INTRODUCTION. IN March, 1959, the Belfast Hospitals Management Committee appointed a fulltime research mycologist, and subsequently a routine mycological diagnostic service was established at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Since then a series of annual reports in this journal (Mackenzie and McArdle, 1960; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Bell, 1961; Mackenzie, Corkin, and Rusk, 1962, 1963) have described f...

The potential benefit of open access (OA) in relation to citation impact has been discussed in the literature in depth. The methodology used to test the OA citation advantage includes comparing OA vs. non-OA journal impact factors and citations of OA versus non-OA articles published in the same non-OA journals. However, one problem with many studies is that they are small -restricted to a disci...

This study takes a closer look at the Ranking Web of Universities and Ranking Web of Repositories rankings and tries to examine if there is a connection between these two rankings. Study is done by analyzing the success of University of Jyväskylä and the institutional repository JyX of the University in these rankings. Comparison shows that the JyX archive plays an important role in University’...

Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more frequently than other measures, it has been subjected to criticisms, which overcome the advantages of IF. Cr...

The EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing was launched in early 2006 and has already published nearly 200 articles, including more than a dozen successful Special Issues. Based on our achievements over the last 4 years, JIVP has been accepted for coverage in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). As a result our journal will be attributed an Impact Factor in a future edition of the...

This paper aims to investigate the challenges civil society organizations are facing in Algeria, with a special focus on tourism development. On basis of stakeholder approach and Gramscian notion as field ideological competition, study investigates main features associations along obstacles hindering their proper performance. The backbone is formed by detailed qualitative investigation that inc...