OBJECTIVES To establish the pattern of change in individual scientific production over the career of medical researchers. DESIGN Retrospective cohort based on prospectively collected data in a hospital information system. SETTING Multicentre university hospital in France. PARTICIPANTS Two distinct populations of 1835 researchers (full professors vs non-academic physicians) having produced...

Academic communities have adopted different conventions for ordering authors on academic publications. Are these choices inconsequential, or can they significantly impact individual authors, or even communities at large? We consider a game theoretic model to study allocation of credit to authors; in particular, we find that alphabetical ordering can lead to higher research quality, while orderi...

There are several indicators that distinguish an academic discipline, including journals, conferences, and graduate programs. One of them is the presence of academic publications in well-regarded citation indices such as Web of Science (WoS). This study explored the bibliometric characteristics of publications on “second language writing” (SLW) covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index and ...

Background The Hirsch index (h-index) is a measure that evaluates both research volume and quality-taking into consideration both publications and citations of a single author. No prior work has evaluated academic productivity and contributions to the literature of adult total joint replacement surgeons. This study uses h-index to benchmark the academic impact and identify characteristics assoc...

ions. In Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Stevenson, WA, October 2007. [6] M. Krohn, A. Yip, M. Brodsky, R. Morris, and M. Walfish. A World Wide Web Without Walls. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Atlanta, GA, November 2007. [7] J. Li, M. Krohn, D. Mazières, and D. Shasha. Secure untrusted data repository (SUNDR...

Objective: The Brazilian National Health System provides high cost medicines through the Specialized Component of Pharmaceutical Assistance in accordance with adherence to agreed Clinical Guidelines. However, physician compliance to these Guidelines, as well as the barriers and facilitators related to them and the influence on the subsequent quality of care provided is unknown. Consequently, th...

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