The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to demonstrate scholarly activity. A 6-year survey of resident scholarly activity at our residency revealed one regional presentation. We adopted an additional scholarly activty curriculum based on the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) Areas of Concentration (AOC) propo...

Encouraging resident scholarly activity is challenging. One Army family medicine program was struggling to get residents to fulfill their requirements. Projects were not being completed, and publication or presentation of results was rare. A novel "scholarly activity point" system was introduced that expanded the types of scholarly activity residents could participate in while still encouraging...

Evaluating the impact of scholarly papers plays an important role for addressing recruitment decision, funding allocation and promotion, etc. Yet little is known how actual geographic distance influences the impact of scholarly papers. In this paper, we leverage the law of geographic distance and citations between different institutions to weight quantum Pagerank algorithm for objectively measu...

This paper presents a conceptual model for scholarly research activity, developed as part of the conceptual modelling work within the “Preparing DARIAH” European e-Infrastructures project. It is inspired by cultural-historical activity theory, and is expressed in terms of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, extending its notion of activity so as to also account, apart from historical practice...

In addition to its broad popularity Wikipedia is also widely used for scholarly purposes. Many Wikipedia pages pertain to academic papers, scholars and topics providing a rich ecology for scholarly uses. Although many recognize the scholarly potential of Wikipedia, as a crowdsourced encyclopedia its authority and quality is questioned due to the lack of rigorous peer-review and supervision. Sch...