What stories can publication data tell? • Publication activity demonstrates willingness to share research findings. • Authorship/collaboration patterns show evidence of working with other authors, with various areas of research and institutional affiliations. • Citations to publications demonstrates knowledge transfer of research findings and can lead to evidence of synthesis into clinical applications. • Citation [...]
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A revised version of the Becker Model is available. The Becker Model is a list of indicators of biomedical research impact and outcomes based on retrospective review of bench and clinical research trials, review of the literature for examples of health outcomes and interviews with investigators. It also includes examples of impact/influence metrics based on [...]
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“Uses and Misuses of Citation Frequency” By Eugene Garfield. Two “gems” from Dr. Garfield re use of citations for assessment of impact: “The use of citation frequency as one indicator of impact is legitimate. It provides a measure of the past or present influence of earlier work. It does not necessarily guarantee that the impact, [...]
Present preliminary research findings at a meeting or conference and consider making your figures available through FigShare and your presentation materials available in your institutional repository (see Digital Commons@Becker) or on a sharing site such as SlideShare so that others may discover and share your materials post-event. You might also consider submitting your content to [...]
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of descriptor terms in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. MeSH is used by NLM for describing the content of articles from over 5,000 leading biomedical journals indexed in the MEDLINE®/PubMED® database, and for [...]
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For an outstanding article on research impact, read: Ovseiko PV, Oancea A, Buchan AM. Assessing research impact in academic clinical medicine: a study using Research Excellence Framework pilot impact indicators. BMC Health Services Research 2012, 12:478. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-478 From the conclusions: “It is suggested that the public funding agencies, medical research charities, universities, and the wider [...]
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Are you in need of tips for NIH or NSF grant proposals? Do you need inspiration for framing your proposal and outcomes? If so, check out Dr. Joan E. Strassmann’s Blog, Sociobiology. Dr. Strassmann’s postings include: The perfect preproposal: make your aims complete How to write your NSF Project Outcome for the public How can [...]
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The blog post of “Metrics for Young Investigators” focused on identifying examples of outputs and activities for young investigators (see the new list of additional metrics). Why track outputs and activities of young investigators? Many investigators are funded by specific grant programs that offer support to develop research skills for young investigators to become independent [...]
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Interesting beta project: ImpactStory “ImpactStory is a website that makes it quick and easy to view the impact of a wide range of research output. It goes beyond traditional measurements of research output — citations to papers — to embrace a much broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly output types. The [...]
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Interesting article: Von Bohlen und Halbach’s “How to judge a book by its cover? How useful are bibliometric indices for the evaluation of “scientific quality” or “scientific productivity”?” includes a thoughtful review of bibliometric indices used to evaluate the performance of scientists and proposes two indicators for evaluating young scientists to correct for career length: [...]
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