Thought-provoking reading on citing of papers.
Citations: Too Many, or Not Enough? – The Scientist – Magazine of the Life Sciences
“Simply put, students, colleagues and coauthors must critically read each paper cited in its entirety. Cite only the best, strongest and most original publications. Cite review articles only if they offer unique perspectives, concepts, or synthesis.” [...]

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A new report, “Communicating Knowledge: How and Why UK Researchers Publish and Disseminate their Findings” published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC is now available.
“According to the report, if funders and institutions want to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must [...]

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Looking for ways to assess your impact as an author? Take a look at some of the following resources:
SCOPUS (subscription required)
SCOPUS provides an Author Search option that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a particular author’s work since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of a Citation [...]

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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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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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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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Who is citing your work? How is your research being used?
 One tool that you can use to find out who is citing your work is the Author Finder tool in the Web of Science database. Author Finder will produce a list of publications by a particular author that are indexed in the database.  Once a search is completed, a [...]

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SCOPUS just announced a new tool called Journal Analyzer. You can view details about a journal’s performance and create a graphical chart of up to ten journals for comparison of journals. The journal files are updated every two weeks and provides for a current perspective of journal performance factors such as the number of articles published per [...]

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A thank you to Matthew Cockerill for noting that there are 17, not 12, BMC journals with an impact factor above 3.0.  Please see Matthew’s full comment under the 26 June 2008 posting.

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