We collated and tabulated the surgeons' responses according to their sub-specialty and academic responsibility and examined the importance of journals as an information source and the relationships between readership, journal rankings, impact factors and numbers of publications.
Google plus is also a tool most online entrepreneurs are finding extremely useful for many reasons, including its superior impact on SEO rankings of web pages and the fact that posts on Google plus can always be seen by the search engine.
The hierarchy tree was presented in Figures 1 and 2. The goal, which was ranking environmental impacts of paper and printing industries, was given at the first level (level 1).
From the 2002 version we combined the top 20 journals from the specialty of surgery and the UK published journals in the top 20 from the general medical category, both rankings by impact factor.
Eighteen research questions were formulated during the global stakeholders' meeting and ranked according to four ranking criteria (innovation, impact on health and health systems, equity, and lack of research).
That Samsung is specifically mentioning China is interesting, since Xiaomi's phones — which retail at $300 and $150, and have propelled it to No. 3 in the smartphone rankings — are impacting Samsung's (and other phone makers') business in the country.
Specifically, at the first expert workshop PAG members were able to debate and consider values around PI in health service research, including value consensus and conflicts; value rankings and impacts; value statements and their categorisation and how conflicts might be accommodated in research policy and practice.
For sub-Saharan Africa, the GBD 2010 study finds high (and thus adverse impact) rankings for high blood pressure and tobacco use, while also finding high rankings for suboptimal breastfeeding, inadequate sanitation, and iron deficiency.
They exacerbate the damage caused by journal quality rankings based on "impact factor", which is already recognised by the scientific community in the west as problematic.
David Abramowitz, director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, said that even without sanctions, the report's rankings had an impact on countries.
