Making an Impact with Your Research

Making an impact: research, publications, and bibliometrics in the BJGP.

Making an impact: the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Science is all about quantification. It is therefore somewhat ironic that the mechanism by which science is disseminated – academic publishing – has yet to develop an acceptable way of measuring itself. Several fundamental issues regarding the scholarly publishing enterprise remain largely unresolved, such as how journal performance should be assessed, how journals should be compared and ranked...

Brain banking: making the most of your research specimens.

Unbiased stereology is a method for accurately and efficiently estimating the total neuron number (or other cell type) in a given area of interest(1). To achieve this goal 6-10 systematic sections should be probed covering the entire structure. Typically this involves processing 1/5 sections which leaves a significant amount of material unprocessed. In order to maximize the material, we propose...

Academic Network Explorer: Making Sense of Your Research through Interaction

Literature reading is a necessary but never easy task for researchers, especially for beginners of academia or in time limited circumstances. To make sense of literature, researchers need not only to read papers, but also to understand their context such as the authors who wrote them, where they are published and what are their impact on certain research areas. I propose a visualization system ...

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