[To be sure, the quality and impact of scholarship can be correlated
with journal impact factor, fundability, and institutional «brand», except when they are not.]
Not exact matches
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.
ABF
Journal spoke
with Haddad and Sterling Specialty Lending Division President Ted Geisel about the
impact the merger will have on the unit and their outlook on ABL lending in 2016.
With more than thirty years of experience as an economist, and as a leading thinker on the
impact of government
impact on business, Moore has written extensively on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street
Journal, and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation.
Journals are in competition
with one another for attention and «
impact factor,» and are always more eager to report a new, exciting finding than a killjoy failure to find an association.
These efforts have been recognized
with the leading national award for healthy school food innovation, The Golden Carrot; the Washington Business
Journal's Green Business Award for Innovation; and the DC Chamber of Commerce's Community
Impact Award.
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:
High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little
impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing
with concussive symptoms, according to the two studies published in the American
Journal of Sports Medicine.
High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little
impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing
with concussive symptoms, according to two studies published this month in the American
Journal of Sports Medicine.
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.
And newspapers, law
journals and political commentaries will be filled for the next few weeks
with evaluations of his judicial legacy, the consequences of his death for the court, and its
impact on the current presidential election in the United States.
«I find it outrageous that one of the city's museums is currently celebrating graffiti and what a great
impact it had on the city,» Commissioner William Bratton said Monday during a meeting
with Wall Street
Journal editors.
Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary
journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation
impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and
with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial
impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current
impact agenda
The study, led by Dr Len Stephens and Dr Phill Hawkins and published today in the
journal Molecular Cell, reveals why loss of the PTEN gene has such an
impact on many people
with prostate cancer, as well as in some breast cancers.
«Postdoctoral scientists participating in the program are provided the opportunity to perform high -
impact, cutting - edge research in a cross-discipline, state - of - the - art scientific environment,
with the aim of their work being published in a scientific
journal.
The papers, along
with another 17 in other high -
impact journals, are the culmination of a five - year, # 25 million ($ 30 million) project that brought together 42 leading European universities, research institutes and industry partners.
«Publication in high -
impact journals is critical to stand out over other people
with similar experience,» points out Posas.
«As a researcher, I want to publish open access, but when renowned
journals with high
impact factors are not open access this leaves you
with a problem.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B — a
journal from the Royal Society whose motto is «Take nobody's word for it» — wades into these treacherous waters this week
with a special issue, «The
Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow's World.»
An unenforced boycott against Elsevier
journals has been running for years in the United Kingdom, though
with little
impact, and some universities have tried to play hardball.
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.
It's worth noting, however, that few of the
journals experimenting
with open peer review are among the leaders when it comes to
impact factor or reputation, at least for now.
Given that we scientists are usually more concerned
with achieving the best
impact factor more than getting our paper into the most appropriate
journal, perhaps a 70:30 split stacked toward the high
impact end of the ladder, then it is a fair estimation that improving
impact factor is how we should spend our time and energy.
The median funding level for PIs publishing in
journals with lower
impact factors — such as PLOS ONE and the
Journal of Biological Chemistry — was not much lower, about the 70th percentile, but the distribution of funding brackets was more diverse.
So there remains a pressure on junior scientists to submit their work to high
impact journals rather than to one
with the [Registered Reports] option,» Schwarzkopf agrees.
So why don't
journal publishers cooperate
with each other, using the Thomson Reuters database to calculate their own
impact factors?
Instead of assessing papers by
journal impact, the RCR compares an article's citations
with those of other papers in the same field.
These are
journals that sport fake
impact factors, that promise a 1 - week peer review, that publish tons of papers that contain plagiarism, and that annoy researchers worldwide
with doltish spam.»
The survey coincides
with a shift in ecology away from teaching and research rooted in natural history and toward modeling, laboratory and theoretical research, which tend to attract more grant funding and publications in higher -
impact academic
journals.
«The
Journal Impact Factor is frequently used as the primary parameter
with which to compare the scientific output of individuals and institutions,» the letter says.
The findings, published in the
journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings
with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes
impacted past human societies.
The paper, titled «Postnatal depression is associated
with detrimental life - long and multi-generational
impacts on relationship quality,» has been published in the open - access
journal PeerJ.
Environment International is an international, multidisciplinary
journal with a specific focus on the
impacts of human activities and environment on human health.
A study published this week in the
journal Psychological Science finds that priming our mind
with thoughts of either time or money can have a very real
impact our behavior.
«A focus on publication of reports in
journals with high
impact factors and success in securing of funding leads scientists to seek short - term success instead of cautious, deliberative, robust research,» the authors of the introductory piece write.
Further analysis suggested that the direct cost to the NIH is higher for retracted papers published in high -
impact journals — those
with articles that are the most cited in other research papers within two years of publication.
Moreover, female first authorship declined from 2009 through 2014 compared
with 1994 through 1998 in two of the
journals with the highest
impact factor in the world: The BMJ and the New England
Journal of Medicine.»
In general, research plans are weighed more heavily later in the game,
with more readily comprehensible evidence (especially pedigree, letters of recommendation,
impact factor of
journals, etc.) being weighed more heavily in the early rounds.
For children
with a common middle - ear problem, a simple procedure
with a nasal balloon can reduce the
impact of hearing loss and avoid unnecessary and ineffective use of antibiotics, according to a randomized controlled trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association
Journal).
«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.
Last year, he and Fang devised a «retraction index» to show that
journals with relatively high
impact factors, such as Science, Nature, and Cell, had a higher rate of retractions.
In Optica, The Optical Society's
journal for high
impact research, the researchers show that their new optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system can not only image both the front and the back of the eye, but can also image the interfaces of the eye's vitreous gel
with the retina and lens
with unprecedented detail.
Citations also play a role in determining a
journal's place in the scholarly pecking order,
with journals that publish more highly cited papers earning a higher «
impact factor» (although many critics challenge that measure).
Imaging of the coronary arteries
with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic
impact on the management of diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter study published online in the
journal Radiology.
The same can not be said of a question that has surfaced in medical
journals in recent weeks
with all the
impact of a shark's fin: can a human fetus feel pain?
«They're basically making a crack in the rock and filling it
with little beads,» said Rice chemist Andrew Barron, whose lab produced the device detailed in the Royal Society of Chemistry
journal Environmental Science Processes and
Impacts.
With its innovative Clinical Trials Network, influential annual meeting and high -
impact journals, SNMMI encourages and facilitates research and science for the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging field.
«Stem cell biology has become one of the most exciting and promising areas of research,
with real impact on how we treat human disease,» said Gladstone President R. Sanders Williams, MD. «With its meetings and journals, ISSCR has developed a significant role in communicating and promoting groundbreaking advances in the fi
with real
impact on how we treat human disease,» said Gladstone President R. Sanders Williams, MD. «
With its meetings and journals, ISSCR has developed a significant role in communicating and promoting groundbreaking advances in the fi
With its meetings and
journals, ISSCR has developed a significant role in communicating and promoting groundbreaking advances in the field.
Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag,
with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high
impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high
impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.
Simpson's paradox is one of statistics most well - know paradoxes (I teach it yearly to a new batch of psychology students in Groningen) and PNAS is a high - ranking
journal with an
impact factor of nearly ten.