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Eugene Garfield
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TITLE: A substantial number of scientific publications originate
from non-university hospitals (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Fedder, J; Nielsen, GL; Petersen, LJ; Rasmussen, C;
Lauszus, FF; Frost, L; Hornung, N; Lederballe, O;
Andersen, JP
SOURCE: DANISH MEDICAL BULLETIN 58 (11). NOV 2011.
p.NIL_17-NIL_21 DANISH MEDICAL ASSOC, COPENHAGEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006
KEYWORDS+: CITATION; IMPACT
ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: As we found no recent published reports on
the amount and kind of research published from Danish hospitals without university affiliation, we have found it relevant to conduct a bibliometric survey disclosing these research activities.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: We retrieved all scientific papers published in the period 2000-2009 emanating from all seven Danish non-university hospitals in two regions, comprising 1.8 million inhabitants, and which were registered in a minimum of one of the three databases: PubMed MEDLINE, Thomson Reuters Web of Science and Elsevier's Scopus.
RESULTS: In 878 of 1,252 papers, the first and/or last author was affiliated to a non-university hospital. Original papers made up 69% of these publications versus 86% of publications with university affiliation on first or last place. Case reports and reviews most frequently had authors from regional hospitals as first and/or last authors. The total number of publications from regional hospitals increased by 48% over the 10-year period. Publications were cited more often if the first or last author was from a university hospital and even more so if they were affiliated to foreign institutions. Cardiology, gynaecology and obstetrics, and environmental medicine were the three specialities with the largest number of regional hospital publications.
CONCLUSION: A substantial number of scientific publications originate from non-university hospitals. Almost two thirds of the publications were original research published in international journals. Variations between specialities may reflect local conditions.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Fedder, Horsens Hosp, Sci Unit, Reprod Biol Lab, Sundvej
30, DK-8700 Horsens, Denmark
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TITLE: An Internet measure of the value of citations (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Szymanski, BK; de la Rosa, JL; Krishnamoorthy, M
SOURCE: INFORMATION SCIENCES 185 (1). FEB 15 2012. p.18-31
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM: HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; Citation analysis; Author
ranking; Impact factor; PageRank
KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; PUBLICATION; ALGORITHM; PAGERANK
ABSTRACT: A new method for computing the value of citations is
introduced and compared with the PageRank algorithm for author ranking.
In our proposed approach, the value of each publication is expressed in CENTs (sCientific currENcy Tokens). The publication's value is then divided by the number of citations made by that publication to yield a value for each citation. As citations are the acknowledgements of the work by authors other than oneself (indicating that it has been useful), self-citations count as zero in acknowledged citation value. Circular citations, a generalized type of self-citation, are considered to have a reduced acknowledged citation value. Finally, we propose a modification of the h-index to define it as the largest integer such that the i-th publication (on the list of publications sorted by their value in CENTs) is worth more than i CENTs. This new index, termed the i-index or i(2) in short, appears to be a more precise measure of the impact of publications and their authors' productivity than the h-index. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL de la Rosa, Univ Girona, EASY Innovat Ctr, Campus
Montilivi, E-17071 Catalonia, EU, Spain
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TITLE: Temporal Effects in the Growth of Networks (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Medo, M; Cimini, G; Gualdi, S
SOURCE: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 107 (23). DEC 1 2011.
p.NIL_16-NIL_19 AMER PHYSICAL SOC, COLLEGE PK
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; PHYS REV LETT source_abbrev_20
KEYWORDS+: COMPLEX NETWORKS; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENT; EVOLVING
NETWORKS; EVOLUTION; CONNECTIVITY; ADVANTAGE
ABSTRACT: We show that to explain the growth of the citation
network by preferential attachment (PA), one has to accept that individual nodes exhibit heterogeneous fitness values that decay with time. While previous PA-based models assumed either heterogeneity or decay in isolation, we propose a simple analytically treatable model that combines these two factors. Depending on the input assumptions, the resulting degree distribution shows an exponential, log-normal or power- law decay, which makes the model an apt candidate for modeling a wide range of real systems.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Medo, Univ Fribourg, Dept Phys, CH-1700 Fribourg,
Switzerland
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TITLE: Landslides: A state-of-the art on the current position in
the landslide research community (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Mikos, M
SOURCE: LANDSLIDES 8 (4). DEC 2011. p.541-551 SPRINGER
HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002
KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; h-Index; Immediacy index; Impact
factor; Landslides; Journal relatedness; Science citation
Index; SCOPUS
KEYWORDS+: SUSCEPTIBILITY ANALYSIS; CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; FUZZY-
LOGIC; AREA; MODEL; WATER; GIS; BUILDINGS; RESERVOIR;
VELOCITY
ABSTRACT: The international journal Landslides (ISSN 1612-510X),
launched in 2004 and published by Springer Verlag, soon gained international recognition as the only specialized scientific journal in the world dedicated to different aspects of landslides, and as one of the leading world journals in the field of geological engineering. After 7 years, seven published volumes with 28 issues and 290 published papers on
2,794 pages, there is time to make a comparison with other related journals that also cover the field of landslide risk mitigation. The critical review of these seven publishing years was done using ISI Journal Citation Reports produced by Thomson Reuters, and available scientometric data from the ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS. The data presented in this paper and the analysis shown may help the Editorial Board to further improve the journal into the direction of a high quality scientific journal with even higher impact on the international research community in the field of landslide risk mitigation.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Mikos, Univ Ljubljana, Fac Civil & Geodet Engn, Jamova
Cesta 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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TITLE: The Matthew effect in environmental science publication:
A bibliometric analysis of chemical substances in journal articles
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Grandjean, P; Eriksen, ML; Ellegaard, O; Wallin, JA
SOURCE: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 10. NOV 10 2011. p.NIL_1-NIL_8
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth;
MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968;
BIBLIOMETR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS+: HEALTH
ABSTRACT: Background: While environmental research addresses
scientific questions of possible societal relevance, it is unclear to what degree research focuses on environmental chemicals in need of documentation for risk assessment purposes.
Methods: In a bibliometric analysis, we used SciFinder to extract Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers for chemicals addressed by publications in the 78 major environmental science journals during 2000- 2009. The Web of Science was used to conduct title searches to determine long-term trends for prominent substances and substances considered in need of research attention.
Results: The 119,636 journal articles found had 760,056 CAS number links during 2000-2009. The top-20 environmental chemicals consisted of metals,
(chlorinated) biphenyls, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, and ethanol and contributed 12% toward the total number of links-Each of the top-20 substances was covered by 2,000-10,000 articles during the decade. The numbers for the 10-year period were similar to the total numbers of pre- 2000 articles on the same chemicals. However, substances considered a high priority from a regulatory viewpoint, due to lack of documentation, showed very low publication rates. The persistence in the scientific literature of the top-20 chemicals was only weakly related to their publication in journals with a high impact factor, but some substances achieved high citation rates.
Conclusions: The persistence of some environmental chemicals in the scientific literature may be due to a 'Matthew' principle of maintaining prominence for the very reason of having been well researched. Such bias detracts from the societal needs for documentation on less well known environmental hazards, and it may also impact negatively on the potentials for innovation and discovery in research.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Grandjean, Univ So Denmark, Dept Environm Med, Odense,
Denmark
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TITLE: Growth and trends in publications about abdominal wall
hernias and the impact of a specific journal on herniology: a
bibliometric analysis (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Kulacoglu, H; Oztuna, D
SOURCE: HERNIA 15 (6). DEC 2011. p.615-628 SPRINGER, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR*
GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 10:13 1996
KEYWORDS: Hernia; Publication; Journal; Bibliometric analysis
KEYWORDS+: RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIALS; SUB-SPECIALIZATION;
SURGICAL SUBSPECIALIZATION; GENERAL-SURGERY; UNITED-
STATES; REPAIR; MEDLINE; MEDICINE; CANCER; PRODUCTIVITY
ABSTRACT: The aim of this systematic review was to determine the
exact volume and growth pattern of articles on abdominal wall hernias, in particular the effect of the journal Hernia on publications about hernias.
A PubMed search was performed for every year between 1965 and 2010, using the title words "inguinal hernia," "incisional hernia," and "umbilical hernia." Then, two consecutive 10-year periods were chosen for a systematic PubMed search, before and after 2001-the year in which Hernia began to be indexed in PubMed. The main keywords used were as follows:
"inguinal hernia" "incisional hernia" "umbilical hernia" "mesh"
"laparoscopic" and "experimental."
The number of all articles indexed in PubMed increased 1.6-fold between the periods 1991-2000 and 2001-2010. The number of articles with the title word "inguinal hernia" increased 1.7-fold, whereas the rises for incisional and umbilical hernias were more prominent: 3.9- and 2.6-fold.
Article titles with the combined keywords "hernia and mesh" and "hernia and laparoscopic" increased 2.8- and 2.4-fold. The most striking combined search was for "umbilical hernia and mesh" with a 20.5-fold rise. The percentage of articles published in the journal Hernia among all articles in all 25 selected journals, including Hernia was 30% on average. Hernia, Surgical Endoscopy and the British Journal of Surgery were the leading journals for publications for inguinal hernia in the last decade.
Growth in hernia papers is greater than the overall growth in PubMed.
Articles on incisional hernia increased faster than did those on inguinal and umbilical hernias. The establishment and indexing of Hernia decreased the proportion of hernia publications in other journals. The core journals for herniology are Hernia, Surgical Endoscopy, and the British Journal of Surgery.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Kulacoglu, Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Teaching & Res Hosp,
Dept Surg, 1 Cadde 109-5, TR-06490 Ankara, Turkey
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TITLE: The Limits of Sharing: An Ethical Analysis of the
Arguments For and Against the Sharing of Databases and Material Banks
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Smith, E
SOURCE: ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESEARCH-POLICIES AND QUALITY
ASSURANCE 18 (6). 2011. p.357-381 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD,
ABINGDON
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth
KEYWORDS: databases; limitations; material banks; sharing;
valorization
KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; BIOBANK RESEARCH; GENETIC PRIVACY;
CONSENT; SCIENCE; SOCIETY; COMMERCIALIZATION; PATENTS;
HEALTH
ABSTRACT: In this article, I study the challenges that make
database and material bank sharing difficult for many researchers. I assert that if sharing is prima facie ethical (a view that I will defend), then any practices that limit sharing require justification. I argue that: 1) data and material sharing is ethical for many stakeholders;
2) there are, however, certain reasonable limits to sharing; and 3) the rationale and validity of arguments for any limitations to sharing must be made transparent. I conclude by providing general recommendations for how to ethically share databases and material banks.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Smith, Univ Montreal, Dept Med Sociale & Prevent,
Programmes Bioeth, Sch Publ Hlth, CP 6128,Succ Ctr Ville,
Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
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TITLE: Identifying unintended consequences of quality
indicators: a qualitative study (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Lester, HE; Hannon, KL; Campbell, SM
SOURCE: BMJ QUALITY & SAFETY 20 (12). DEC 2011. p.1057-1061 B M
J PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth
KEYWORDS+: PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE; OUTCOMES FRAMEWORK; UNITED-KINGDOM;
CARE; EXPERIENCE; DELIVERY; ENGLAND
ABSTRACT: Background: For the first 5 years of the UK primary care
pay for performance scheme, the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), quality indicators were introduced without piloting. However, in 2009, potential new indicators were piloted in a nationally representative sample of practices. This paper describes an in-depth exploration of family physician, nurse and other primary-care practice staff views of the value of piloting with a particular focus on unintended consequences of 13 potential new QOF indicators.
Method: Fifty-seven family-practice professionals were interviewed in 24 representative practices across England.
Results: Almost all interviewees emphasised the value of piloting in terms of an opportunity to identify unintended consequences of potential QOF indicators in 'real world' settings with staff who deliver day-to-day care to patients. Four particular types of unintended consequences were
identified: measure fixation, tunnel vision, misinterpretation and potential gaming. 'Measure fixation,' an inappropriate attention on isolated aspects of care, appeared to be the key unintended consequence.
In particular, if the palliative care indicator had been introduced without piloting, this might have incentivised poorer care in a minority of practices with potential harm to vulnerable patients.
Conclusions: It is important to identify concerns and experiences about unintended consequences of indicators at an early stage when there is time to remove or adapt problem indicators. Since the UK government currently spends over 1 pound billion each year on QOF, the 150 pound 000 spent on each piloting cohort (0.0005% of the total QOF budget) appears to be good value for money.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: HE Lester, Univ Manchester, NIHR Sch Primary Care Res,
Primary Care Grp, 7th Floor,Williamson Bldg,Oxford Rd,
Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
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TITLE: Progressive Trends and Impact of the Journal of Career
Development: A Citation Analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Chaichanasakul, A; He, YH; Chen, HH; Allen, GEK;
Khairallah, TS; Ramos, K
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT 38 (6). DEC 2011.
p.456-478 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
SMITH LC LIBR TRENDS 30:83 1981;
CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title;
CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title;
GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979;
J CAREER DEV source_abbrev_20
KEYWORDS: citation analysis; trend analysis; career development;
Journal of Career Development; journal impact
KEYWORDS+: PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS; COUNSELING-PSYCHOLOGY; AMERICAN;
RATINGS
ABSTRACT: As one of the four premier journals in vocational
psychology, the Journal of Career Development (JCD) has published over 830 articles over the past three decades. This study examined the performance of JCD through a citation analysis and provided evaluative data for scholars publishing in the field of vocation psychology.
Articles published by JCD between 1986 and 2007 were analyzed. Additional data pertaining JCD's performance were also collected through the Journal Citation Reports. The analyses revealed a strong and growing impact of articles published by JCD on researchers and professionals. Specifically, results provided (a) the frequency and trends of JCD's citations overtime, (b) the journals where JCD's articles were most often cited,
(c) the most frequently cited JCD's articles, (d) JCD's impact data in applied psychology, and (e) JCD's citation information among the other three vocational psychology journals. Implications of the results for the journal are discussed.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Chaichanasakul, Univ Missouri, Counseling Psychol
Program, 16 Hill Hall, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
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