Yeah, but What’s the Impact Factor?

Via Steinn, the Smithsonian’s Astronomy Abstract Service has an index entry for some book called De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by some Polish guy. They’ve got a scanned electronic version available for free, but the stupid thing is in Latin, and who speaks that these days?

Also, it’s only got two citations, and both of those are more than ten years old. Boy, this guy will never get tenure…

If you have access to JSTOR, you can also read a cranky letter from some guy at Cambridge. The more things change

As Steinn says, “I love those intertube thingies, may they never be clogged.”