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Enabling Policy Planning and Innovation Management through Patent Information...
Submitted by Vanessa Suane (vanessa.suane@icict.fiocruz.br) on 2016-05-05T13:03:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012. Enabling policy planning and innovation management through patent... -
The Carbon_h-factor: predicting individuals' research impact at early stages ...
Assessing an individual's research impact on the basis of a transparent algorithm is an important task for evaluation and comparison purposes. Besides simple but also inaccurate... -
Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?
Background The number of retracted scientific publications has risen sharply, but it is unclear whether this reflects an increase in publication of flawed articles or an... -
The Measurement of the Effect on Citation Inequality of Differences in Citati...
This paper has two aims: (i) to introduce a novel method for measuring which part of overall citation inequality can be attributed to differences in citation practices across... -
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... -
Global cardiovascular research output, citations, and collaborations: a time-...
Introduction Health research is one mechanism to improve population-level health and should generally match the health needs of populations. However, there have been limited... -
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... -
A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature
Background The number of retracted scholarly articles has risen precipitously in recent years. Past surveys of the retracted literature each limited their scope to articles in... -
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... -
Are reports of randomized controlled trials improving over time? A systematic...
Background Inadequate reporting undermines findings of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This study assessed and compared articles published in high-impact general medical... -
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... -
The citation merit of scientific publications
We propose a new method to assess the merit of any set of scientific papers in a given field based on the citations they receive. Given a field and a citation impact indicator,... -
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.... -
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... -
The geographical distribution of leadership in globalized clinical trials
Background: Pharmaceutical trials are mainly initiated by sponsors and investigators in the United States, Western Europe and Japan. However, more and more patients are enrolled... -
Impact of Reporting Bias in Network Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Placebo-C...
Background Indirect comparisons of competing treatments by network meta-analysis (NMA) are increasingly in use. Reporting bias has received little attention in this context.... -
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and ...
Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks...
