Washington University School of Medicine’s Becker Medical Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, Assessing the Impact of Research. Realizing that now, more than ever, researchers need to be aware of the impact of their biomedical research, a team at the library has developed a Model for Assessment of Research Impact that [...]

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Looking for journal impact and ranking information? Take a look at some of the following resources that allow users to rank, analyze, compare and/or create graphical charts based on a variety of journal parameters:
eigenFACTOR
Journal Citation Reports
Red Jasper’s Center for Journal Ranking
scienceWATCH
SCImago
SCOPUS Journal Analyzer

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Two economists at Washington University, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine,  have recently published a book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, which asserts that the “current patent/copyright system discourages and prevents inventions from entering the marketplace. ”
Video Press Release 
Against Monopoly (a blog maintained by Professors Boldrin and Levine)

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Are you looking for a tool to keep track of who is citing your work? There are several databases that offer tools for authors to track cited publications.
SCOPUS  SCOPUS offers a Citation Tracker feature that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a particular publication since 1996. What makes SCOPUS one of the [...]

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