Although biomarkers are perceived as highly relevant for future clinical practice, few biomarkers reach clinical utility for several reasons. Among them, poor reporting of studies is one of the major problems. To aid improvement, reporting guidelines like REMARK for tumour marker prognostic (TMP) studies were introduced several years ago. The aims of this project were to assess whether reportin...

The ACL Anthology Network (AAN)1 is a comprehensive manually curated networked database of citations and collaborations in the field of Computational Linguistics. Each citation edge in AAN is associated with one or more citing sentences. A citing sentence is one that appears in a scientific article and contains an explicit reference to another article. In this paper, we shed the light on the us...

The ACL Anthology Network (AAN)1 is a comprehensive manually curated networked database of citations and collaborations in the field of Computational Linguistics. Each citation edge in AAN is associated with one or more citing sentences. A citing sentence is one that appears in a scientific article and contains an explicit reference to another article. In this paper, we shed the light on the us...

In this paper, we propose a method for classification of an author’s sentiment for a linked blog (we call this sentiment link polarity), as a first step for finding authoritative blogs in the blogosphere. Generally, blogs that are linked positively from many other blogs are considered more reliable. In citing a blog entry, there are passages where the author describes his/her sentiments about a...

Using publication and citation data from a study on the selection procedure of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (B.I.F.), this study investigated the extent to which frequently and infrequently cited articles were used differently by the scientists that cited them. The data set consisted of 31 articles by B.I.F. grant applicants that had received 451 citations in 270 citing publications. In a com...

Self-citation of a journal may affect its impact factor. We investigated self-citations in the 1995 and 1996 issues of six anaesthesia journals by calculating the self-citing and self-cited rates for each journal. Self-citing rate relates a journal's self-citations to its total number of references. We defined self-cited rate as the ratio of a journal's self-citations to the number of times it ...