Google: Updated Scholar Metrics: Now Grouped by Research Area and new statistical model;

Earlier this year, Google (http://scholar.google.fr/) launched Scholar Metrics which provides an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, Google is updating Scholar Metrics to make it easier for you to explore publications in research areas that you are interested in.

To get started, you can browse publications in broad areas like Engineering & Computer Science, Health & Medical Sciences, or Social Sciences.
You will see the top 20 publications in the area ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number.

To explore more specific research areas, select one of the broad areas, click on the "Subcategories" link and then choose one of the options. For example: Databases & Information Systems, Development Economics, Virology or Composite Materials.

Google uses a statistical model based on the articles published in the last five years to compute the set of publications associated with each research area. Recognizing the multi-disciplinary nature of many publications, our model allows a publication to be associated with more than one research area.

Browsing by research area is, as yet, available only for English publications. As previously, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages. You can, of course, also search for specific publications by words in their titles.

Scholar Metrics currently covers articles published between 2007 and 2011. It only includes journal articles from websites that follow our inclusion guidelines, selected conference articles in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and preprints from arXiv, SSRN, NBER, and RePEC. Scholar Metrics does not include publications with fewer than 100 articles, nor publications that received no citations in 2007-2011.

The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of November 15, 2012. Since our previous metrics were based on citations from all articles indexed as of April 1, 2012, the new numbers are expected to be a bit higher. Alas, that does not indicate that your favorite journal has become more influential over this short period.

For more details, see the Scholar Metrics help page.
Ref: http://googlescholar.blogspot.fr/2012/11/updated-scholar-metrics-now-grouped-by.html

Google Technology User Groups: GTUG

http://www.gtugs.org/pulse.jsp

Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs) are user groups for people who are interested in Google's developer technology; everything from the Android and App Engine platforms, to product APIs like the YouTube API and the Google Calendar API, to initiatives like OpenSocial.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/gtug-growth-visualization/?f=
This experiment is a visualization for the impressive growth Google Technologies User Groups (GTUGs) have been during the past two years. It shows GTUGs being created as white dots, and every GTUG event is shown as a dynamic pulse on the map. 30 seconds after the latest event it starts to rewind (and the globe spins backwards) and starts running again from the beginning.

ALL google services ("apps script"; "apps script gadget") in sites.google; "hello world" with GAS

Unlike browser-based JavaScript, the scripts you write run directly on Google servers in order to provide direct access to the products they control. 

The Google Apps Script language is JavaScript. The Google Apps platform holds a bounty of features that let one bring robust applications without the need for any software or server configuration (GAS use google servers). 

Google Apps Script (GAS) can be developed using the Script Editor in Sites.

Apps Script can be embedded in a Sites page using an Apps Script gadget (each Apps Script gadget uses a pre-developed Apps Script).

Before you start,

1) you MUST understand the security model of GAS :

 the owner of a script is the user who created that script. Every script embedded in a Sites page executes under the identity of the owner of the script or could be shared to.

2) you MUST understand the IU services (UI user Interface):

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/service_ui.html

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tutorial guides (Hello):

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/articles/getting-started-with-sites.html

list : 

 Google Apps Script API documentation:

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/allservices.html

 script templates gallery

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/templates.html

GAS blog:

http://googleappsscript.blogspot.com/

Updates:

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/release_notes.html

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https://sites.google.com/site/scriptsexamples/

http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/guide.html

You don't have to be a programmer to use Google Apps Script.
If you're not a JavaScript programmer, read the whole document, which contains detailed walk-throughs of many code snippets and short programs:http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/guide.html
 You'll find learning Google Apps Script easier if you are familiar with Spreadsheet macros (excel) and formulas and with programming logic structures such as loops, conditional statements, and switch statements.

---------------------first ex-ample: "the hello world" application
This tutorial guides you through the steps of creating a hello world application using Google Sites and Google Apps Script. You implement this application by embedding a script in a Google Sites page.
http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/articles/getting-started-with-sites.html

https://sites.google.com/site/javascript2blogger/gas/hello-1

insert many google services and gadgets in sites.google; your blogspot in a page of googleSites

Integration/convergence and interoperability between google products/services: "google sites" and blogger
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1. log in with google account.
2. go to your sites.google.com
3. Create page and Edit Page.
4. Select menu "Insert" (top left).
   
   
5. Go down to the bottom of the list and select "More Gadgets".
6. Use search bar and type in Blogger.  Hit search.
7. Use embed Blogger (see below).
8. This will insert a smaller version of you blogger on that page, to your size specs. for classic templates select a width of 950pix.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    with properties, you can adjust with better precision.
   And the result is your blogspot.com in a page of your google.sites:
   
   

Where to host Javascript for blogger blogs?

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Blogger does not provide file hosting (except for photos and videos, in fact in Picasaweb, and templates).
This poses problem if you want to add a widget or a feature that uses Javascript (with one or many files).
Where do you put the scripts then?
Below are 3 options you have when adding Javascripts to your blogspot.com.

1. Put it in the HTML/javascript blogger gadget (or in your template). If the script is small and used only for that particular gadget/widget then this is the best method. Select this method because it’s easier to install, uninstall, no links, etc.
   See the left-sidebar of this blog for some examples (see "no external js").
   See also: http://ex-ample.yolasite.com/js.php
   If the script is accessed from outside of a widget/gadget or from more than one places in your template, put it in your template. But if you change your template without copying this modification, your code will be broken. Not safe method.
   
2. Host the javascript file outside of Blogger server with a content managements service or a web hosting service.
   2-1) with a web hosting service. GOOGLE.SITES: You can select the google free web hosting service : "Google Sites" (Site storage only 100MB).
   GoogleSites has a little content management service:
   http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/small-content-manager-service-of-google.html
   And Google Sites doesn’t accept js files.
   
     a)But a .js file is in fact a .txt file then change the javascript file into a text file, by changing the file extension from .js to .txt, (and add-js_ before .txt)  then your filename is CODE-js_.txt.
   
     b) The external script must not contain the script tags (no HTML tags). After uploading the file to Google Sites, get the link to the file and use it in the code (the link to the file will begin with https) and to make it work, you need to change https to http when adding to the code:
   http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/small-content-manager-service-of-google.html
   http://ex-ample.yolasite.com/g-sites.php
   
   2-2) with a web hosting service. YOLA.com: I like yola.com but you cannot upload a .js file but you can use the same trick (.txt). Moreover you can immediately test your code with the script tags:
   http://ex-ample.yolasite.com/js.php
   http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/comparison-of-web-hosting-services.html
   
   2-3) with a content management service.box.net for the free service, the name of your file changes: http://www.box.net/shared/jo50kyvsqqc0595zkg4o...
    it is not good at all (also ADrive.com, etc...). See point 5 below.
   
   
3. Yola has also a small, efficient and simple content management service. This service is sufficient (and stockage = 1GB) and you can immediately test the code: http://ex-ample.yolasite.com/js-notag.php
   (see the difference with no external file:
   http://ex-ample.yolasite.com/js.php)
   Then you can easily develop your javascript with yola.
   
   But many persons think that you cannot use these external files in your blogger blog... (see the links, point 4 below). It seems that it was a decision of google: "for abuse prevention measures" (message @ 2009)... I try and it works : see the left side-bar of this blog.
   
   The ".js to .txt hack" should work equally well in both Blogger  or google sites custom domain.
   see http://ex-ample.yolasite.com/g-sites.php
   see also the content management service of sites.google :
   http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/small-content-manager-service-of-google.html
   
   
4. The help forum's threads below discussed the .js files and bloger and google sites:
   http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sites/thread?tid=4460cf8b5c19140f&hl=en
   http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=1b952fb331bb604b&hl=en&fid=1b952fb331bb604b000475c1dcac4618
   see also: http://www.bloggersentral.com/2010/03/where-to-host-javascript-for-blogspot.html
   
   
5. more info on content management services:

• http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/example-exemple-adrivecom-share.html
• http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/example-exemple-boxnet-html5-sharing.html
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