A presentation by Aaron Sorensen on 'IOS Press Medical Journal Websites: An Evolution from In... more A presentation by Aaron Sorensen on 'IOS Press Medical Journal Websites: An Evolution from Inward Focus to Outward Focus' for Digital Science's Publisher Day 2017.<br>
This pilot analysis is the result of an exploratory collaboration between the UArctic Science & R... more This pilot analysis is the result of an exploratory collaboration between the UArctic Science & Research Analytics Task Force and Digital Science's international research teams. The aim was to assess the global funding landscape around Arctic-related research for the decade spanning 2006 to 2015 using the funding data from the Dimensions dataset, which includes information from over 200 funders on more than 2,500,000 projects with funding totalling $1 trillion+ (in US Dollars). This project is the first ever attempt to create a comprehensive view of global Arctic research funding using a dataset of such magnitude.
There exist a significant number of information sources, apart from the scientific literature, wi... more There exist a significant number of information sources, apart from the scientific literature, with which to assess the social impact (not to be confused with “societal impact”) of the findings produced by Arctic researchers and institutions. Various policy documents, online news and media publications, white papers, tweets, and Facebook posts provide additional data points to help assess the reach and potential impact of publicly funded research, including Arctic research. In this working paper, we provide some alternative perspectives of the way one could view the impact being made by Arctic-related science.
In the past, the outcomes of funded research projects have been the primary source of data used t... more In the past, the outcomes of funded research projects have been the primary source of data used to assess the impact and outcome of science policy. The reason behind this choice has been one of convenience. Firstly, the data and documents in question are available and easy to use for analysis, and secondly, there exist widely-accepted metrics for understanding the volume of output, as well as some means of understanding the quality and potential impact by analysis of the citations accrued by scientific publications.
Librarians at the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center evaluated citation data from c... more Librarians at the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center evaluated citation data from clinical trials and patents as potential indicators of library collection strengths and research trends at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. These under-examined resources were of interest because of their relation to translational research, which is a central area of focus in the library's mission. Digital Science Dimensions (Dimensions) was used as a data source to capture the clinical trial and patent data as part of a collaboration between Galter Library and Dimensions. Upon completing a brief pilot using clinical trials to identify collection gaps, various analyses were applied to data for all patents that had Northwestern University as an assignee from 2008 to 2017. The findings were compared with traditional metrics such as Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) compliant usage statistics and journal impact factor to identify core resources and trends unique to patents. This study is potentially of interest to libraries supporting research-intensive organizations where patents may shed new light on collection use.
A new class of social web-based metrics for scholarly publications (altmetrics) has surfaced as a... more A new class of social web-based metrics for scholarly publications (altmetrics) has surfaced as a complement to traditional citation-based metrics. Our aim was to study and characterize those recent papers in the field of Parkinson's disease which had received the highest Altmetric Attention Scores and to compare this attention measure to the traditional metrics. The top 20 papers in our analysis covered a variety of topics, mainly new disease mechanisms, treatment options and risk factors for the development of PD. The main media sources for these high attention papers were news items and Twitter. The papers were published predominantly in high impact journals, suggesting a correlation between altmetrics and conventional metrics. One paper published in a relatively modest journal received a significant amount of attention, reflecting that public attention does not always parallel the traditional metrics. None of the most influential papers in PD, as reviewed by Ponce and Lozano (2011) made it to our list, suggesting that recent publications receive higher attention scores, and that altmetrics may omit older, seminal work in the field.
Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, treatment approaches and methods. There ha... more Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, treatment approaches and methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant. The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship tren...
We have compiled a list of the 100 most cited articles in cholesterol research to assess research... more We have compiled a list of the 100 most cited articles in cholesterol research to assess research trends over the last 10 and 100 years to mark the 200th anniversary of the naming of cholesterol as part of the special issue of Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging.
For the biomedical sciences, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) make available a rich feature wh... more For the biomedical sciences, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) make available a rich feature which cannot currently be merged properly with widely used citing/cited data. Here, we provide methods and routines that make MeSH terms amenable to broader usage in the study of science indicators: using Web-of-Science (WoS) data, one can generate the matrix of citing versus cited documents; using PubMed/MEDLINE data, a matrix of the citing documents versus MeSH terms can be generated analogously. The two matrices can also be reorganized into a 2-mode matrix of MeSH terms versus cited references. Using the abbreviated journal names in the references, one can, for example, address the question whether MeSH terms can be used as an alternative to WoS Subject Categories for the purpose of normalizing citation data. We explore the applicability of the routines in the case of a research program about the amyloid cascade hypothesis in Alzheimer’s disease. One conclusion is that referenced journa...
Upon completion of a manuscript, authors must go through the process of choosing a journal to whi... more Upon completion of a manuscript, authors must go through the process of choosing a journal to which they will submit their work. The choice of journal can be difficult as there is a tradeoff between total-time-to-publication and the prestige of the journal to which they first submit. Specifically, if a group of authors "aims too high" they can find themselves caught in a frustrating cycle of "major-changes-requested" or of outright rejections which can delay the publication of the article for months. The prestige of a journal has come to be quantified by its Journal-Impact-Factor (JIF), and the manuscript-submission options weighed by a group of authors are likely bounded by a minimum JIF they would be willing to accept and by a maximum JIF above which, it would be foolish to aim. Within a given manuscript's JIF-submission band, there will likely be multiple journals between which the authors in question find themselves unable to discriminate in an informed m...
A presentation by Aaron Sorensen on 'IOS Press Medical Journal Websites: An Evolution from In... more A presentation by Aaron Sorensen on 'IOS Press Medical Journal Websites: An Evolution from Inward Focus to Outward Focus' for Digital Science's Publisher Day 2017.<br>
This pilot analysis is the result of an exploratory collaboration between the UArctic Science & R... more This pilot analysis is the result of an exploratory collaboration between the UArctic Science & Research Analytics Task Force and Digital Science's international research teams. The aim was to assess the global funding landscape around Arctic-related research for the decade spanning 2006 to 2015 using the funding data from the Dimensions dataset, which includes information from over 200 funders on more than 2,500,000 projects with funding totalling $1 trillion+ (in US Dollars). This project is the first ever attempt to create a comprehensive view of global Arctic research funding using a dataset of such magnitude.
There exist a significant number of information sources, apart from the scientific literature, wi... more There exist a significant number of information sources, apart from the scientific literature, with which to assess the social impact (not to be confused with “societal impact”) of the findings produced by Arctic researchers and institutions. Various policy documents, online news and media publications, white papers, tweets, and Facebook posts provide additional data points to help assess the reach and potential impact of publicly funded research, including Arctic research. In this working paper, we provide some alternative perspectives of the way one could view the impact being made by Arctic-related science.
In the past, the outcomes of funded research projects have been the primary source of data used t... more In the past, the outcomes of funded research projects have been the primary source of data used to assess the impact and outcome of science policy. The reason behind this choice has been one of convenience. Firstly, the data and documents in question are available and easy to use for analysis, and secondly, there exist widely-accepted metrics for understanding the volume of output, as well as some means of understanding the quality and potential impact by analysis of the citations accrued by scientific publications.
Librarians at the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center evaluated citation data from c... more Librarians at the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center evaluated citation data from clinical trials and patents as potential indicators of library collection strengths and research trends at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. These under-examined resources were of interest because of their relation to translational research, which is a central area of focus in the library's mission. Digital Science Dimensions (Dimensions) was used as a data source to capture the clinical trial and patent data as part of a collaboration between Galter Library and Dimensions. Upon completing a brief pilot using clinical trials to identify collection gaps, various analyses were applied to data for all patents that had Northwestern University as an assignee from 2008 to 2017. The findings were compared with traditional metrics such as Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) compliant usage statistics and journal impact factor to identify core resources and trends unique to patents. This study is potentially of interest to libraries supporting research-intensive organizations where patents may shed new light on collection use.
A new class of social web-based metrics for scholarly publications (altmetrics) has surfaced as a... more A new class of social web-based metrics for scholarly publications (altmetrics) has surfaced as a complement to traditional citation-based metrics. Our aim was to study and characterize those recent papers in the field of Parkinson's disease which had received the highest Altmetric Attention Scores and to compare this attention measure to the traditional metrics. The top 20 papers in our analysis covered a variety of topics, mainly new disease mechanisms, treatment options and risk factors for the development of PD. The main media sources for these high attention papers were news items and Twitter. The papers were published predominantly in high impact journals, suggesting a correlation between altmetrics and conventional metrics. One paper published in a relatively modest journal received a significant amount of attention, reflecting that public attention does not always parallel the traditional metrics. None of the most influential papers in PD, as reviewed by Ponce and Lozano (2011) made it to our list, suggesting that recent publications receive higher attention scores, and that altmetrics may omit older, seminal work in the field.
Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, treatment approaches and methods. There ha... more Neurorehabilitation covers a large range of disorders, treatment approaches and methods. There have been previous citation analyses of rehabilitation and of its subfields. However, there has never been a comprehensive citation analysis in neurorehabilitation. The present study reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. A de-novo keyword search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed by the clinician authors. The papers in the top 100 deemed to be irrelevant were discarded and replaced by the most highly-cited articles in the second tier deemed to be clinically relevant. The most frequently cited neurorehablitation papers appeared in Stroke, Movement Disorders, and Neurology. Papers tended to focus on treatments, especially for stroke. Authorship tren...
We have compiled a list of the 100 most cited articles in cholesterol research to assess research... more We have compiled a list of the 100 most cited articles in cholesterol research to assess research trends over the last 10 and 100 years to mark the 200th anniversary of the naming of cholesterol as part of the special issue of Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging.
For the biomedical sciences, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) make available a rich feature wh... more For the biomedical sciences, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) make available a rich feature which cannot currently be merged properly with widely used citing/cited data. Here, we provide methods and routines that make MeSH terms amenable to broader usage in the study of science indicators: using Web-of-Science (WoS) data, one can generate the matrix of citing versus cited documents; using PubMed/MEDLINE data, a matrix of the citing documents versus MeSH terms can be generated analogously. The two matrices can also be reorganized into a 2-mode matrix of MeSH terms versus cited references. Using the abbreviated journal names in the references, one can, for example, address the question whether MeSH terms can be used as an alternative to WoS Subject Categories for the purpose of normalizing citation data. We explore the applicability of the routines in the case of a research program about the amyloid cascade hypothesis in Alzheimer’s disease. One conclusion is that referenced journa...
Upon completion of a manuscript, authors must go through the process of choosing a journal to whi... more Upon completion of a manuscript, authors must go through the process of choosing a journal to which they will submit their work. The choice of journal can be difficult as there is a tradeoff between total-time-to-publication and the prestige of the journal to which they first submit. Specifically, if a group of authors "aims too high" they can find themselves caught in a frustrating cycle of "major-changes-requested" or of outright rejections which can delay the publication of the article for months. The prestige of a journal has come to be quantified by its Journal-Impact-Factor (JIF), and the manuscript-submission options weighed by a group of authors are likely bounded by a minimum JIF they would be willing to accept and by a maximum JIF above which, it would be foolish to aim. Within a given manuscript's JIF-submission band, there will likely be multiple journals between which the authors in question find themselves unable to discriminate in an informed m...
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