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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... -
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... -
Word diffusion and climate science.
As public and political debates often demonstrate, a substantial disjoint can exist between the findings of science and the impact it has on the public. Using climate-change... -
Publication of Original Research in Urologic Journals – A Neglected Orphan?
The pathophysiologic mechanisms behind urologic disease are increasingly being elucidated. The object of this investigation was to evaluate the publication policies of urologic... -
Academic impact of qualitative studies in healthcare: bibliometric analysis.
Context Although qualitative studies are becoming more appreciated in healthcare, the number of publications of quality studies remains low. Little is known about the... -
Research blogs and the discussion of scholarly information.
The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, unlike peer-reviewed journals, the characteristics of this form of... -
Who is the best player ever? A complex network analysis of the history of pro...
We consider all matches played by professional tennis players between 1968 and 2010, and, on the basis of this data set, construct a directed and weighted network of contacts.... -
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 New Family of Cumulative Indexes for Measuring Scientific Performance
In this paper we propose a new family of cumulative indexes for measuring scientific performance which can be applied to many metrics, including h index and its variants (here... -
Universities scale like cities.
Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law... -
Effects of print publication lag in dual format journals on scientometric ind...
Background Publication lag between manuscript submission and its final publication is considered as an important factor affecting the decision to submit, the timeliness of... -
Impact of GDP, spending on RD, number of universities and scientific journals...
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and... -
The impact of clinical social franchising on health services in low- and midd...
Background The private sector plays a large role in health services delivery in low- and middle-income countries; yet significant gaps remain in the quality and accessibility... -
Resampling effects on significance analysis of network clustering and ranking.
Community detection helps us simplify the complex configuration of networks, but communities are reliable only if they are statistically significant. To detect statistically... -
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... -
Network Effects on Scientific Collaborations
Background: The analysis of co-authorship network aims at exploring the impact of network structure on the outcome of scientific collaborations and research publications.... -
Coauthorship and institutional collaborations on cost-effectiveness analyses:...
BACKGROUND: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) has been promoted as an important research methodology for determining the efficiency of healthcare technology and guiding medical... -
Phylomemetic patterns in science evolution-The rise and fall of scientific fi...
We introduce an automated method for the bottom-up reconstruction of the cognitive evolution of science, based on big-data issued from digital libraries, and modeled as lineage... -
How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Dow...
We analyze the online response to the preprint publication of a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and May... -
Academic Impact of a Public Electronic Health Database: Bibliometric Analysis...
Background Studies that use electronic health databases as research material are getting popular but the influence of a single electronic health database had not been well...
