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- September 1, 2010
- 05:17 AM
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How Many Unique Papers Are There In Mendeley?
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Mendeley is a handy piece of desktop and web software for managing and sharing research papers [1]. This popular tool has been getting a lot of attention lately, and with some impressive statistics it’s not difficult why. At the time of writing Mendeley claims to have over 36 million papers, added by just under half a [...]... Read more »
Victor Henning, & Jan Reichelt. (2008) Mendeley - A Last.fm For Research?. IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 327-328. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.128
- August 20, 2010
- 10:00 AM
- 19 views
Exploring Information Interaction ‘Context’ with Tefko Saracevic at #IIIX2010
by Anatoliy Gruzd in Social Media Lab
I am writing from the ‘Information Interaction in Context Symposium‘ in New Brunswick (the one in New Jersey, not the one in Canada), the home of Rutgers University. Usually I would wait until a conference is over and the dust is settled before blogging about an event, but in this case I’ll make an exception. Specifically, I would like to share some of the highlights from the keynote speaker while it’s still fresh in my mind.... Read more »
Saracevic, T. (2010) The Notion of Context in "Information Interaction in Context.". Inivited keynote at the conference Information Interaction in Context. info:/
- August 8, 2010
- 12:52 PM
- 48 views
Collaborating and Delivering Literature Search Results to Clinical Teams Using Web 2.0 Tools
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
There seem to be two camps in the library, the medical and many other worlds: those who embrace Web 2.0, because they consider it useful for their practice and those who are unaware of Web 2.0 or think it is just a fad. There are only a few ways the Web 2.0-critical people can be convinced: by [...]... Read more »
Damani S, & Fulton S. (2010) Collaborating and delivering literature search results to clinical teams using web 2.0 tools. Medical reference services quarterly, 29(3), 207-17. PMID: 20677061
- July 27, 2010
- 11:17 AM
- 95 views
Twenty Million Papers in PubMed: A Triumph or a Tragedy?
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
A quick search on pubmed.gov today reveals that the freely available American database of biomedical literature has just passed the 20 million citations mark*. Should we celebrate or commiserate passing this landmark figure? Is it a triumph or a tragedy that PubMed® is the size it i... Read more »
Halevy, A., Norvig, P., & Pereira, F. (2009) The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(2), 8-12. DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2009.36
Torvik VI, & Smalheiser NR. (2009) Author Name Disambiguation in MEDLINE. ACM transactions on knowledge discovery from data, 3(3). PMID: 20072710
Islamaj Dogan R, Murray GC, Névéol A, & Lu Z. (2009) Understanding PubMed user search behavior through log analysis. Database : the journal of biological databases and curation. PMID: 20157491
- July 15, 2010
- 07:00 AM
- 67 views
How many journal articles have been published (ever)?
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Earlier this year, the scientific journal PLoS ONE published their 10,000th article. Ten thousand articles is a lot of papers especially when you consider that PLoS ONE only started publishing four short years ago in 2006. But scientists have been publishing in journals for at least 350 years [1] so it might make you wonder, how many articles have been published in scientific and learned journals since time began?... Read more »
Oldenburg, H. (1665) Epistle Dedicatory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1(1-22). DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0001
Jacsó, P. (2010) Metadata mega mess in Google Scholar. Online Information Review, 34(1), 175-191. DOI: 10.1108/14684521011024191
Jinha, A. (2010) Article 50 million: an estimate of the number of scholarly articles in existence. Learned Publishing, 23(3), 258-263. DOI: 10.1087/20100308
- June 22, 2010
- 06:07 PM
- 137 views
Will Nano-Publications & Triplets Replace The Classic Journal Articles?
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
“Libraries and journals articles as we know them will cease to exists” said Barend Mons at the symposium in honor of our Library 25th Anniversary (June 3rd). “Possibly we will have another kind of party in another 25 years”…. he continued, grinning. What he had to say the next half hour intrigued me. And although [...]... Read more »
van Haagen HH, 't Hoen PA, Botelho Bovo A, de Morrée A, van Mulligen EM, Chichester C, Kors JA, den Dunnen JT, van Ommen GJ, van der Maarel SM.... (2009) Novel protein-protein interactions inferred from literature context. PloS one, 4(11). PMID: 19924298
- June 22, 2010
- 02:39 AM
- 160 views
Impact Factor Boxing 2010
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, Impact Factor Boxing is here again. As with last year (2009), these metrics are already a year out of date. But this doesn’t stop many people from writing about impact factors and it’s been an interesting year [1] for the metrics used by many to judge value of [...]... Read more »
Rizkallah, J., & Sin, D. (2010) Integrative Approach to Quality Assessment of Medical Journals Using Impact Factor, Eigenfactor, and Article Influence Scores. PLoS ONE, 5(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010204
Abbott, A., Cyranoski, D., Jones, N., Maher, B., Schiermeier, Q., & Van Noorden, R. (2010) Metrics: Do metrics matter?. Nature, 465(7300), 860-862. DOI: 10.1038/465860a
Van Noorden, R. (2010) Metrics: A profusion of measures. Nature, 465(7300), 864-866. DOI: 10.1038/465864a
Tibor Braun, Margit Osterloh, Jevin West, Jennifer Rohn, David Pendlebury, Carl Bergstrom, & Bruno Frey. (2010) How to improve the use of metrics. Nature, 465(7300), 870-872. DOI: 10.1038/465870a
Lane, J. (2010) Let's make science metrics more scientific. Nature, 464(7288), 488-489. DOI: 10.1038/464488a
- June 8, 2010
- 11:45 AM
- 187 views
PubMed versus Google Scholar for Retrieving Evidence
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
A while ago a resident in dermatology told me she got many hits out of PubMed, but zero results out of TRIP. It appeared she had used the same search for both databases: alopecea areata and diphenciprone (a drug with a lot of synonyms). Searching TRIP for alopecea (in the title) only, we found a Cochrane [...]... Read more »
Anders ME, & Evans DP. (2010) Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar Literature Searches. Respiratory care, 55(5), 578-83. PMID: 20420728
- June 7, 2010
- 02:21 PM
- 255 views
Paper trail, or: Did they say that? Peer-reviewed journal edition
by Zen Faulkes in NeuroDojo
Everybody makes mistakes. But the peer-reviewed scientific literature tries to reduce mistakes by having fairly rigorous rules for citation. Citing original sources increases transparency and greatly facilitates fact-checking.
For instance, in one of our recent papers, we pointed out that a reference given in another paper did not support the point being made (as far as we could tell). Probably most practicing scientists have a story like that. But how common is that sort of error?
A new paper........ Read more »
Todd, P., Guest, J., Lu, J., & Chou, L. (2010) One in four citations in marine biology papers is inappropriate. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 299-303. DOI: 10.3354/meps08587
- June 5, 2010
- 09:41 PM
- 166 views
Inappropriate citations?
by Christina Pikas in Christina's LIS Rant
Kevin Zelnio of Deep Sea News tweeted the title of this piece and sent my mind going over the various theories of citation, what citations mean, studies showing how people cite without reading (pdf) (or at least propagate obvious citation errors), and also how people use things but don't cite them in certain fields... I was also thinking, I know what inappropriate touching is, but what's inappropriate citing? So let's take a look at the article: Todd, P., Guest, J., Lu, J., & Chou, L........ Read more »
Todd, P., Guest, J., Lu, J., & Chou, L. (2010) One in four citations in marine biology papers is inappropriate. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 299-303. DOI: 10.3354/meps08587
- May 10, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 262 views
PubMed vs. Google Scholar
by Zen Faulkes in NeuroDojo
A comment on Twitter about PubMed left me wondering aloud why people use the thing instead of Google Scholar. This idle comment brought a surprising amount of comments.
Before I get to the comments, let me explain my point of view. I’ve never warmed to PubMed, although I know many of my peers use it multiple times daily. I suppose part of it is the “med” moniker. While PubMed does include a lot of the basic biological literature, it’s still fundamentally a medical resource. And I am not........ Read more »
Falagas, M., Pitsouni, E., Malietzis, G., & Pappas, G. (2007) Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses. The FASEB Journal, 22(2), 338-342. DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-9492LSF
Shultz, M. (2007) Comparing test searches in PubMed and Google Scholar. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 95(4), 442-445. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.4.442
- April 30, 2010
- 02:12 AM
- 287 views
Daniel Cohen on the Social Life of Digital Libraries
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
Daniel Cohen is giving a talk in Cambridge today on The Social Life of Digital Libraries, abstract below: The digitization of libraries had a clear initial goal: to permit anyone to read the contents of collections anywhere and anytime. But universal access is only the beginning of what may happen to libraries and researchers in [...]... Read more »
Hull, D., Pettifer, S., & Kell, D. (2008) Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204
- April 25, 2010
- 04:46 PM
- 239 views
Review of an article using bibliometric qual methods to study sub-discipline collaboration behavior
by Christina Pikas in Christina's LIS Rant
Mixed methods are always attractive, but many researchers give up because each method typically requires some epistemology which often conflicts with the epistemology of other methods. When mixed methods are done, they are often done in sequence. For example, qualitative work to understand enough about a phenomenon to develop a survey or interviewing survey respondents to get richer information about their responses. Network methods are neither quantitative* nor qualitative and it's n........ Read more »
Velden, T., Haque, A., & Lagoze, C. (2010) A new approach to analyzing patterns of collaboration in co-authorship networks: mesoscopic analysis and interpretation. Scientometrics. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0224-6
- April 17, 2010
- 12:31 AM
- 306 views
Using the fact that sometimes scientists look at the pictures first
by Christina Pikas in Christina's LIS Rant
I was happy to see that the authors published this article in PlosOne. I was following their work a while ago, but had lost track (plus, when asked, the last author implied that they had moved on to new projects). So here's the citation and then I'll summarize and comment. Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M., & Hearst, M. (2010). Full Text and Figure Display Improves Bioscience Literature Search PLoS ONE, 5 (4) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009619 The authors created a prototype information system tha........ Read more »
Divoli, A., Wooldridge, M., & Hearst, M. (2010) Full Text and Figure Display Improves Bioscience Literature Search. PLoS ONE, 5(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009619
- January 29, 2010
- 12:11 PM
- 341 views
Science Behind the Warm Fuzzy Feeling
by Anne Welsh in First Person Narrative
Richard L. Hart's article finds no evidence through citation analysis for the higher quality of published articles from collaborative research. However, the quality of manuscripts submitted may be higher, so the author experience may be better.... Read more »
HART, R. (2007) Collaboration and Article Quality in the Literature of Academic Librarianship. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33(2), 190-195. DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2006.12.002
- January 26, 2010
- 06:21 PM
- 290 views
Learning to Teach
by Anne Welsh in First Person Narrative
Summary of Kate marek's article on the support required for LIS faculty in order to create and teach online courses... Read more »
Kate Marek. (2009) Learning to teach online: creating a culture of support for faculty. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 50(4), 275-292. info:/
- January 9, 2010
- 12:09 PM
- 401 views
Very quick note on things that are used but not cited
by Christina Pikas in Christina's LIS Rant
In most of the discussions of using usage as a metric of scholarly impact, the example of the clinician is given. The example goes that medical articles might be heavily used and indeed have a huge impact on practice (saving lives), but be uncited. There are other fields that have practitioners who pull from the literature, but do not contribute to it. So it was with interest that I read this new article by the MacRoberts: MacRoberts, M., & MacRoberts, B. (2009). Problems of citatio........ Read more »
MacRoberts, M., & MacRoberts, B. (2009) Problems of citation analysis: A study of uncited and seldom-cited influences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 1-12. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21228
- December 10, 2009
- 06:18 PM
- 553 views
The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
There is an interesting review [1] (and special issue) in the Biochemical Journal today, published by Portland Press Ltd. It provides (quote) “a whirlwind tour of recent projects to transform scholarly publishing paradigms, culminating in Utopia and the Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment”. Here is a quick outline of the publishing projects the review describes and [...]... Read more »
Attwood, T., Kell, D., McDermott, P., Marsh, J., Pettifer, S., & Thorne, D. (2009) Calling International Rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!. Biochemical Journal, 424(3), 317-333. DOI: 10.1042/BJ20091474
Fink, J., Kushch, S., Williams, P., & Bourne, P. (2008) BioLit: integrating biological literature with databases. Nucleic Acids Research, 36(Web Server). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn317
Shotton, D., Portwin, K., Klyne, G., & Miles, A. (2009) Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research Article. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361
Pafilis, E., O'Donoghue, S., Jensen, L., Horn, H., Kuhn, M., Brown, N., & Schneider, R. (2009) Reflect: augmented browsing for the life scientist. Nature Biotechnology, 27(6), 508-510. DOI: 10.1038/nbt0609-508
Pettifer, S., Thorne, D., McDermott, P., Marsh, J., Villéger, A., Kell, D., & Attwood, T. (2009) Visualising biological data: a semantic approach to tool and database integration. BMC Bioinformatics, 10(Suppl 6). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S6-S19
- December 7, 2009
- 11:04 AM
- 220 views
Harvard: Computers in Hospitals Do Not Reduce Administrative or Overall Costs
by schnell in The Medium is the Message
Harvard researchers recently released the study Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study, which examined computerization’s cost and quality impacts at 4,000 hospitals in the U.S over a four-year period.The researchers concluded that the immense cost of installing and running hospital IT systems is greater than any expected cost savings. Much of the software being written for use in clinics is aimed at administrators, not doctors, nurses and lab workers. Additional........ Read more »
Himmelstein, D., Wright, A., & Woolhandler, S. (2009) Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study. The American Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.09.004
- October 21, 2009
- 02:39 AM
- 570 views
Conflicts of Interest in Medical Journal Publishing
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
Publish or Perish sums up the urgency for scientists to publish in top journals. Scientists work in competitive environments in which publishing is essential to their careers, reputation and research funding. Journal editors and peer reviewers are the ones to judge the manuscripts for quality and safeguard the interests of the readership of the journal.
The [...]
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Drazen, J., Van Der Weyden, M., Sahni, P., Rosenberg, J., Marusic, A., Laine, C., Kotzin, S., Horton, R., Hebert, P., Haug, C.... (2009) Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests in ICMJE Journals. New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/nejme0909052
Jefferson, T. (2002) Effects of Editorial Peer Review: A Systematic Review. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 287(21), 2784-2786. DOI: 10.1001/jama.287.21.2784
DeMaria, A. (2003) Duplicate publication: insights into the essence of a medical journal. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 41(3), 516-517. DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00002-0
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