Christian Reinboth

My little experiment with academia.edu and Google Scholar was a success: The paper I uploaded to academia.edu last month can now be found in the search results of Google Scholar. That means, that academia.edu is indeed a viable alternative for getting papers listed in Google Scholar if the website of your institution is not yet indexed.

Looking foward to giving a presentation about the value of social networks for museums at the Ludwiggalerie in Oberhausen. As always, I have uploaded my slides to slideshare, so you can view and download them by clicking on the link below.

Yesterday, I finally managed to submit my term paper on urban management to Hagen University. If I happen to pass this course, I'll be 4 credit points less away from my M.Sc. degree. Next in line is a course on environmental policy, which I am really looking foward to dig into.

Researching the history of the failed Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Missouri. A fascinating story, which gives many insights into how social housing projects should be designed. I'd love to add the paper "Pruitt-Igoe and other stories" by Mary Comerio (1981) to my reading list, but unfortunately I only have access to the first page. Does anyone have full access?

I recently published a lengthy blogpost about the topic of my presentation at the 11th NWK in April: Can universities and other institutions of higher leaning benefit from intellectual capital statements? (in German) Questions and comments welcome!

Just finished reading through the latest draft of a 14 pages long paper on burnout symptoms, for which I provided the statistical analysis. My gut tells me that the paper is now finally ready for submission. If accepted, it would be my longest peer-reviewed publication so far, so wish me luck.

By the way, I have uploaded my (German) paper on intellectual capital statements in universities on academia.edu, in case anyone is interested in taking a look (see link). I also was told, that Google Scholar sooner or later picks up any papers uploaded on academia.edu and am curious to find out whether that is actually true.

Back from the 11. Nachwuchswissenschaftlerkonferenz (11th Young Scientists Conference) in Schmalkalden. Gave a talk about the application of intellectual capital statements in a university setting and attended many interesting talks by colleagues from various fields of study. If anyone is interested, my slides can be downloaded at slideshare.net (see link).

Working with the COPSOQ (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire) for the first time. According to one of my colleagues, the COPSOQ is the most important screening instrument for assessing the psychosocial factors of work. Yet, I have never heared of it before - an obvious gap in education. Fortunately, Google Scholar provides me with a lot of papers on this subject.

New blog post (in German) about a paper by Beel, Gipp and Wilde: How can scientists "optimize" their articles to get good rankings on Google Scholar - and is Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO) really such a good idea?

The troubeling decline in bee populations (CCD, colony collapse disorder) continues: "Data from the US Department of Agriculture show a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, following a 36 percent decline in 2008 and a 32 percent fall in 2007."

Finally submitted my paper on intellectual capital statements today. I'll probably give a talk of about 30 minutes on that subject at the University of Applied Sciences in Schmalkhalden on April 11th. Looking foward to the opportunity of discussing the value of intellectual capital statements with lecturers from various regional universities.

Confused with a SPSS problem. When perfoming an ANOVA using Scheffé's method to adjust the significance levels, we get different significance values with different SPSS versions using the same set of data. For example, SPSS 10.1 shows a significance value of 0.057 while SPSS 11.0 shows a significance value of 0.029. All other values (e.g. mean difference, standard error) are identical. Does anybody have any ideas?

Enjoying the feeling of relief after I managed to finally complete my paper on intellectual capital statements in a marathon writing hour yesterday. By the way, a really good paper on the value of intellectual capital statements is: "Does intellectual capital reporting matter to financial analysts?" by Kay Alwert, Manfred Bornemann and Markus Will.

Taking a day off from my regular work tomorrow in order to review my paper collection on intellectual capital statements and to identify possible sources for my NWK paper which is due on March 16th. Big paper - I have between 8 and 10 pages to fill.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that todays earthquake offshore Maule, Chile had a magnitude of 8.8, after initially considering it to be an 8.3. Anyway, the earthquake has obviously been very strong. Hopefully, no tsunami has been triggered.

I have filed a petition with the German Environmental Protection Agency (BMU) to include light pollution into a list of important environmental problems that lack public recognition. You can support this initiative by voting and/or commenting on the BMU website (website is in German, a minimal registration is required).

Uploaded several scientific articles to the website of our research institute and requested a crawl by the Google Scholar bot. I have never tried a direct crawl request before and am very curious about the results. Currently, only a fraction of our papers is indexed in Google Scholar via arXiv.org.

Confusing abstract on pnas.org: "A consideration of the long-term consequences of current human behavior for deleterious-mutation accumulation leads to the conclusion that a substantial reduction in human fitness can be expected over the next few centuries in industrialized societies unless novel means of genetic intervention are developed."

Trying to figure out the best way for ranking some interview data. Interviewees were able to attribute a rank to several items or declare that the items are of no significance to them. Therefore, lower ranks were almost not chosen at all. Currently, I am thinking about multiplying the mean with the share of interviewees who found the respective item to be of no significance.