According to the most recent survey commissioned by Liberation Publications Inc., which owns Out, a lifestyle magazine, and The Advocate, a newsmagazine, the publications' average reader is a 39-year-old white-collar professional man with a college degree and a household income of $95,000.
The Flesch-Kincaid grade level formula is derived from two aspects of written publications: average sentence length (ASL) and average number of syllables per word (ASW).
The average Flesch-Kincaid grade level for government publications was equivalent to a grade 4 reading level (4.73, range, 2.4 – 6.6); F-K grade levels for commercial publications averaged 8.1 (range, 6.9 – 8.9); and industry published materials read at an average Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 7.4 (range, 4.7 – 9.3).
The effectiveness of this method was tested on a large corpus of Slashdot stories and shows a reasonable performance in predicting the popularity of stories using the aggregate users' reactions in the first day after news publication (average MRE of 36%).
Two investigators (GC and BZ) independently evaluated the eligibility of all retrieved studies and extracted the original information, including the first author's name, year of publication, average age, type of disease, geographic distribution, sample size of cases and controls, peripheral blood PAPP-A level, detecting methods and specimen type.
I'm just waoting for Robinson to pitch in, accusing me of declaration bowling to get your publication averages up.
The score per publication averaged over 2,523 researchers is 0.09 which, however, does not provide information about the quantity of research output.
The whole process, from date of submission to publication, averages just above five months.
19 Using the bibliography listed on the cover page of each trial summary, we counted a total of 496 listed publications (an average of two publications per trial, with an average time to publication of 2.5 years), from which we retrieved the earliest journal article reporting on the full trial.
Productivity indicators are a measure of the researcher's publication output, e.g., total number of publications or average number of publications per year.
Across the publications, the average duration of diabetes in study subjects ranged from 7 to 15 years.
