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The Impact of Article Length on the Number of Future Citations: A Bibliometri...
Background The number of citations received is considered an index of study quality and impact. We aimed to examine the factors associated with the number of citations of... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Assessment of publication bias and outcome reporting bias in systematic revie...
Strategies to identify and mitigate publication bias and outcome reporting bias are frequently adopted in systematic reviews of clinical interventions but it is not clear how... -
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... -
Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in th...
BackgroundThere are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and... -
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... -
Equal Contributions and Credit: An Emerging Trend in the Characterization of ...
BACKGROUND: The practice of giving certain authors equal credit in original research publications was increasingly common in some specialty. This study aimed to investigate the...
