One is that «it is meaningless as a predictive measure,» he says, meaning that publishing a paper in a high -
impact journal does not necessarily mean that it is more likely to be cited.
Not exact matches
In a carefully researched article (Yale
Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic
impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.
Shawn's research has been published in the top psychology
journal for work he
did at UBS in partnership with Yale University to transform how stress
impacts the body, and he recently
did a two - hour interview with Oprah at her house to discuss his mission to bring positive psychology to the world.
Depending on the particular decision and your deadline, you may not write a
journal entry every day, but try to
do it as often as you think of something important or an event occurs which
impacts your decision.
While the research, published in the
journal Pediatrics, was unclear about whether drinking milk directly blocked iron absorption or if its
impact was less direct, the researchers
did suggest a two - cup - a-day limit, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
According to a 2004 review published in the
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, this denaturing
does not just
impact the bioavailability of these small peptides — entire proteins are affected.
But we
do know that it most definitely is
impacting couples, and a sobering study recently published in the
Journal of Marital & Family Therapy indicates how ill - equipped most therapists are in dealing with Internet infidelity:
The
journal article found that — just as with mothers» time — the amount of time dads spend with their children
does not have a significant
impact on the children's well - being.
Researchers insisted to MPs that institutions
did not base funding on «
impact factor» — the coverage that publication in a
journal may secure in the mainstream press, but the committee appeared unconvinced.
However, as has been discovered by a team of Frankfurt - based researchers, these cells
do have a weakness: In the current edition of the high
impact journal «Cancer Research,» they report that the enzyme 5 - lipoxygenase (5 - LO) plays a significant role in the survival of leukaemic AML stem cells.
Although publishing in specialty or subspecialty
journals may not aid your case as much as papers that are published in higher
impact journals will, it
does help in terms of promotion, as long as the sum total of your published work influences your field.
Whether the paper was published in a
journal with a high
impact factor — an often used but controversial indicator of quality — didn't seem to make a difference as to whether bias safeguards were noted, MacLeod and his colleagues write.
Young scientists must start making a mark in their field, and many attempt to
do so by joining a laboratory that is led by a famous researcher or frequently publishes in high -
impact journals.
When deciding where to
do your Ph.D. or postdoc,
do not base your decision solely on whether the laboratory has a grant for you or routinely publishes in high -
impact journals.
While graduate students had less apparent
impact than postdocs on overall publication counts, they increased the likelihood of publications in these high -
impact journals just as much as postdocs
did.
So why don't
journal publishers cooperate with each other, using the Thomson Reuters database to calculate their own
impact factors?
«People typically try to get into the highest
impact journals first, and if they don't succeed, they have to reformat,» he says.
«There's no noninvasive method to
do this,» said Wei - Chuan Shih, a researcher with the University of Houston who worked with colleagues at UH and in Korea to develop the project, described in the high -
impact journal Advanced Materials.
If you've signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (http://am.ascb.org/dora/), or you just don't think a metric designed for a
journal should be used to evaluate individual scientists, avert your eyes: Journal impact factor has a strong influence on a scientist's probability of attaining PI
journal should be used to evaluate individual scientists, avert your eyes:
Journal impact factor has a strong influence on a scientist's probability of attaining PI
Journal impact factor has a strong influence on a scientist's probability of attaining PI - ship.
The
impact of student debt on career choice has been a concern of academic leaders since the early 1990s, when a series of commentaries published in medical
journals warned of a serious drought in the physician - scientist pipeline unless something was
done to help recruit and retain people on that career path.
«What could be difficult for a young scientist at the beginning of their career... is that some of the early
journals don't have an
impact factor,» says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne who is also the co-founder and co-executive manager of Frontiers.
In my seminars, I often describe an accomplishment using «we» to show the members of my academic audience how little it
does to help their cases: «In the Smith lab, we
do work in the blah - blah field, and we've published, in several high -
impact journals, a series of papers showing that blah - blah and blah - blah are interrelated.»
«If the end product of basic research is articles published in scientific
journals, that's very commendable, but it doesn't likely
impact on the economy short - term.
These differences in their genetic makeup are an indication that urban life
does impact the evolutionary trajectory of a species, write researchers at Martin Luther University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle - Leipzig - Jena in the current issue of the renowned
journal «Proceedings of the Royal Society B».
Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, published in the
journal Nature, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and
did not necessarily require an
impact basin.
PLOS supports DORA — the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment — and
does not promote our
journal Impact Factors.
In addition, OAS hosts an Annual Meeting and publishes a scientific
journal The Ohio Journal of Science that focuses on the science being done in Ohio, as well as the science that is directly impactin
journal The Ohio
Journal of Science that focuses on the science being done in Ohio, as well as the science that is directly impactin
Journal of Science that focuses on the science being
done in Ohio, as well as the science that is directly
impacting Ohio.
«The study, which was published in the European
Journal of Sports Science, found that when blood was measured, the markers that indicated oxidative stress were found to actually be higher in those taking the vitamin C.» Though it is not clear why, it is yet more proof that we don't really understand how supplements may work differently to food in our bodies, nor are we really across the many different lifestyle
impacts supplements may have on everything from sleep and stress to exercise.
A study published in the October 2008 edition of the
Journal of the American College of Nutrition found that MCTs weren't the same as other saturated fats when it comes to heart health and they
did not
impact blood cholesterol.
«Research Schools are breaking down these barriers even more so that research doesn't stay in the pages of academic
journals but has a real
impact on classroom practice.
In these personal
journal entries, Broad Residents offer a lens into the high -
impact work they
do on behalf of the families and schools they serve.
While researchers explore ways to use technological tools such as SEGs in the classroom and their
impact on learners, this information rarely makes it into the hands of the practicing teachers who typically
do not read the research
journals (Sprague, 2004).
Collins added that the new research schools will be «crucial» and will help to «break down barriers so that research doesn't stay in the pages of academic
journals but has a real
impact on classroom practice».
Library
Journal: What
do you predict will be the next big disruption / innovation to
impact the library landscape?
In a study published in the
journal Animal Behavior, Dr. Barja found that wolves chose to
do their business on plants that maximized visual
impact and odor distribution.
In a 2011 paper published in the
Journal of Wildlife Management, Jeff Horn and his co-authors estimate the home range of owned and unowned cats, arguing that «greater activity levels and ranging behavior suggest unowned cats have a greater potential
impact on wildlife than
do owned cats.»
Another report from
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (and supported by Maddie's Fund and the ASPCA) noted that eliminating adoption fees for cats
does not devalue the animal in the eyes of the adopter, and that free adult cat adoption programs could «dramatically
impact the lives of thousands of shelter cats who would otherwise reside in a shelter for months or be euthanized.»
After the
journal Science published a paper earlier this month concluding that summertime gushers of meltwater percolating to the base of Greenland's ice sheet didn't appear to speed the seaward flow of ice, one result was a burst of excited comments from bloggers and others asserting that the
impacts of global warming have been hyped.
Well established science
did that well before he started posting on a blog or submitting a paper to a pay to publish
journal with no
impact.
So with the understanding that I sure as hell know what pervasive influence peddling can
do to the process of peer review — because the pharma companies
do actively recruit their «key opinion leaders» on the basis of things like editorial clout and that prominence within their specialty which gives them to hold responsibilities in peer review for «high
impact» medical
journals — you might appreciate why, when I got to read those e-mails in the FOI2009.zip archive last November, my immediate desire was for something brutally Sicilian to happen immediately and with spatter marks on the surrounding walls to the C.R.U. correspondents who had been concerting to infest and pervert the peer review process throughout the physical sciences wherever anything critical of the AGW hypothesis might be brought into publication.
The IPCC and its closely controlled peer review
journals have now admitted that land - use changes
do indeed have a major
impact on climate change and local / regional and even global temperatures.
However, our meta - analysis
did find multiple lines of evidence of biases within our sample of articles, which were perpetuated in
journals of all
impact factors and related largely to how science is communicated: The large, statistically significant effects were typically showcased in abstracts and summary paragraphs, whereas the lesser effects, especially those that were not statistically significant, were often buried in the main body of reports.
And if they hadn't so decided, despite hand - wringing and claims or inferences of victimization, the authors would have survived, and been free to
do what so many authors of papers
do when their studies are rejected for publication: look to publish in another
journal — perhaps one with a lower
impact factor — or make substantial revisions and try to publish elsewhere, or move on to something else.
«We
do know many members of Congress are concerned about the economic
impact of these rules, and more time will help mitigate the economic
impact of making additional emission reductions,» a spokeswoman from the utility American Electric Power told the Wall Street
Journal.
It
does seem plausible to me that there could be influences whereby established experts exert influence on what theories are considered valid enough to get published in high
impact journals — but to categorize the research funding processes as categorically as you
do, IMO, I'm sorry to say, borders on a conspiracy theory.
I
did not hope that this paper would be accepted in broad scope, high
impact factor,
journals such as Science or Nature.
last comments for tonight: (1) bound to spark many more such studies (2) may or may not become a «classic» like MBH98 but will be cited many times, even though this
journal has a low
impact factor (3) required reading for any scientist who uses GCM outputs (raw or downscaled) as inputs in their climate change
impact studies (4) anyone researching climate change
impacts who
does not read this paper and take a stand should be held to account for their negligence
Nic Lewis and Judith Curry have a new paper that's just been published, The
impact of recent forcing and ocean heat uptake data on estimates of climate sensitivity It's in the AMS
Journal of Climate, which is quite highly regarded, so well
done them.
This leads to huge profits for a few companies that happen to own prestigious
journals (that are only prestigious, because high
impact authors choose to publish there, and they only
do so, because it's a high
impact journal) and enormously restricted access, meaning that students, researchers and other interested parties don't get to see papers, have to pay for them, or only see them with a huge delay.
Yahoo has been linked with selling its 33 percent share of the Japanese venture — run independently of Yahoo Inc. — since before Thompson came on board, and a spokesperson told the Wall Street
Journal that it doesn't expect the change to have any
impact in future sale talks, or its day - to - day business.