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Visit us at the American Thoracic Society Conference

Faculty of 1000 Medicine & Biology are exhibiting at this year's American Thoracic Society Conference (May 18-21).

If you are going to this meeting in Toronto, it would be great to see you there. Please come and visit us at booth #837 to meet members of the team and to pick up your copy of our special-edition guide to Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care.

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Posted by Adie Chan on Friday May 16, 2008, Category: General | Permalink

Faculty of 1000 Medicine partnership with Medscape

We are delighted to announce that Medscape will be regularly publishing a selection of expert opinions from Faculty of 1000 Medicine's world-leading clinicians and researchers.

Medscape, who offer the web's largest collection of free, full-text, peer-reviewed clinical medicine articles, will compliment their collection with evaluations of key articles from Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

While our 2400-strong Faculty selects and evaluates only those articles they think add value to their field, Medscape's editors will cherry-pick those articles they feel have clinically important results.

We hope that our relationship with Medscape will help us to get the invaluable insights of our trusted experts out to a broader audience in the medical community.

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Posted by Adie Chan on Wednesday May 14, 2008, Category: General | Permalink

The wonderful world of informetrics

Informetrics is an area of information science which is thriving. It provides us with alternative qualitative and quantitative means of measuring scientific output.

Informetrics (a.k.a. infometrics) is the broad term comprising all '-metrics' studies related to information science, including bibliometrics (e.g. bibliographies, libraries), scientometrics (e.g. science policy, citation analysis, research evaluation), webometrics (metrics of the web, the Internet or other social networks, such as citation or collaboration networks), etc. {1}.

An interesting paper within this field, by Judit Bar-Ilan {2}, highlights some of the key literature covering the main issues and difficulties that have been facing informetrics since the beginning of the 21st century. In his review, Bar-Ilan covers developments regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the h-index, citation analyses, debate over the impact factor and other multiple indicators and measures currently used to give a bigger picture of scientific output and quality across the different mediums.

It's great to see these areas being explored in more detail, as these different measures of scientific output provide a more objective means of analysing the ever-increasing amount of medical literature.

References:
1.    Egghe, Information Processing & Management 2005, 41:1311-1316. Expansion of the field of informetrics: origins and consequences.
2.    Bar-Ilan, Journal of Informetrics 2008, 2:1-52. Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century ? A review.

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Posted by Sean Porazinski on Thursday May 08, 2008, Category: Impact factor versus... | Permalink

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