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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Impact Factor"”.
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Economic analysis of drug policies on antibiotics and risk-sharing contracts
… articles. Four publications analyze the economic impact of various economic and health policies on the prescription of antibiotics and another publication analyzes the perceptions of health professionals on the use of joint venture contracts for the introduction of gene therapies in the health …
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Impact of mobile cranes on short span bridges
… These characteristics help minimise their impact on road structures. This thesis presents a study of the impact of mobile crane on short span bridges. Short span bridges span between 5 and 40m are very common in South Africa. A finite element model representing the interaction of a mobile …
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The relationship between journal use in a medical library and citation use
… for six months. The data of citation frequency, impact factor, citation age and citation half-life were obtained from Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 1993 microfiche edition. Only 835 journals which were in JCR and in the library were compared. The correlation between use frequency and citation …
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Resposta dinâmica de estruturas reticuladas a cargas móveis, pelo método dos elementos finitos
… different types of loadings are idealized and impact factors determined for them, being developed computer programs for dynamic analysis of beams and plane frames. The structure-loading equations of motion are formulated in matrix form and solved directly through step by step integration. The …
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REPORTING QUALITY OF ONCOLOGY RCTS & COMPLIANCE WITH CONSORT
… number of authors/study patients, 2009 journal impact factor/journal classification, type of cancer and therapeutic intervention, publication year, primary study country, and cooperative group involvement were captured for all trials. CONSORT guideline compliance was assessed by two qualified …
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Reproducibility crisis in science: causes and possible solutions
… success in the form of publications in high-impact journals over collaboration and careful conductance of research. This environment contributes to the crisis of reproducibility by increasing biases, incentivizing researchers to engage in manipulative statistics, decreasing quality control …
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Estudo das citações constantes das dissertações de mestrado em ciência da informação do IBICT/UFRJ
… well as to establish its group of elite and the impact factor of the authors. Periodical Literature makes up 48 por cento of the studied literature, books and pamphlets 27 por cento, and papers presented in professional meetings 10 por cento. The results of the analysis lead us to the following …
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Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
High-impact academic papers are not necessarily the most cited. For example, Einstein's 'Special Relativity' paper from 1905 received (and continues to receive) fewer citations from other papers than his 'Brownian Motion" paper of the same year, despite the former radically changing the course of …
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Geospatial Modeling of Forest Road Networks and Their Effect on Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities
… of sediment pollution to aquatic systems. Though impacts of road networks on aquatic systems can be potentially severe, little work has been performed to evaluate the effect that road spatial location within a watershed has on water quality. To address this issue from a quantitative perspective, a …
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Knowledge production practices in higher institutions of learning in Zambia: a case of the University of Zambia
… themselves are also a combination of both high impact factor journals such as the PLoS One, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, The Lancet, Malaria Journal and those with no impact factor like the Medical Journal of Zambia. …
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Peripheral Arterial Disease from Aetiology to Surgical Management
… prior to their formal submission to high impact factor peer-reviewed specialist journals. The thesis is divided into subsections reflecting my development and different interests within surgery.<br/><br/>The subsections start with my learning basic research principles, moving onto clinical …
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Adherence to STARD 2015 Reporting Recommendations in Pathology
… STARD item reporting was independent of journal impact factor, article citation count, ICMJE reporting standards endorsement, anatomic/clinical pathology disciplines, and pathology subspecialty. These findings demonstrate variable compliance in the recent pathology scientific literature with …
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Performance of a Bridge Deck with Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) Bars as the Top Mat of Reinforcement
… stresses in the GFRP bars, girder distribution factors, and dynamic load allowances were calculated for both spans. From the live load tests, it was concluded that the GFRP-reinforced span results were within design parameters. The only concern was the increased impact factor values. The second …
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Scale formation, properties and de-scaling in steelmaking
<p>During continuous castings, reheating, and hot rolling, slab surfaces are exposed to atmospheres containing oxidizing gases which results in scale formation. Inefficient removal of the formed scale during reheating affects product surface quality. The effect of steel composition and operating …
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Slab-on-girder prestressed concrete bridges: linear and nonlinear finite element analysis and experimental load tests
… are not needed if there is no possibility of impact by an over-height truck. If the risk of a lateral collision to the girders is present, intermediate diaphragms should be placed over the respective traffic lane so that the potential impact takes place at the diaphragms location. Temporary …
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An assessment of the integrated financial management information system implementation: a case study of the ministry of finance.
… revealed that IFMIS had a minimally positive impact averaging 3.6 on the Likert scale because all the factors investigated were positioned as borderline regarding IFMIS Impact in the Ministry of Finance. The Contribution of IFMIS to the Management of Public Funds (CIMPF) was found to have the …
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An assessment of the integrated financial management information system implementation: a case study of the ministry of finance.
… revealed that IFMIS had a minimally positive impact averaging 3.6 on the Likert scale because all the factors investigated were positioned as borderline regarding IFMIS Impact in the Ministry of Finance. The Contribution of IFMIS to the Management of Public Funds (CIMPF) was found to have the …
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Development of citation measures and the socio-cultural factors affecting citation behavior in an emerging scientific community
… a survey analysis of the cultural and social factors influencing citation behaviour of Iranian medical scholars was undertaken. Further analysis revealed that the Garfield (ISI) impact factor was not an effective tool for making decisions regarding subject specific collections. Although …
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The role of Kazakhstani HEIs and international academic publishing in Kazakhstan's post-Soviet nation-building
… members to publish in journals with a nonzero impact factor in order to qualify for promotion (Kuzhabekova & Ruby, 2018, p.266). The study situates this important HE policy reform in the broader context of the post-Soviet transformation and the attempt of the Kazakhstani government to …
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From Reified Abstractions to Situated Contexts: Feminist Jurisprudence, Paradigm Shift and Legal Change
… years 1983 and 1994 in legal journals assigned impact factors by the Social Science Citation Index. Second, using content analysis, I classified feminist jurisprudence articles published in the subfields of family and penal law --theorized to differ in degree of androcentrism-- according to the …
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