The Italian Space Agency realized Next Step Mars. Next Step Mars is a space game, a galactic adventure where the goal is the colonization of Mars.
Unfortunately Next Step Mars is now only in italian, but the english and spanish versions are almost ready to be downloaded.
But let's try it anyway!
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Video tutorial and previews of the app:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Vhs8O-WFc]
Until a few years ago, most Italian scientists had hardly heard of things like the impact factor of a journal or the h-index of a researcher; nowadays these seem to be their everyday concern. What are they about? They are some of the parameters introduced with the aim of quantitatively assessing the outcome of scientific research, giving rise to a new discipline called scientometrics, and in particular bibliometrics for what concerns the scientific publications.
