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    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...
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    Trends in Health Policy and Systems Research over the Past Decade: Still Too ...

    BACKGROUND: The past decade has seen several high-level events and documents committing to strengthening the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) as a critical...
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    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...
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    Effects of research complexity and competition on the incidence and growth of...

    Background Investigations into the factors behind coauthorship growth in biomedical research have mostly focused on specific disciplines or journals, and have rarely...
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    Scientific productivity: An exploratory study of metrics and incentives.

    Competitive pressure to maximize the current bibliometric measures of productivity is jeopardizing the integrity of the scientific literature. Efforts are underway to address...
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    A citation study of earth science projects in citizen science.

    A citation study of a sample of earth science projects in citizen science from the FedCats Catalog was undertaken to assess whether citizen science projects are as productive...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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    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...
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    Word diffusion and climate science.

    As public and political debates often demonstrate, a substantial disjoint can exist between the findings of science and the impact it has on the public. Using climate-change...
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    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...
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    International Stem Cell Collaboration: How Disparate Policies between the Uni...

    As the scientific community globalizes, it is increasingly important to understand the effects of international collaboration on the quality and quantity of research produced....
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    Comparison of researchers’ impact indices

    Researchers contribute to the frontiers of knowledge by establishing facts and reaching new conclusions through systematic investigations, and by subsequently publishing the...
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    Statistical reviewers improve reporting in biomedical articles: a randomized ...

    Background Although peer review is widely considered to be the most credible way of selecting manuscripts and improving the quality of accepted papers in scientific journals,...
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    Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding compet...

    Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not...
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    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...
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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...
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    Citations and thehindex of soil researchers and journals in the Web of Scienc...

    Citation metrics and h indices differ using different bibliometric databases. We compiled the number of publications, number of citations, h index and year since the first...