String Poll Revisited

[Severian]

A few days back' date=' Severian mentioned that he would be seeing Mike Peskin this week. [/quote']

 

I meant next week, at the SUSY 2005 conference, but looking at the participant list, he won't be there...

[Martin]

final update

OUR PREDICTIONS OF HOW MANY RECENT STRING PAPERS WILL BE CITED 125+ TIMES IN 2005

 

Guesser  # recent string papers to get 125 or more citations in 2005

Spyman       7
Bascule      6
me           5
Severian     4
Yourda       3
Dave         2-5
JaKiri       2-5
K9-47G       2-5
MacSwell     2
Bettina      1 or none
CPL.Luke     1 or none
Ed84c        1 or none

 

 

the reality check here will be based on the Stanford library topcites list if all goes as expected

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/annual.shtml'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/annual.shtml

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/

 

hopefully soon after the first of next year Stanford library will update the citations counts, if they abandon the practice of posting TopCite data we can still grub it out of arxiv.org. just more work.

 

Best wishes and thanks to the participants. I'll be interested to find out the result, at this point these are all reasonable forecasts and I think any one could turn out right.

 

YT, if you think proper, how about locking the thread?

[Ophiolite]

Martin, I'm going for eleven (11) based entirelyon your input and a knowledge of human nature.

 

1) I believe you when you say string theory is on its way out.

2) Many have devoted there entire careers to it

3) They are not stupid and sense 1) is the case

4) Just before a drowning physicist* goes down for the last time there is an awful lot of threshing about.

 

So, eleven it is.

 

 

*If you wish to try this experiment in your local swimming pool it may be best to use a micro-biologist or biochemist: they are typically less massive and more tractable.

[Martin]

final final update

OUR PREDICTIONS OF HOW MANY RECENT STRING PAPERS WILL BE CITED 125+ TIMES IN 2005

 

Guesser  # recent string papers to get 125 or more citations in 2005

Ophiolite   11
Spyman       7
Bascule      6
me           5
Severian     4
Yourda       3
Dave         2-5
JaKiri       2-5
K9-47G       2-5
MacSwell     2
Bettina      1 or none
CPL.Luke     1 or none
Ed84c        1 or none

 

 

the reality check here will be based on the Stanford library topcites list if all goes as expected

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/annual.shtml'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/annual.shtml

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/'>http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/2004/

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/topcites/

 

hopefully soon after the first of next year Stanford library will update the citations counts, if they abandon the practice of posting TopCite data we can still grub it out of arxiv.org. just more work.

 

Best wishes and thanks to the participants. I'll be interested to find out the result, at this point these are all reasonable forecasts* and I think any one could turn out right.

 

YT, if you think proper, how about locking the thread?

 

*even Ophiolite's has a certain logic to it, see above post

[YT2095]

Also "Locked" as requested.