Digital data are a foundation of 21st century science. In order to maintain stable foundation, the FAIR Guiding Principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016) were proposed keep findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). However, commonly used citation practices rely on unverifiable retrieval methods that do not always enable access cited data. Without verifiability, susceptible undetected “...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews are important for informing clinical practice and health policy. The aim of this study was to examine the bibliometrics of systematic reviews and to determine the amount of variance in citations predicted by the journal impact factor (JIF) alone and combined with several other characteristics. METHODS We conducted a bibliometric analysis of 1,261 systematic revie...

Jorge Hirsch (2005) proposed the h-index (or Hirschindex) as a tool for quantifying the scientific productivity and the scientific impact of an individual researcher: “A scientist has index h if h of his or her n articles have at least h citations each, whereas the other n− h articles have at most h citations each.” The main strength (and perhaps the main weakness) of the Hirsch-index is that i...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and Indexed Scientific Journals on total number of research documents (papers), citations per document and Hirsch index (H-index) in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this stu...

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This paper analyzes from an axiomatic point of view a recent proposal for counting citations: the value of a citation given by a paper is inversely proportional to the total number of papers it cites. This way of fractionally counting citations was suggested as a possible way to normalize citation counts between fields of research having different citation cultures. It belongs to the “citing-si...

BACKGROUND Although being a simple and effective index that has been widely used to evaluate academic output of scientists, the h-index suffers from drawbacks. One critical disadvantage is that only h-squared citations can be inferred from the h-index, which completely ignores excess and h-tail citations, leading to unfair and inaccurate evaluations in many cases. METHODOLOGY PRINCIPAL FINDIN...

OBJECTIVE Decompression illness (DCI) is a potentially lethal complication of diving and may occur far from hyperbaric facilities. The need for prompt transport to a hyperbaric facility often involves air medical transport, but this may exacerbate DCI. The authors reviewed available literature to establish evidence-based transport strategies utilizing safe altitudes for patients, with DCI. ME...

1Department of Research and Studies, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman (Correspondence to M.M. Afifi: [email protected]). Received: 30/09/03; accepted: 17/05/04 ABSTRACT The study aimed to identify mental health publications in Arab countries cited in PubMed from 1987 to 2002 and to analyse the year of publication, journal and field of research, specifically for child and adolescent mental hea...