This study aimed to identify the knowledge, skills and attitudes of Brazilian hospital pharmacists in the use of information technology and electronic tools to support clinical practice. METHODS A questionnaire was sent by email to clinical pharmacists working public and private hospitals in Brazil. The instrument was validated using the method of Polit and Beck to determine the content valid...

Bibliographic databases are a prosperous field for data mining research and social network analysis. The representation and visualization of bibliographic databases as graphs and the application of data mining techniques can help us uncover interesting knowledge regarding how the publication records of authors evolve over time. In this paper we propose a novel methodology to model bibliographic...

The importance of information resources on the Internet is growing rapidly. In the academic field, the latest information is communicated over the Internet. In this article, it is discussed how one should select scholarly web sites as content for secondary databases, how the bibliographic information in databases should be described, and how links between electronic information should be created.

Bibliographic databases are very important for a variety of tasks for governments, academic institutions and businesses. These include assessing research output of institutions, performance evaluation of academics and compiling university rankings. However, incorrect or incomplete data in such databases can compromise any analysis and lead to poor decisions and financial loss. In this paper we ...

This article presents a description and case study of CiteSpace II, a Java application which supports visual exploration with knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases. Highly cited and pivotal documents, areas of specialization within a knowledge domain, and emergence of research topics are visually mapped through a progressive knowledge domain visualization approach to detecting and visu...