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Three Cool Things You Wish You Knew Before About Bibliometrics

Biblio… WTF? Yeah, you think, here is the science guy with his words again, but actually bibliometrics is a a good set of methods to understand and study research in your field of interest. Usually, all it requires is a publication search engine, like Scirus, ISI Web of Science (you need an institutional login), Google [...]

Game Industry Sales Data

Popular Data Sources After blogging about the Top 50 game developers, I got more interested in the revenue of the game industry. I have been searching for good game industry sales data for a while, since the NPD group figures are not easy to come by and studies related to revenue usually cost quite a [...]

Fun with Steam Statistics

Our favorite gaming platform Steam has not only become one of my favorite tools for purchasing games, but it also seems to sport some interesting features for statistics related to Valve‘s games. Now, being the nice guys they are, they make some of those available to the public. I find especially the statistics they report [...]