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Enabling Policy Planning and Innovation Management through Patent Information...
Submitted by Vanessa Suane (vanessa.suane@icict.fiocruz.br) on 2016-05-05T13:03:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012. Enabling policy planning and innovation management through patent... -
Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?
Background The number of retracted scientific publications has risen sharply, but it is unclear whether this reflects an increase in publication of flawed articles or an... -
Scientists popularizing science: characteristics and impact of TED talk prese...
The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference and associated website of recorded conference presentations (TED Talks) is a highly successful disseminator of... -
Global cardiovascular research output, citations, and collaborations: a time-...
Introduction Health research is one mechanism to improve population-level health and should generally match the health needs of populations. However, there have been limited... -
From QUOROM to PRISMA: A Survey of High-Impact Medical Journals' Instructions...
BACKGROUND:The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) Statement was published to help authors improve how they report systematic reviews. It... -
A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature
Background The number of retracted scholarly articles has risen precipitously in recent years. Past surveys of the retracted literature each limited their scope to articles in... -
The citation merit of scientific publications
We propose a new method to assess the merit of any set of scientific papers in a given field based on the citations they receive. Given a field and a citation impact indicator,... -
The Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on...
Many studies demonstrate that there is still a significant gender bias, especially at higher career levels, in many areas including science, technology, engineering, and... -
Predicting Scholars' Scientific Impact
We tested the underlying assumption that citation counts are reliable predictors of future success, analyzing complete citation data on the careers of ~150,000 scientists. Our... -
Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of... -
A Measure of Total Research Impact Independent of Time and Discipline
Authorship and citation practices evolve with time and differ by academic discipline. As such, indicators of research productivity based on citation records are naturally... -
Distribution of country of origin in studies used in Cochrane Reviews.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Inclusion in systematic reviews is one important component in judging the potential impact of clinical studies upon practice and hence the 'value for... -
NIH Disease Funding Levels and Burden of Disease
BACKGROUND:An analysis of NIH funding in 1996 found that the strongest predictor of funding, disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), explained only 39% of the variance in... -
Correlates of Research Effort in Carnivores: Body Size, Range Size and Diet M...
Given the budgetary restrictions on scientific research and the increasing need to better inform conservation actions, it is important to identify the patterns and causes of... -
Bibliometric Evidence for a Hierarchy of the Sciences
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences, first formulated in the 19(th) century, predicts that, moving from simple and general phenomena (e.g. particle dynamics) to... -
Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship ...
AbstractUsing an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions across the US and Canada, we explore priorities for publishing decisions and their perceived... -
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... -
The number of scholarly documents on the public web.
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engines: Google Scholar... -
How Are Academic Age, Productivity and Collaboration Related to Citing Behavi...
References are an essential component of research articles and therefore of scientific communication. In this study we investigate referencing (citing) behavior in five diverse... -
The citation advantage of linking publications to research data
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements....
