Impact factor: outdated artefact or stepping-stone to journal certification?

A stumbling block or a stepping stone?

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Nursing theories: relic or stepping stone?

The title of Dr. Laurie Gottlieb’s editorial in a recent issue of CJNR devoted exclusively to student research reports says it all — “The Quality of Student Papers Augurs Well for the Future of Nursing Research” (Gottlieb, 2002, p. 3). As Dr. Gottlieb remarks, the papers indicate that nursing students are using a diversity of research methods, participating in their supervisors’ research progra...

A Stepping Stone to Pluripotency

Somatic cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells via either expression of transcription factors or addition of small molecule chemicals only. Zhao et al. reveal a unique intermediate state during chemical reprogramming allowing a significant improvement in its efficiency and kinetics.

Stepping Stone Detection Analysis

Imitation as a Stepping Stone to Innovation

By creating a knowledge base that reduces innovation costs, imitation can serve as a stepping stone enabling …rms from lagging countries to undertake innovation. This paper constructs a product cycle model with this feature to determine what forces could cause a lagging country to shift R&D from imitation toward innovation. Increasing resources or subsidizing R&D in the lagging South increases ...