Sentences with phrase «with journal impact factor»

[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

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.

«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.

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 why don't journal publishers cooperate with each other, using the Thomson Reuters database to calculate their own impact factors?

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 Journal Impact Factor is frequently used as the primary parameter with which to compare the scientific output of individuals and institutions,» the letter says.

«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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Among other indexing services Regenerative Medicine is listed by MEDLINE / Index Medicus, EMBASE / Excerpta Medica, Chemical Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded ™ (SciSearch ®), Emcare, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Biotechnology Citation Index ®, Journal Citation Reports / Science Edition ®, Scopus ® with an Impact Factor of 2.786 (2014).

A comprehensive review of these sensors appears in the journal with the highest impact factor in the field of chemistry, Chemical Reviews.

Head and Neck Oncology, an open access journal with a closed peer - review system, achieved its first official impact factor on the 2nd of July, 2012.

In order to create a culture around research assessment that is free from metrics including Journal Impact Factor, the university held a series of meetings to facilitate discussions with researchers on the best ways to create change.

Researchers have found that BDNF levels decline progressively with age.10 Lommatzsch, M., et al. «The Impact of Age, Weight and Gender on BDNF Levels in Human Platelets and Plasma,» Neurobiology of Aging 26 (2005):... continue At the same time that BDNF levels decrease, the volume of the hippocampus (primary center for emotion and memory) also decreases.11 Erickson, K.L., et al. «Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor is Associated with Age - Related Decline in Hippocampal Volume, Journal of Neuroscience 30,... continue In fact, in some neurological diseases, such as Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease, BDNF levels are low or deficient.12 Laske, C., et al. «Decreased Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and B - Thromboglobulin Blood Levels in Alzheimer's Disease,» Journal of... continue

When asked about the topic, Dr. David Dycus, a board - certified veterinary surgeon in Chattanooga, TN responded, «Interestingly, this (internet myth) has been circulating around since 2007... there is no published data in a veterinary journal with a large impact factor that shows that giving dogs ice or ice water causes muscles to cramp.

Additionally, the most - cited journal on the list was Energy and Environment, a journal with a very low impact factor, and whose editors are AGW skeptics.

We identified 120 articles from 31 scientific journals published between the years 1997 and 2013, with impact factors ranging from 3.04 to 36.104 and a mean of 6.58.

Second, the difference in effect sizes in abstracts versus main body of articles was especially pronounced in journals with high impact factors.

Cumulative effect sizes of Hedges» d and bias - corrected 95 % bootstrap confidence intervals for the magnitude of climate change effects for journals with impact factor above or below 9.

The search was performed exclusively on scientific journals with an impact factor of at least 3 (Journal Citation Reports science edition 2010).

Similar stylistic biases were found when comparing articles from journals with high impact factors to those with low impact factors.

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.

Even less broad scope journals with lower (but still high) impact factor, such as Geophysical Research Letters, have offered me similar experiences.

At the same time, the journal in many fields grew into the primary measure of reputation, as journal ranking could be carefully calculated by Impact Factor (average number of times an article is cited within a two - year period), in way not possible with books (for which there was no citation index).

Elsevier's APC price points are based on «journal impact factor; the journal's editorial and technical processes; competitive considerations; market conditions; other revenue streams associated with the journal.»

40 Canadian Law Journals are ranked with the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence tied with the U of T Law Journal at the top of the Impact Factor list.

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