides, tops, or bottoms of the journal article pages.)

Below is the tally sheet created:

  • 3- Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS)
  • 3- Science
  • 2- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
  • 2- Molecular Ecology
  • 2- Systematic Biology
  • 2- Journal of Experimental Biology
  • 2- Marine Biolotechnology
  • 1- International Society for Microbial Ecology
  • 1- Emerging Infectious Deseases [this one really kind of surprised me actually]
  • 1- BMC Genomics
  • 1- Molecular Ecology Notes [I checked to see if this was a part of Molecular Ecology, it is not and has undergone a title change. It is now: Molecular Ecology Resources]
  • 1- Annales Zoologici Fennici [A Finnish Publication]
  • 1- 10th International Coral Reef Symposium [I know, not really a journal but still an important publication]
  • 1- Bulletin of Marine Science
  • 1- Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • 1- International Journal of Astrobiology
  • 1- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
In addition to these, Dr. Medina lists four book chapters of which she took some part in writing.

2 comments:

  1. Ah! At least BMC Genomics is one OA journal that she wrote in.

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  2. Hi Clare. That was a great idea to list a tally sheet of the journals your scientist references. It seems Dr. Media keeps abreast of all the main scientific journals out there. Are these journals all available off a standard database? Perhaps she uses a specific database to track all these journals.

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