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Dissemination of novel biostatistics methods: Impact of programming code avai...
Background As statisticians develop new methodological approaches, there are many factors that influence whether others will utilize their work. This paper is a bibliometric... -
Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A new metric that uses citation rates to measu...
Despite their recognized limitations, bibliometric assessments of scientific productivity have been widely adopted. We describe here an improved method to quantify the influence... -
Estimates of the Continuously Publishing Core in the Scientific Workforce
BACKGROUND: The ability of a scientist to maintain a continuous stream of publication may be important, because research requires continuity of effort. However, there is no data... -
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... -
The number of scholarly documents on the public web.
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engines: Google Scholar... -
Size, Accumulation and Performance for Research Grants: Examining the Role of...
The present paper examines the relation between size, accumulation and performance for research grants, where we examine the relation between grant size for Centres of... -
Assessing reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts in psych...
Background Reporting quality of randomized controlled trial (RCT) abstracts is important as readers often make their first judgments based on the abstracts. This study aims to... -
The scientific impact of nations: journal placement and citation performance.
International collaboration is becoming increasingly important for the advancement of science. To gain a more precise understanding of how factors such as international...