The purpose of this article is to introduce a new scheme for robust multivariate ranking by making use of a not so familiar notion called monotonicity. Under this scheme, as in the case of classical outward ranking, we get an increasing sequence of regions diverging away from a central region (may be a single point) as nucleus. The nuclear region may be deened as the median region.

The purpose of this study was to document performance of occupational therapy journals on the metrics of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the annually appearing index used as a yardstick to assess the quality of scholarly publications. Outcomes for the field's two indexed journals, the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, were assessed over...

FIGURE 1 | Statistics of impact factors of journals indexed in the Brazilian Qualis. BBActa, Biochemical and Biophysical Acta; JCM, Journal of Clinical Microbiology; BMC Mic., BMC Microbiology; Exp. Derm., Experimental Dermatology and Curr. Genet., Current Genetics; SD, Standard Deviation of the impact factor (error bars). Ministry monopolize this evaluation and pressure programs by the distrib...

OBJECTIVE Temporal trends in source normalized impact per paper (SNIP) values for the three top-ranking nursing journals were analyzed and compared to explore whether predicting future SNIP values based on trend analysis could be an innovative service provided by librarians. METHODS The International Journal of Nursing Studies, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, and Journal of Advanced Nursing w...

After changing its language from Korean or English to English only in 2010, the journal metrics of Diabetes & Metabolism Journal (DMJ) were analyzed to assess whether this change in the journal policy was successful. The journal metric items that were analyzed were the following: impact factor; total citations; countries of authors; proportion of the articles funded out of the total number of o...

The Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) has adopted “A commitment to excellence” as a slogan for 2015. Selected by members of the editorial board among various candidates, this slogan most accurately reflects the eagerness and passion of our members and our commitment to reaching excellence in the field of urology. To be an excellent journal in the f ield of urology, the KJU should be indexed in SC...

Editorial Memórias and the Journal Citation Reports We, as many other journal editors, have been looking at the recent release of the 2014 Journal Citation Reports by Thompson-Reuters. The results for the Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz have again been gratifying; our two-year impact factor has increased to 1.592 while the Memórias is one of the few Latin American journals with a five-year i...

The 2014 BioASQ challenge 2a tasks participants with assigning semantic tags to biomedical journal abstracts. We present a system that uses Latent Semantic Analysis to identify semantically similar documents in MEDLINE to an unlabeled abstract, and then uses a novel ranking scheme to select a list of MeSH headers from candidates drawn from the most similar documents. Our approach achieved good ...