Measuring the impact of medical research: moving from outputs to outcomes

AP Weiss - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2007 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Billions of dollars are spent every year to support medical research, with a substantial
percentage coming from charitable foundations. To justify these expenditures, some …

Information reliability for academic research: review and recommendations

E Colepicolo - New Library World, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide to scientific researchers and academic
students some subsidies related to information reliability that may be used during …

Problems of citation analysis: A study of uncited and seldom‐cited influences

MH MacRoberts, BR MacRoberts - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
To determine influences on the production of a scientific article, the content of the article
must be studied. We examined articles in biogeography and found that most of the influence …

Why should urban heat island researchers study history?

ID Stewart - Urban Climate, 2019 - Elsevier
In the scientific fields of meteorology and climatology, formal surveys of the urban
atmosphere originate from the early 19th century. Since that time, hundreds of measurement …

The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007

V Larivière, Y Gingras… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article challenges recent research (Evans, 2008) reporting that the concentration of
cited scientific literature increases with the online availability of articles and journals. Using …

The science That's

R Van Noorden - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
NATURE. COM For methods and more tales of the uncited, see: go. nature. com/2tzpoc
remain uncited five years after their publication2. Scientists genuinely fret about this issue …

Evaluating the information quality of web sites: A methodology based on fuzzy computing with words

E Herrera‐Viedma, G Pasi… - Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
An evaluation methodology based on fuzzy computing with words aimed at measuring the
information quality of Web sites containing documents is presented. This methodology is …

Directions in green roof research: A bibliometric study

L Blank, A Vasl, S Levy, G Grant, G Kadas… - Building and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Green roof research is a multidisciplinary and new research area. We conducted a
bibliometric quantification to assess the rate of publications in specific areas of research for …

Academic urban legends

OB Rekdal - Social Studies of Science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on
various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex …

Modeling a century of citation distributions

ML Wallace, V Larivière, Y Gingras - Journal of Informetrics, 2009 - Elsevier
The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly cited papers, with respect to the bulk of
publications, provides important clues as to the dynamics of scientific research. Using 25 …