Citations, Reference Managers, and Version Control (Bioinformatics S14)
Channel: Danny Arends
Date: 2022-02-08

Scientific writing and software development requires tools and databases to keep science rigorous and reproducible, learn about how we use these tools in bioinformatics during this lecture.

Lectures @ https://dannyarends.nl/bioinformatik/
Programming Assignments and Answers @ https://dannyarends.nl/bioinfo/
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhR2Go-lh6X5A5WbiO3SPHuoWbwpNznUl

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome back and overview
00:15 Overview of the lecture
01:49 Citations in publications
03:58 Citation index history, Curation of data
06:47 The three major citation indexing services
08:09 Web of Science, 7 different databases in one
13:06 The importance of Web of Science
18:41 Journal and Author level Metrics
20:19 Journal impact factor calculation
21:38 Controversy about journal impact factor
29:26 Author level metrics and their (dis)advantages
34:36 I10 index, Google Scholar explained
40:53 ResearchGate explained and Criticism
46:12 Different Reference Managers to track citations
52:24 Mendeley quick example
59:10 What is Version Control
1:03:44 Version Control terminology and differences
1:15:14 Git version control - workflow
1:18:15 Version Control best practices
1:26:19 Lecture Summary highlighting important points

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