Brian Simboli, Ph.D.

Lehigh University

New thinking needs to emerge about how to reform publishing along lines that best meet two perennial needs of scientific communication. This paper discusses a model that addresses these two needs with respect to physics. Given the considerable barriers that its realization in pristine form faces, the model aspires merely to be a heuristic or guidep...

Departing from a comment by Charles Peirce, this paper suggests a very broadly Aristotelian-Thomistic (hereafter, " AT ") propensity theory of probability applicable to work in economics. This paper suggests that insights suggested by C.S. Peirce can be transposed into a metaphysically and ethically realist AT framework. The paper sketches the rela...

Abstract: Departing from a comment by Charles Peirce, this paper suggests a very broadly Aristotelian-Thomistic (hereafter, “AT”) propensity theory of probability applicable to work in economics. This paper suggests that insights suggested by C.S. Peirce can be transposed into a metaphysically and ethically realist AT framework. The paper sketches...

The "Data for Research" (DfR) service facilitates bibliometric studies of key terms and phrases that appear in the full text of JSTOR articles. This platform provides faceted searches that supplement JSTOR's standard search engine, exemplifying how a full text data base enables data mining for the average end-user. We provide a comparison with exis...

This paper applies a Hotelling model of two-sided markets in analyzing an emergent approach to marketing textbooks. In this approach, a platform provides the content of electronic textbooks for free. This free content spurs sales of complementary products such as a print version of the textbook. The approach accords with the practice whereby a busi...

The article focuses on the bibliographic visualization software and citation mapping tool featured at the Web of Science website from Thomson Reuters.

RefViz 1.0 . Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, Berkeley, CA, 2003. $299.95. www.refviz.com . This text analysis software allows researchers and students to visualize and explore thematic and conceptual connections among references from scientific literature.