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CHANG, CHIA-LIN, and MICHAEL MCALEER. "JUST HOW GOOD ARE THE TOP THREE JOURNALS IN FINANCE? AN ASSESSMENT BASED ON QUANTITY AND QUALITY CITATIONS." Annals of Financial Economics 09, no. 01 (June 2014): 1450005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2010495214500055.
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The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI (2013) Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI). The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of "Business–Finance" using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs). The analysis highlights the similarities and differences in various RAMs, all of which are based on alternative transformations of journal citations and impact. Alternative RAMs may be calculated annually or updated daily to determine the citations frequency of published papers that are cited in journals listed in ISI. The RAMs include the classic 2-year impact factor including journal self citations (2YIF), 2-year impact factor excluding journal self citations (2YIF*), 5-year impact factor including journal self citations (5YIF), Immediacy including journal self citations, Eigenfactor (or Journal Influence), Article Influence (AI), h-index, Papers Ignored-By Even The Authors (PI-BETA), Self-citation Threshold Approval Rating (STAR), 5YD2 (namely, 5YIF divided by 2YIF), Escalating Self Citations (ESC) and Index of Citation Quality (ICQ). The paper calculates the harmonic mean (HM) of the ranks of up to 16 RAMs. It is shown that emphasizing 2YIF to the exclusion of other informative RAMs can lead to a misleading evaluation of journal quality and impact relative to the HM of the ranks. The analysis of the 89 ISI journals in Finance makes it clear that there are three leading journals in Finance, namely Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, which form an exclusive club in terms of the RAMs that measure journal quality and impact based on alternative measures of journal citations. The next two journals in Finance in terms of overall quality and impact are Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Monetary Economics. As Accounting does not have a separate classification in ISI, the tables of rankings given in the paper are also used to rank the top 3 journals in the sub-category of Accounting in the ISI category of "Business – Finance", namely Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting Research.
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Nascimento, Gyzelle P. V., Daniel C. Moreira, and Alexis F. Welker. "Relative prolixity in journals with different citation impact values: an evidence-based scientific writing assessment." F1000Research 8 (July 25, 2019): 1188. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20015.1.
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Background: Scientific writing guidelines recommend that a scientific text should be straightforward, without prolixity, and informative, without obscurity. However, the extent to which researchers follow these recommendations is unknown. Considering that the most cited journals provide more detailed instructions for authors, we aimed to investigate the degree of relative prolixity (i.e., length versus amount of information) among journals with different citation impact scores. Methods: We analyzed journals whose articles follow the classic Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion structure, written in English and with a CiteScore value ≥ 0.01 classified in the ‘Pharmaceutical Science’ area. Relative prolixity was calculated as the ratio between the number of characters and the number of citations contained in the introductory section of original articles. Additionally, we collected the number of paragraphs and words. Results: The number of characters, words and citations in the Introduction section were significantly higher in the journals with higher CiteScore values. The median number of paragraphs in the Introduction was not affected by the citation impact of the journals. The degree of relative prolixity in the Introduction section of the articles was negatively correlated with the CiteScore values. Conclusions: Articles published in journals with higher CiteScore values have lower degrees of relative prolixity (i.e., shorter texts to transmit a certain amount of information) and obscurity.
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CHANG, CHIA-LIN, and MICHAEL MCALEER. "WHAT DO EXPERTS KNOW ABOUT FORECASTING JOURNAL QUALITY? A COMPARISON WITH ISI RESEARCH IMPACT IN FINANCE." Annals of Financial Economics 08, no. 01 (June 2013): 1350005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s201049521350005x.
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Experts possess knowledge and information that are not publicly available. The paper is concerned with forecasting academic journal quality and research impact using a survey of international experts from a national project on ranking academic finance journals in Taiwan. A comparison is made with publicly available bibliometric data, namely the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI) for the Business–Finance (hereafter Finance) category. The paper analyses the leading international journals in Finance using expert scores and quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), and highlights the similarities and differences in the expert scores and alternative RAMs, where the RAMs are based on alternative transformations of citations taken from the ISI database. Alternative RAMs may be calculated annually or updated daily to answer the perennial questions as to When, Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited (see Chang et al., 2011a,b,c). The RAMs include the most widely used RAM, namely the classic 2-year impact factor including journal self citations (2YIF), 2-year impact factor excluding journal self citations (2YIF*), 5-year impact factor including journal self citations (5YIF), Immediacy (or zero-year impact factor (0YIF)), Eigenfactor, Article Influence, C3PO (Citation Performance per Paper Online), h-index, PI-BETA (Papers Ignored — By even the Authors), 2-year Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (2Y-STAR), Historical Self-citation Threshold Approval Ratings (H-STAR), Impact Factor Inflation (IFI), and Cited Article Influence (CAI). As data are not available for 5YIF, Article Influence and CAI for 13 of the leading 34 journals considered, 10 RAMs are analysed for 21 highly-cited journals in Finance. The harmonic mean of the ranks of the 10 RAMs for the 34 highly-cited journals are also presented. It is shown that emphasizing the 2-year impact factor of a journal, which partly answers the question as to When published papers are cited, to the exclusion of other informative RAMs, which answer Where and How (frequently) published papers are cited, can lead to a distorted evaluation of journal impact and influence relative to the Harmonic Mean rankings. A linear regression model is used to forecast expert scores on the basis of RAMs that capture journal impact, journal policy, the number of high quality papers, and quantitative information about a journal. The robustness of the rankings is also analyzed.
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Guffey, Daryl M., and Nancy L. Harp. "Ranking Faculties, Ph.D. Programs, Individual Scholars, and Influential Articles in Accounting Information Systems Based on Citations to Publications in the Journal of Information Systems." Journal of Information Systems 28, no. 1 (December 1, 2013): 111–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/isys-50695.
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ABSTRACT This paper ranks systems faculties, accounting doctoral programs, individual accounting systems researchers, and the most influential accounting systems articles based on Google Scholar citations to publications in the Journal of Information Systems (JIS). All articles published in JIS for its first 25 years of existence are included and four citation metrics are used. Information is presented over three time periods (1986–1993, 1994–2001, and 2002–2010) to provide additional insights on changes over time. The study also analyzes the content and research methods of “most cited” articles and describes trends in the types of systems research that have had the greatest impact. Findings suggest that JIS's impact has consistently improved over time. The H-index for JIS also suggests that the journal compares favorably among its peers. A correlation analysis between the four citation metrics and the number of articles published in JIS provides evidence that counting articles published is a reasonable proxy for the influence or significance of authors. Potential doctoral students with an interest in accounting information systems, new Ph.D.s with an interest in accounting information systems, current accounting information systems faculty, department chairs, deans, and other administrators will find these results informative.
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Lei, Xintu, and Qingyuan Xu. "NEW TRENDS AND TOPIC CHANGES OF JBEM 2007–2019: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW." Journal of Business Economics and Management 22, no. 3 (February 18, 2021): 557–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2021.13885.
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The Journal of Business Economics and Management (JBEM) has been very active in the field of economics and management science and brought many influential outputs in the last decades. This paper investigated the current status of publications and citations from JBEM and explored the hot topics and new trends represented by most used keywords extracted from the published articles from 2007 to 2019. The data were analyzed and mapped with respect to the most cited literature, most prolific authors, and publication records categorized by authors, institutions and countries. The analysis revealed that papers published each year by the JBEM is relatively stable and published papers has an expected citation number 7.68 times. The difference in frequency of keywords in different stages give us informative clue for future studies. The emerging topics include “SMEs” “Information” “framework” “perspective”, hence the likely focus of JBEM to consider submission of papers centered on these topics, the comparison of keywords between JBEM and Hot Papers & Highly Cited Papers was made as well. Some new trends, for example, information science combining with management science are new hot topics.
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Vrat, Prem. "Assessment of research impact through citation analysis: a new approach." Journal of Advances in Management Research 17, no. 1 (October 4, 2019): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jamr-06-2019-0102.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal the limitations of h-index in assessing research performance through citation analysis and suggest two new indexes called prime index (P-index) and value added index (V-index), which are simpler to compute than g-index and more informative. For more serious research performance evaluation, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology is proposed. Design/methodology/approach The methodology adopted is to compare existing indexes for citation-based research assessment and identify their limitations, particularly the h-index, which is most commonly employed. It gives advantages of g-index over h-index and then proposes P-index which is simpler to compute than g-index but is more powerful in information content than g-index. Another V-index is proposed on a similar philosophy as P-index by considering total number of citations/author. For serious evaluation of finite candidates for awards/recognitions, a seven-criteria-based AHP is proposed. All new approaches have been illustrated by drawing raw data from Google scholar-powered website H-POP. Findings This paper demonstrates over-hype about use of h-index over g-index. However, it shows that newly proposed P-index is much simpler in computation than g but better than g-index. V-index is a quick way to ascertain the value added by a research scientist in multiple-authored research papers. P-index gives a value 3–4 percent higher than g and it is holistic index as it uses complete data of citations. AHP is a very powerful multi-criteria approach and it also shows g-index to be a more important factor, whereas h-index is the least important but frequently used approach. It is hoped that the findings of this paper will help in rectifying the misplaced emphasis on h-index alone. Research limitations/implications The research focus has been to suggest new faster, better methods of research assessment. However, a detailed comparison of all existing approaches with the new approaches will call for testing these over a large number of data sets. Its limitation is that it has tested the approaches on 5 academics for illustrating AHP and 20 researchers for comparing new indexes with some of the existing indexes. All existing indexes are also not covered. Practical implications The outcomes of this research may have major practical applications for research assessment of academics/researchers and rectify the imbalance in assessment by reducing over-hype on h-index. For more serious evaluation of research performance of academics, the seven-criteria AHP approach will be more comprehensive and holistic in comparison with a single criterion citation metric. One hopes that the findings of this paper will receive much attention/debate. Social implications Research assessment based on proposed approaches is likely to lead to greater satisfaction among those evaluated and higher confidence in the evaluation criteria. Originality/value P- and V-indexes are original. Application of AHP for multi-criteria assessment of research through citation analysis is also a new idea.
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Guo, Feng, Chao Ma, Qingling Shi, and Qingqing Zong. "Succinct effect or informative effect: the relationship between title length and the number of citations." Scientometrics 116, no. 3 (June 26, 2018): 1531–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2805-8.
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Wang, Binglu, Yi Bu, and Win-bin Huang. "Document- and Keyword-based Author Co-citation Analysis." Data and Information Management 2, no. 2 (August 14, 2018): 70–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/dim-2018-0009.
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AbstractIn the field of scientometrics, the principal purpose for author co-citation analysis (ACA) is to map knowledge domains by quantifying the relationship between co-cited author pairs. However, traditional ACA has been criticized since its input is insufficiently informative by simply counting authors’ co-citation frequencies. To address this issue, this paper introduces a new method that reconstructs the raw co-citation matrices by regarding document unit counts and keywords of references, named as Document- and Keyword-Based Author Co-Citation Analysis (DKACA). Based on the traditional ACA, DKACA counted co-citation pairs by document units instead of authors from the global network perspective. Moreover, by incorporating the information of keywords from cited papers, DKACA captured their semantic similarity between co-cited papers. In the method validation part, we implemented network visualization and MDS measurement to evaluate the effectiveness of DKACA. Results suggest that the proposed DKACA method not only reveals more insights that are previously unknown but also improves the performance and accuracy of knowledge domain mapping, representing a new basis for further studies.
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Yu, Weidong. "Using author tri-citation analysis to map knowledge domains in knowledge representations." Electronic Library 35, no. 6 (November 6, 2017): 1215–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-11-2016-0240.
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Purpose Previous commonly used author co-citation analysis (ACA) methods have limited the ability to deal with accidental co-citation in constructing a raw co-citation matrix. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new method, called author tri-citation analysis (ATA), to better map knowledge domains and depict scientific intellectual structures. Design/methodology/approach Different from the previous method of using ACA that captures author co-citation relationships, the ATA method seeks tri-citation relationships among authors. Compared with ACA, ATA can ignore some accidental co-citation relationships between authors and can improve the accuracy of mapping knowledge domains. Findings Although ATA does not mine more sub-fields than ACA does, the results of the empirical studies show that ATA, the newly proposed method, performs better in knowledge domain maps based on publications in the field of computer science. Research limitations/implications The definition of ATA in this article is simple and still insufficiently informative. Many other pieces of information can be involved; for example, all authors’ information, authors’ sequence in the author list, reference published time and similar. These can be enhanced in future studies. Practical implications This research will enrich the methods of mapping knowledge domains due to its new perspective. Social implications Knowledge domain mapping is important to understand a discipline, and this research provides more potential methods for this, which benefits the performance of the maps. Originality/value ATA can provide a methodological awareness for mapping knowledge domains. This value lies in not only a tri-citation perspective, but also author bibliographic tripling and author tri-operation perspectives (“tri-” perspectives).
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Lee, Ryan P., Raymond Xu, Pooja Dave, Sonia Ajmera, Jock C. Lillard, David Wallace, Austin Broussard, et al. "Taking the next step in publication productivity analysis in pediatric neurosurgery." Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 21, no. 6 (June 2018): 655–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2018.1.peds17535.
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OBJECTIVEThere has been an increasing interest in the quantitative analysis of publishing within the field of neurosurgery at the individual, group, and institutional levels. The authors present an updated analysis of accredited pediatric neurosurgery training programs.METHODSAll 28 Accreditation Council for Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship programs were contacted for the names of pediatric neurosurgeons who were present each year from 2011 through 2015. Faculty names were queried in Scopus for publications and citations during this time period. The 5-year institutional Hirsch index [ih(5)-index] and revised 5-year institutional h-index [ir(5)-index] were calculated to rank programs. Each publication was reviewed to determine authorship value, tier of research, clinical versus basic science research, subject matter, and whether it was pediatrics-specific. A unique 3-tier article classification system was introduced to stratify clinical articles by quality and complexity, with tier 3 being the lowest tier of publication (e.g., case reports) and tier 1 being the highest (e.g., randomized controlled trials).RESULTSAmong 2060 unique publications, 1378 (67%) were pediatrics-specific. The pediatrics-specific articles had a mean of 15.2 citations per publication (median 6), whereas the non–pediatrics-specific articles had a mean of 23.0 citations per publication (median 8; p < 0.0001). For the 46% of papers that had a pediatric neurosurgeon as first or last author, the mean number of citations per publication was 12.1 (median 5.0) compared with 22.5 (median 8.0) for those in which a pediatric neurosurgeon was a middle author (p < 0.0001). Seventy-nine percent of articles were clinical research and 21% were basic science or translational research; however, basic science and translational articles had a mean of 36.9 citations per publication (median 15) compared with 12.6 for clinical publications (median 5.0; p < 0.0001). Among clinical articles, tier 1 papers had a mean of 15.0 citations per publication (median 8.0), tier 2 papers had a mean of 18.7 (median 8.0), and tier 3 papers had a mean of 7.8 (median 3.0). Neuro-oncology papers received the highest number of citations per publication (mean 25.7). The most common journal was the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics (20%). MD/PhD faculty members had significantly more citations per publication than MD faculty members (mean 26.7 vs 14.0; p < 0.0001) and also a higher number of publications per author (mean 38.6 vs 20.8). The median ih(5)- and ir(5)-indices per program were 14 (range 5–48) and 10 (range 5.6–37.2), respectively. The mean ir(5)/ih(5)-index ratio was 0.8. The top 5 fellowship programs (in descending order) as ranked by the ih(5)-index corrected for number of faculty members were The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital; Seattle Children’s Hospital; and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.CONCLUSIONSAbout two-thirds of publications authored by pediatric neurosurgeons are pediatrics-specific, although non–pediatrics-specific articles averaged more citations. Most of the articles authored by pediatric neurosurgeons are clinical, with basic and translational articles averaging more citations. Neurosurgeons with PhD degrees averaged more total publications and more citations per publication. In all, this is the most advanced and informative analysis of publication productivity in pediatric neurosurgery to date.
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Adkins, Martha. "Recent Research in Religion." Theological Librarianship 11, no. 2 (October 23, 2018): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31046/tl.v11i2.507.
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This paper reports the results of a study of the citations accompanying research published over ten years in the fields of theology, religious studies, and biblical studies. The purpose of the citation analysis project was to determine patterns of material usage by scholars in the discipline of Religion. The project proposed to seek answers to questions that frequently cross the minds of theological librarians, including, among others, the types of sources used by researchers in our fields, the prominence of primary sources, the currency of sources cited, dominant languages of publication and research, and most frequently used journals.
A sample of peer-reviewed articles from these fields, chosen from journals indexed by the ATLA Religion Database, was examined from a variety of angles. 4107 cited references from 96 articles were analyzed for source type, publication language, dating, and authorship; articles were further examined for the peer review status of the publishing journal and the subject area covered.
The cited references of the 96 articles analyzed were primarily monographs, published in English, published and created within the decades before the publication of the citing articles, and most had a single author. The 14 most frequently cited journals covered topics in religion and the social sciences.
The results reported here are expected to be informative to theological librarians in making collection development decisions and building subject liaison relationships. Librarians may choose monograph acquisitions over other types, or consider promoting other types of resources differently to encourage use. Theological librarians might consider subscribing to journal titles which overlap in subject coverage with the social sciences. Librarians and discipline faculty will likely find many conversation points among the data presented here.
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PAWSON, DAVID L., DORIS J. PAWSON, and RACHAEL A. KING. "A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)." Zootaxa 2449, no. 1 (May 7, 2010): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2449.1.1.
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A summary account is given of the 33 holothurian species known from the South Atlantic Bight, from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, from the shore to a depth of 200 meters. Four of the six known orders of holothurians are represented in the study area. Each species is diagnosed and illustrated; citations of informative literature and brief discussions of distribution and general biology are included. Also included are dichotomous keys to aid in identification to the species level. A new genus is erected to accommodate Pseudocolochirus mysticus Deichmann, 1930. Ocnus pygmaeus (Théel, 1886b) and O. surinamensis (Semper, 1868) are referred to the genus Aslia Rowe, 1970.
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Divoli, Anna, Preslav Nakov, and Marti A. Hearst. "Do Peers See More in a Paper Than Its Authors?" Advances in Bioinformatics 2012 (November 27, 2012): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/750214.
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Recent years have shown a gradual shift in the content of biomedical publications that is freely accessible, from titles and abstracts to full text. This has enabled new forms of automatic text analysis and has given rise to some interesting questions: How informative is the abstract compared to the full-text? What important information in the full-text is not present in the abstract? What should a good summary contain that is not already in the abstract? Do authors and peers see an article differently? We answer these questions by comparing the information content of the abstract to that in citances—sentences containing citations to that article. We contrast the important points of an article as judged by its authors versus as seen by peers. Focusing on the area of molecular interactions, we perform manual and automatic analysis, and we find that the set of all citances to a target article not only covers most information (entities, functions, experimental methods, and other biological concepts) found in its abstract, but also contains 20% more concepts. We further present a detailed summary of the differences across information types, and we examine the effects other citations and time have on the content of citances.
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Gumeniuk, М. І., V. І. Іgnatieva, М. І. Lynnyk, G. L. Gumeniuk, V. А. Svyatnenko, and M. G. Palivoda. "Methods of visualization in the diagnosis of COVID‑19 community‑acquired pneumonia." Infusion & Chemotherapy, no. 2 (June 24, 2020): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32902/2663-0338-2020-2-11-20.
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BACKGROUND. At present, the overall picture of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the causative agent of which is SARS- CoV-2, consists of hundreds of reports and articles in scientific journals, where doctors from around the world share their experience in diagnosing and treating patients.
OBJECTIVE. To analyze the informativeness of imaging methods in the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia of viral etiology (COVID-19).
MATERIALS AND METHODS. We used test access to such full-text and abstract databases: a single package of the information database EBSCO; the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature Scopus; Google Scholar; MEDLINE with Full Text; MEDLINE Complete; Dyna Med Plus; EBSCO eBooks Clinical Collection; Web of Science Core Collection WoS (CC); SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded); SSCI (Social Science Citation Index); AHCI (Artand Humanities Citation Index).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Modern imaging methods that can be used in the diagnosis and monitoring of viral etiology (COVID-19) community-acquired pneumonia include: chest radiography (CR), computed tomography (CT) of chest and ultrasound (US).
The analysis allowed to determine the typical criteria for the diagnosis of inflammatory changes of chest of viral etiology (COVID-19) according to CT and to identify radiological criteria for the severity of the disease. In-patient CR and US are recommended for use in critically ill patients who are in intensive care units, when it is impossible to transport patients.
CONCLUSIONS. CT is an objective and most informative research method in the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia.
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Schwartz, Steven. "Getting to Know You." Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice 3, no. 4 (2002): 54–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jcdp-3-4-54.
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Abstract This article provides an insight on two strategies involved in effectively promoting a dental practice. The strategies contain goals that are centered on name recognition and reputation enhancement. The name of the practice should be easy to pronounce, informative and recognizable. The use of effective marketing tools and activities are presented that facilitate these principles. Participation in the community through a variety of activities, offering quality expertise and maintaining a pleasant demeanor are key to enhancing the reputation of the dental practice and its staff. Citation Schwartz S. Getting to Know You. J Contemp Dent Pract 2002 November;(3)4:054-065.
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Xiao, Xue, Martin Skitmore, Heng Li, and Bo Xia. "Mapping Knowledge in the Economic Areas of Green Building Using Scientometric Analysis." Energies 12, no. 15 (August 5, 2019): 3011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12153011.
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This paper presents the first inclusive scientometric review of the economic areas of green building (GBE). The aim is to methodically examine and summarize the state-of-the-art of the GBE body of knowledge. To this end, this study analyses 1713 GBE-related bibliographic records retrieved from the Web of Science by using the quantitative method of knowledge mapping. The knowledge base, knowledge domain, and knowledge evolution of how they interacted with each other are explored using document co-citation analysis and keywords co-citation analysis of the existing body of literature. The research findings are informative in recognizing and interpreting the underlying structure and trends in GBE. A knowledge map provides a valuable and instructive understanding of the evolution and status quo of the GBE knowledge body, as well as assisting in recognizing the gaps and deficiencies involved. The results will help in understanding how GBE knowledge is evolving and its role played in green building, and thus provide suggestions of how academic research can enhance sustainability practices in terms of economic area in the future.
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Strakhov, Vladimir V., Victor V. Alekseev, Abdulgavi M. Al-Mrrani, Anastasiya A. Popova, and Olga N. Klimova. "Informative value of biometric indices of iris, clear and cornea in primary open-angle glaucoma diagnosis." Ophthalmology journal 11, no. 1 (March 15, 2018): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ov11134-40.
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Aim: to study the thickness of cornea, iris and scleral tissue, to determine its asymmetry between fellow eyes in healthy subjects and in patients with primary glaucoma. To determine the relationship between changes in biomechanical properties of the cornea and sclera and iris thickness in healthy subjects and in patients with primary glaucoma. Materials and methods. 10 patients (20 eyes) with primary glaucoma were examined. The control group consisted of 10 people (20 eyes). In all patients ultrasound biomicroscopy (Humphrey Instruments (USA), Model 840) was performed. Results and discussion. The article presents a study of the corneoscleral and iris tissue thickness in primary glaucoma, as well as the increase pattern of the revealed asymmetry in corneoscleral and iris tissue thickness from normal state to glaucoma. A positive direct correlation between the indices of cornea, sclera, and iris thickness in the primary glaucoma group and between biometric parameters of sclera and iris and the of corneal hysteresis value in primary open-angle glaucoma. (For citation: Strakhov VV, Alekseev VV, Al'-Mrrani AM, et al. Informative value of biometric indices of iris, clear and cornea in primary open-angle glaucoma diagnosis. Ophthalmology Journal. 2018;11(1):34-40. doi: 10.17816/OV11134-40).
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Myakonkaya, O. S., A. S. Sarkisyan, A. V. Seleznev, A. V. Kuroyedov, and I. R. Gazizova. "State-of-the-art of loading and unloading tests for glaucoma: potentialities and informative value." Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology 21, no. 3 (2021): 153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.32364/2311-7729-2021-21-3-153-158.
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Prevention of blindness and low vision resulting from the progression of glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) depends mainly on the early diagnosis of glaucoma. Loading and unloading tests which create conditions for intraocular pressure (IOP) fluctuations are important for the early diagnosis of glaucoma. Stress tests for glaucoma lead to a short-term IOP rise and help identify symptoms that are questionable under normal conditions. Stress tests include water-drinking test, position test, dark room test, dentation test, pharmacological mydriasis, corticosteroid provocative test, etc. Unloading tests are reasonable if the IOP level is the upper normal limit or slightly higher. Unloading tests include glyceryl ascorbate test, test with acetazolamide, and instillations of IOP-lowering medications (e.g., M-cholinomimetic or prostaglandin analog). Visual changes accompanying loading and unloading tests are recorded by visual acuity measurement, IOP measurement (tonometry and tonography, visual field testing (campimetry, angioscotometry), adaptometry, retinal tomography, and electrophysiology (visually evoked potentials). Studies are currently underway to develop novel modifications of diagnostic tests using modern high-tech controlling tools. These advances increase the informative value of these tests which are relevant for both early diagnosis and stabilization of glaucoma course. This review article summarizes currently available data on the informative value of loading and unloading tests. Keywords: glaucoma, intraocular pressure, loading tests, unloading tests, early diagnosis of glaucoma. For citation: Myakonkaya O.S., Sarkisyan A.S., Seleznev A.V. et al. State-of-the-art of loading and unloading tests for glaucoma: potentialities and informative value. Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology. 2021;21(3):153–158 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.32364/2311-7729-2021-21-3-153-158.
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Diener, Ed. "A Website System for Communicating Psychological Science." Perspectives on Psychological Science 12, no. 4 (July 2017): 684–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691616685864.
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The peer review and journal system have shortcomings, and both computers and the Internet have made complementary or alternative systems attractive. In this article, I recommend that we implement a new platform for open communication of psychological science on a dedicated website to complement the current review and journal system, with reader reviews of the articles and with all behavioral scientists being eligible to publish and review articles. The judged merit of articles would be based on the citations and the ratings of the work by the whole scientific community. This online journal will be quicker, more democratic, and more informative than the current system. Although the details of the system should be debated and formulated by a committee of scientists, adding this online journal to the existing publications of a society such as the Association for Psychological Science has few risks and many possible gains. An online journal deserves to be tried and assessed.
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Shmatova, E. N., and Yu I. Grinshtein. "Microvascular angina: pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis and therapy tactics." Russian Medical Inquiry 4, no. 7 (2020): 425–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32364/2587-6821-2020-4-7-425-430.
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The literature review presents current data on some mechanisms of development, clinical picture, diagnosis, and therapy tactics of microvascular angina (MA). The important role of microcirculatory pathology in the genesis of coronary heart disease is emphasized. Endothelial dysfunction and angiospasm have been shown to be the basis of MA. The article presents MA detection, including the presence of myocardial ischemia in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease (coronary artery disease <50% or fractional flow reserve >0.80). It was noted that Holter monitoring was not informative for reliable diagnosis of myocardial ischemia, since the results of the study did not exclude or confirm the presence of coronary heart disease, including MA. Stress echocardiography and positron emission tomography were highly informative in the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia caused by microvascular pathology. The article also considers drug therapy tactics with the use of beta-adrenergic blocking agents and calcium channel blockers for patients with MA and the low efficacy of nitrates. The role of second-line drugs such as Nicorandil, Ranolazine, and Trimetazidine is discussed. The important role of statins and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, which have proven to be effective in the treatment of endothelial dysfunction, is emphasized. Disaggregants, like statins, are an important therapy component of MA.KEYWORDS: microvascular angina, endovascular dysfunction, diagnostics, therapy tactics.FOR CITATION: Shmatova E.N., Grinshtein Yu.I. Microvascular angina: pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis and therapy tactics. Russian Medical Inquiry. 2020;4(7):425–430. DOI: 10.32364/2587-6821-2020-4-7-425-430.
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Abdul Latif, Roslina, and Andre Paul Marot. "COVID-19 Lockdown in New York: A News Comparison Between the New York Times and Vice News." Journal of Social Sciences Research, no. 610 (October 31, 2020): 929–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.610.929.942.
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The Corona virus or also known as COVID-19 has raged the world with a devastating number of lives that were lost. During the lockdown and in the times of chaos, many have relied on the media for information to keep abreast with the updates of this angry virus. The objective of this study was to find out the differences of news coverage concerning the Covid-19 pandemic between mainstream and alternative media in New York City, where it hit the worst. The New York Times and Vice News were chosen to represent the mainstream and alternative news stations, respectively. The methodology used was a qualitative content analysis to organize, extract and understand the large data sets and derive conclusions. Conclusively, this analysis is based on four criteria’s: headlines, sources, language, and visual images. A summary of the headline regarding the alternative resultantly informs us that Vice incorporates a majority of vague, misleading titles while contrastingly, the New York Times incorporates accurate and informative titles. Dissimilarities also occur with sources where a majority of citations are composed of sole informants for Vice News and multiple sources for the New York Times; authoritative and non-authoritative.
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Glavnova, Olga B., Mariya I. Yarmolinskaya, Svetlana V. Suslova, and Natalya V. Borovik. "Сystatin C potential use in the diagnosis of various diseases." Journal of obstetrics and women's diseases 67, no. 4 (December 15, 2018): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/jowd67440-47.
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The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing worldwide. It leads to a high risk of cardiovascular disease, early disability and mortality. The severity of CKD is determined by the level of reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Modern formulas for calculating GFR based on serum creatinine give errors. The search for new informative methods of evaluation of GFR is an urgent task. A number of studies have shown the effectiveness of cystatin C determination in serum as a more sensitive indicator of GFR decline for early detection of renal pathology. The timely detection of diabetic nephropathy and the administration of nephroprotective and cardioprotective therapy is an important task in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. This review article discusses the possibility of using cystatin C as a marker of renal function decline, diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, and the development of preeclampsia. (For citation: Glavnova OB, Yarmolinskaya MI, Syslova SV, Borovik NV. Сystatin C potential use in the diagnosis of various diseases. Journal of Obstetrics and Women’s Diseases. 2018;67(4):40-47. doi: 10.17816/JOWD67440-47).
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White, Adrian, Karl-Ludwig Resch, and Edzard Ernst. "Searching for Acupuncture Trials: Which Database?" Acupuncture in Medicine 13, no. 2 (November 1995): 97–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/aim.13.2.97.
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Evidence based medicine depends on sensitive, precise and informative searches for references to controlled clinical trials. Five databases: Medline, Centralised Information Service for Complementary Medicine (CISCOM), Science Citation Index (SCI), British Library and Embase, were compared for their effectiveness as literature search tools by conducting test searches for acupuncture trials in a single sample year, 1992. CISCOM showed the greatest sensitivity, followed by Medline and SCI; all three usually provided abstracts, but CISCOM did not provide authors’ addresses. Other databases had features that might make them useful for particular purposes. SCI, British Library and Embase covered a different range of journals from Medline, including acupuncture specialist journals, but of these three only SCI contained an additional relevant reference; it also had the advantages of secondary references and associated correspondence. Indexing of Medline appeared to be more effective for acupuncture than for some other complementary and orthodox medical subjects. It was concluded that the CISCOM search was the most sensitive, and that Medline and SCI had other benefits which were significant.
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Ortúñez, Emma, Roberto Gamarra, Sara Gestal, Álvaro Hernando, and Pablo Galán Cela. "Revision of Eulophia (Orchidaceae) in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo." Plant Ecology and Evolution 153, no. 3 (November 23, 2020): 399–426. http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2020.1609.
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Background and aims – The genus Eulophia (Orchidaceae) is revised for Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo. The aims are: to present a morphological characterization of the main vegetative and reproductive features of Eulophia to clarify the delimitation of the taxa within the genus in the studied countries; to provide an updated identification key and an updated checklist of the genus with nomenclatural data, distribution maps, ecological information, and preliminary conservation status. This revision may serve as a basis for future studies of the genus in other regions of Africa.Material and methods – Relevant material kept in BM, BR, FHI, HBG, K, MA, P, and WAG was examined, using standard practices of herbarium taxonomy. Vegetative and reproductive structures were analysed. MapMaker was used to produce the distribution maps.Key results – A total of 24 species are recognised in the study area. The variability of perennating organs, leaves, sepals and petals, lip (including ornamentation), spur, and anther cap are described and depicted, and were found to be informative for species recognition. A taxonomic treatment is given with an identification key, synonymy, distribution maps, preliminary conservation status, and specimen citations. Eulophia galeoloides is neotypified, E. brevipetala, E. leonensis, E. penduliflora, and Lissochilus elatus are lectotypified. According to our study, we consider E. parvula a synonym of E. pyrophila. E. sordida is considered as a doubtful species in the study area.
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Groot, Tom. "Kwaliteit en productiviteit van economisch onderzoek." Maandblad Voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie 83, no. 11 (November 1, 2009): 373–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/mab.83.12847.
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In 2008 en 2009 zijn de onderzoeksprogramma’s van economie, bedrijfseconomie en bedrijfskunde voor de derde keer aan een formele beoordeling onderworpen. Inmiddels is kwaliteitsbeoordeling van onderzoek een algemeen geaccepteerd en belangrijk onderwerp geworden. Een goed kwaliteitsoordeel is in toenemende mate belangrijk voor het verkrijgen van middelen, voor het aantrekken van goede onderzoekers en voor de academische reputatie van de onderzoeksgroep. Het kwaliteitsoordeel kan tot stand komen op basis van oordelen van vakgenoten, de zogenaamde peer review, en op basis van bibliometrische informatie, zoals het aantal publicaties en citaties. Dit artikel analyseert in hoeverre beide beoordelingsmethoden tot dezelfde conclusies leiden. Daarbij blijken internationale A- en B-publicaties veruit de best verklarende variabelen te zijn. Vervolgens wordt geprobeerd om vast te stellen welke organisatiekenmerken van onderzoeksgroepen verantwoordelijk zijn voor verschillen in kwaliteit en productiviteit van onderzoekoutput. Omvang van de groep blijkt positief samen te hangen met kwaliteit maar negatief met productiviteit.
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Salameh, Jean-Paul, Matthew D. F. McInnes, David Moher, Brett D. Thombs, Trevor A. McGrath, Robert Frank, Anahita Dehmoobad Sharifabadi, Noémie Kraaijpoel, Brooke Levis, and Patrick M. Bossuyt. "Completeness of Reporting of Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Based on the PRISMA-DTA Reporting Guideline." Clinical Chemistry 65, no. 2 (February 1, 2019): 291–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2018.292987.
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Abstract BACKGROUND We evaluated the completeness of reporting of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) systematic reviews using the recently developed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and MetaAnalyses (PRISMA)-DTA guidelines. METHODS MEDLINE® was searched for DTA systematic reviews published October 2017 to January 2018. The search time span was modulated to reach the desired sample size of 100 systematic reviews. Reporting on a per-item basis using PRISMA-DTA was evaluated. RESULTS One hundred reviews were included. Mean reported items were 18.6 of 26 (71%; SD = 1.9) for PRISMA-DTA and 5.5 of 11 (50%; SD = 1.2) for PRISMA-DTA for abstracts. Items in the results were frequently reported. Items related to protocol registration, characteristics of included studies, results synthesis, and definitions used in data extraction were infrequently reported. Infrequently reported items from PRISMA-DTA for abstracts included funding information, strengths and limitations, characteristics of included studies, and assessment of applicability. Reporting completeness was higher in higher impact factor journals (18.9 vs 18.1 items; P = 0.04), studies that cited PRISMA (18.9 vs 17.7 items; P = 0.003), or used supplementary material (19.1 vs 18.0 items; P = 0.004). Variability in reporting was associated with author country (P = 0.04) but not journal (P = 0.6), abstract word count limitations (P = 0.9), PRISMA adoption (P = 0.2), structured abstracts (P = 0.2), study design (P = 0.8), subspecialty area (P = 0.09), or index test (P = 0.5). Abstracts with a higher word count were more informative (R = 0.4; P < 0.001). No association with word counts was observed for full-text reports (R = −0.03; P = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS Recently published reports of DTA systematic reviews are not fully informative when evaluated against the PRISMA-DTA guidelines. These results should guide knowledge translation strategies, including journal level (e.g., PRISMA-DTA adoption, increased abstract word count, and use of supplementary material) and author level (PRISMA-DTA citation awareness) strategies.
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Inozemtseva, Zinaida P. "Archimandrite Damascene (Orlovsky) Has Published a New Book: ‘Through Suffering to Communion: New Martyrs of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus’." Herald of an archivist, no. 3 (2018): 953–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2018-3-953-959.
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The reviewed book of Archimandrite Damascene (Orlovsky) ‘Through Suffering to Communion: New Martyrs of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus’ describes 24 life paths of hierarchs and clergymen canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and their spiritual endeavors amid anti-religious persecution of the 20th century. The book opens a door into the world of the heroes of spirit, who recreated reality in the most stifling time of mass anti-religious repression on the territory of the former Russian Empire. New martyrs come to life in the book to show an example of living Christian ideal (as imagined in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) within this world. The group portrait of new martyrs shows features of national elite. Their spiritual endeavor, concludes the author's, is a phenomenon in the history of our currently divided people, which gives hope for creating a new unity through suffering. The source base that has provided biographical and hagiographic material for the book conclusively represents the realities of period in its macro and micro aspects. It consists of archival documents and oral history sources, most of which are being introduced into scientific use by the author. The review recognizes high scientific and archaeographic level of the book, as well as its informative value. The text includes 500 citations from archival documents and scholarship, as well as some documents, rare photographs, and scholarly commentary. It is of value for scientists who study the history of the Church and explore the role of individual and religious consciousness in the historical process.
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Vorobyeva, I. V., L. К. Moshetova, A. V. Pinchuk, Е. V. Bulava, Е. P. Delver, and А. А. Belogurov. "Common pathogenic aspects of diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy. Kidney transplantation and the course of diabetic retinopathy." Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology 21, no. 2 (2021): 90–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.32364/2311-7729-2021-21-2-90-95.
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Epidemics of diabetes and its complications is a global threat to the health of human population. In 2040, the number of patients with diabetes is predicted to rise to 642 million. Diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy are the most dangerous complications. Chronic hyperglycemia is a major factor that determines the development and progression of microvascular complications of diabetes including retinopathy and nephropathy. Key biological pathogenic mechanisms of microvascular complications involve over-production of reactive oxygen species and activation of intracellular signaling pathways and their modulators. OCT angiography is a safe and informative early diagnostic tool to assess vascular retinal abnormalities and to monitor treatment efficacy. Proteinuria was long considered the gold standard to evaluate and monitor kidney functions. However, one-third of patients develop diabetic nephropathy in normal albuminuria. Degradation products of glomerular filtration barrier are thought to be perspective biomarkers of early diabetic nephropathy. End-stage renal disease requires kidney transplantation. In addition to the improvement of uremic syndrome, kidney transplantation favors the course of diabetic retinopathy. Keywords: diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, optical coherence tomography, OCT angiography, kidney transplantation. For citation: Vorobyeva I.V., Moshetova L.К., Pinchuk A.V. et al. Common pathogenic aspects of diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy. Kidney transplantation and the course of diabetic retinopathy. Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology. 2021;21(2):90–95. DOI: 10.32364/2311- 7729-2021-21-2-90-95.
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Kamnasaran, Deepak. "Stem cells and models of astrocytomas." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 32, no. 2 (April 1, 2009): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v32i2.6035.
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Purpose: To provide a critical assessment of current stem-cell based pre-clinical models of astrocytomas (gliomas). Methods: Data were archived from MEDLINE using Boolean formatted keyword queries. Top articles were selected for critical analyses depending on the qualitative assessment of the citation index, novelty of the findings, reputation of the research group and relevance to stem-cell based pre-clinical models of astrocytomas. Results: The emergence of stem-cell based pre-clinical models of gliomas offers advantages for cellular transformation studies over other current in-vitro cell cultured based models. Cells utilized in these stem-cell based pre-clinical models are easier to transform, with the induced tumours demonstrating very high molecular and pathological recapitulations of astrocytomas that are derived from humans. These stem-cell based models fall into two categories. In the first, synthetic astrocytes can be differentiated from various stem cell sources such as the nervous system and embryos, and utilized in elegant forward genetic strategies to develop novel astrocytoma pre-clinical models. The second category represents a cancer stem cell pre-clinical model. In this model, glioma stem cells exhibit very high pathological recapitulations of the human tumours, and can be very informative to comprehend the basis of radio-chemoresistance among patients. Conclusion: The quest to develop robust pre-clinical models of astrocytomas is on an ongoing basis. The models are of clinical importance for the discovery of effective treatment modalities that can considerably improve the health of patients with this deadly disease.
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Донець, С. М. "ЗАГОЛОВОК ЯК ЕЛЕМЕНТ СИЛЬНОЇ ПОЗИЦІЇ У ОПОВІДАННЯХ С. МОЕМА." Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство" 3, no. 93 (2019): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/2312-1076.2019.3.93.05.
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The paper deals with functioning of strong position elements, particularly, the title in short stories of the English fiction. The analysis is based on 60 short stories of a famous English writer S. Maugham. Strong position is understood as completeness of a fictional text in the title, epigraph, beginning and the ending, organizing the decoding strategy and facilitating the perception of the main idea of the text. Different approaches to the issue of strong position (as a type of foregrounding or actualization in the decoding stylistics or as a frame element in literature studies) are considered. An attempt is made to classify the titles of the author’s short stories as the title-symbol, the title-thesis, the title-citation, the title-message, the title-narration. A more detailed analysis of the short story «Rain» revealed that the foregrounding elements have a symbolic character, determine the interrelations between the text fragments and provide for a holistic concept of the text. The title-symbol «Rain» becomes the key image of the work. Constant repetition of the key word «rain», its strong position as a title extends the meaning of the word to the symbolic meaning, creates the imagery perspective of the story. The word itself undergoes semantic changes resulting in a new individual artistic meaning which is realized retrospectively. The analysis of peculiarities of strong position elements proved that one of their main functions is foregrounding the most important information. The title has a decisive position in the content structure: it performs nominative, informative, communicative, expressive-appealing, delimiting, symbolic, evaluative functions. Consideration of the elements of strong position and, primarily, the title enhances the decoding of structural integrity and completeness of the text, understanding of its deep level meaning encoded in the title.
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Karlova, E. V., A. V. Zolotarev, E. S. Milyudin, and A. E. Pershakova. "Transpalpebral tonometry after penetrating keratoplasty." Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology 20, no. 4 (2020): 175–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32364/2311-7729-2020-20-4-175-179.
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Aim: to assess the efficacy and safety of EASYTON transpalpebral intraocular pressure (IOP) tonometer in the early postoperative period after penetrating keratoplasty (PK).Patients and Methods: 43 patients after unilateral PK were enrolled. IOP measurements with palpation and EASYTON transpalpebral IOP tonometer in the operated eye were performed daily for 7 days. In addition, IOP measurements with palpation, EASYTON, and the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT) in the fellow (non-operated) eye were performed.Results: Bland-Altman plots demonstrated a rather high degree of the similarity of IOP measurements with palpation, GAT, and EASYTON in the non-operated eyes. Therefore, IOP measurement by palpation is a rather informative technique and can be used to compare the accuracy of EASYTON in the operated eyes of the same patients. During the second step, a high degree of the similarity of IOP measurements with palpation and EASYTON was demonstrated in the operated eyes after PK. Mean IOP spread (as demonstrated by three consecutive IOP measurements with EASYTON) was 1.32 mm Hg thus showing a high degree of repeatability. The lack of the negative effects of IOP measurements with EASYTON supports its safety.Conclusion: EASYTON transpalpebral IOP tonometer prevents the subjectivity of IOP measurements after PK and makes tonometry available to the general public. The lack of the contact with the cornea, a rather high accuracy, a high repeatability, and the lack of negative effects allow for using this device after PK.Keywords: transpalpebral IOP tonometer, intraocular pressure, penetrating keratoplasty, instrumental tonometry, EASYTON, non-contact tonometry.For citation: Karlova E.V., Zolotarev A.V., Milyudin E.S., Pershakova A.E. Transpalpebral tonometry after penetrating keratoplasty. Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology. 2020;20(4):175–179. DOI: 10.32364/2311-7729-2020-20-4-175-179.
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Michel, Franck, and The Bioschemas Community. "Bioschemas & Schema.org: a Lightweight Semantic Layer for Life Sciences Websites." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (May 22, 2018): e25836. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25836.
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Web portals are commonly used to expose and share scientific data. They enable end users to find, organize and obtain data relevant to their interests. With the continuous growth of data across all science domains, researchers commonly find themselves overwhelmed as finding, retrieving and making sense of data becomes increasingly difficult. Search engines can help find relevant websites, but the short summarizations they provide in results lists are often little informative on how relevant a website is with respect to research interests. To yield better results, a strategy adopted by Google, Yahoo, Yandex and Bing involves consuming structured content that they extract from websites. Towards this end, the schema.org collaborative community defines vocabularies covering common entities and relationships (e.g., events, organizations, creative works) (Guha et al. 2016). Websites can leverage these vocabularies to embed semantic annotations within web pages, in the form of markup using standard formats. Search engines, in turn, exploit semantic markup to enhance the ranking of most relevant resources while providing more informative and accurate summarization. Additionally, adding such rich metadata is a step forward to make data FAIR, i.e. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Although schema.org encompasses terms related to data repositories, datasets, citations, events, etc., it lacks specialized terms for modeling research entities. The Bioschemas community (Garcia et al. 2017) aims to extend schema.org to support markup for Life Sciences websites. A major pillar lies in reusing types from schema.org as well as well-adopted domain ontologies, while only proposing a limited set of new types. The goal is to enable semantic cross-linking between knowledge graphs extracted from marked-up websites. An overview of the main types is presented in Fig. 1. Bioschemas also provides profiles that specify how to describe an entity of some type. For instance, the protein profile requires a unique identifier, recommends to list transcribed genes and associated diseases, and points to recommended terms from the Protein Ontology and Semantic Science Integrated Ontology. The success of schema.org lies in its simplicity and the support by major search engines. By extending schema.org, Bioschemas enables life sciences research communities to benefit from a lightweight semantic layer on websites and thus facilitates discoverability and interoperability across them. From an initial pilot including just a few bio-types such as proteins and samples, the Bioschemas community has grown and is now opening up towards other disciplines. The biodiversity domain is a promising candidate for such further extensions. We can think of additional profiles to account for biodiversity-related information. For instance, since taxonomic registers are the backbone of many web portals and databases, new profiles could describe taxa and scientific names while reusing well-adopted vocabularies such as Darwin Core terms (Baskauf et al. 2016) or TDWG ontologies (TDWG Vocabulary Management Task Group 2013). Fostering the use of such markup by web portals reporting traits, observations or museum collections could not only improve information discovery using search engines, but could also be a key to spur large-scale biodiversity data integration scenarios.
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López-Gil, José Francisco, Fernando Renato Cavichiolli, and Juan Luis Yuste Lucas. "Programas de intervención para la promoción de hábitos alimenticios saludables en escolares españoles practicantes de Educación Física: una revisión sistemática (Intervention programs for the promotion of healthy eating habits in Spanish schoolchildren p." Retos, no. 37 (July 29, 2019): 786–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.47197/retos.v37i37.69931.
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El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación fue mostrar el efecto de programas de intervención realizados para mejorar los hábitos alimenticios en escolares españoles. Así, fue realizada una revisión sistemática sobre las intervenciones escolares realizadas en España con tal objetivo. Para tal fin, se utilizaron bases de datos de reconocimiento internacional, como Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, SciELO Citation Index y Google Scholar. Se identificaron, revisaron, eligieron e incluyeron los estudios, en función de las características de los mismos; realizando una síntesis de las características sociodemográficas, objetivos perseguidos, metodología empleada, así como de los resultados obtenidos. Fueron encontrados 196 artículos, siendo incluidos finalmente un total de nueve artículos, en función de los criterios de elegibilidad previamente establecidos. Los resultados detallan de manera explícita la autoría de los artículos, localización exacta del trabajo realizado, el tamaño muestral, las edades sobre las que fueron dirigidas las intervenciones, instrumentos de evaluación, así como las estrategias empleadas para la mejora de los hábitos alimenticios. Finalmente, dentro de las conclusiones, se destacan las estrategias que pueden resultar en mejoras significativas de los hábitos alimenticios de los discentes, entre las que destacan el ofrecer a los escolares la posibilidad de escoger productos saludables, proporcionar contenido teórico e informativo sobre alimentación saludable, realizar sesiones y talleres teórico-prácticos sobre la misma, además de contar con la ayuda de los padres a través de reuniones. Todas ellas, podrían servir de modelo para que, los docentes de EF, las aplicasen a lo largo del curso académico; en aras de promocionar la alimentación saludable entre los escolares. Abstract. The aim of this research work was to show the effect of intervention programs carried out to improve eating habits in Spanish schoolchildren. Thus, a systematic review of school interventions within Spain was carried out with this objective in mind. For this purpose, internationally recognized databases were used, such as Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, SciELO Citation Index, and Google Scholar. The studies were identified, reviewed, chosen, and included according to their characteristics; socio-demographic characteristics, objectives pursued, methodology used, as well as results obtained were summarized upon review. A total of 196 articles were found, out of which nine were eventually included based on eligibility criteria previously established. The results clearly disclose articles authorship, location where the research was carried out, sample size, targeted ages, evaluation instruments, as well as strategies used to improve eating habits. Finally, within the conclusions, the strategies that can result in significant improvements of students’ eating habits are highlighted, among which offering schoolchildren the possibility of choosing healthy products, providing theoretical and informative content on healthy eating, holding sessions and theoretical-practical workshops on it, as well as promoting parents’ help through meetings. All of them could serve as a model for PE teachers to apply throughout the academic year in order to promote healthy eating among schoolchildren.
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Rodriguez-Pla, A., and R. Cartin-Ceba. "AB0386 CORONAVIRUS INFECTION AND VASCULITIS: IDENTIFYING ASSOCIATIONS MINING THE BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80, Suppl 1 (May 19, 2021): 1220.1–1221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.329.
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Background:Based on recent publications suggesting an association between COVID-19 and vascularInflammation.Objectives:Our aim was to explore new associations between coronavirus infections and vasculitis utilizing semantic mining of PubMed results.Methods:The following literature search string: “(vasculitis OR vascular inflammation OR vascular damage) AND (coronavirus OR SARS virus OR MERS-CoV OR Covid-19)” was used to retrieve abstracts from the whole PubMed database, using Semantic MEDLINE 2. on 6/7/2020. This application represents a network of semantic predications (triples of the form subject-predicate-object, e.g. COVID-19 causes Disease) on a knowledge graph. The system allows for choosing the maximum number of nodes represented, the central topic, and the length of the network. For our network we chose to display all relations, COVID-19 (31 edges) as the central term, 3 lengths, and selecting the most informative nodes. Automatic summarization eliminated the less informative predications.Results:The search string retrieved 152 citations from PubMed and identified 1,028 predications. Thenetwork (Figure 1), displayed using COVID-19 as the central term, consisted of 72 nodes and 140 edges. The 5 most connected nodes were ’Patients: 19 nodes’, COVID-19: 13’, ‘Inflammation: 13’, ’Lung: 11’, and ‘Disease: 11’. Multiple links have been found between coronavirus and vasculitis. Animal coronaviruses, including the one causing feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), the murine coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), the SARS-CoV in transgenic mice and coronavirus in ferrets, are known to cause vasculitis in animals. It is known that coronaviruses that infect animals can evolve and become new human coronaviruses. SARS produces inflammation in blood vessels. In 2005, a link between the coronavirus HCoV-NL63 or New Haven Coronavirus (HCoV-NH) and KD was reported,although later studies concluded that HCoV-NH did not play a dominant role in the etiology orpathogenesis of KD. In 2014, serological testing suggested the possible involvement of CoV-229E in the development of KD. There has also been a report of KD patients being infected by coronavirus OC43/HKU1.COVID-19 may infect the vessels and trigger inflammatory reactions like those of vasculitis, including vasculitis-like cutaneous lesions. COVID-19 patients develop thrombosis, and increased risk of thrombosis is also present in primary vasculitic syndromes. Children, many of whom tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, developed Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), an inflammatory condition similar to Kawasaki Disease (KD).Conclusion:Knowledge integration and discovery methods are an efficient and powerful way of retrieving and analyzing relevan information from multiple papers. Their main advantages are finding relations among biomedical concepts, generating new hypotheses, and opening them to literature-based discovery.SARS-CoV-2 may cause vasculitis or vasculitis-like syndromes. The KD-like syndrome reported mainly in children with COVID-19 revives the previous suspicion of coronavirus as a possible triggering agent of KD and the decades-old hypothesis of infection involvement in the pathogenesis of vasculitis.References:[1]Rindflesch TC,et al. Semantic MEDLINE: An advanced information management application for biomedicine. Information Services & Use 2011;31:15-21.Figure 1.Semantic Networks Resulting from Pubmed. All relations COVID-19 (edges:140) 3 lengths Max nodes: F (all nodes considered relevant).Disclosure of Interests:None declared
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Turin, Tanvir C., Tasnima Abedin, Nashit Chowdhury, Mahzabin Ferdous, Marcus Vaska, Nahid Rumana, Rossana Urrutia, and Mohammad Ziaul Islam Chowdhury. "Community engagement with immigrant communities involving health and wellness research: a systematic review protocol towards developing a taxonomy of community engagement definitions, frameworks, and methods." BMJ Open 10, no. 4 (April 2020): e035649. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035649.
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IntroductionThe importance of community engagement has been established globally in health and wellness research. A certain degree of ambiguity remains, however, regarding the meaning of community engagement, which term has been used for various purposes and implemented in various forms. In this study, we aimed to explore the different definitions of community engagement, discuss the various objectives that have been proposed and uncover the diverse ways this concept has been implemented among researchers working for the betterment of the health and wellness of immigrant communities in host countries.Methods and analysisTaxonomy is a process for classifying complex and multifaceted matters using logical conceptual domains and dimensions for clearer way of contextualising. We will develop a taxonomy to organise the available literature on community engagement in immigrant health and wellness research in a way that captures user knowledge and understanding of its various meanings and processes. Specific methodological and analytical frameworks for systematic review and taxonomy development will guide each step. We will conduct a comprehensive systematic search in relevant databases, from inception to December 2019, using appropriate keywords followed by snowball search (single-citation tracking, reference lists). Papers will be included if they fall within predefined inclusion criteria (seen as most likely informative on elements pertaining to community engagement) and are written in English, regardless of design (conceptual, qualitative and quantitative). Two reviewers will independently employ two-stage screening (title–abstract screening followed by screening of the full text to determine inclusion). Finally, information that helps to develop taxonomy of the concept and practice of community engagement will be abstracted and used towards taxonomy development, where different levels of stakeholder research team members will be involved.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval is not required for this systematic review. We have opted for an integrated knowledge translation or a community-engaged knowledge mobilisation approach where we are engaged with community-based citizen researchers from the inception of our programme. We plan to disseminate the results of our review through meetings with key stakeholders, followed by journal publications and presentations at applicable platforms.
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Rodriguez-Pla, A. "AB0408 SYSTEMIC SCLERODERMA AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS: IDENTIFYING ASSOCIATIONS MINING THE BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80, Suppl 1 (May 19, 2021): 1232.2–1233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.330.
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Background:A debate still exists concerning the role of occupational and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of systemic scleroderma (SSc).Objectives:Our aim was to explore associations between SSc and environmental factors utilizing an automatic semantic interpretation of PubMed results.Methods:The literature search string: (“systemic sclerosis” OR “scleroderma”) AND (“occupational exposure” OR “environmental” OR “risk factor”) was used to retrieve abstracts from the entire PubMed database, using Semantic MEDLINE 2, on 6/14/2020. This application represents a network of semantic predications (triples of the form subject-predicate (or relation) -object, e.g. Occupational Exposure causes Systemic Scleroderma) on a knowledge graph. Subject and object arguments of each predication are concepts from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus and the relation is taken from the UMLS Semantic Network. The system allows for choosing the central topic (“Systemic Scleroderma”), the length of the network (3 nodes), and automatic summarization, eliminating the less informative predications.Results:The search string retrieved 864 citations and identified 6,397 predications by using 34 types of relations. Initially, we focused our attention on the ‘CAUSES’ type of relation (Figure 1), displaying a network with 59 nodes and 57 edges.The central concepts of this network, identified as having causal relationship with SSc are autoimmune diseases/autoimmunity, chemicals such as bleomycin, occupational and environmental exposure, especially silica, vinyl chloride and trichloroethylene, genes, including HLA and non-HLA genes, genetic polymorphisms, transcription factors (TFs) such as Fli1 and KLF5, and fibrosis. Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, toxic oil syndrome and infection were all causally linked to autoimmune diseases. Minerals were associated with occupational exposure and with autoimmune diseases. Concepts causally linked to fibrosis were rare diseases, HLA genes, other non-HLA genes, such as STAT4, IR4, IR5, TLR4, TLR7 and Rho-associated Kinase, and vinyl chloride monomer. Pathogenic factors associated with SSc were endothelial dysfunction and extracellular matrix proteins. Many of the papers in the network also suggested that hormonal factors are involved.Conclusion:Inspection on the knowledge graphs reveals concepts central to research on the etiopathogenesis of SSc. The relations in which these concepts participate, provide more specific information. The Semantic MEDLINE graph supports the kind of patterns that underpin literature-based discovery.Although the pathogenesis of SSc remains elusive, it is accepted that initial vascular damage driven by autoimmunity and environmental factors causes abnormalities in the vasculature resulting in the activation of fibroblasts in various organs. Silica and solvents such as trichloroethylene seem to be the most consistently suspected environmental agents in SSc.References:[1]Rindflesch TC,et al. Semantic MEDLINE: An advanced information management application for biomedicine. Information Services & Use 2011;31:15-21.Figure 1.Semantic Network of Casual Relationships of Systemic Scleroderma.Disclosure of Interests:None declared
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Skryabina, Yelena V., Yuriy S. Astakhov, Yanina S. Konenkova, Tatiana S. Varganova, Vladimir P. Petukhov, Kseniya V. Nokhrina, and Kaleriya O. Dnestryanskaya. "Clinical care of acanthamoeba keratitis patients." Ophthalmology journal 10, no. 4 (December 15, 2017): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ov10424-31.
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Recently, akanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is seen more and more often in ophthalmological practice. However, today there are no standard guidelines concerning diagnosis and treatment of patients with AK. In the article, the experience in care for such patients is presented. Purpose: to estimate the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment of patients with AK. Materials and methods. Case histories of patients, who received treatment for akanthamoeba keratitis in the Eye Microsurgery Department No. 4, City Ophthalmologic Center of the City Hospital No. 2, from 2011 to 2016, were analyzed. Under observation, there were 25 patients (26 eyes) with akanthamoeba keratitis aged from 18 to 77 years; there were 15 men and 10 women. Patients were observed during 1 year. Full ophthalmologic examination was conducted in all patients. Additional diagnostic methods included microbiological investigation of corneal scrapes and washings, culturing them on innutritious agar (with E. сoli covering), confocal corneal microscopy (HRT 3 with cornea module, Heidelberg Retina Tomograph Rostock Cornea Module). A superficial punctate keratits (AK stage 2) was found in one patient. All other patients were divided into two groups. Stromal ring-shaped keratitis was diagnosed in patients of the first group (7 patients, AK stage 3). The 2nd group consisted of 17 patients with corneal ulcer (AK stage 4). All patients received medicamentous treatment. However patients of the 2nd group required different kinds of surgical treatment. Results. In AK diagnosis, corneal confocal microscopy is the most informative method. In patients with AK stages 2 and 3, there was an improvement in visual functions as a result of medicamentous therapy. As a result of treatment at the discharge from the hospital, the best corrected visual acuity was 0.5-1.0 for most patients. In the 2nd group patients, who were subjects to different types of surgical treatment visual functions stabilized. However non-compliance with recommendations led to disease recurrences with worse outcomes in four cases. Conclusion. It is possible to stop the inflammatory process preserving at the same time high visual functions only when patients are addressed in time, and when appropriate AK therapy is prescribed and patients are compliant with it for a long time. (For citation: Skryabina YeV, Yu.S. Astakhov YuS, Konenkova YaS, et al. Clinical care of acanthamoeba keratitis patients. Ophthalmology Journal. 2017;10(4):24-31. doi: 10.17816/OV10424-31).
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Camelia, Delcea. "Grey systems theory in economics – bibliometric analysis and applications’ overview." Grey Systems: Theory and Application 5, no. 2 (August 3, 2015): 244–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gs-03-2015-0005.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the review of the existing literature attached to the grey economic system theory and applications and aims to offer a comprehensive picture of the contribution brought by the researchers to this particular field. Also, the paper underlines the main research areas within the grey economic theory and applications and serves as an informative summary kit for future research works and research directions. Design/methodology/approach – For appreciating the scientific progress made since the grey systems theory has been initiated to the present, with an accent on the literature dedicated to the economic field, a bibliometrics analysis has been conducted. The Perish or Publish software was used for extracting the needed data from Google Scholar for the entire period since the appearance of grey systems to now-a-days. In addition, an ISI Web of Science (WoS) search has been performed for extracting the grey economic papers. As the main focus is on the economic subject area of the grey systems, only the papers related to this field have been selected. Findings – The total number of grey economic paper from both Google Scholar and ISI WoS database, the number of authors, some citation metrics, H-index, authors’ provenience country, papers’ language, etc., have been presented and analysed. Also, a list with the most cited papers in the grey economic relational analysis, grey economic prediction models and grey economic incidence is putted forward. Practical implications – Through the bibliometric analysis on grey economic papers written over time, a qualitative analysis was performed on this field in order to underline the main research direction, to analyse what has been done in this field and to determine which can be the next research directions that can emerge from here. Originality/value – The paper succeeds in enlarging the view regarding the usage of grey systems theory in the economic field, offering a suitable analysis on the considered areas. Even though bibliometrics analysis have been conducted on the grey systems theory field, a grey economic bibliometric analysis has not been done yet, to the authors’ knowledge. Therefore, a synthesized of the existing literature attached to the grey economic system theory and applications is presented in order to offer a more comprehensive picture of the contribution brought by the researchers to this particular field.
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Maden, B. E. "Harbor lights." Journal of Cell Science 113, no. 23 (December 1, 2000): 4141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.113.23.4141a.
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Illuminating Life: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor (1903–1969) by J. Witkowski Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2000) pp. 383 + xvi. ISBN 0–87969-566-8 $25.00 If you are anywhere on the spectrum from frequent Cold Spring Harbor visitor to someone who barely knows that Symposia of that name were until recently published in maroon covers, and if you want to learn more of the history of this remarkable research centre, then this book is for you. At first sight, Illuminating Life looks like a coffee table book, but it is much more than that. Jan Witkowski has assembled a history of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories from their inception in 1890 through to 1968, illustrated by a selection of research papers from 1903 to 1969. Each one or two papers is preceded by an interpretative essay and a biographical note on the principal author(s), and the whole is introduced by an informative historical preface. At the end are three obituaries from the literature summarizing the lives of three key players, Davenport, Harris and Demerec. For a book of this size and compass, the essentials can be assimilated remarkably quickly, and at $25 the book is exceptional value for money. First read the preface. Then the essays. These are gems, and at two or three pages each there is no need to postpone them until later! Then dip into a few research papers. Then re-read the preface. Then you will know a lot about Cold Spring Harbor. If you read the obituaries you will know even more. Here are just a few impressions. On p. 364 there is a photograph of one of the early buildings, the James Laboratory. The laboratory was constructed for $12,000 in 1928 for biophysics research (p117). It looks tiny, but in the early years of the Symposia, which were then on biophysical topics, it housed a galaxy of summer visitors including Curtis and Cole (electrophysiology), J. Z. Young (nerve conduction), Davison and Danielli (need one say more?) and many others. If biophysics under Reginald Harris (1924–36) was what made Cold Spring Harbor Quantitative, then the quest for the genetic material and its properties is what has made it most widely famed. The book brings out the seminal contributions of Demerec, both as scientist and as director (1941–60) and of McClintock, Hershey, Cairns (director 1963–8) and others. The chosen research papers include many that are landmarks in science, from maize to bacteria and phage, and generally they are easy to read. They are largely devoid of the ponderous throat-clearing and innumerable citations that are so much a part of scientific literature today. Many examples could be given of such ease of style and freedom from excess verbage, but one will suffice here. ‘Aggregation of DNA is often suspected but seldom studied. In phage λ we found a DNA that can form characteristic and stable complexes. A first account of them is given here’. That is the entire introduction in Hershey, A. D., Burgi, E. and Ingraham, L. (1963), Cohesion of DNA molecules isolated from phage λ. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 49, 748–755. The paper by de Lucia and Cairns (1969) on ‘Isolation of an E. coli strain with a mutation affecting DNA polymerase’ is a fitting choice with which to conclude the compilation. In the late 1960s something seemed not quite right about the Kornberg enzyme as the putative engine of replication. Several suspicious inconsistencies were accumulating. How to test these suspicions? Random mutagenesis, a precise and rapid screening assay applicable to thousands of isolates. The rest is history. What of the last thirty years? The spine of the cover says, rather enigmatically, ‘Volume 1’; the reviewer could find no statement elsewhere in the book that more is to follow. Perhaps we can look forward to Volume 2. Surely that volume will contain, among many other landmark papers, one called ‘An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5 ends of Adenovirus 2 messenger RNA’.
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Maze, Dawn, Sajida Kazi, Vikas Gupta, Ann Kinga Malinowski, Rouhi Fazelzad, Prakesh S. Shah, and Nadine Shehata. "Pregnancy Outcomes in Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Blood 132, Supplement 1 (November 29, 2018): 3046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-99-118299.
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Abstract Introduction Essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV) and myelofibrosis (MF) are a group of hematopoietic stem cell-derived clonal disorders collectively known as the classical, Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Although MPN diagnoses are typically made in the sixth or seventh decade of life, approximately 20% of ET patients and 15% of PV patients are under the age of 40 years. Pregnancy with an MPN is associated with maternal thrombosis, hemorrhage and placental dysfunction leading to fetal growth restriction or loss. The aims of this systematic review were to determine the risk of maternal and fetal complications in pregnancy complicated by MPN and to quantify the benefit of commonly used interventions. Methods A systematic search was conducted using MEDLINE (1946 to July 2018), EMBASE (1947 to July 2018), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2005 to July 2018), CCRCT (inception to June 2018), and Epub Ahead of Print & Other Non-Indexed Citations (inception to July 2018). Bibliographic references were reviewed for additional studies. There were no date or language restrictions and the review was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42018090680). Studies were included if they reported on maternal or fetal outcomes of pregnancy in patients with an MPN. Case reports and series including fewer than 10 patients were excluded. Duplicate reports were excluded, with only the most recent or most informative included. Data were extracted independently by two investigators (D.M. and S.K.). The primary outcome was live birth. Secondary outcomes included fetal complications (e.g. intrauterine growth restriction) and maternal complications (e.g. pre-eclampsia, thrombosis, hemorrhage). Study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Analyses were performed using Open Meta-Analyst version 10.12 and Review Manager version 5.3. Results The search strategy resulted in 4191 records of which 22 met the inclusion criteria (Figure 1). The studies included a total of 779 women and 1226 pregnancies. Fifteen of the studies included patients with ET, 3 included patients with PV, and 4 included patients with any classical MPN. There were no studies of MF patients that met our inclusion criteria. Most of the studies were retrospective cohort studies (19) and 3 were prospective cohort studies. Among 1226 pregnancies, the live birth rate was 70%. Of 821 pregnancies with ET and 171 with PV, the live birth rate was 71% and 51%, respectively. The live birth rate was higher in patients with ET who received low dose aspirin during pregnancy than those managed with observation alone (OR 5.0; 95% CI 2.2 - 11.3; I226%; Figure 2). There was no further improvement with the addition of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) to aspirin (OR 2.8; 95% CI 0.67 - 11.7; I20%). Interferon alpha (INF) during pregnancy was also associated with a higher live birth rate (OR 3.9; 95% CI 1.5 - 10.4; I22.5%; Figure 3). The presence of the JAK2 mutation resulted in a lower live birth rate (OR 0.58; 95% CI 0.4 - 0.9; I26%; Figure 4). Maternal events were unaffected by the addition of aspirin (OR 0.48; 95% CI 0.16 - 1.4; I20%) or INF (OR 0.1; 95% CI 0.01 - 1.5; I20%). Risk of bias assessment was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. Most studies included a representative cohort and follow up was generally adequate to at least 6 weeks postpartum. Only 3 studies included a control group. Conclusions The preliminary results of our systematic review determined that the live birth rate is lower in pregnant patients with MPN as compared to the general population. The chance of a successful pregnancy was higher in patients with ET than PV and the presence of the JAK2 mutation increased the risk of fetal loss. Patients who received low-dose aspirin during pregnancy had a 5-fold higher odds of a successful pregnancy than those managed with usual care and observation alone. Cytoreduction with INF improved the odds of live birth by nearly 4-fold. Maternal events were uncommon overall and no intervention was found to be beneficial. Our review is limited by generally small sample sizes and the retrospective nature of most studies. Additionally, given that the studies span up to 4 decades, our results may be affected by changing standards of care. Pregnancy in patients with MPN is uncommon and this is the only systematic review to determine the chance of successful pregnancy and quantify the benefit of commonly used interventions. Disclosures Maze: Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria. Kazi:Shire: Other: Vonvendi was provided by Shire. Gupta:Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Incyte: Research Funding.
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Clermont, Marcel, Johanna Krolak, and Dirk Tunger. "Does the citation period have any effect on the informative value of selected citation indicators in research evaluations?" Scientometrics, December 17, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03782-1.
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AbstractTo date, there has not been any definitive statement for bibliometric analyses from the scientific community as to how long to make the period for analysis in order to guarantee the maximum possible validity of citation analyses. Up to now, it has been particularly unclear as to whether different disciplines and citation indicators have any effect on what period for analysis to select. This is why this study aims to provide answers to these issues. Therefore, publications in the fields of business studies, biology, and medicine from 2007 to 2009 are surveyed. The citations from ten separate consecutive citation periods from 2009 up to 2018 are generated for these publications from Web of Science and selected citation indicators are calculated for them. The results show that the fundamental validity of citation indicators increases with time. However, if the goal of the analyses is to establish a ranking order, then even short citation periods are informative. Our results are stable in terms of the disciplines, although differences do occur in the citation indicators under consideration.
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Charnine, Michael, Aida Khakimova, and Alexey Klokov. "Impact Factor of a Term: a Tool for Assessing Article's Future Citations and Author's Influence Based on PubMed and DBLP Collections." Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Machine Vision (GraphiCon 2020). Part 2, December 17, 2020, paper74–1—paper74–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.51130/graphicon-2020-2-3-74.
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This article describes a new bibliometric indicator called Impact Factor of a Term (IFT) that helps to predict future impact of scientific works and/or the author. The predictive properties of IFT are proven by two examples of different collections of scientific articles. It is shown that the correlations of the current and future IFT values depending on the trend are practically similar for both collections. The graphs of IFT correlations of the current and future years depending on the number of articles with the word/term are presented. The graphs show that the higher the current frequency of the term and the number of articles with this term, the greater the correlation and stability of IFT. The stability of IFT helps to accurately predict the number of future citations. The list of the most informative words/terms with the largest total values of IFT multiplied by the current frequency is analyzed. It has been shown that the size of collection affects the stability and predictive properties of IFT. The words and terms with high IFT values allow us to judge the future impact of an article and its author based on the prediction of future citations. Such words also help identify promising research directions.
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Thelwall, Mike. "Are medical articles highlighting detailed statistics more cited?" Anales de Documentación 18, no. 2 (June 25, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesdoc.18.2.225201.
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When conducting a literature review, it is natural to search for articles and read their abstracts in order to select papers to read fully. Hence, informative abstracts are important to ensure that research is read. The description of a paper's methods may help to give confidence that a study is of high quality. This article assesses whether medical articles that mention three statistical methods, each of which is arguably indicative of a more detailed statistical analysis than average, are more highly cited. The results show that medical articles mentioning Bonferroni corrections, bootstrapping and effect size tend to be 7%, 8% and 15% more highly ranked for citations than average, respectively. Although this is consistent with the hypothesis that mentioning more detailed statistical techniques generate more highly cited research, these techniques may also tend to be used in more highly cited areas of Medicine.
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Romero-Rodriguez, Luis M., Sabina Civila, and Ignacio Aguaded. "Otherness as a form of intersubjective social exclusion." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (April 13, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-11-2019-0130.
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Purpose This study aims to review the theory based on «otherness» as a form of social exclusion and symbolic violence from the constructions of realities of the media, with particular emphasis on the ethics and aesthetics of language and its role in materializing identity differences. Design/methodology/approach A search for specific criteria and boolean algorithms is carried out in Web of Science and Scopus on «otherness» [AND] «social exclusion», to then submit the emerging results to a co-occurrence matrix by citations with VOSViewer v. 1.6.13. From the relation tree of the most cited documents [min = 7] of the downloaded articles, a critical/analytical reading is made. Findings «Otherness» is reviewed to a greater extent from a Western perspective, and more specifically, from a Eurocentric one. This implies that the study of «otherness» is not sufficiently analyzed by Asian or African authors, who are excluded from the analysis. In this sense, «otherness» is understood as a theoretical construct and as any symbolic construction of the other (phenotypically, but also in ideology, values and customs), but which carries a load of stereotypes that can become polarization, demonization, ergo and violence. Originality/value Revisiting «otherness» as an informative construct becomes imperative in light of the emergence of extremist groups and xenophobic parties, as well as separatist policies such as Brexit or the Catalan split in Spain. Few articles contribute to elaborating a complete conceptual construct on «otherness» as an epistemological category of communication and information, so this research effort attempts to compile its theoretical discussion.
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Reis, Juliana Gonçalves, Keilla Miki Kobayashi, Helene Mariko Ueno, Cristiane Martins Ribeiro, and Telma Abdalla de Oliveira Cardoso. "Contribution of Oswaldo Paulo Forattini to public health: analysis of scientific production." Revista de Saúde Pública 50 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1518-8787.2016050000217.
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the main characteristics of the scientific production of Oswaldo Paulo Forattini, researcher and, for 40 years, editor of Revista de Saúde Pública. METHODS Descriptive study with bibliometric approach conducted in three steps. (1) identification of bibliographic records using the following search strategy: “Oswaldo Paulo Forattini” OR “Forattini OP” OR “Forattini” up information sources Google Scholar, Web of Science, and PubMed, in July 2016, which retrieved 867 records. (2) composition of research corpus, in which we included 351 bibliographic records of articles, books, book chapters, editorials, book reviews, informative notes and annual reports of the RSP and excluded 516 duplicates and acknowledgement notes, obituary notes, and nonretrievable citations. (3) data organization and analysis, in which we built databases for descriptive analysis and development of the MeSH coauthors and terms networks in VOSviewer software. For analysis of editorials, three reviewers read the full text of each editorial and categorized them according to subject, historical context and perspectives, relating them with historical milestones. RESULTS Forattini’s scientific production occurred from 1946 to 2009, most consisting of articles (n = 218; 62.1%), editorials (n = 43; 12.3%), and books (n = 13; 3.7%). The main subjects were Culicidae (36.8%), Triatominae (12.5%), and Epidemiology (10.0%). The coauthors of articles were his professors, colleagues of his generation, and graduate students. His editorials addressed critical reflections on the production of knowledge, research priorities, and factors that contributed to or hindered progress. The scope of subjects is broad, referring to socioeconomic and scientific development, public health issues in developed countries, or global health. CONCLUSIONS The analysis shows Forattini’s commitment with public health, research with vectors, training of researchers, and scientific communication.
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Ahmad Ainuddin, Husna, Muhammad Hibatullah Romli, Tengku Aizan Hamid, Mazatulfazura S. F. Salim, and Lynette Mackenzie. "Stroke Rehabilitation for Falls and Risk of Falls in Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review With Stakeholders' Consultation." Frontiers in Public Health 9 (March 3, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.611793.
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Background: Research on rehabilitation for falls after stroke is warranted. However, published evidence on fall interventions with stroke survivors is limited and these are mainly international studies that may be less relevant for Southeast Asia.Objective: This review aims to systematically identify literature related to stroke rehabilitation for falls and risk of falls in Southeast Asia.Methods: A scoping review with stakeholders' consultation was implemented. An electronic search was conducted up to December 2020 on 4 databases (Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, ASEAN Citation Index). Only original studies conducted in Southeast Asia were selected.Results: The initial search yielded 3,112 articles, however, only 26 were selected in the final analysis. Most of the articles focused on physical rehabilitation and implemented conventional therapies. While the literature may reflect practice in Southeast Asia, stakeholders perceived that the literature was inadequate to show true practice, was not informative and missed several aspects such as functional, cognitive, and psychological interventions in managing falls. Individual-centric interventions dominated the review while community-based and environmental-focused studies were limited. Majority of the articles were written by physiotherapists while others were from physicians, occupational therapists, and an engineer but few from other healthcare practitioners (i.e., speech therapists, psychologists) or disciplines interested in falls.Conclusions: Falls prevention among stroke survivors has received a lack of attention and is perceived as an indirect goal in stroke rehabilitation in Southeast Asia. More innovative research adopted from falls research with older people is needed to advance falls prevention and intervention practice with stroke survivors.
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Gibson, Lorna M., Laura Paul, Francesca M. Chappell, Malcolm Macleod, William N. Whiteley, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Joanna M. Wardlaw, and Cathie L. M. Sudlow. "Potentially serious incidental findings on brain and body magnetic resonance imaging of apparently asymptomatic adults: systematic review and meta-analysis." BMJ, November 22, 2018, k4577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4577.
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Abstract Objectives To determine prevalence and types of potentially serious incidental findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in apparently asymptomatic adults, describe factors associated with potentially serious incidental findings, and summarise information on follow-up and final diagnoses. Design Systematic review and meta-analyses. Data sources Citation searches of relevant articles and authors’ files in Medline and Embase (from inception to 25 April 2017). Review methods Eligible studies included prevalence and types of incidental findings detected among apparently asymptomatic adults undergoing MRI of the brain, thorax, abdomen, or brain and body. Data on study population and methods, prevalence and types of incidental findings, and final diagnoses were extracted. Pooled prevalence was estimated by random effects meta-analysis, and heterogeneity by τ 2 statistics. Main outcome measures Prevalence of potentially serious incidental findings on MRI of the brain, thorax, abdomen, and brain and body. Results Of 5905 retrieved studies, 32 (0.5%) met the inclusion criteria (n=27 643 participants). Pooled prevalence of potentially serious incidental findings was 3.9% (95% confidence interval 0.4% to 27.1%) on brain and body MRI, 1.4% (1.0% to 2.1%) on brain MRI, 1.3% (0.2% to 8.1%) on thoracic MRI, and 1.9% (0.3% to 12.0%) on abdominal MRI. Pooled prevalence rose after including incidental findings of uncertain potential seriousness (12.8% (3.9% to 34.3%), 1.7% (1.1% to 2.6%), 3.0% (0.8% to 11.3%), and 4.5% (1.5% to 12.9%), respectively). There was generally substantial heterogeneity among included studies. About half the potentially serious incidental findings were suspected malignancies (brain, 0.6% (95% confidence interval 0.4% to 0.9%); thorax, 0.6% (0.1% to 3.1%); abdomen, 1.3% (0.2% to 9.3%); brain and body, 2.3% (0.3% to 15.4%)). There were few informative data on potential sources of between-study variation or factors associated with potentially serious incidental findings. Limited data suggested that relatively few potentially serious incidental findings had serious final diagnoses (48/234, 20.5%). Conclusions A substantial proportion of apparently asymptomatic adults will have potentially serious incidental findings on MRI, but little is known of their health consequences. Systematic, long term follow-up studies are needed to better inform on these consequences and the implications for policies on feedback of potentially serious incidental findings. Systematic review registration Prospero CRD42016029472.
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"Applied linguistics." Language Teaching 40, no. 1 (January 2007): 80–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444806284118.
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Wilhelmsson, Ulf. "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy." M/C Journal 3, no. 4 (August 1, 2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1868.
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Editors' Preface When Ulf Wilhelmsson first contacted us about including his "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy" in the M/C 'chat' issue, we were initially taken aback. True, the notion of chat surely must include that of 'dialogue', but Wilhelmsson's idea, as he put it to us, was that of a Socratic dialogue about film. The dialogue "Film och Filosofi" already existed in Swedish, but he had done an initial rough translation of the dialogue on his Website. Since Wilhelmsson put this to us in the very early days of the submission period, we decided to have a look. Wilhelmsson had omitted to mention the fact that his dialogue was amusing as well as informative. Playing Socrates was ... Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino was not just discussing film, but he was moderating a hefty grab-bag of influential philosphers, film-makers, film-scholars and the odd Beatle (John Lennon). Furthermore, creeping in to many of the utterances in the discussion was Wilhelmsson's take on Tarantino's vernacular -- keep an eye out for "Bada boom bada boom, get it?" and "Oh Sartre. Dude, I would also like to provide a similar example". The philosphers sometimes also get a chance to break out of their linguistic bonds, such as Herakleit, who tells us that "War is the primogenitor of the whole shebang". Occasionally, Wilhelmsson lets his conversants get rowdy (St Thomas of Aquinas and Aristotle yell "Tabula Rasa!" in unison), put on accents (Michel Chion with French accent: "Merci merci. Je vous en pris that you are recognising tse sound"), be "dead sure of themselves" (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson; Noam Chomsky thanks us for our attention) and wander in and out of the dialogue's virtual space (at the end, Immanuel Kant returns to us after his daily walk around town). Unfortunately, due to its length, the dialogue can not be supplied in regular M/C 'bits', and so we have made it available as a downloadable Rich Text Format file. Felicity Meakins & E. Sean Rintel -- M/C 'chat' co-editors Download "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy" in Rich Text Format: Citation reference for this article MLA style: Ulf Wilhelmsson. "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3.4 (2000). [your date of access] <http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/dialogue.php>. Chicago style: Ulf Wilhelmsson, "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3, no. 4 (2000), <http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/dialogue.php> ([your date of access]). APA style: Ulf Wilhelmsson. (2000) Dialogue on Film and Philosophy. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3(4). <http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/dialogue.php> ([your date of access]).
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Shueb, Sheikh, Sumeer Gul, Nahida Tun Nisa, Taseen Shabir, Shafiq Ur Rehman, and Aabid Hussain. "Measuring the funding landscape of COVID-19 research." Library Hi Tech ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (August 31, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lht-04-2021-0136.
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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to map the funding status of COVID-19 research. The various aspects, such as funding ratio, geographical distribution of funded articles, journals publishing funded research and institutions that sponsor the COVID-19 research are studied. To visualize the country collaboration network and research trends/hotspots in the field of COVID-19 funded research, keyword analysis is also performed. The open-access (OA) status of the funded research on COVID-19 is also discussed.Design/methodology/approachThe leading indexing and abstracting database, i.e. Web of Science (WoS), was used to retrieve the funded articles published on the topic COVID-19. The scientometric approach, more particularly “funding acknowledgment analysis (FAA),” was used to study the research funding.FindingsA total of 5,546 publications of varied nature have been published on COVID-19, of which 1,760 are funded, thus indicating a funding ratio of 32%. China is the leading producer of funded research (760, 43.182%) on COVID-19 followed by the USA (482, 27.386%), England (179, 10.17%), Italy (119, 6.761%), Germany (107, 6.08%) and Canada (107, 6.08%). China is also in lead in terms of the funding ratio (60.94%). However, the funding ratio of the USA (31.54%) is at 11th rank behind Canada (40.68%), Germany (34.18%) and England (35.87%). The USA occupies a central position in the collaboration network having the highest score of articles with other countries (n = 489), with the USA–China collaboration ranking first (n = 123). National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is the largest source of funding for COVID-19 research, supporting 342 (19.432%) publications, followed by the United States Department of Health Human Services (DHHS) and National Institute of Health (NIH), USA with 211 (11.989%) and 200 (11.364%) publications, respectively. However, China's National Key Research and Development Program achieves the highest citation impact (80.24) for its funded publications. Journal of Medical Virology, Science of the Total Environment and EuroSurveillance are the three most prolific journals publishing 63 (3.58%), 35 (1.989%) and 32 (1.818%), respectively, of the sponsored research articles on the COVID-19. A total of 3,138 institutions produce funded articles with Huazhong University of Science Technology and Wuhan University from China at the forefront publishing 92 (5.227%) and 83 (4.716%) publications, respectively. The funded research on COVID-19 is largely available in OA mode (1,674, 95.11%) and mainly through the Green and Bronze routes. The keyword clustering reveals that the articles mainly focus on the impact, structure and clinical characteristics of the virus.Research limitations/implicationsThe study's main limitation is that the results are based on the publications indexed by WoS, which has limited coverage compared to other databases. Moreover, all the funding agencies do not require or authors miss to acknowledge funding sources in their publications, which ultimately undermines the number of funded publications. The research publications on COVID-19 are also proliferating; thus, the study's findings shall be valid for a minimum period.Practical implicationsThe funding of research on the COVID-19 is highly essential to accelerate innovative research and help countries fight against the global pandemic. The study's findings reflect the efforts made by nations and institutions to remove the financial and accessibility hurdles. It not only underscores the lead of the USA in the research on COVID-19, but also shows China as a forerunner in sponsoring the research, thus, helping to know the contribution of nations toward understanding the dynamics of pandemic and controlling it. The study will help healthcare practitioners and policymakers recognize the areas that remain the focus of sponsored research on COVID-19 and other left-out areas that need to be taken up and thus may help in policy formulation. It further highlights the impact of prolific funding agencies so that efforts may be initiated to increase the impact and thereby the returns of investment. The study can help to map the scientific structure of COVID-19 through the lens of funded research and recognize core inclinations of its development. Overall, a comprehensive analysis has been performed to present the detailed characteristics of sponsored research on emerging area of COVID-19, and it is informative, useful and one of its kind on the theme.Originality/valueThe study explores the funding support of research on COVID-19 and its other aspects, along with the mode of availability.