Nowadays impact factor is the significant indicator for journal evaluation. In impact factor’s calculation is used number of all citations to journal, regardless of the prestige of cited journals, however, scientific units (paper, researcher, journal or scientific organization) cited by journals with high impact factor or researchers with high Hirsch index are more important than objects cited ...

The following seniority-independent Hirsch-type index has been defined. A scientist has index hpd if hpd of his/her papers have at least hpd citations per decade each, and his/her other papers have less than hpd+1 citations per decade each. In contrast with the original h-index, which steadily increases in time, hpd of a mature scientist is nearly constant over many years, and hpd of an inactiv...

At a recent Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) curriculum retreat, a faculty member asked, "How well and where are we covering genetics in our curriculum?" This followed a proposal to develop a free-standing genetics course.At the time this question was posed, we were completing development of KnowledgeMap (KM) concept indexer. KM identifies UMLS concepts in free-text medical docum...