In today's technological developments, many academics, including students, are writing digital documents. However, finding the right reference source and determining whether an article contains elements of plagiarism or is still experiencing difficulties. Until now, academics have found information from unreliable sources, even though if this continues it can a negative impact on academi...

BACKGROUND Many national outcome frameworks (OF) call for a sound scholarship education and scholarly behaviour of physicians. Educators however are known to interpret the scholar role in markedly different ways and at least one major initiative to unify several national outcome frameworks failed to agree on a common definition of the scholar role. Both circumstances currently limit the develop...

BACKGROUND Literature searches are essential to evidence-based respiratory care. To conduct literature searches, respiratory therapists rely on search engines to retrieve information, but there is a dearth of literature on the comparative efficiencies of search engines for researching clinical questions in respiratory care. OBJECTIVE To compare PubMed and Google Scholar search results for cli...

Johar Raza Syed, SIU Scholar. The Soci et e Internationale d’Urologie (SIU) offers Training Scholarships for young doctors with basic surgical or urological qualifications. The SIU Scholarships involve training in a recognized urological center of excellence located in the candidate’s geographic region. These SIU-accredited centers provide an excellent environment for learning and, in many inst...

The demand for healthcare data and information has grown exponentially with increased efforts to improve quality of care, decrease healthcare costs, and implement more efficient and productive means of conducting medical research. The roles and responsibilities of health information management (HIM) professionals have expanded to meet the industry’s demand and reliance on health information tec...

Traditionally, the most commonly used source of bibliometric data is Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, in particular the (Social) Science Citation Index and the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), which provide the yearly Journal Impact Factors (JIF). This paper presents an alternative source of data (Google Scholar, GS) as well as three alternatives to the JIF to assess journal impact (the h-index, g-...