Are you an author and wish to retain certain rights to your journal article that are not expressly granted by the publisher? One right you may want to retain is to post the peer-reviewed version of your journal article on your laboratory website. Another right is to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.
There is a customized [...]

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ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science recently released a Citation Map tool that allows for graphical representation of citation relationships up to two generations, forward or backwards. By using this tool, authors can analyze who is citing their work and the results can be sorted by author, year, journal title, article title, subject category, language, institution, and country.

Tutorial on [...]

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Are you interested to knowing how your research has been used? How can it help?

Tenure
Progress reports
Identify similar research projects
Duplication or confirmation of research findings
Correction of research findings
Improvement of research findings
Extension of research (different human populations, different animal models or species, etc.)
Proper attribution/credit of research findings
Quantify return on investment for funding
Justification for future requests for funding
Demonstration of [...]

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Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, George A. Alexiou, Theodore C. Gouvias, and John P. A. Ioannidis, “Life Cycle of Translational Research for Medical Interventions,” Science (5 September 2008) Vol. 321, no. 5894, 1298 – 1299.
Excellent review of the research process that discusses the long road from the initial discovery of a medical intervention to a highly cited article. [...]

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