BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Case reports and case series are often the first
evidence of innovative treatment, but clinical trials need to follow to substantiate this …

The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for
the incorporation of the “quality” of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought …

Measuring Academic Research outlines how to undertake a bibliometric study, a topic of
vital importance in academic research today. Scientometrics studies assess scientific …

This paper reports on the findings of a global study of tourism and hospitality academics
asking them to rate their collective literature. The study adopted a peer assessment method …

This study identified the most frequently cited tourism scholars in two time periods (1970–
2007, and 1998–2007). Google Scholar (www. scholar. google. com) and Publish or Perish …

This article presents information about journals specializing in the forensic sciences and
legal medicine, their development and distribution and their current status as reflected in the …

Librarians rely on the Institute for Scientific Information's journal impact factor as a tool for
selecting periodicals, primarily in scientific disciplines. A current trend is to use this data as a …

Hirsch's h index is becoming the standard measure of an individual's research
accomplishments. The aggregation of individuals' measures is also the basis for global …

Objective (1) To analyse trends in the journal impact factor (IF) of seven general medical
journals (Ann Intern Med, BMJ, CMAJ, JAMA, Lancet, Med J Aust and N Engl J Med) over 12 …

In spite of the consensus on the importance of research and its close relationship to
academic promotion and tenure, the existing tourism and hospitality literature has no …