• Question: What makes you think you are better than all the other scientists?

    Asked by ninja212 to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Tom Hardy answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I don’t think I am. We are all different and work on different projects in completely different areas and that is vital for our society to develop. That said my work has a real world difference, reducing and protecting against the risk of terrorist and catching criminals so I think that is as good as it gets!

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      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      there is a website called Scopus that gives you a rating of how influential your science is. It tells you how many other scientists read your work and think it is important enough to cite. I’ve written 28 papers, been cited over 600 times and score 13 on the h-index, which I think is the best in this zone (correct me if I’m wrong guys!).

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      Douglas Blane answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I don’t. The one thing I don’t like about this is the competition.

      Science is a mix of competition and teamwork though. So if a scientist goes, “Oh no I don’t think I’m the best and I don’t really care if I win”, they’re probably telling you porkies. Including me.

    • Photo: Hugh Roderick

      Hugh Roderick answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I don’t, I just wanted the opportunity to tell you all about science!

    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      He he! – I’m clearly not! – I got the maths question wrong and all the others are really very good. That last web chat was exhausting!

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