ContextThe quality of consumer health information on the World Wide Web is an important
issue for medicine, but to date no systematic and comprehensive synthesis of the methods …

Research publication can both communicate and miscommunicate. Unless research is
adequately reported, the time and resources invested in the conduct of research is wasted …

This study examined why Websites were co-linked using Canadian university Websites as
the test set. Pages that co-linked to these university Websites were located using Yahool. A …

In this article, we examine the mental processes and representations that are required of
laypersons when learning about science issues from texts. We begin by defining scientific …

Since the mid-1990s has emerged a new research field, webometrics, investigating the
nature and properties of the Web drawing on modern informetric methodologies. The article …

Scientific communication and scholarly publishing are in transition. The age of printed
publications as primary means to communicate research results is ending, being replaced …

The published medical literature and online medical resources are important sources to help
physicians make patient treatment decisions. Traditional sources used for information …

Primary objective: To avoid selection and publication bias, systematic reviewers should
employ a broad range of search techniques and make efforts to locate unpublished studies …

The contribution defines webometrics within the framework of informetric studies,
bibliometrics, and scientometrics as belonging to library and information science, and …

Risk has now become a feature of science curricula in many industrialized countries. While
risk is conceptualized within a number of different theoretical frameworks, the predominant …