So today was my second day interning at Wiley-Blackwell. The day got off to a good start when my coursemate and fellow Wiley-er asked if she would be ok bringing her stuff in a Blackwell bag seeing as they are one of Wiley's competitors...
But once we got there things looked a little brighter, even if the weather stayed rough. It being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Wiley-Blackwell had arranged a fundraising day with everyone coming in wearing pink (which I forgot) and the canteen putting on a special charity breakfast with all funds going to Breast Cancer Awareness. So we all felt justified tucking into our second breakfast of the day, although I couldn't bring myself to have a third when my colleagues invited me down with them.
So once the excitement of breakfast was over we got to work. Again I started my day working through new submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice. Today's article to remember was on testicular torsion in cats,
But once we got there things looked a little brighter, even if the weather stayed rough. It being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Wiley-Blackwell had arranged a fundraising day with everyone coming in wearing pink (which I forgot) and the canteen putting on a special charity breakfast with all funds going to Breast Cancer Awareness. So we all felt justified tucking into our second breakfast of the day, although I couldn't bring myself to have a third when my colleagues invited me down with them.
So once the excitement of breakfast was over we got to work. Again I started my day working through new submissions to the Journal of Small Animal Practice. Today's article to remember was on testicular torsion in cats,
especially as it had a picture that I wasn't expecting and that made me very glad I had already eaten.
After that I worked with some nursing journals to generate impact factors and citation data. Through a complex system of searching and exporting and importing that I had to have written down in easy to follow steps I was able to produce some graphs showing how many people cited what articles and where.
While the process of generating these figures was pretty dull, I was interested to see what could be done with the data, what it is used for and why it is so important to journals publishers. Journals don't really have the bestseller charts that books do so impact factors are a good way of seeing what is working well and what isn't.
So overall a challenging but interesting and delicious day. And the best bit was finding cake as I left - nice way to end a nice day.
After that I worked with some nursing journals to generate impact factors and citation data. Through a complex system of searching and exporting and importing that I had to have written down in easy to follow steps I was able to produce some graphs showing how many people cited what articles and where.
While the process of generating these figures was pretty dull, I was interested to see what could be done with the data, what it is used for and why it is so important to journals publishers. Journals don't really have the bestseller charts that books do so impact factors are a good way of seeing what is working well and what isn't.
So overall a challenging but interesting and delicious day. And the best bit was finding cake as I left - nice way to end a nice day.
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