Issue 38 - September 2014
…Scopus (Data Collected July 2014) References (1) http://www.megasoftware.net/ (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEGA,_Molecular_Evolutionary_Genetics_Analysis. (3) Bon, C., Berthonaud, V., Fosse, P., Gély, B., Maksud, F., Vitalis, R., Philippe, M., van der Plicht, J., Elalouf, J.-M. (2011) “Low regional diversity of late cave bears mitochondrial DNA at the time of Chauvet Aurignacian paintings”.Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 38, No.8, p…
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Issue 35 - December 2013
…$220 million”, The Economic Times, July 2013, http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-07-25/news/40795356_1_indian-institute-development-centre-collaboration (5) “Pakistan, Turkey agree to consolidate relations through enhanced political, economic cooperation”, The Associated Press of Pakistan, http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239632&Itemid=2 “Africa, Near East & South Asia (ANESA) Regional Opportunitie…
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Issue 33 - June 2013
…onents Views, recommendations, shares Github.com, Datadryad.org, Slideshare.net, Figshare.com, Table 1 – Classes of platform and tool that provide data for altmetrics applications. (Source: ImpactStory) The principal use of altmetrics has been to study and describe the wider scholarly impact of research articles (1). Some researchers have concluded that altmetric activity might act as an indicator for eventual citation count (2) and that it might…
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Issue 35 - December 2013
…original publication or other work describing an eponymic concept or term (…); 14. Disclaiming work or ideas of others (negative claims); and 15. Disputing priority claims of others (negative homage). All of these are as relevant to social citation in 2013 as they were to formal citation in 1962; and the added visibility and speed of activity in social networks only adds to the list, for example: 16. Building a network of related researchers; 17…
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Issue 37 - June 2014
…p=.001 Topic 17.8, p=.001 Original v. Review article .477, p=.009 # pages -.011, p< .001 Structured abstract -.8, p=.002 # cited references .004, p=.008 Multicenter study .367, p=.014 Therapy v. other article .339, p=.023 Word count of abstract -.0003, p=.658 Semi-structured abstract .071, p=.746 Nation of first author -.037, p=.762 Novelty .059 Topic rank .079 Diversity of topics in article .157 Table 1 – Content-based Features Available Pre-Pub…
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Issue 34 - September 2013
…ourt-case-reignite-controversial-debate.html • Six months after the MMR jab… a bubbly little girl now struggles to speak, walk and feed herself (2009) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1126035/Six-months-MMR-jab–bubbly-little-girl-struggles-speak-walk-feed-herself.html • American parents awarded £600,000 in compensation after their son developed autism as a result of MMR vaccine (2013) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262534/Ame…
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Issue 30 - September 2012
…onal Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2011.). VN:F [1.9.22_1171] please wait… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)…
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Issue 29 - July 2012
…veniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; loet@leydesdorff.net **Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany; bornmann@gv.mpg.de References 1. Merton, R. K. (1968) “The Matthew Effect in Science”, Science, 159, 56-63. 2. Price, D. S. (1976) “A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes”, Journal of the Amer…
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Issue 29 - July 2012
…, 120-128. 6. Rayment, R. (1976) “Wind Energy in the UK”, Building Services Engineer, (44), 63-69. VN:F [1.9.22_1171] please wait… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)…
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