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Some of the most interesting conversations you have at Science Foo Camp (scifoo) are in the corridors, foo bars and even the bus that shuttles between the Googleplex and the hotel...

Publish or Perish is an interesting (and free) piece of software, that obtains citations using Google Scholar and then analyses them in various ways. In particular it makes use of h-indices, which have been proposed as a "fairer" citation metric.

I've been in correspondence with the developers over the past couple of months and they kindly let me know that a native Linux version, built using GTK+ 2.x is now available. If citation analysis is your thing, give it a try and let the authors know what you think.

What should your three main priorities be as a Scientist? Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. Quentin Vicens and Phil Bourne have just published Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration [1] to help you do just that, as part of a continuing series [2,3,4,5].

Walking in a Webby Wonderland

Have you recently built a bioinformatics web application useful to the wider community that you'd like to tell the world about? Are you also looking to score brownie points for a rigourously peer-reviewed publication that stands a reasonable chance of being well cited? If that's you, then you have one month from today (December 1st) to sort your code out, and get your abstract in, for the fifth annual Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Web Server issue published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2007. All articles in this issue are published under an open access model.