A recent article in EMBO reports by Bornmann & Daniel (2009) commented that “the h index [...] is already regarded as the counterpart to the [impact factor]”. Indeed, the h index (Hirsch, 2005) is increasingly being used to evaluate the achievements of individual scientists, and major citation databases—such as the Scientific Citation Index (SCI; Thomson Reuters, New York, NY, USA) and Scopus (...

We propose a new index, the j-index, which is defined for an author as the sum of the square roots of the numbers of citations to each of the author’s publications. The idea behind the j-index it to remedy a drawback of the h-index − that the h-index does not take into account the full citation record of a researcher. The square root function is motivated by our desire to avoid the possible bia...

In this research, called the “the maintenance index,” was proposed to evaluate the reliability of nuclear power plant safety systems by taking into account periodic maintenance of the systems. The change in reliability as a result of changing activity is estimated by this index. The Maintenance Index offers a more comprehensive evaluation of nuclear power plant safety. * Corresponding author, E...

This index covers all technical items papers, correspondence, reviews, etc. that appeared in this periodical during 2003, and items from previous years that were commented upon or corrected in 2003. Departments and other items may be also covered if they have been judged to have archival value. The Author Index contains the primary entry for each item, listed under the first author’s name. The ...

José R. Mediavilla, Liang Chen, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Blake M. Hanson, Marnie Rosenthal, Kathryn Stanak, Brian Koll, Bettina C. Fries, Donna Armellino, Mary Ellen Schilling, Don Weiss, Tara C. Smith, Franklin D. Lowy, and Barry N. Kreiswirth Author affi liations: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, USA (J.R. Mediavilla, L. Chen, B.N. Kreiswirth); Columbia Uni...

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This paper presents a methodology for the enhancement of a hypertext version of a textbook. The enhancement over the textual version of the textbook is achieved by automatically inserting links between text excerpt of the textbook and item in the subject index produced by the author of the textbook. These links enable accessing parts of the textbook that have not been speci cally indexed by the...