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Three days after Christmas, I have conducted a small scale study and interviewed a number of my friends on what they’ve got from Santa Claus (or Small-Jesus, Kings, Wise Men, Friends, Family, etc.). Ten persons have been interviewed, additional five were observed during the present-unwrapping. An analysis of the responses, not surprisingly, reveals an inverted dependence between the purchase-price of a present and the frequency the present is found. Of the presents mostly found, strikingly, socks occupy the first place and it has NOT been even cold this year so far. The results suggest that Santa has to be in good relations with clothing industry or then I have no other explanation.
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Certainly, it had to happen also to you: while searching for something why do you have to retype the keywords into different engine? Shall there be some meta-search? Or perhaps meta-meta-search?
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A purely hypothetical situation: You take part in a competition for a tenure track and make it into the finals. You and the other applicant have equally good profiles, experience and both two are fully capable. But then, the journal articles you have on your list are published in journals that: a) are new, b) have been discontinued, c) their impact factor (IF) is low (because of a) or b) or something else) , d) are not included in a citation index, e) their IF is not available.

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