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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Astrophysics in computers: Building virtual laboratories
Neutron stars, black holes and the plasma around them cannot be studied in a laboratory, so we build virtual laboratories in computers. Modeling physics in computers requires discretizing continuous quantities in space. Approximations are key to simplify systems with millions of particles, waves and their interactions across scales. One such approximation is to treat a…
