Category: General
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Should junior scientists fall for peer-citation-cartels?
Citation cartels formed by journals are a well-known thread to scientific publishing. But this text is not about journals pushing authors to cite certain other journals to hack the journal impact factor (see Smith, 2006; for a comment on the journal impact factor). Here, I discuss my opinion about a strategic possibility for researchers to polish
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Black holes in computers – modeling astrophysics
Modeling physics in computers requires discretizing continuous quantities in space. Approximations are key to simplify the abundance of dimensions in systems with millions of particles, waves, and their interactions across scales. One such approximation is to assume that a magnetized plasma behaves like a fluid. Theoretical physicists then assign densities, electromagnetic fields, and velocities to
Jens Mahlmann 