Thursday, December 11, 2008

Overkill

I know that the journal is called Nano Letters, but using the "nano" prefix three times in the title of a paper is a little extreme.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hehe, indeed. Also in the abstract the prefix can be found in almost every 8th word (18 times.

Anonymous said...

Five times "nano" in the title:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0712.0264

Heumpje said...

agggh...need...more...funding...

Anonymous said...

Lightweights! Pico-diddle periodic giant cavities of metal-organic frameworks. Nature 427 523 (2004), Adv. Funct. Mater. 16 520 (2006), Scripta Mater. 56 809 (2007).

DOE H2-storage whores, PhD pilfered your funding. Plate cavities with semiconductor or supercon and party. Electrolessly intercalate zirconium phosphonate planes. Low temps and high magnetic fields for confinement; get jiggy.

Rules have changed. Professionally managed research has process not product as king. Give Satan a big, er, small wet kiss.

Anonymous said...

The worst title in the history of Nano Letters is, and always will be, this Britney Spears-inspired title:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl060177c

Anonymous said...

I count 5 instances of the prefix in the first sentence of the abstract!

Anonymous said...

Gah. They really want funding dont they. If I used this as a NSF GRFP, then I so would've won. Damnit!