Comments on: A Scientific Defense of Beer

By: brian

brian — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:32:14 +0000

Plenty of respected journals have low impact factors. The Journal of Human Evolution, the flagship journal of palaeoanthropology, has an impact factor of only 4.31. The American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the top journal of physical anthropology in the world has an impact factor of 2.3.

Oikos looks like a respected journal to me, it just happens to come from Sweden, so it is without a doubt a journal with a smaller audience. But that has nothing to do with the respect it garners.

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By: The Numbers Guy : Beer and Birds Don't Mix in the Czech Republic

The Numbers Guy : Beer and Birds Don't Mix in the Czech Republic — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:34:54 +0000

[...] critics pointed out several weak points in the research. Blogger Lizzie Buchen at Discover magazine and blogger Chris Mack noted that the paper was based on just 34 scientists — all of [...]

By: Atomic M

Atomic M — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:50:36 +0000

there’s a good statistical analysis of this study here: http://life.lithoguru.com/index.php?itemid=119

By: Anna Mores

Anna Mores — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:56:23 +0000

still, this ain’t science. but I do like that he references mushroom picking. not enough scientists do that.

By: Lizzie Buchen

Lizzie Buchen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:52:53 +0000

returning to (2), I agree that it doesn’t make sense to compare an ecology journal to NEJM, so I removed that reference. Thank you for your input Dr. Grim.

By: Lizzie Buchen

Lizzie Buchen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:46:12 +0000

Dr. Grim,

(1) Thank you for the correction—I apologize for the error and will remove the text.
(2) As you can see in my post, I did point out the ranking of the journal in the Ecology subfield.

By: Tomas Grim

Tomas Grim — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:40:54 +0000

Just to correct two errors:

(1) “Dr. Grim … has only two English publications in the past nine years” – please see the Web of Science or
http://www.zoologie.upol.cz/osoby/Grim/publications_science.htm

(2) The comparison of IFs clearly shows you should not write about science – the fallacy of between-field comparison of IFs was criticized some 20 years ago (see e.g. papers I refer to in my Oikos paper) and you are the first person I see to made such a stupid mistake:-) E.g. from the point of view of ecology the New England Journal of Medicine is just as irrelevant as any obscure journal published in central Bulgaria:-)

By: Bruisin' Ales Beer Blog

Bruisin' Ales Beer Blog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:31:17 +0000

[...] What if you’re lazy? Or dumb? Not everyone can be Darwin. We call bullsh*t on this one. And so does this guy. He calls-out good ol’ Dr. Grim, who “on occasion enjoys more than 12 beers in a night and [...]