We propose a new data source (Google Scholar) and metric (Hirsch's h-index) to assess journal impact in the field of Economics & Business. A systematic comparison between the Google Scholar h-index and the ISI Journal Impact Factor for a sample of 838 journals in Economics & Business shows that the former provides a more accurate and comprehensive measure of journal impact.

PURPOSE To determine which resources residents use at the point-of-care (POC) for decision making, the drivers for selection of these resources, and how residents use Google/Google Scholar to answer clinical questions at the POC. METHOD In January 2012, 299 residents from three internal medicine residencies were sent an electronic survey regarding resources used for POC decision making. Resou...

introduction: in the current study, we compared h5-index provided by google scholar (gs), impact factor (if) provided by web of sciences (wos), and scimago journal rank indicator (sjr) provided by scopus for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 if, and 2011 sjr of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely gs, wos, and scopus....

Purpose – A previous paper by the present author described the pros and cons of using the three largest cited reference enhanced multidisciplinary databases and discussed and illustrated in general how the theoretically sound idea of the h-index may become distorted depending on the software and the content of the database(s) used, and the searchers’ skill and knowledge of the database features...

A wide range of health effects among occupants are associated with the exposure to bioaerosols from fungal sources. Although the accurate role of these aerosols in causing the symptoms and diseases is poorly understood, the important effect of bioaerosol exposure on human health is well recognized. Thus, there is a need to determine all of the contributing factors related to the concentration o...