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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... -
Fair ranking of researchers and research teams
The main drawback of ranking of researchers by the number of papers, citations or by the Hirsch index is ignoring the problem of distributing authorship among authors in... -
Consolidation in a crisis: Patterns of international collaboration in early C...
This paper seeks to understand whether a catastrophic and urgent event, such as the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerates or reverses trends in international... -
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... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research a...
This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH... -
Identifying Anomalous Citations for Objective Evaluation of Scholarly Article...
Evaluating the impact of a scholarly article is of great significance and has attracted great attentions. Although citation-based evaluation approaches have been widely used,... -
Are Network Growth and the Contributions to Congresses Associated with Public...
BACKGROUND: The consistent focus of 'Advances in Neuroblastoma Research' congresses on the topic neuroblastoma sets it as a model for a circumscribed scientific community.... -
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... -
An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful contributions a...
Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an... -
Evolution or revolution? Changing the way science is published and communicated.
The Internet is rapidly changing the way the results of academic research are communicated within communities and with the wider public. In a push to accelerate change and make... -
Who is the best player ever? A complex network analysis of the history of pro...
We consider all matches played by professional tennis players between 1968 and 2010, and, on the basis of this data set, construct a directed and weighted network of contacts.... -
Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.
International audience; Assessment of researchers is necessary for decisions of hiring, promotion, and tenure. A burgeoning number of scientific leaders believe the current... -
Using Noun Phrases for Navigating Biomedical Literature on Pubmed: How Many U...
Author-supplied citations are a fraction of the related literature for a paper. The “related citations” on PubMed is typically dozens or hundreds of results long, and does not... -
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... -
From North American hegemony to global competition for scientific leadership?...
Based on the entire population of Nobel laureates in science from 1901 to 2017, we show that North America’s rise as global power in science started in the 1920s. Following a...
