If computers don’t lie, here are some stats for 2007: I read (Show me more…)

There are many ways how to accidentially duplicate files: storing multiple mail attachments, copying or restoring files to a wrong directory. Here is a simple way (Show me more…)

Spiegel online reports a Pubmed listed study in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift by 14 and 12 year old authors. Having supervised such a study at Mini-München I believe that this not so spectacular as the DMW is now marketing this event. The DMW has been one of the most renown journals here. As a medical student I even had a full subscription while today the impact is being low (0.58) and needs some marketing tricks.

Knowledge, it will be superseded. For we know in part and we prophecy in part. But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded. (1 Corinthians 13)
With the vision of the imperfect to be superseded in 2008, to friends and family, to collaborators and competitors: Merry Christmas and a successful New Year!

20/12/2007 Amper Lock Dachau-Himmelreich

I have seen the first user looking here for the BMJ Christmas edition already 2 weeks ago — clearly the annual highlight in the biomedical world since 2000. But only today, the 2007 issue is being online. As a former recumbent owner, I can assure you that Professor Shuster’s observation is correct. Even with my folding bike in the Munich S-Bahn I get many responses from the public, usually technical questions by men but also price inquiries by women. (Show me more…)

Instead of highlighting the best paper in 2007, I decided to nominate now the most undervalued paper in 2007. There are so many interesting (and probably highly important) studies that do not get enough initial attention and consecutively fail to enter the high citation track. Here is one of these papers that even 3 years later is as good as on the day of publication as it provide answers and not only questions: (Show me more…)