Louisiana State University Archives

Research evaluation: Citation versus expert opinions

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Lawrence Smolinsky examine whether peer reviewws and citation metrics measure similar notions of the importance of an article's importance, impact and/or value

Research evaluation judgements appear to be moving away from expert opinions, with more emphasis instead resting on citation counts. Professor Lawrence Smolinsky and his colleagues from Louisiana State University, USA, examine whether peer reviews and citation metrics measure similar notions of an article’s importance, impact, and value. They explore the relationship between the various phenomena related to the perceived importance […]

Unravelling the signalling cues controlling vertebrate reproductive behaviour

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This article explores how Dr Maruska uses fish models to understand the mechanisms of how the brain functions and adapts to constantly changing environment and physiological state.

How do vertebrate brains integrate information from external social cues and internal physiological states to produce appropriate behaviours? This is one of the big questions that Dr Karen Maruska and her research team at Louisiana State University (LSU) are striving to answer. Dr Maruska leads a research group that uses fish models to investigate how animals process and translate multisensory […]