The Diversity of UK Research and Knowledge - Analyses from the REF impact case studies

The UK’s most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), for the first time evidenced the economic and societal impact of university research through a total of 6,975 case studies. This Digital Research Report on ‘The Diversity of UK Research and Knowledge’ introduces this dataset and contains visualisations of the knowledge networks underpinning the impact of UK university research. Alongside it lies an interactive visualisation, see www.digital-science.com/visualizations/ref-case-study-similarity-network.
Authors: Loach, Tamar; Adams, Jonathan; Szomszor, Martin
Source: Figshare
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1476881

Difference between a systematic review and a literature review

The UK’s most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), for the first time evidenced the economic and societal impact of university research through a total of 6,975 case studies. This Digital Research Report on ‘The Diversity of UK Research and Knowledge’ introduces this dataset and contains visualisations of the knowledge networks underpinning the impact of UK university research. Alongside it lies an interactive visualisation, see www.digital-science.com/visualizations/ref-case-study-similarity-network.
Authors: Kysh, Lynn
Sourcer: Figshare
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.766364

Alternative approaches to assessing scientific results

Alternative metrics (altmetrics) as a possible substitute for or addition to the traditional methods of assessing scientific results based on opinions and bibliometric indicators were first proposed in 2010. Since then, metric indicators, primarily those based on accounting for the use and discussion of scientific publications on the Internet, have, on the one hand, found influential advocates among scientists and publishers and, on the other, been met with resistance on the part of equally authoritative participants in the market of scientific publications. Altmetrics are already used actively by the largest publishers; in June 2014, the American National Information Standards Organization developed a draft altmetrics standard. This article presents a review of the existing indicators, describes their target audience, and considers leading companies that develop software products on altmetrics calculation for users of different categories. Altmetrics and citation-based indicators are compared.
Authors: N.A. Mazov; V.N. Gureev
Source: Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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A Review of Theory and Practice in Scientometrics1

Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in the academic literature. In recent years it has come to play a major role in the measurement and evaluation of research performance. In this review we consider: the historical development of scientometrics, sources of citation data, citation metrics and the “laws" of scientometrics, normalisation, journal impact factors and other journal metrics, visualising and mapping science, evaluation and policy, and future developments
Authors: John Mingers; Loet Leydesdorff
Source: European Journal of Operational Research (in press)
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Importance of the methodology report in Electrical Bioimpedance on body composition studies

Por medio de la presente nos dirigimos a usted, pues hemos leído con interés la publicación “Estado nutricional en estudiantes universitarios: su relación con el número de ingestas alimentarias diarias y el consumo de macronutrientes” de Pi et al1 . En este estudio, los autores utilizaron como métodos antropométricos el Índice de Masa Corporal (IMC), la Circunferencia Abdominal (CA) y la Bioimpedancia Eléctrica (BIA) para estimar el estado nutricional y la composición corporal (CC). Se sabe que la BIA es usada para la estimación de la grasa corporal, sin embargo es específica para cada población, por lo que es necesario validar en cada población de estudio para disminuir un potencial sesgo de medición .
Autor(es): Gonzalez de Orbegoso, Ximena Cox; Gomez Alvarado, Anais
Fuente: Nutricion Hospitalaria (Nutr Hosp)
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/575080