The initiative of the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies to establish a database for genetic disorders in the Arab World started in 2004 with a pilot project to catalogue genetic disorders in the Arab population of the United Arab Emirates. The strategy applied for this purpose consisted of data collection from a variety of sources including international and national bibliographic indices, nation...

There are limited data on the contribution of the African continent to neuroscience research and publications. This review aims to provide a clear view on the state of neuroscience research among African countries, and to compare neuroscience research within the 52 African countries. A literature review search was conducted for all published articles by African authors in both local and interna...

BACKGROUND Third sector organisations (TSOs) are a well-established component of health care provision in the UK's NHS and other health systems, but little is known about how they use research and other forms of knowledge in their work. There is an emerging body of evidence exploring these issues but there is no review of this literature. This scoping review summarises what is known about how h...

A journal’s impact and similarity with rivals is closely related to its competitive intensity. A subject area can be considered as an ecological system of journals, and can then be measured using the competitive intensity concept from plant systems. Based on Journal Citation Reports data from 1997, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013, we calculated the mutual citation, cosine similarity, and competitive...

Although a standard in natural science, reproducibility has been only episodically applied in experimental computer science. Scientific papers often present a large number of tables, plots and pictures that summarize the obtained results, but then loosely describe the steps taken to derive them. Not only can the methods and the implementation be complex, but also their configuration may require...

Large scale computer networks provide access to a bewilderingly large number and variety of resources, including retail products, network services, and people in various capacities. We consider the problem of allowing users to discover the existence of such resources in an administratively decentralized environment. We describe an approach for a system that accesses the distributed collection o...

BACKGROUND Evidence of low end-of-life (EoL) care service use by minority ethnic groups in the UK has given rise to a body of research and a number of reviews of the literature. This article aims to review and evaluate literature reviews on minority ethnic groups and EoL care in the UK and assess their suitability as an evidence base for policy. METHODS Systematic review. Searches were carrie...

BACKGROUND The literature identifying mechanism of injury came to prominence in the mid to late 1980s. The current Victorian prehospital triage guidelines do not necessarily reflect the conditions within the Victorian population as the triage guidelines are based on studies undertaken and validated in the U.S.A. The objective of this study was to identify the mechanism of injury alone literatur...

he interest in using and conducting clinical trials in developing world is rising promptly. Knowing the importance of this kind of research in generating therapeutic evidence, many clinical researchers in developing countries including Iran are getting involved in performing clinical trials. Authors performed a quick search in ISI Web of Knowledge database (May 2008) which shows interesting res...

AIM To analyze the 2007 citation count of articles published by the Croatian Medical Journal in 2005-2006 based on data from the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. METHODS Web of Science and Scopus were searched for the articles published in 2005-2006. As all articles returned by Scopus were included in Web of Science, the latter list was the sample for further analysis. Total citati...