Reflection Theme 1

It has been an interesting theme this week with much new information. The philosophical angle has been very interesting and there has been a lot of new question that will puzzle me in the near future. I have already started to read parts of the Theaetetus and I will definitely read more philosophy in the future. It is interesting to get interesting things to think about.

I have been thinking about knowledge and what it really is before, but not in this formal way. The best thing I have learned is the thought of everything that will have impact on the knowledge. The fact that for example the way you form a question can change the whole answer will be of much interest in my upcoming thesis.

To find papers and journals haven’t been any problem for me yet. I think it depends mostly because of my interest in the narrow subject of image processing since it is easy to search for that subject. It may also be since I am rather used to use the databases from KTH library and also the library at the Stockholm University.

Impact factor Is though new to me. It is good to be able to check how good the journal is and if you can believe what it publishes. But there are though some questions marks. Stefan mentioned that some journals ask the writers who gets published in the journal to quote other papers in that journal. That way they get a higher IF. The other is if the impact factor really shows the things that makes a paper good or if there are other criteria’s that should have been included. But it’s a good guideline.