Impact Factors in Science: time to leave them behind

In science nowadays the quality of a researcher is assessed through its publication in journals with a high impact factors. The impact factors was created by Thomson Reuters (http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/impact_factor/) and is the number of time a journal gets its article cited divided by the number of article it publishs. So an impact factor of 5 … Continue reading Impact Factors in Science: time to leave them behind

Drawing lines in raster cells (in R), with application to species distribution mapping

I guess we all had this demand from one of our tutor saying: "look at this nice output a previous intern did, well I'd like you to do the same". In my case the previous intern was using a different software so I had to find a way to implement it... The task was to … Continue reading Drawing lines in raster cells (in R), with application to species distribution mapping