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Phylomemetic patterns in science evolution-The rise and fall of scientific fi...
We introduce an automated method for the bottom-up reconstruction of the cognitive evolution of science, based on big-data issued from digital libraries, and modeled as lineage... -
Feature Engineering and a Proposed Decision-Support System for Systematic Rev...
Objectives: Evidence-based medicine depends on the timely synthesis of research findings. An important source of synthesized evidence resides in systematic reviews. However, a... -
A simple index for the high-citation tail of citation distribution to quantif...
BACKGROUND: Conventional scientometric predictors of research performance such as the number of papers, citations, and papers in the top 1% of highly cited papers cannot be... -
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... -
Rising Publication Delays Inflate Journal Impact Factors
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, e Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio... -
How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Dow...
We analyze the online response to the preprint publication of a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and May... -
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Background: The present study aims to elucidate the state of gender equality in high-quality research by analyzing the representation of female authorships in the last decade... -
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of eleven open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs are a relatively recent phenomenon, and have been... -
Productivity, impact, and collaboration differences between transdisciplinary...
: Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches are increasingly used to address complex public health problems such as childhood obesity. Compared to traditional grant-funded scientific... -
Use of Trial Register Information during the Peer Review Process
Introduction Evidence in the medical literature suggests that trial registration may not be preventing selective reporting of results. We wondered about the place of such... -
How Citation Boosts Promote Scientific Paradigm Shifts and Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prizes are commonly seen to be among the most prestigious achievements of our times. Based on mining several million citations, we quantitatively analyze the processes... -
Academic Impact of a Public Electronic Health Database: Bibliometric Analysis...
Background Studies that use electronic health databases as research material are getting popular but the influence of a single electronic health database had not been well... -
Species Distribution Models and Impact Factor Growth in Environmental Journal...
In this work, I evaluate the impact of species distribution models (SDMs) on the current status of environmental and ecological journals by asking the question to which degree... -
Design and Update of a Classification System: The UCSD Map of Science
Global maps of science can be used as a reference system to chart career trajectories, the location of emerging research frontiers, or the expertise profiles of institutes or... -
Comparative study of scientific publications in urology and nephrology journa...
BACKGROUND: In the past decade, scientific research has developed rapidly in China, but the growth seems to vary widely between different disciplines. In this study, we aimed to... -
Social media release increases dissemination of original articles in the clin...
A barrier to dissemination of research is that it depends on the end-user searching for or 'pulling' relevant knowledge from the literature base. Social media instead 'pushes'... -
Scholarometer: A Social Framework for Analyzing Impact across Disciplines
The use of quantitative metrics to gauge the impact of scholarly publications, authors, and disciplines is predicated on the availability of reliable usage and annotation data.... -
Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding
Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would... -
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... -
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...
