Scholarly Publishing Round-up November 2016 Federally Funded Research Results Are Becoming More Open and Accessible by Jerry Sheehan from the office of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Sixteen Federal agencies now require researchers to ensure free public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from all newly funded research, with a delay of [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing Round-up September 2016
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Have you heard of the h-index, but perhaps have questions about what it is precisely, how it is calculated, and how it should be interpreted?
Journal Citation Reports
The 2015 edition of Journal Citation Reports is now available. For more information, see the Notice.
The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) was recently released by the NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis and is intended to measure citation impact by field and timing of publication.
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According to the Scopus database, authors from WUSM published approximately 2,300 peer-reviewed journal articles in 2015. The top five journals were PLoS ONE, PNAS, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and the Journal of Immunology.
NIH biosketches are subject to two reviews for rule compliance: automatic preliminary review by eRA Systems upon initial submission and manual review.
