OBJECTIVE This study analyses the research output of India in malaria research in national and global context, as reflected in its publications output during 1998-2009. METHODS SCOPUS Citation database has been used to retrieve the publication data, which has been further analysed on several parameters including its growth, rank and global publications share, citation impact, overall share of...

Purpose – More knowledge about open access (OA) scholarly publishing on the web would be helpful for citation data mining and the development of web-based citation indexes. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to identify common characteristics of open access publishing, which may therefore enable us to measure different aspects of e-research on the web. Design/methodology/approach – In the...

BACKGROUND Prior work indicates that therapeutic trials funded by for-profit organizations are more likely to report positive findings than trials funded by not-for-profit organizations. What impact, if any, funding source has on subsequent dissemination of trial data is uncertain. To address this issue, we used the number of citations per publication per year to assess differences in trial dis...

An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in BMC Palliative Care. These articles were erroneously published in volume number 17, which is listed with a publication date of 2018. However, these articles were published in final form in the year 2017. Provided below are the actual publication dates and the correct citation for each affected article. Please note that the cita...

BACKGROUND Measures of research productivity are increasingly used to determine how research should be evaluated and funding decisions made. In psychiatry, citation patterns within and between countries are not known, and whether these differ by choice of citation metric. METHOD In this study, we examined publication characteristics and citation practices in articles published in 50 Web of Sc...

When evaluated for promotion or tenure, faculty members are increasingly judged more on the quality than on the quantity of their scholarly publications. As a result, they want help from librarians in locating all citations to their published works for documentation in their curriculum vitae. Citation analysis using Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index provides a logical sta...