Assessing research productivity

Assessing research productivity in an oncology research institute: the role of the documentation center.

An evaluation method used to assess the quality of research productivity and to provide priorities for budget allocation purposes is presented. This method, developed by a working group of the National Institute for Research on Cancer (IST), Genoa, Italy, is based on the partitioning of categories of the Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports (SCI-JCR) into deciles, which normalize...

Research productivity among nations.

HPLC-SPE-NMR: a productivity tool in natural products research

Natural products provide excellent potential leads for drug development because of their chemical diversity and biological functionality. However, the productivity of discovery of new, pharmacologically active natural products has traditionally been low due to inherent difficulties and costs associated with extract dereplication, i.e., isolation, purification and structure elucidation of indivi...

Does medical school research productivity predict a resident’s research productivity during residency?

BACKGROUND Research productivity is an important component of the CanMEDS Scholar role and is an accreditation requirement of Canadian Otolaryngology training programs. Our objective was to determine if an association exists between publication rates before and during Otolaryngology residency. METHODS We obtained the names for all certified Canadian Otolaryngologists who graduated between 199...

How should research productivity be assessed in early career psychiatric researchers? research funding versus scientific productivity.