Citation Map Shows Top Science Cities 167
mikejuk writes "Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers? Using a database and Google Maps the answer is obvious. A paper at Physics arXiv describes how two researchers combined citation data with Google maps to create a plot showing how important cities around the world were in terms of their contribution to physics, chemistry or psychology."
The Maps (Score:4, Informative)
Get over it (Score:3, Informative)
Word is now extremely standard in academics, including engineering and science disciplines. The reason is that what the researchers are interested in is actually getting their ideas out to the world, not proving they are toughguys by using TeX. What you use to create doesn't matter all that much since journals are very much saying "Give us a PDF," they don't really care how it was created. So you just choose what is easiest for you to do your paper in that looks good and can export to PDF. Word plus Mathtype can do a nice, easy, job of formatting equations visually, and gets you all the spell checking and other functions of Word.
I work for an engineering department at a research university (doing computer support) and we see more Word usage than anything else. Some researchers still like TeX, but they are in the minority these days.
If you want to be a tough guy (hiding behind an AC post) about only TeX based papers being "real" scientific papers go ahead, however realize the world has moved on and left you behind.