The fields of quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) continue to grow with greater attention and awareness, increased mandates and incentives, and more research. Academic medical centers and their academic departments have a long-standing tradition for innovation and scholarship within a multifaceted mission to provide patient care, educate the next generation, and conduct research. Aca...

With this opening editorial, the Association of Pathology Chairs (APC) is launching a new journal called Academic Pathology. The APC is a nonprofit society that serves as the voice of academic departments of pathology in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The APC exists to provide leadership and advocacy for the dynamic discipline of pathology and to enable academic departments to meet...

purpose: the purpose of this study was to establish scientometrics departments in the iranian academic libraries based on the swot model. methodology: this is an applied study carried out by the survey method. the study population included 80 librarians of mashhad universities. data collection was based on the statistical distribution of the questionnaire following the swot model. findings: the...

BACKGROUND Major academic ophthalmology departments have been expanding by opening multi-office locations ("satellites"). This paper offers a first glimpse into satellites of academic ophthalmology departments. METHODS Leaders of seven medium to large, geographically diverse departments agreed to participate. One- to two-hour phone interviews were conducted to assess the features of their sat...

In this paper, the scientometric evaluation of faculty members of 50 Greek Science and Engineering University Departments is presented. 1978 academics were examined in total. The number of papers, citations, h-index and i10-index have been collected for each academic, department, school and university using Google Scholar and the citations analysis program Publish or Perish. Analysis of the col...

PURPOSE Corporate scientific activity lies at the heart of the modern academic institution, and yet field-specific estimates of institutional or departmental scholarly productivity are difficult to assess. The authors sought to estimate long-term and current departmental research efforts at residency-sponsoring US radiation oncology departments, using modifications of established bibliometric i...