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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Is there gender bias in nursing research?

29 Sep 2008 Using data from a consecutive sample of 259 studies published in four leading nursing research journals in 2005-2006, we examined whether nurse researchers favor females as study participants. On average, 75.3% of study participants were female, ... Read more...

Differential citation rates of major cardiovascular clinical trials according to source of funding: a survey from 2000 to 2005.

6 Sep 2008 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 ... Read more...

[Medical aspects of the open access initiative]

5 Sep 2008 The main condition of successful medical attendance and development of medical research is the use of scientific literature. The aim of our article is to briefly introduce the medical open access publishers and to call attention to the publishing ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Bibliometrics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Quantifying coauthor contributions. 15 Oct 2008
• The misused impact factor. 8 Oct 2008
• Neutralizing the impact factor culture. 8 Oct 2008
• Impact factor fever. 8 Oct 2008
• Beta blockers? 7 Oct 2008
• Playing the system puts self-citation's impact under review. 7 Oct 2008
• Is there gender bias in nursing research? 29 Sep 2008
• What is an Impact Factor? Should I care? 29 Sep 2008
• Reinterpreting the fate of manuscripts declined by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 29 Sep 2008
• Apparent decline in published anaesthetic articles. 29 Sep 2008
• The role of in-house medical communications centers in medical institutions in nonnative English-speaking countries. 29 Sep 2008
• What weight does impact factor carry? 29 Sep 2008
• [Dear Readers, Dear Colleagues! Good news for our journal, Clinical Neuroscience] 28 Sep 2008
• [Long live the case report] 27 Sep 2008
• A longer paper gathers more citations. 16 Sep 2008
• Playing the system to give low-impact journal more clout. 9 Sep 2008
• Differential citation rates of major cardiovascular clinical trials according to source of funding: a survey from 2000 to 2005. 6 Sep 2008
• [Medical aspects of the open access initiative] 5 Sep 2008
• Medicine. Life cycle of translational research for medical interventions. 3 Sep 2008
• Difficulties faced by 'non-academic' researchers. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Bibliometrics'

Definition: The use of statistical methods in the analysis of a body of literature to reveal the historical development of subject fields and patterns of authorship, publication, and use. Formerly called statistical bibliography. (from The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)

Descriptor UI: D015706

Alternative terms: Bibliometrics; Bibliometric Analysis; Bibliographies, Statistical; Statistical Bibliography; Bibliography, Statistical; Analysis, Bibliometric; Analyses, Bibliometric; Bibliometric Analyses; Statistical Bibliographies;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: L01.178.682.099.325; L01.453.183.291;

Online Note: 90

History Note: 90

Technical Notes: IM; coord with subject (IM); med bibliometrics: do not coordinate with MEDICINE