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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... -
Characterization of the Peer Review Network at the Center for Scientific Revi...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest source of funding for biomedical research in the world. This funding is largely effected through a competitive grants... -
BraX-Ray: an X-ray of the Brazilian computer science graduate programs.
Research productivity assessment is increasingly relevant for allocation of research funds. On one hand, this assessment is challenging because it involves both qualitative and... -
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... -
The impact of funding through the RF President's grants for young scientists ...
The impact of grants on research productivity has been investigated by a number of retrospective studies. The results of these studies vary considerably. The objective of my... -
Predicting Scholars' Scientific Impact
We tested the underlying assumption that citation counts are reliable predictors of future success, analyzing complete citation data on the careers of ~150,000 scientists. Our... -
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... -
Impact of GDP, spending on RD, number of universities and scientific journals...
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and... -
To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work.
As rates of traditional sources of scientific funding decline, scientists have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a means of bringing in new money for research.... -
The H-Index as a Quantitative Indicator of the Relative Impact of Human Diseases
Assessment of the relative impact of diseases and pathogens is important for agencies and other organizations charged with providing disease surveillance, management and... -
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... -
Network Effects on Scientific Collaborations
Background: The analysis of co-authorship network aims at exploring the impact of network structure on the outcome of scientific collaborations and research publications.... -
The h’-Index, Effectively Improving the h-Index Based on the Citation Distrib...
Background Although being a simple and effective index that has been widely used to evaluate academic output of scientists, the h-index suffers from drawbacks. One critical...
