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Reliability and Validity of a Point-of-Care Sural Nerve Conduction Device for...
BACKGROUND: Confirmation of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSP) relies on standard nerve conduction studies (NCS) performed in specialized clinics. We explored the... -
Has large-scale named-entity network analysis been resting on a flawed assump...
: The assumption that a name uniquely identifies an entity introduces two types of errors: splitting treats one entity as two or more (because of name variants); lumping treats... -
Improving the Measurement of Maternal Mortality: The Sisterhood Method Revisited
BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades the efforts to improve maternal survival and the consequent demand for accurate estimates of maternal mortality have increased.... -
The Scientific Competitiveness of Nations
We use citation data of scientific articles produced by individual nations in different scientific domains to determine the structure and efficiency of national research... -
Characterizing and modeling citation dynamics
Citation distributions are crucial for the analysis and modeling of the activity of scientists. We investigated bibliometric data of papers published in journals of the American... -
Study design and quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials of chro...
Background The recommended first-line therapy of chronic urticaria is second-generation antihistamines, but the modalities of treatment remains unclear. Numerous... -
Industry-university collaborations in Canada, Japan, the UK and USA--with emp...
As industry-university collaborations are promoted to commercialize university research and foster economic growth, it is important to understand how companies benefit from... -
Risk of Bias Tool in Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analyses of Acupuncture in Chine...
BACKGROUND: Use of a risk of bias (ROB) tool has been encouraged and advocated to reviewers writing systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs). Selective outcome reporting... -
The Impact of Article Length on the Number of Future Citations: A Bibliometri...
Background The number of citations received is considered an index of study quality and impact. We aimed to examine the factors associated with the number of citations of... -
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... -
The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors' reporting of stati...
From January 2014, Psychological Science introduced new submission guidelines that encouraged the use of effect sizes, estimation, and meta-analysis (the “new statistics”),... -
The Measurement of the Effect on Citation Inequality of Differences in Citati...
This paper has two aims: (i) to introduce a novel method for measuring which part of overall citation inequality can be attributed to differences in citation practices across... -
What Is New for an Old Molecule? Systematic Review and Recommendations on the...
BACKGROUND:Resveratrol is a natural compound suggested to have beneficial health effects. However, people are consuming resveratrol for this reason without having the adequate... -
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... -
Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute
Here we present Singularity, software developed to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing. Using Singularity containers, developers can work in... -
Exploring the role of interdisciplinarity in physics: Success, talent and luck
Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is... -
Detection and removal of biases in the analysis of next-generation sequencing...
Since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, great effort has been put into the development of tools for analysis of the short reads. In parallel,... -
On the validity of using increases in 5-year survival rates to measure succes...
Background The 5-year survival rate of cancer patients is the most commonly used statistic to reflect improvements in the war against cancer. This idea, however, was refuted... -
The Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine as an Adjunctive Therapy for Advanced...
Many published studies reflect the growing application of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) use in combination with conventional...
