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Contribution of genome-wide association studies to scientific research: a bib...
In genetic epidemiology, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are used to rapidly scan a large set of genetic variants and thus to identify associations with a particular... -
Confirmation Bias in Studies of Nestmate Recognition: A Cautionary Note for R...
: Confirmation bias is a tendency of people to interpret information in a way that confirms their expectations. A long recognized phenomenon in human psychology, confirmation... -
International Stem Cell Collaboration: How Disparate Policies between the Uni...
As the scientific community globalizes, it is increasingly important to understand the effects of international collaboration on the quality and quantity of research produced.... -
An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful contributions a...
Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an... -
Using Noun Phrases for Navigating Biomedical Literature on Pubmed: How Many U...
Author-supplied citations are a fraction of the related literature for a paper. The “related citations” on PubMed is typically dozens or hundreds of results long, and does not... -
Opportunities for Web-Based Indicators in Environmental Sciences
This paper proposes a set of web-based indicators for quantifying and ranking the relevance of terms related to key-issues in Ecology and Sustainability Science. Search engines... -
China's growing contribution to global intracranial aneurysm research (1991-2...
BACKGROUND: We sought to analyze the growing worldwide trends of intracranial aneurysm research, investigate China's recent contribution, and compare the contributions of... -
Citation patterns of a controversial and high-impact paper: Worm et al. (2006...
Citation patterns were examined for Worm et al. 2006 (Science 314∶787–790), a high-impact paper that focused on relationships between marine biodiversity and ecosystem services.... -
Comparison of Journal Self-Citation Rates between Some Chinese and Non-Chines...
BACKGROUND: The past 3 decades have witnessed a boost in science development in China; in parallel, more and more Chinese scientific journals are indexed by the Journal Citation... -
Database citation in full text biomedical articles.
Molecular biology and literature databases represent essential infrastructure for life science research. Effective integration of these data resources requires that there are... -
Quantifying the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Research
Qualitative and quantitative methods are being developed to measure the impacts of research on society, but they suffer from serious drawbacks associated with linking a piece of... -
Who Shares? Who Doesn't? Factors Associated with Openly Archiving Raw Researc...
Many initiatives encourage investigators to share their raw datasets in hopes of increasing research efficiency and quality. Despite these investments of time and money, we do... -
Feature Engineering and a Proposed Decision-Support System for Systematic Rev...
Objectives: Evidence-based medicine depends on the timely synthesis of research findings. An important source of synthesized evidence resides in systematic reviews. However, a... -
Every fifth published metagenome is not available to science
Have you ever sought to use metagenomic DNA sequences reported in scientific publications? Were you successful? Here, we reveal that metagenomes from no fewer than 20% of the... -
Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in th...
BackgroundThere are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and... -
Rising Publication Delays Inflate Journal Impact Factors
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, e Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio... -
Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding
Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would... -
The h’-Index, Effectively Improving the h-Index Based on the Citation Distrib...
Background Although being a simple and effective index that has been widely used to evaluate academic output of scientists, the h-index suffers from drawbacks. One critical...
