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A New Scale for Rating Scientific Publications

Introduction Citation-based bibliometric indicators are increasingly being used for evaluating research. This reflects the need of decision-makers to increase the efficiency of allocating resources to research institutions and scientists, while also keeping manageable and cost-effective the evaluation process that grounds the allocation of resources. There often is much room of improvement in h...

Uncertainties in radiation sciences: The need for more researches and publications. Experience of 10 years publications in this field and our new plans

Three nearly simultaneous events around the end of the 19th century, i.e., the discovery of X‐rays by Roentgen in 1895, natural radioactivity by Antoine‐Henri Becquerel in 1896 and isolation of Radium by the Curies' in 1898 opened the nuclear era which has changed broadly the worlds of physics, biology and medicine. At the close of the 20th century, fundamental discoveries in biology at molecul...

A Message from the Vice President of Publications on New Developments in Signal Processing Society Publications

Bioimaging h as c ontinued t o e volve across a wide spectrum of applications from d iagnostics t o pe rsonalized therapy t o m echanistic understanding of bio logical pr ocesses. T he f ield continues t o be c hallenged w ith e ver increasing de mand o n mo re r obust methods and integration with clinical and molecular data. The 2 013 I EEE International S ymposium on B iomedical I maging w il...

Ethics Requirement Score: new tool for evaluating ethics in publications

OBJECTIVE To analyze ethical standards considered by health-related scientific journals, and to prepare the Ethics Requirement Score, a bibliometric index to be applied to scientific healthcare journals in order to evaluate criteria for ethics in scientific publication. METHODS Journals related to healthcare selected by the Journal of Citation Reports™ 2010 database were considered as experim...

CARMEN®– Aspects of a New Metal Cera-mic Material Publications