Jeanette Gundel presented a talk “Underspecification of cognitive status in reference production: the grammar-pragmatics interface” at the Workshop on Bridging the Gap between Computational, Empirical, and Theoretical Approaches to Reference at the Annual Cognitive Science Meeting in Boston. The talk was about our work on the Givenness Hierarchy. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Scientific Productivity Rating
There are two common indices for scientific productivity: the h-index and the g-index. I have gone up in both these ratings. My h-index is now 13. This means that I have 13 articles each of which has been cited at least 13 times. The Wikipedia entry for the g-index says ” a value for h of about 12 might be typical for advancement to tenure (associate professor) at major research universities.” To put that number in perspective, Sebastian Thrun, a robotics professor at Stanford and developer of the Google Self-Driving Car, has an h-index of 95. So while I am very happy with my 13, it isn’t that great in the scheme of things. My g-index is now 39– I have 39 publications whose combined citations exceed 39 squared. My Erdõs number is 3.