Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
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Wed Sep 19 16:48:36 EDT 2012
TITLE: Towards bibliometric units in universities: model and
functions (Article, Spanish)
AUTHOR: Torres-Salinas, D; Jimenez-Contreras, E
SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 35 (3).
2012. p.469-480 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES
CIENTIFICAS, MADRID
SEARCH TERM(S): MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: University; bibliometric unit; scientific information
systems; bibliometric indicators; research management
ABSTRACT: In recent years, bibliometric indicators have been firmly
established as a tool for research management and decision-making in the
context of scientific policy. Spanish universities represent one sector
that has seen significant growth in the use of indicators. These
institutions now find themselves in an ever more competitive environment
and therefore have a greater need to have knowledge of the performance of
their researchers. Against this background, this paper presents a
proposal for the creation of Bibliometric Units in Spanish universities
and attempts specifically to illustrate both the model and functions of
these units based on three pillars: control of information sources
related to research, preparing reports, and advice/training. In addition
to the theoretical proposal we present different examples from the
universities of Navarra and Granada. The text concludes that such units
could represent an important opportunity for jobs in the field of
Information Science.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Torres-Salinas, Univ Navarra, Grp Evaluac Ciencia &
Comunicac Cient EC3, Ctr Invest Med Aplicada, E-31080
Pamplona, Spain
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TITLE: The bibliometric structure of spin-off literature
(Review, English)
AUTHOR: Wallin, MW
SOURCE: INNOVATION-MANAGEMENT POLICY & PRACTICE 14 (2). JUN
2012. p.162-177 ECONTENT MANAGEMENT, MALENY
SEARCH TERM(S):
SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 7:139 1977;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;
WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981;
KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; entrepreneurship; innovation; network
analysis; review; spin-off
KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; STRATEGIC-MANAGEMENT; COCITATION
ANALYSIS; AUTHOR COCITATION; TECHNOLOGY; COMPANIES; FIRMS;
ENTREPRENEURSHIP; TAXONOMY; PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT: The spin-off phenomenon has received ample attention in
the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper I
investigate the bibliometric structure of the literature on spin-off
firms. Bibliometric methods enable a fairly objective approach to sort
through significant amounts of data to identify the building blocks of
this emerging literature. Specifically, I identify the building blocks in
terms of topics addressed and links to and between scientific fields. The
dataset consists of 215 source articles published between 1957 and 2006
and 2397 cited authors. Two main results are found. First, the field is
mainly drawing on empirical studies rather than conceptual work. Second,
though, co-citation networks reveal important conceptual links between
empirical studies.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: MW Wallin, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Management Technol
& Econ, Zurich, Switzerland
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TITLE: Finding Relevant Papers Based on Citation Relations
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Liang, YC; Li, Q; Qian, TY
SOURCE: WEB-AGE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 6897. 2011. p.403-414
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN
SEARCH TERM(S): KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;
CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS: Paper Relevance; Citation Relation; Citation Network
ABSTRACT: With the tremendous amount of research publications,
recommending relevant papers to researchers to fulfill their information
need becomes a significant problem. The major challenge to be tackled by
our work is that given a target paper, how to effectively recommend a set
of relevant papers from an existing citation network. In this paper, we
propose a novel method to address the problem by incorporating various
citation relations for a proper set of papers, which are more relevant
but with a very limited size. The proposed method has two unique
properties. Firstly, a metric called Local Relation Strength is defined
to measure the dependency between cited and citing papers. Secondly, a
model called Global Relation Strength is proposed to capture the
relevance between two papers in the whole citation graph. We evaluate our
proposed model on a real-world publication dataset and conduct an
extensive comparison with the state-of-the-art baseline methods. The
experimental results demonstrate that our method can have a promising
improvement over the state-of-the-art techniques.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: YC Liang, City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Comp Sci, Hong Kong,
Hong Kong, Peoples R China
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TITLE: ASAP: Towards Accurate, Stable and Accelerative
Penetrating-Rank Estimation on Large Graphs (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Li, XF; Yu, WR; Yang, B; Le, JJ
SOURCE: WEB-AGE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 6897. 2011. p.415-429
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN
SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973
ABSTRACT: Pervasive web applications increasingly require a measure
of similarity among objects. Penetrating-Rank (P-Rank) has been one of
the promising link-based similarity metrics as it provides a
comprehensive way of jointly encoding both incoming and outgoing links
into computation for emerging applications. In this paper, we investigate
P-Rank efficiency problem that encompasses its accuracy, stability and
computational time. (I) We provide an accuracy estimate for iteratively
computing P-Rank. A symmetric problem is to find the iteration number K
needed for achieving a given accuracy E. (2) We also analyze the
stability of P-Rank, by showing that small choices of the damping factors
would make P-Rank more stable and well-conditioned. (3) For undirected
graphs, we also explicitly characterize the P-Rank solution in terms of
matrices. This results in a novel non-iterative algorithm, termed ASAP,
for efficiently computing P-Rank, which improves the CPU time from
O(n(4)) to O(n(3)). Using real and synthetic data, we empirically verify
the effectiveness and efficiency of our approaches.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: XF Li, Fudan Univ, Shanghai, Peoples R China
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TITLE: Assessing the Publication Productivity of Clinical
Psychology Professors in Canadian Psychological Association-Accredited
Canadian Psychology Departments (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Carleton, RN; Parkerson, HA; Horswill, SC
SOURCE: CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGIE CANADIENNE 53 (3). AUG
2012. p.226-237 CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC, OTTAWA
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
CAN PSYCHOL source_abbrev_20
KEYWORDS: psychology; Canadian psychology research; publications; h-
index; CPA-accredited psychology programs
KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; SCIENTIST; RANKINGS; GENDER; CITATIONS; PROGRAMS;
EMINENCE; FACULTY; COUNTS; WOMEN
ABSTRACT: Canadian clinical psychology professors in programs
accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) are generally
expected to perform in 3 major domains research, teaching, and service.
Measurement of performance in these domains is complicated. Research
productivity, as measured by publication and citation counts, are often
touted as objective metrics for evaluating professorial research
performance; however, such quantifications can be problematic. Despite
concerns, evaluators continue to use publication and citation counts for
evaluating psychology professors. Use of these metrics without normative
data is extremely problematic; moreover, without ceiling reference points
or identification of outliers, new professors and those evaluating them
have no perspective on reasonable expectations. The current study
provides normative data and ceiling reference points using publically
available data for the 255 professors currently in CPA-accredited
Canadian clinical psychology programs, as well as submissions from an
invited subset of those same professors. The data were stratified by
professorial rank and sex, with the men and women having the highest
publication and citation counts identified to create ceiling references.
The results suggest that most CPA-accredited Canadian clinical psychology
professors publish between 0 and 4 articles annually. Men publish
significantly more than women at the Assistant and Full professorial
ranks (p < .05), but not at the Associate rank (p > .10). Evidence also
suggests that professors cannot be appropriately rank-ordered based on
any single research index. Comprehensive results, implications,
limitations, contextually based caveats, and directions for future
research are discussed.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: RN Carleton, Univ Regina, Dept Psychol, 3737 Wascana Pkwy,
Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
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TITLE: Application of the systematic review and bibliometric
network analysis (SeBriNA) methodology contextualizes evidence. Part 2:
rituximab for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Kho, ME; Brouwers, MC
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 65 (9). SEP 2012.
p.996-1009 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: Evidence-based medicine; Bibliometrics; Systematic
reviews; Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Publication bias;
Rituximab
KEYWORDS+: ANTI-CD20 MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODY; B-CELL LYMPHOMA;
REFRACTORY LOW-GRADE; CHOP CHEMOTHERAPY; ELDERLY-PATIENTS;
FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; PHASE-II; THERAPY; TRIAL; COMBINATION
ABSTRACT: Objective: We conducted a systematic review and
bibliometric network analysis (SeBriNA) of rituximab for non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma.
Study Design and Setting: We searched three primary data sources (1997-
2003) for five document types: original research, reviews, guidelines,
editorials, and media reports. We conducted cumulative meta-analysis on
three outcomes (mortality, tumor response, safety) and used GRADE
(Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) to
classify evidence quality. Direct citation relationships between original
research documents and other documents were analyzed and visually
represented.
Results: Of 6,798 documents, 757 met inclusion criteria. The 317 original
research documents represented 209 study clusters and 8,483 evaluated
patients. Of 209 study clusters, 2.9% were randomized controlled trials
(RCTs) and reported data on outcomes of interest. The quality of evidence
was moderate. We identified 1,571 direct citations to the 317 original
research documents. The first RCT reporting relevant outcomes appeared in
2000, whereas the first guidelines appeared in 1999. Of 212 media
reports, 92% cited no original research.
Conclusions: Of 757 rituximab documents, RCTs of comparisons and outcomes
represented <3% of original research. In contrast, review articles,
guidelines, editorials, and media reports each outnumbered the relevant
original research. The SeBriNA review facilitated the analysis,
contextualization, and interpretation of these complex relationships. (C)
2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: ME Kho, Johns Hopkins Univ Hosp, Dept Phys Med & Rehabil,
600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
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TITLE: The systematic review and bibliometric network analysis
(SeBriNA) is a new method to contextualize evidence. Part 1: description
(Review, English)
AUTHOR: Kho, ME; Brouwers, MC
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 65 (9). SEP 2012.
p.1010-1015 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: Evidence-based medicine; Bibliometrics; Systematic
reviews; Cumulative meta-analysis; Publication bias;
Patient-centered outcomes
KEYWORDS+: METAANALYSIS
ABSTRACT: Objective: We describe a new methodology, the systematic
review and bibliometric network analysis (SeBriNA), to contextualize the
quality and quantity of patient-centered outcomes evidence relative to
complementary documents such as reviews, practice guidelines, editorials,
and media reports.
Study Design and Setting: The SeBriNA is informed by systematic review
and bibliometric analysis methodologies. It focuses on two key concepts:
I) quality of evidence for patient-centered outcomes using cumulative
meta-analysis and the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment,
Development, and Evaluation) appraisal approach; 2) quantity of original
research and its citation relationships to related documents. It includes
four steps: I) research questions and document selection; 2) data
extraction and analysis; 3) document network relationships; and 4)
document network visualization.
Results: The primary output from the SeBriNA is an analysis of 1)
evidence-the annual cumulative meta-analysis estimate of effect
juxtaposed against quality of evidence by patient-centered outcomes
(GRADE), and 2) context-the network of relationships between related
documents and original research. This analysis can be represented as a
single figure.
Conclusions: The SeBriNA may help decision makers conceptualize,
interpret, and visualize the quantity, quality, and relevance of original
research within a network of related documents. Applications include
prospective support for clinical and policy decisions and identification
of research gaps. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: ME Kho, Johns Hopkins Univ Hosp, Dept Phys Med & Rehabil,
600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
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Title: The 50 most cited articles in pediatric orthopedic surgery
Authors:
Baldwin, KD; Kovatch, K; Namdari, S; Sankar, W; Flynn, JM; Dormans, JP
Author Full Names:
Baldwin, Keith D.; Kovatch, Kevin; Namdari, Surena; Sankar, Wudbhuv;
Flynn, John M.; Dormans, John P.
Source:
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS-PART B, 21 (5):463-468; 10.1097/BPB.0b013e328354b0cf SEP 2012
Language:
English
Document Type:
Article
Author Keywords:
citation, literature, pediatric orthopedic
KeyWords Plus:
CITATION-CLASSICS; JOURNALS; IMPACT; MEDICINE
Abstract:
Quantity of citation is often used as a surrogate measurement of an article's importance or relevance in a given field. To date, there has been no study on citation quantity or density in pediatric orthopedics. We present such an analysis. We reviewed all articles in the ISI web of science under the subheading 'orthopedics' to find articles of relevance to pediatric orthopedic surgeons. We subsequently analyzed the characteristics of the most cited articles in terms of the level of evidence, journal of publication, and subcategory of pediatric orthopedics. The majority of the top 50 articles in pediatric orthopedics were from the 1970s and 1980s. All the articles were in English. Uncontrolled case series comprised the largest single level of evidence (level IV). We describe the top 50 articles in pediatric orthopedics by citation and citation density. The level of evidence for highly cited papers was low. Although many of these articles were written by the great thinkers of !
our field, a need exists for more rigorous methodology. J Pediatr Orthop B 21:463-468 (c) 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health vertical bar Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Reprint Address:
Childrens Hosp Philadelphia, Dept Orthopaed Surg, 34th & Civ Ctr Blvd,2 Wood Ctr, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
Addresses:
[Baldwin, Keith D.; Sankar, Wudbhuv; Flynn, John M.; Dormans, John P.] Childrens Hosp Philadelphia, Dept Orthoped Surg, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[Kovatch, Kevin] Univ Penn, Sch Med, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[Baldwin, Keith D.; Namdari, Surena] Hosp Univ Penn, Dept Orthoped Surg, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
E-mail Address:
baldwink at email.chop.edu
Cited Reference Count:
17
Times Cited:
0
Publisher:
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA
ISSN:
1060-152X
Web of Science Categories:
Orthopedics; Pediatrics
Research Areas:
Orthopedics; Pediatrics
IDS Number:
983NE
Unique ID:
WOS:000307125200018
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Title:
Content Factor: A Measure of a Journal's Contribution to Knowledge
Authors:
Bernstein, J; Gray, CF
Author Full Names:
Bernstein, Joseph; Gray, Chancellor F.
Source:
PLOS ONE, 7 (7):10.1371/journal.pone.0041554 JUL 23 2012
Language:
English
Document Type:
Article
KeyWords Plus:
AFFORDABLE HEALTH-CARE
Abstract:
Impact Factor, the pre-eminent performance metric for medical journals, has been criticized for failing to capture the true impact of articles; for favoring methodology papers; for being unduly influenced by statistical outliers; and for examining a period of time too short to capture an article's long-term importance. Also, in the era of search engines, where readers need not skim through journals to find information, Impact Factor's emphasis on citation efficiency may be misplaced. A better metric would consider the total number of citations to all papers published by the journal (not just the recent ones), and would not be decremented by the total number of papers published. We propose a metric embodying these principles, "Content Factor", and examine its performance among leading medical and orthopaedic surgery journals. To remedy Impact Factor's emphasis on recent citations, Content Factor considers the total number of citations, regardless of the year in which the cited paper was published. To correct for Impact Factor's emphasis on efficiency, no denominator is employed. Content Factor is thus the total number of citations in a given year to all of the papers previously published in the journal. We found that Content Factor and Impact Factor are poorly correlated. We further surveyed 75 experienced orthopaedic authors and measured their perceptions of the "importance" of various orthopaedic surgery journals. The correlation between the importance score and the Impact Factor was only 0.08; the correlation between the importance score and Content Factor was 0.56. Accordingly, Content Factor better reflects a journal's "importance". In sum, while Content Factor cannot be defended as the lone metric of merit, to the extent that performance data informs journal evaluations, Content Factor-an easily obtained and intuitively appealing metric of the journal's knowledge contribution, not subject to gaming-can be a useful adjunct.
Reprint Address:
Vet Hosp, Dept Orthoped Surg, Philadelphia, PA USA.
Addresses:
[Bernstein, Joseph] Vet Hosp, Dept Orthoped Surg, Philadelphia, PA USA
[Bernstein, Joseph; Gray, Chancellor F.] Univ Penn, Sch Med, Dept Orthoped Surg, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
E-mail Address:
Joseph.Bernstein at uphs.upenn.edu
Cited Reference Count:
7
Times Cited:
0
Publisher:
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 1160 BATTERY STREET, STE 100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 USA
ISSN:
1932-6203
Article Number:
e41554
Web of Science Categories:
Biology
Research Areas:
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
IDS Number:
977TM
Unique ID:
WOS:000306687700111
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Title:
Quality of Reporting of Modern Randomized Controlled Trials in Medical Oncology: A Systematic Review
Authors:
Peron, J; Pond, GR; Gan, HK; Chen, EX; Almufti, R; Maillet, D; You, B
Author Full Names:
Peron, Julien; Pond, Gregory R.; Gan, Hui K.; Chen, Eric X.; Almufti,
Roula; Maillet, Denis; You, Benoit
Source:
JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, 104 (13):982-989; 10.1093/jnci/djs259 JUL 2012
Language:
English
Document Type:
Review
KeyWords Plus:
CONSORT STATEMENT; BIOMEDICAL JOURNALS; UPDATED GUIDELINES; EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE; BIAS; RECOMMENDATIONS; PUBLICATION; ELABORATION; EXPLANATION; CONCEALMENT
Abstract:
Background The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines were developed in the mid-1990s for the explicit purpose of improving clinical trial reporting. However, there is little information regarding the adherence to CONSORT guidelines of recent publications of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in oncology.
Methods All phase III RCTs published between 2005 and 2009 were reviewed using an 18-point overall quality score for reporting based on the 2001 CONSORT statement. Multivariable linear regression was used to identify features associated with improved reporting quality. To provide baseline data for future evaluations of reporting quality, RCTs were also assessed according to the 2010 revised CONSORT statement. All statistical tests were two-sided.
Results A total of 357 RCTs were reviewed. The mean 2001 overall quality score was 13.4 on a scale of 0-18, whereas the mean 2010 overall quality score was 19.3 on a scale of 0-27. The overall RCT reporting quality score improved by 0.21 points per year from 2005 to 2009. Poorly reported items included method used to generate the random allocation (adequately reported in 29% of trials), whether and how blinding was applied (41%), method of allocation concealment (51%), and participant flow (59%). High impact factor (IF, P = .003), recent publication date (P = .008), and geographic origin of RCTs (P = .003) were independent factors statistically significantly associated with higher reporting quality in a multivariable regression model. Sample size, tumor type, and positivity of trial results were not associated with higher reporting quality, whereas funding source and treatment type had a borderline statistically significant impact.
Conclusion The results show that numerous items remained unreported for many trials. Thus, given the potential impact of poorly reported trials, oncology journals should require even stricter adherence to the CONSORT guidelines. J Natl Cancer Inst 2012;104:982-989
Reprint Address:
Hosp Civils Lyon, Ctr Hosp Lyon Sud, Serv Oncol Med, F-69310 Pierre Benite, France.
Addresses:
[Peron, Julien; Almufti, Roula; Maillet, Denis; You, Benoit] Hosp Civils Lyon, Ctr Hosp Lyon Sud, Serv Oncol Med, F-69310 Pierre Benite, France
[Pond, Gregory R.] McMaster Univ, Dept Oncol, Ontario Clin Oncol Grp, Hamilton, ON, Canada
[Gan, Hui K.] Austin Hosp, Joint Austin Ludwig Oncol Unit, Melbourne, Vic 3084, Australia
[Chen, Eric X.] Princess Margaret Hosp, Univ Hlth Network, Dept Med Oncol & Hematol, Toronto, ON M4X 1K9, Canada
E-mail Address:
benoit.you at chu-lyon.fr
Funding Acknowledgement:
Victorian State Government
Funding Text:
HKG is the recipient of a Victorian Cancer Agency Research Fellowship from the Victorian State Government.
Cited Reference Count:
33
Times Cited:
0
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, JOURNALS DEPT, 2001 EVANS RD, CARY, NC 27513 USA
ISSN:
0027-8874
Web of Science Categories:
Oncology
Research Areas:
Oncology
IDS Number:
973OO
Unique ID:
WOS:000306369800010
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Title:
Research statistics in Atopic Eczema: what disease is this?
Authors:
Hon, KLE; Yong, V; Leung, TF
Author Full Names:
Hon, Kam-Lun Ellis; Yong, Vivien; Leung, Ting-Fan
Source:
ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS, 38 10.1186/1824-7288-38-26 JUN 9 2012
Language:
English
Document Type:
Review
Author Keywords:
Atopic dermatitis, Eczema, ISI, Impact Factors, PubMed
KeyWords Plus:
DERMATITIS; CHILDREN; FILAGGRIN; MUTATIONS; SEVERITY
Abstract:
Background: Atopic eczema is a common and distressing disease. This study aims to review PubMed indexed research statistics on atopic eczema over a-10 year period to investigate the clinical relevance and research interest about this disease.
Methods: PubMed (a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine) was searched for the terms "atopic dermatitis" and "eczema", with limits activated (Humans, Clinical Trial, Meta-Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trial, English, published in the last 10 years), and editorials, letters, practice guidelines, reviews, and animal studies excluded. Journal impact factor (IF) is in accordance with Journal Citation Report (JCR) 2009, a product of Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information).
Results: A total of 890 articles were retrieved. Taking out publications that were irrelevant and those without an impact factor, 729 articles were obtained. These articles were grouped into dermatology (n = 337, mean IF: 3.01), allergy/immunology (n = 215, mean IF: 4.89), pediatrics (n = 118, mean IF: 2.53) and miscellaneous subject categories (n = 142, mean IF: 5.10). The impact factors were highest in the miscellaneous category (p = 0.0001), which includes such prestigious journals as the New England journal of Medicine (n = 1, IF: 47.05), the Lancet (n = 4, IF: 30.76) and BMJ (n = 6, IF: 13.66). There was no publication in any family medicine or general practice journal. The British Journal of Dermatology (n = 78), Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (n = 49) and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (n = 46) had the highest number of publications on the subject. Atopic eczema ranked higher in impact factors in allergy/immunology although more publications appeared in !
the dermatology category.
Conclusions: Atopic eczema is a multidisciplinary disease. Its clinical relevance and research interests are definitely beyond that of a mere cutaneous disease. Investigators may consider allergy/immunology and miscellaneous journal categories for higher impact of their research.
Reprint Address:
Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Prince Wales Hosp, Dept Pediat, Clin Sci Bldg 6-F, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.
Addresses:
[Hon, Kam-Lun Ellis; Leung, Ting-Fan] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Prince Wales Hosp, Dept Pediat, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[Yong, Vivien] Univ Auckland, Fac Med, Auckland 1, New Zealand
E-mail Address:
ehon at hotmail.com
Cited Reference Count:
26
Times Cited:
0
Publisher:
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 236 GRAYS INN RD, FLOOR 6, LONDON WC1X 8HL, ENGLAND
ISSN:
1720-8424
Article Number:
26
Web of Science Categories:
Pediatrics
Research Areas:
Pediatrics
IDS Number:
987CO
Unique ID:
WOS:000307394200001
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Title:
Endorsement and implementation of high impact factor medical journals on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) policy of mandatory clinical trial registration
Authors:
Tulvatana, W; Thinkhamrop, B; Kulvichit, K; Tatsanavivat, P
Author Full Names:
Tulvatana, Wasee; Thinkhamrop, Bandit; Kulvichit, Kittisak;
Tatsanavivat, Pyatat
Source:
ASIAN BIOMEDICINE, 6 (3):423-427; 10.5372/1905-7415.0603.072 JUN 2012
Language:
English
Document Type:
Article
Author Keywords:
Associated factors, clinical trial registration, endorsement, impact factor, implementation, policy
KeyWords Plus:
STATEMENT
Abstract:
Objective: We determined the proportion of highest impact factor journals that follows the ICMJE policy of clinical trial registration and identified factors associated with policy implementation.
Study design and setting: Ten highest impact factor journals from ten specialties were identified from the 2009 Journal Citation Reports. Instructions for authors were reviewed for the statements regarding the trial registration. If the registration policy was mentioned in the instructions, the published articles were assessed to determine if the policy was actually implemented. The publishers, membership in Committee on Publication Ethics, journal vintage, etc., were analyzed for association with the policy implementation.
Results: Of 87 relevant journals, 58.6% endorsed the policy and 35.6% strictly implemented it. Factors for journals associated with strict clinical trial registration policy implementation were Internal Medicine specialty (OR 19.19; 95%CI: 2.21, 166.50; p = 0.007), ICMJE's URM followers (OR 7.14; 95%CI: 2.62, 19.46; p < 0.001), longer years of publication (OR for every 10 year 1.31; 95%Cl: 1.16, 1.49; p = 0.001), and higher impact factors (OR for every 1 JIF 1.70; 95%CI: 1.25, 2.32;p = 0.001).
Conclusion: Only one third of the highest impact factor journals strictly implemented ICMJE policy. Associated factors were identified.
Reprint Address:
Med Res Fdn, Thai Clin Trials Registry, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand.
Addresses:
[Tulvatana, Wasee; Thinkhamrop, Bandit; Kulvichit, Kittisak; Tatsanavivat, Pyatat] Med Res Fdn, Thai Clin Trials Registry, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand
[Tulvatana, Wasee; Kulvichit, Kittisak] Chulalongkorn Univ, Fac Med, Dept Ophthalmol, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
[Thinkhamrop, Bandit] Khon Kaen Univ, Fac Publ Hlth, Dept Biostat & Demog, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
[Tatsanavivat, Pyatat] Khon Kaen Univ, Fac Med, Dept Internal Med, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
E-mail Address:
waseetulvatana at gmail.com
Funding Acknowledgement:
Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences
Funding Text:
Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences funded the Thai Clinical Trials Registry. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Cited Reference Count:
8
Times Cited:
0
Publisher:
CHULALONGKORN UNIV, FAC MED, CHULALONGKORN UNIV, FAC MED, 1873, RAMA 4, BANGKOK, 10330, THAILAND
ISSN:
1905-7415
Web of Science Categories:
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Research Areas:
Research & Experimental Medicine
IDS Number:
976VV
Unique ID:
WOS:000306616300011
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