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 [...]
Tags:Authors at WU, Citation Analysis, Impact Factors, Support for Authors
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 [...]
Tags:Authors at WU, Citation Analysis, Clinical Impact, Impact Factors, Intellectual Impact, Responsible Conduct of Research, Support for Authors
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, [...]
Tags:Authors at WU, Citation Analysis, Clinical Impact, Impact Factors, Support for Authors
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 [...]
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.
Based on the 2007 Journal Citation Reports a number of open access journals published by BioMed Central have shown an increase in the impact factor ranking with eight journals above 4.0 and 12 with a ranking greater than 3.0. For the full report: BioMed Central Blog, June 19, 2008. The impact factor is defined by Journal Citation [...]
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