Double parentheses?

The other day Lauren, a fellow Ph.D. student, asked about how to cite an article when the citation was not part of the sentence. I didn't know how to do that, of course. I just kept persuading her to write another sentence for the citation because I know double parentheses were ugly.

Well, like Lauren said, I didn't read enough and my answer was ugly, too. So I came back and surfed the Internet. To my surprise, there is a clear guideline out there. Check out this citation guide provided by Prof. Parker at Reed College. You can know how to avoid double parentheses by reading page 3 of the guide.

(Picture: www.brill.nl)

Rate your professors

It is the time of the quarter when professors are being evaluated. I found this cool site from Greg Mankiw's blog. The website calculates so-called h-index, which measures research productivity of professors. Productivity is not only in terms of quantity but should also be of quality. The index sort of captures both: h is the number such that the researcher has at least h papers that have been cited h times.

With the help of the website, I ranked the professors of Economics Department based on the h-index:

Yin-Wong Cheung (24)
Michael Dooley (23)
Daniel Friedman* (22)
Carl Walsh (21)
Joshua Aizenman (20)
Kenneth Kletzer (17)
Michael Hutchison (16)
Donald Wittman (13)
Nirvikar Singh (12)
Lori Kletzer (11)
K.C. Fung* (11)
Robert Fairlie (11)
Phillip McCalman (7)
Federico Ravenna (6)
Bernard Elbaum (5)
David Kaun* (3)
Carlos Dobkin (3)
Ryan Oprea (2)
Justin Marion* (2)
Huibin Yan (1)
Richard Gil* (1)

*Adjusted for unmatched first name initial

Disclaimer: I don't know how accurate the website and its methodology are. I did this just for fun. If there is any mistake, please let me know. I am not responsible for any interpretation you have.