Quality or Quantity?

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

Quality of the Articles or Quantity of the Articles?

برای دانشجویان و دانشمندان جوان ممکن است این سؤال مطرح گردد که برای دانشمند شدن، کیفیت یا کمیت مقالات یک فرد است که دارای اهمیت می‌باشد؟ شخصاً، بارها با این سؤال به هنگام برگزاری کارگاه‌های مقاله نویسی مواجه شد‌ه‌ام. Salthammer در انتهای سخن سردبیری خود، دو مثال بسیار جالب می‌آورد تا به روشنی به سؤال فوق پاسخ دهد. او در ابتدا به شیمیدان روسی به نام Yuri Struchkov اشاره می‌کند که در سال 1926 میل...

Starch: the need for improved quality or quantity--an overview.

Starch is one of the most important plant products to man. It is an essential component of food providing a large proportion of the daily calorific intake and is important in non-food uses such as in adhesives. However, while much is known about the chemistry and pathways of synthesis for starch, there are major gaps in this knowledge so that it is not possible to modify the quantity or quality...

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

Dear Editor, Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) affects both men and women and accounts for approximately >4.5 million deaths annually in the developing countries. 1 Atherogenic lipoproteins namely, low density lipoprotein (LDL) and lipoprotein remanants promote atherosclerosis, and high density lipoprotein (HDL) prevents it. However, in some instances increased plasma HDL concentrat...

Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers

Do highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers? Or do high productive researchers mainly produce a sea of irrelevant papers-in other words do we find a diminishing marginal result from productivity? The answer on these questions is important, as it may help to answer the question of whether the increased competition and increased use of indica...