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Characteristics of Retractions from Korean Medical Journals in the KoreaMed D...
Background Flawed or misleading articles may be retracted because of either honest scientific errors or scientific misconduct. This study explored the characteristics 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... -
Author Self-Citation in the General Medicine Literature
Background Author self-citation contributes to the overall citation count of an article and the impact factor of the journal in which it appears. Little is known, however,... -
From QUOROM to PRISMA: A Survey of High-Impact Medical Journals' Instructions...
BACKGROUND:The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) Statement was published to help authors improve how they report systematic reviews. It... -
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... -
Scientific value of systematic reviews: survey of editors of core clinical jo...
Background Synthesizing research evidence using systematic and rigorous methods has become a key feature of evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation. Systematic... -
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... -
Could early tweet counts predict later citation counts? A gender study in Lif...
In this study, it was investigated whether early tweets counts could differentially benefit female and male (first, last) authors in terms of the later citation counts received.... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Substantial Agreement of Referee Recommendations at a General Medical Journal...
Background Peer review is the mainstay of editorial decision making for medical journals. There is a dearth of evaluations of journal peer review with regard to reliability... -
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... -
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... -
Comparative study of scientific publications in urology and nephrology journa...
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...
