Stochastic Trend

Does measuring something change it?  In quantum mechanics measurement disturbs what is being measured, which is referred to as the observ...

Existing research finds strong correlations between the rankings produced by UK research assessment exercises (RAE) and bibliometric analys...

Arik Levinson will be presenting at the Arndt Corden Seminar at 2pm on 24th February (Seminar Room B in the Coombs Building). The Freako...

Working on an article for New Palgrave . Here is a draft of the section on the rebound effect: The Rebound Effect Energy saving innovat...

Following on from my previous post , Clark's chapter reviews possible reasons for why the industrial revolution happened in England when...

The system of dating years since some ancient point in the past used today by the Western, Islamic, and Hebrew Calendars among others makes...

I've been doing these annual reviews since 2011, they're mainly an exercise for me to see what I accomplished and what I didn'...

There are now thirteen articles in the special issue , which I edited. The latest two are by Peter O'Connor and Cutler Cleveland and Ju...

I have another new working paper coauthored with Zsuzsanna Csereklyei out titled: " Global Energy Use: Decoupling or Convergence? ...

Following up on my post last year on research that the PETM was probably caused by an impact. Latest research , published in Nature Geosci...

A few days ago China and the US jointly announced emissions targets for 2030. China proposes that their carbon emissions will peak by not ...

I just signed up for Figshare . In case you haven't heard about it yet, it is a site for sharing all kinds of research data. I uploaded...

My paper "High-Ranked Social Science Journal Articles Can Be Identified from Early Citation Information" was published today in ...

My paper with Zsuzsanna Csereklyei and Mar Rubio: "Energy and Economic Growth: The Stylized Facts" has been accepted for publicat...

This graphic is from a 2010 UK report and is based on UK data. Only 0.45% of PhDs eventually become a full professor. I didn't think...

You may have heard about the Three Minute Thesis . Now we have the Five Minute Paper. Actually, it's called Elsevier Audioslides. Auth...

I promised more details on my seminar at University of Kassel : here they are. I will present our paper on modeling the emissions income...

Our edited book New Dimensions in Ecological Economics: Integrated Approaches to People and Nature is now available as an E-Book from Edwa...

Just got an e-mail from the journal noting that they got just over 600 submissions in 2013. They have already reached that level at this po...

Come along to the information evening next week at University House. At 6:30pm in the Common Room, Frank Jotzo, Amanda Smullen, Paul Bu...

We now have nine papers published in the special issue of Energies on energy transitions and economic change and there are more to come. ...

I am giving three seminars in Europe in October and November. First up is 28th October at 1pm at the Grantham Research Institute on Clim...

My paper with former masters student Jack Gregory was just accepted for publication in Biomass & Bioenergy . Jack is just starting hi...

I submitted one of the 152 responses to HEFCE's call for evidence on research metrics . BTW, my paper was just accepted by PLoS ONE :) ...

SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit) at the University of Sussex, UK is embarking on an ambitious new research strategy, focused on long-...