Pharmacy is a multidisciplinary research field which combines natural sciences, health sciences and social sciences to study drugs and pharmaceutical preparations. There are...

Background: The present study aims to elucidate the state of gender equality in high-quality research by analyzing the representation of female authorships in the last decade...

Background In public health, hard-to-reach populations are often recruited by non-probabilistic sampling methods that produce biased results. In order to overcome this, several...

International collaboration is becoming increasingly important for the advancement of science. To gain a more precise understanding of how factors such as international...

Slides presented at "Bibliometric and Scientometric Uses for Supporting Research Activities Workshop", organized for the Committee of Member University Library Directors of...

In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of eleven open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs are a relatively recent phenomenon, and have been...

: Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches are increasingly used to address complex public health problems such as childhood obesity. Compared to traditional grant-funded scientific...

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...

Nobel Prizes are commonly seen to be among the most prestigious achievements of our times. Based on mining several million citations, we quantitatively analyze the processes...

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...

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...

Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardized information on citations,...

Global maps of science can be used as a reference system to chart career trajectories, the location of emerging research frontiers, or the expertise profiles of institutes or...

BACKGROUND: In the past decade, scientific research has developed rapidly in China, but the growth seems to vary widely between different disciplines. In this study, we aimed to...

A barrier to dissemination of research is that it depends on the end-user searching for or 'pulling' relevant knowledge from the literature base. Social media instead 'pushes'...

The use of quantitative metrics to gauge the impact of scholarly publications, authors, and disciplines is predicated on the availability of reliable usage and annotation data....

Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would...

We show universal behaviour for two indicators of the quality of publications taken from two different data sets, papers from a single institution and those on arXiv. We...

Women comprise a minority of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) workforce. Quantifying the gender gap may identify fields that will not...

Background There is a wide range of intellectual work written about health research, which has been shaped by the evolution of diseases. This study aims to identify the leading...