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 [...]
Tags:Authors at WU, Clinical Impact, Impact Factors, Intellectual Impact, Research Impact, 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
Interesting manuscript by Steven Harnad that discusses the importance of open access for biomedical research findings. Abstract: The ethical case for Open Access (OA) (free online access) to research findings is especially salient when it is public health that is being compromised by needless access restrictions. But the ethical imperative for OA is far more general: [...]
Tags:Clinical Impact, Impact Factors, Intellectual Impact, Open Access, Responsible Conduct of Research
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