PSYC 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Putamen, Statistical Inference, Ice Cream
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Ta hours: johanna harrison mon 330-430pm in st/bio w8/35. Midterm on march 3rd in leacock 132 at 6pm th : lecture 1. Exams will be multiple choice and essay questions. The journal impact factor: e. g. 30 = approximately 30 citations a year. Essentially a mean of the journal impact factor. Peer review criteria: novelty, impact, accuracy and sound science. Editors are often hard pressed to find reviewers. They must be knowledgable of the field or go by suggestions of the author. The editor of the journal is responsible for it"s peer review. First reading from the course pack is about peer review and the statistics of favourable reviews if reviewed by author recommendations or editors choice. Online only journals e. g. plos one: (public library of science) forums are attached to each paper forever. Plos one is the third largest scientific journal in the world (by volume). It is the largest open access journal in the world. th : lecture 2.