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Establishing a Minimum Dataset for Prospective Registration of Systematic Rev...
BACKGROUND: In response to growing recognition of the value of prospective registration of systematic review protocols, we planned to develop a web-based open access... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.
International audience; Assessment of researchers is necessary for decisions of hiring, promotion, and tenure. A burgeoning number of scientific leaders believe the current... -
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... -
Impact of Reporting Bias in Network Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Placebo-C...
Background Indirect comparisons of competing treatments by network meta-analysis (NMA) are increasingly in use. Reporting bias has received little attention in this context.... -
Profit (p)-Index: The Degree to Which Authors Profit from Co-Authors
Current metrics for estimating a scientist’s academic performance treat the author’s publications as if these were solely attributable to the author. However, this approach... -
Measuring the Value of Research Data: A Citation Analysis of Oceanographic Da...
Evaluation of scientific research is becoming increasingly reliant on publication-based bibliometric indicators, which may result in the devaluation of other scientific... -
The author who wasn’t there? Fairness and attribution in publications followi...
We conducted a document analysis that explored publication ethics and authorship in the context of population biobanks from both a theoretical (e.g. normative documents) and... -
The Altmetrics Collection
What paper should I read next? Who should I talk to at a conference? Which research group should get this grant? Researchers and funders alike must make daily judgments on how... -
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... -
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... -
Assessment of publication bias and outcome reporting bias in systematic revie...
Strategies to identify and mitigate publication bias and outcome reporting bias are frequently adopted in systematic reviews of clinical interventions but it is not clear how... -
Use of Trial Register Information during the Peer Review Process
Introduction Evidence in the medical literature suggests that trial registration may not be preventing selective reporting of results. We wondered about the place of such... -
Species Distribution Models and Impact Factor Growth in Environmental Journal...
In this work, I evaluate the impact of species distribution models (SDMs) on the current status of environmental and ecological journals by asking the question to which degree... -
Equal Contributions and Credit: An Emerging Trend in the Characterization of ...
BACKGROUND: The practice of giving certain authors equal credit in original research publications was increasingly common in some specialty. This study aimed to investigate the...
