scholarly journals Spanish Scientists’ Opinion about Science and Researcher Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Frias-Navarro ◽  
Marcos Pascual-Soler ◽  
José Perezgonzalez ◽  
Héctor Monterde-i-Bort ◽  
Juan Pascual-Llobell
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Work Climate ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Questionable Research Practices ◽  
Academic Competition

Abstract We surveyed 348 Psychology and Education researchers within Spain, on issues such as their perception of a crisis in Science, their confidence in the quality of published results, and the use of questionable research practices (QRP). Their perceptions regarding pressure to publish and academic competition were also collected. The results indicate that a large proportion of the sample of Spanish academics think there is a crisis in Science, mainly due to a lack of economic investment, and doubts the quality of published findings. They also feel strong pressure to publish in high impact factor journals and a highly competitive work climate.

scholarly journals Research and reporting

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Mohammad Iqbal Khan
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Quality Of Reporting ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Dedicated Team

Research is indispensable for the growth and development of all disciplines, particularly medical sciences which fundamentally need continuous research and progressive innovation. Writing and reporting scientific discoveries is an important outcome of a researcher. Mostly, editors and reviewers appreciate manuscripts that are easy to read and to edit beside valuable scientific contents. Medical writings have significantly improved in past two decades resulting in increased number of medical journals and quality of reporting. Once research findings are ready to be reported, a researcher makes an educated choice, as to where to get it published. A high impact factor indicates that research findings published in journal are considered highly influential. With stirring zeal and drive, the “Journal of Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University” (JSTMU) is being launched and a dedicated team of editors, advisors and reviewers has been appointed to facilitate the researchers who wish to publish in JSTMU. 

scholarly journals Assessing the statistical reporting quality in high-impact factor urology journals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuangyang Dai ◽  
Hong Xu ◽  
Beibei Li ◽  
Jingao Zhang ◽  
Xiaobin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Reporting Rate ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Goodness Of Fit Test

AbstractBackgroundsObservational studies plays an important role in urology studies, But few studies have paid attention to the statistical reporting quality of observational studies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency and evaluate the reporting quality of statistical methods of the published observational studies in urology.MethodsThe five urology journals were selected according to the 5-year impact factor. A systematic literature search was performed in PubMed for relevant articles. The quality of statistical reporting was assessed according to assessment criteria.ResultsA total of 193 articles were included in this study. The mean statistical reporting score of included articles was 0.42 (SD=0.15), accounting for 42% of total score. The items that must be reported with a reporting rate more than 50% were: alpha level (n=122, 65.2%), confidence intervals (n=134, 69.4%), name of statistical package (n=158, 84.5%) and exact P-values (n=161, 86.1%). The items with a reporting rate less than 50% were: outliers (n=2, 1.0%) and sample size (n=13, 6.7%). For multivariable regression models (liner, logistic and Cox), variables coding (n=27, 40.7%), validation analysis of assumptions (n=58, 40.3%), interaction test (n=43, 30.0%), collinearity diagnostics (n=5, 3.5%) and goodness of fit test (n=6, 5.9%) were reported. Number of authors more than 7(OR=2.06, 95%CI=1.04-4.08) and participation of statistician or epidemiologist (OR=1.73, 95%CI=1.18-3.39) were associated with the superior reporting quality.ConclusionThe statistical reporting quality of published observational studies in 5 high-impact factor urological journals was alarming. We encourage researchers to collaborate with statistician or epidemiologist. The authors, reviewers and editors should increase their knowledge of statistical methods, especially new and complex methods.

scholarly journals Picking up the pace: another record high impact factor for Cardiovascular Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. e165-e168
Author(s):  
Adam M Sheikh ◽  
Heather Y Small ◽  
Charalambos Antoniades ◽  
Tomasz J Guzik
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Cardiovascular Research

scholarly journals Scientific output of Brazilian dermatologists during the last 25 years in the five highest impact factor journals in dermatology

2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 714-716
Author(s):  
Mariane Da Cas de Aquim Martins ◽  
Marília Gabriela Linné Netto Carneiro ◽  
Joyce Benck Utzig ◽  
Eleolina Lara Kaled Neta ◽  
Majenna Andrade Pachnicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Pemphigus Foliaceus ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Controlled Clinical Trials ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Number Of Publications

BACKGROUND: The qualitative and quantitative scientific output of Brazilian dermatologists in journals of high impact factor is little known. OBJECTIVE: To describe the scientific output of dermatologists from Brazilian institutions in journals of high impact factor. METHODS: The five journals with the highest impact factor in dermatology were analyzed. All articles produced from Brazilian institutions between 1986 and 2010 were compiled and the following aspects were analyzed: position of Brazilian researchers in the list of authors, selected theme, experimental design, studied disease, area of interest and year of publication. RESULTS: Seventy-four articles written with the participation of Brazilian dermatologists have been identified. Upon grouping the articles in five-year periods, an important increase was observed in the Brazilian production from the year 2006 onwards. The dermatologists were placed as second authors in the majority of cases (53.66%). According to the selected theme to be studied, the majority of the articles had a laboratory focus (45.95%). The majority of the articles reported cross-sectional studies or non-controlled clinical trials (both at 17.57%), and pemphigus foliaceus was the most studied disease (29.73%). CONCLUSION: The increase in the number of publications by Brazilian dermatologists over the last years is encouraging, but it is still small in comparison to the total number of articles published in these five periodicals.

A Study of Availability and Recovery of URLs in Library and Information Science Scholarly Journals

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
B. Niveditha ◽  
Mallinath Kumbar
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Web Archives ◽  
Research Findings

The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) collected from the references. A total of 5720 articles were downloaded and 237418 references were extracted. A total of 33512 URLs were checked for their availability. Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that out of 33512 web references, 20218 contained URLs, DOIs were found in 12799 references and 495 references contained arXiv or WOS identifier. It was found that 29760 URLs were accessible and the remaining 3752 URLs were missing. Most errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel. Almost 60.55% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web references will be accessible in future.

scholarly journals Purposeful evaluation of scholarship in the open science era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
Open Science ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Grant Funding ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Young Researchers

In most world’s countries, scholarship evaluation for tenure and promotion continues to rely on conventional criteria of publications in journals of high impact factor and grant funding. Continuing to hire and promote scholars for their achievements in research and in securing research funds exposes universities at risk because students, directly and indirectly through government funds, are the main source of revenues for academic institutions, whereas talented young researchers are those who actually carry out most of the published research. Purposeful scholarship evaluation needs to include all three areas of scholarly activity: research, teaching and mentoring, and service to society. Young scholars seeking tenure and promotion benefit from the practice of open science because it provides better and more impactful results with respect to each of the three areas of scholarship.

scholarly journals Exciting perspectives for Translational Myology in the Abstracts of the 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays: Giovanni Salviati Memorial – Chapter III - Abstracts of March 16, 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugo Carraro
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Bacterial Toxin ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Half Century ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

Myologists working in Padua (Italy) were able to continue a half-century tradition of studies of skeletal muscles, that started with a research on fever, specifically if and how skeletal muscle contribute to it by burning bacterial toxin. Beside main publications in high-impact-factor journals by Padua myologists, I hope to convince readers (and myself) of the relevance of the editing Basic and Applied Myology (BAM), retitled from 2010 European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM), of the institution of the Interdepartmental Research Center of Myology of the University of Padova (CIR-Myo), and of a long series of International Conferences organized in Euganei Hills and Padova, that is, the PaduaMuscleDays. The 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays (2018SpPMD), were held in Euganei Hills and Padua (Italy), in March 14-17, and were dedicated to Giovanni Salviati. The main event of the “Giovanni Salviati Memorial”, was held in the Aula Guariento, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti of Padua to honor a beloved friend and excellent scientist 20 years after his premature passing. Using the words of Prof. Nicola Rizzuto, we all share his believe that Giovanni “will be remembered not only for his talent and originality as a biochemist, but also for his unassuming and humanistic personality, a rare quality in highly successful people like Giovanni. The best way to remember such a person is to gather pupils and colleagues, who shared with him the same scientific interests and ask them to discuss recent advances in their own fields, just as Giovanni have liked to do”. Since Giovanni’s friends sent many abstracts still influenced by their previous collaboration with him, all the Sessions of the 2018SpPMD reflect both to the research aims of Giovanni Salviati and the traditional topics of the PaduaMuscleDays, that is, basics and applications of physical, molecular and cellular strategies to maintain or recover functions of skeletal muscles. The translational researches summarized in the 2018SpPMD Abstracts are at the appropriate high level to attract approval of Ethical Committees, the interest of International Granting Agencies and approval for publication in top quality, international journals. The abstracts of the March 16, 2018 Padua Muscle Day are listed in this chapter III. All 2018SpPMD Abstracts are indexed at the end of the Chapter IV.

scholarly journals Year in Review: Synopsis of Selected Articles in Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care from 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 018-023
Author(s):  
Kyle J. Rogan ◽  
Tumul Chowdhury ◽  
Lakshmikumar Venkatraghavan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
England Journal ◽  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
New England ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Neurocritical Care ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor

AbstractThis review is a synopsis of selected articles from neuroscience, neuroanesthesia, and neurocritical care from the year 2018 (January–October 2018). The journals reviewed included anesthesia journals, critical care medicine journals, neurosurgical journals as well as high-impact factor medical journals such as Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and Stroke. This summary of important articles will serve to update the knowledge of anesthesiologists and other perioperative physicians who provide care to neurosurgical and neurocritical patients.

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