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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... -
Visualizing the Topical Structure of the Medical Sciences: A Self-Organizing ...
Background We implement a high-resolution visualization of the medical knowledge domain using the self-organizing map (SOM) method, based on a corpus of over two million... -
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... -
Citation analysis may severely underestimate the impact of clinical research ...
BACKGROUND: Citation analysis has become an important tool for research performance assessment in the medical sciences. However, different areas of medical research may have... -
The Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on...
Many studies demonstrate that there is still a significant gender bias, especially at higher career levels, in many areas including science, technology, engineering, and... -
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... -
Opportunities for Web-Based Indicators in Environmental Sciences
This paper proposes a set of web-based indicators for quantifying and ranking the relevance of terms related to key-issues in Ecology and Sustainability Science. Search engines... -
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... -
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... -
Clustering More than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing the Accur...
Background We investigate the accuracy of different similarity approaches for clustering over two million biomedical documents. Clustering large sets of text documents is... -
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... -
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... -
How Are Academic Age, Productivity and Collaboration Related to Citing Behavi...
References are an essential component of research articles and therefore of scientific communication. In this study we investigate referencing (citing) behavior in five diverse... -
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... -
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... -
Feature Engineering and a Proposed Decision-Support System for Systematic Rev...
Objectives: Evidence-based medicine depends on the timely synthesis of research findings. An important source of synthesized evidence resides in systematic reviews. However, a...
