The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) service is expanding rapidly, and aims to encompass all NESLi2-participating publishers by the end of 2011, together with all UK higher-education institutions subscribing to deals from those publishers. A key part of the success of JUSP will be the implementation of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) protocol for automatic ...

The case report, which has a long history in medicine, has seen its fortune wax and wane with time. We discuss the challenges facing the continued survival of the case report, including the inability of journals to cope with the increased load and increased cost of publication, ethical issues, the impact factor and the rise of evidence-based medicine. We highlight the important role that the ca...

The Eigenfactor score is a journal influence metric developed at the Department of Biology of the University of Washington and recently introduced in the Science and Social Science Journal Citation Reports maintained by Thomson Reuters. It provides a compelling measure of journal status with solid mathematical background, sound axiomatic foundation, intriguing stochastic interpretation, and man...

In this study, Cercospora sp.on Olea europaea and Pseudocercospora mori on Morus alba are being recorded from Iran. Moreover, new reports were provided for Cercospora apii s.l. (including C. canescens,C. citrullina, C. morina, C. sonchi, C. cruciferarumand C. helianthicola), and Pseudocercospora rubi. Also, Helianthus sp., Morus alba,Raphanus sp. and Taraxacum sp. are reported as new hosts forC...

From annual reports submitted to the Social Security Board by State agencies administering approved plans for old-age assistance, information is available on the sex, marital status, and living arrangements of 1,063,000 recipients of old-age assistance. Of these recipients, 477,000 were accepted for aid in 42 States 1 in selected periods of the fiscal year 1936-37 2 and 586,000 were accepted in...

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This study intends to focus on the physicians, and to examine the input-output relationships between the medical resources used by these physicians and the quantity of medical services provided by them, in order to analyze the productivity and efficiency of physicians. In addition, by applying the Malmquist productivity index, this study empirically evaluates how the quantities of each physicia...