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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... -
The impact of funding through the RF President's grants for young scientists ...
The impact of grants on research productivity has been investigated by a number of retrospective studies. The results of these studies vary considerably. The objective of my... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
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... -
Sino-Canadian Collaborations in Stem Cell Research: A Scientometric Analysis
Background International collaboration (IC) is essential for the advance of stem cell research, a field characterized by marked asymmetries in knowledge and capacity between... -
The validation of peer review through research impact measures and the implic...
There is a paucity of data in the literature concerning the validation of the grant application peer review process, which is used to help direct billions of dollars in research... -
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...
