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B – A medical journal’s influence evaluation26 May 2011Sanni SA, Zainab AN. Evaluating the influence of a medical journal using Google Scholar. Learned Publishing 2011;24(2):145-154(doi: 10.1087/20110210) This study shows how a medical journal’s influence can be calculated by using citations obtained from Google Scholar and other methods even though the journal is not covered by any citation databases. 580 articles published in the […]
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B – Tools for management of plagiarism complaints25 May 2011Hagen B. Tools for the effective management of plagiarism complaints. PSP Bulletin 2010;9(4):8-10 IEEE (the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity) has developed a suite of tools that efficiently define, identify, and manage plagiarism complaints. The combined use of these three essential tools (policy guidelines, […]
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B – Incorporating open access into libraries25 May 2011Cryer E, Collins M. Incorporating open access into libraries. Serials Review 2011, in press(doi: 10.1016/j.serrev.2011.03.002) Librarians can play a dynamic role in the development of the open access (OA) landscape by familiarizing themselves with government funding initiatives, OA publishing models, institutional OA funds and policies, and institutional repositories. The article provides examples of how librarians […]
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B – Evidence-based journalism25 May 2011Habibzadeh F, Yadollahie M. Evidence-based journalism. Croatian Medical Journal 2011;52(2):212-213(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2011.52.212) The principles of evidence-based practice can also be used in the field of journalism. An application of one of the basic approaches used in evidence-based practice, PICO – that stands for Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome – can be applicable in biomedical journalism, i.e. […]
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B – Open access citation advantage: an annotated bibliography25 May 2011Wagner AB. Open access citation advantage: an annotated bibliography. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship; Winter 2010 The publication considers and weighs the evidence on the OA citation impact advantage. It suggests a strong OA citation impact advantage, with a download differential found across studies averaging at least 100%, followed by a citation impact differential […]
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B – Multiple open access availability and citation impact25 May 2011Xia J, Myers RL, Wilhoite SK. Multiple open access availability and citation impact. Journal of Information Science 2011;37:19-28(doi: 10.1177/0165551510389358) The study examines whether there is a direct correlation between multiple open access (OA) availability of journal articles and the citation advantage by collecting data of OA article appearance and citations in 20 top library and […]
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B – Do OA biomedical journals benefit smaller countries?24 May 2011Turk N. Do open access biomedical journals benefit smaller countries? The Slovenian experience. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2011;28:143-147(doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00932.x) The article considers whether open access (OA) publishing provides a way to improve the visibility of research outputs from smaller countries. A search of Slovenia’s bibliographic database was carried out to identify all biomedical journals […]
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B – Open access and Scopus17 May 2011Miguel S, Chinchilla-Rodriguez Z, de Moya-Anegón. Open access and Scopus: a new approach to scientific visibility from the standpoint of access. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2011;62(6):1130-1145(doi: 10.1002/asi.21532) Few studies show the impact of OA in the visibility of journals covering all scientific fields and geographical regions.This article presents analyses […]
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B – A randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing17 May 2011Davis PM. Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing. The FASEB Journal 2011; published online March 20, 2011(doi: 10.1096/fj.11-183988) Using a randomized controlled trial of open access (OA) publishing, involving 36 academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the effects of free access on article downloads and citations […]
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B – Statistical and scientific reviews of manuscripts17 May 2011Henly SJ, Bennett JA, Dougherty MC. Scientific and statistical reviews of manuscripts submitted to Nursing Research: comparison of completeness, quality, and usefulness. Nursing Outlook 2010 Jul-Aug;58(4):188-199(doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2010.04.004) The purpose of the study was to compare the content and quality of statistical and scientific reviews of manuscripts submitted to Nursing Research. Scientific reviews were rated as […]
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B – Perceived value of scholarly articles17 May 2011Tenopir C, Allard S, Bates BJ et al. Perceived value of scholarly articles. Learned Publishing 2011;24(2):123-132(doi: 10.1087/20110207) Results from a questionnaire are presented: over 400 researchers in 12 countries responded ranking 7 article characteristics and rating 16 article profiles. After article topic, the next most highly ranked characteristics were online accessibility and source of article. […]
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Imagination and interpretation: Writing science into fiction6 May 2011On 20 July 2011, Pat Barker CBE and Philip Sington will be leading a discussion at the Royal Society, London, about representing scientists and science in contemporary fiction. Both authors have imaginatively used the archives of early 20th century scientists as the basis for major works of fiction. They will reveal what attracted them to […]
