background: we conducted a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis to calculate the h, g, m, a and r indicators for all iranian biomedical research centers (ibrcs) from the output of isi web of science (wos) and scopus between 1991 and 2010. we compared the research performance of the research centers according to these indicators.   methods : this was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical ...

I had the privilege of becoming the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the lead Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Centers for Biomedical Computing program, at the launch of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. This gave me a unique perspective from which to observe this program. The perspectives described herein are my ow...

Reductions in federal support and clinical revenue jeopardize biomedical research and, in turn, clinical medicine.

Clinical and translational research increasingly requires computation. Projects may involve multiple computationally oriented groups including information technology (IT) professionals, computer scientists, and biomedical informaticians. However, many biomedical researchers are not aware of the distinctions among these complementary groups, leading to confusion, delays, and suboptimal results. ...

  Background: We conducted a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis to calculate the H, G, M, A and R indicators for all Iranian biomedical research centers (IBRCs) from the output of ISI Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus between 1991 and 2010. We compared the research performance of the research centers according to these indicators.   Methods : This was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytica...

Biomedical science is at an evolutionary turning point. Many of the rate-limiting steps to realizing the next generation of personalized, highly targeted diagnostics and therapeutics rest at the interstices between biomedical science and the classic, university-based disciplines, such as physics, mathematics, computational science, engineering, social sciences, business, and law. Institutes, ce...

Academic Health Centers (AAHC) reveal that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has serious and often detrimental effects on biomedical research. It is known that the U.S. is a global leader in biomedical discovery and that research conducted at academic health centers has led to new lifesaving discoveries and treatments for disease and chronic ill...