scholarly journals Semantic Publishing Challenge – Assessing the Quality of Scientific Output

2014 ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Lange ◽  
Angelo Di Iorio
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
Semantic Publishing

Correlation of Altmetric Attention Scores with Citations in Major Pharmacy Journals (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave L Dixon ◽  
William L Baker
Keyword(s):  
Citation Count ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND The impact and quality of a faculty members publications is a key factor in promotion and tenure decisions and career advancement. Traditional measures, including citation counts and journal impact factor, have notable limitations. Since 2010, alternative metrics have been proposed as another means of assessing the impact and quality of scholarly work. The Altmetric Attention Score is an objective score frequently used to determine the immediate reach of a published work across the web, including news outlets, blogs, social media, and more. Several studies evaluating the correlation between the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations have found mixed results and may be discipline-specific. OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation between higher Altmetric Attention Scores and citation count for journal articles published in major pharmacy journals. METHODS This cross-sectional study evaluated articles from major pharmacy journals ranked in the top 10% according to the Altmetric Attention Score. Sources of attention that determined the Altmetric Attention Score were obtained, as well each articles open access status, article type, study design, and topic. Correlation between journal characteristics, including the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations, was assessed using the Spearman’s correlation test. A Kruskal-Wallis 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the Altmetric Attention Scores between journals. RESULTS Six major pharmacy journals were identified. A total of 1,376 articles were published in 2017 and 137 of these represented the top 10% with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores. The median Altmetric Attention Score was 19 (IQR 15-28). Twitter and Mendeley were the most common sources of attention. Over half (56.2%) of the articles were original investigations and 49.8% were either cross-sectional, qualitative, or cohort studies. No significant correlation was found between the Altmetric Attention Score and citation count (rs=0.07, P = 0.485). Mendeley was the only attention source that correlated with the number of citations (rs=0.486, P<0.001). The median Altmetric Attention Score varied widely between each journal (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS The overall median Altmetric Attention score of 19 suggests articles published in major pharmacy journals are near the top 5% of all scientific output. However, we found no correlation between the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations for articles published in major pharmacy journals in the year 2017.

scholarly journals Correlation between scientific production and democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderic Guigo
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Positive Correlation

There is a strong positive correlation between the quality of democracy and the scientific output of countries. The correlation remains even after correcting for research spending.

ACM: Article Content Miner for Assessing the Quality of Scientific Output

2016 ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese ◽  
Silvio Peroni ◽  
Diego Reforgiato Recupero
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output

Distribution and impact of research in hematology and oncology in Latin America (LATAM): A decade of uncertainty (ONCOLGroup).

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e12039-e12039
Author(s):  
Andres Acevedo ◽  
Andres Felipe Cardona Zorrilla ◽  
Paola Rios ◽  
Henry A. Becerra ◽  
Alexandra Gomez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Publication Rate ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Target Period ◽  
Made In

e12039 Background: Brazil provides 1% of the worldwide scientific output registered in ASCO. However, contribution made by other LATAM countries remains unknown. The main objective is to evaluate LATAM countries’ scientific output regarding hematology and oncology and their global impact. Methods: Astructured search was made in ASCO, ASH, ESMO and ASTRO databases to identify abstracts recorded between 2000 and 2010 referring to any author, institution or population from LATAM. The search was expanded using Internet to find indexed or non-indexed publications referring to each selected reference. Simple random sampling was used to check 10% of the references and verify the quality of the data. Results: 1,858 of the 2,625 references that were identified fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Sixteen of 19 countries evaluated had at least one record during the 10 year target period; five countries represented 93.6% of scientific output (Brazil 51.1%/Argentina 19.9%/ México 14.1%/Peru 6.2%/Chile 2.4%) whilst Colombia only contributed 1.3%. Two-thirds of the work had been presented as abstracts, a third as posters and less than 2% orally; 17% of the abstracts had been published in a scientific journal (90% in international journals, with a mean impact factor and average citations rate of 3.5 and 14.2 respectively), 1.6 years after the meeting. Conclusions: Latin America’s contribution to scientific knowledge regarding hematology, oncology and radiotherapy is growing. The geographical distribution of such production depends on 5 countries; nevertheless, abstracts’ publication rate in journals is low.

scholarly journals Scientific output quality of 40 globally top-ranked medical researchers in the field of osteoporosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Pluskiewicz ◽  
B. Drozdzowska ◽  
P. Adamczyk ◽  
K. Noga
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
Output Quality ◽  
Medical Researchers

scholarly journals Citations in Scientific Journals in Vietnam: An Analysis from the Field of Educational Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
AISDL
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Technological Capacity ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Quality Of Research

The improvement and enhancement of scientific journals in Vietnam to meet international standards is in line with the directions and policies of the Vietnamese government. These policies aim to enhance the scientific and technological capacity of the contingent of researchers and research agencies in Vietnam. According to previous studies conducted in the period between1996-2013 in Vietnam, the total scientific output of the whole country increased by only 16 publications per year between 1996-2001. It was also found that there was an increase of 20% per year in 2002-2013 (Manh, 2015). Therefore, it is extremely necessary to propose a criteria and measures for domestic scientific journals to access international publishing standards as well as improve the capacity of Vietnamese researchers. In a number of studies related to improving the quality of international publications of scientists in Vietnam, the issue of improving the capacity of ranking research journals appeared in the works of Chung et al.(2019), Cuong, Loc, Trung, &amp; Trung (2020), Ho et al. (2019) Hoang et al. (2020), Hung (2016), Nguyen et al. (2020), Trang et al. (2020), Trung, Linh, Phuong, Toan, &amp; Hoang (2020). Most authors have confirmed the trend of increasing the quantity and quality of research in general and research in the field of educational science in Vietnam. However, the authors also pointed out a number of reasons why scientific research in Vietnam has not yet met the standards of international scientific research, including the issue of citing references.

Proposed methodology for measuring the effectiveness of policies designed to further research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Núria Bautista-Puig ◽  
Luis Moreno Lorente ◽  
Elías Sanz-Casado
Keyword(s):  
State Space Model ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Space Model ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Weak Growth ◽  
Carlos Iii

Abstract The effects of economic incentives on research have been widely debated in the literature. Some authors deem them to have no or even an adverse impact, particularly, if they are perceived as irrelevant to or an attempt to control researcher activity, whilst others believe they enhance research productivity by inducing new habits such as international collaboration or publication in high-impact journals. In 2007, the Carlos III University of Madrid introduced bonuses associated with research merits to reward research and educational excellence. The policy aims to enhance the quantity and quality of the institution’s scholarly publications. This study analyses whether and to what extent the new policy has had a potential effect on scientific output, impact, and visibility. Scientific activity indicators between 1991 and 2018 were analysed and a state-space model was used to establish possible scenarios (pre- and post-bonus periods) and 3 year predictions. Further to the findings, despite weak growth in researcher staff size, the number of papers rose during the period slightly more than in the pre-bonus simulation. The number of first-quartile papers also rose substantially, attesting to higher impact and visibility of the university’s research. Greater internationalization was also observed. The incentives were found to be highly suggestive of a change in university researchers’ publication habits.

Jews in The Royal Society: A Problem in Ecology

1949 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
The Body ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Sole Criterion ◽  
Number Of Individuals

PROMPTED by a desire to explore a by-path of Anglo/Jewish history, I studied the incidence of members of the Jewish community within the fellowship of the Royal Society. It soon became obvious that one had uncovered a sociological problem of considerable interest. Indeed the original inquiry would have had but little value were it not for considerations peculiar to the Royal Society. I refer to the facts that entry to the ordinary Fellowship of the Royal Society has, since 1847, been confined to a small and strictly limited number of individuals, that the quality of the candidates’ scientific output has been the sole criterion for their election and, finally, that throughout the entire period the Society has eschewed all prejudice, political, religious or social. Election to the Society thus becomes a reliable yardstick by which to gauge the volume of output of scientists of high rank occurring in any group of the country’s citizens at any time during the last 100 years. To the Jewish community such a yard/stick is peculiarly welcome, even in England where anti-Semitic prejudice has never been highly developed, whilst its application to the national or racial composition of the body of foreign fellows, a group to which a limited number of eminent scientists the world over are eligible, assumes a unique value.

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