Citations derived mostly from journal articles, monographs, and a few published doctoral dissertations.
It is gratifying to see that on the strength of its diverse and high-quality content over the last five years, BMC Biology has been ranked 219 of nearly 16,000 journals listed in the 2007 SCImago Journal Rank [ 11], a journal citation metric derived from Scopus [ 12].
SCImago Web Portal provides free access to the bibliometric indices SRJ and HI SCI) derived from the Scopus citation data.
The attributes and the probabilities of outcomes such as readmission, intensive care unit admission and mortality were derived from a review of the literature, and these attributes, probabilities and citations are shown in Figure 1.
As we will show, inaccurate publication-citation records can lead to dramatic inaccuracies in indices and scores derived from them.
The baseline questionnaire contained 38 items including a combination of original questions and items derived from previous surveys or used in previous studies (shown by citations).
Bibliographic information (title, journal, year of publication, authors' names, the organisation to which the first author was affiliated and the country in which the first author's organisation was located) was derived from citations of publications and used for the analysis presented.
He brings to bear a heavyweight apparatus of critical, social and psychoanalytical theory and academic citation upon a body of evidence derived from films and videos, some of them avowedly and explicitly pornographic, many of which are, as he says, 'unarchived', and also upon ephemeral television programmes.
Information on most-cited papers, number of journals, number of papers, average number of citations per paper, and total citations in each scientific field are derived from the Essential Science Indicators module.
Citation analysis involves the construction and application of a series of indicators of the 'impact', 'influence' or 'quality' of scholarly work, derived from citation data, i.e. data on references cited in footnotes or bibliographies of scholarly research publications.
While this is a particular problem in social science, especially in education, it affects science itself when, for example, the practice of medicine is governed by doctor 'report cards' or the value of research is measured by mysterious numbers derived from citation counts.
