BACKGROUND Departments of family medicine in Israel were established in the 1970s. Until now, little or no effort has been made to characterize the productivity of Israeli board-certified family medicine physicians in publishing peer-reviewed scientific articles. METHODS Publications were identified by 2 methods. First, a PubMed search by names of current and past faculty from all the departm...

We have sought to broaden our department's research capacity using two different interdisciplinary approaches. First, we created the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (ECIBR) - a virtual center that promotes and funds Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs) initiated by faculty from within and outside Boston University (BU). Of the 11 funded ARCs, the 4 ARCs in existence fo...

Scientists who are members of an editorial board have been accused of preferentially publishing their scientific work in the journal where they serve as editor. Reputation and academic standing do depend on an uninterrupted flow of published scientific work and the question does arise as to whether publication mainly occurs in the self-edited journal. This investigation was designed to determin...

MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Grrison-omHudson, N. Y. THE FUTURE OF THE STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE' IN SCIENCE of December 5, 1919, Mr. D. D. Whitney presents certain data and conclusiorns on State Academies of Science. Omitting mention of a number of large academies centering in cities his figures show that membership ...

For the generation of contemporary databases of bioactive compounds, activity information is usually extracted from the scientific literature. However, when activity data are analyzed, source publications are typically no longer taken into consideration. Therefore, compound activity data selected from ChEMBL were traced back to thousands of original publications, activity records including comp...

Despite the importance of teaching, research, and related activities to the mission of academic medical departments, no useful and widely agreed-on metrics exist with which to assess the value of individual faculty members' contributions in these areas. Taking the concept of the clinical relative value unit (RVU) as a model, the authors describe the development of an academic RVU (aRVU) system ...

AIMS To investigate the research productivity of all staff in chemical pathology. METHODS Chemical pathologists or biochemical scientists were identified from publicly available sources. All journals, their impact factors (IFs), and individual publications over the period of 1995 to 1999 were identified from electronic databases. Each publication was subclassified with respect to type of publ...

We congratulate Bhattacharyya and Shapiro on their attempt to evaluate the academic productivity of younger otolaryngologists. However, we have significant concerns about the validity of their methodology and conclusions. In their report they reviewed only publications in the four major general otolaryngology journals but did not include either subspecialty journals or basic science journals. I...

Despite growing interest, publications on ERP systems within the academic Information Systems community, as reflected by contributions to journals and international conferences, is only now emerging. This article provides an annotated bibliography of the ERP publications published in the main Information Systems journals and conferences and reviews the state of the ERP art. The publications sur...

Title Better Care, Better Life Author(s) Akita, Sadanori Citation The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 11(2), p.76; 2012 Issue Date 2012-06 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/31917 Right The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 11(2), June 2012 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © 2012 by SAGE...