by crauter | Jun 29, 2011 | Research News
Available through Web of Knowledge the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) has just released it’s 2010 content. JCR provides a combination of impact and influence metrics, and millions of cited and citing journal data points that comprise the complete journal citation...
by crauter | Jun 28, 2011 | Research News
European arts & humanities academics were annoyed at a new attempt to rank journals. The European Reference Index for Humanities has abandoned an attempt to assign journals to an A, B, C or D category but looks at whether they have a national or international...
by crauter | Jun 16, 2011 | Research News
What is the role of the patient in setting the agenda for clinical research? Two Swansea University researchers, Keith Lloyd and Jo White, have argued the importance of involving the patients since they are often the ones with most at stake. Priorities can not be...
by crauter | Jun 10, 2011 | Research News
The Research Ethics Guidebook is a free web resource aimed to help social science researchers “find your way through the variety of regulatory processes and procedures that can apply to social science research”. The site has been created by a team at the Institute of...
by crauter | Jun 2, 2011 | Research News
The Australian government has abandoned a journal-ranking scheme following criticism from scholars and editors. This was part of an attempt to assess the quality of the research it supports, Excellence in Research for Australia http://www.arc.gov.au/era/. Many...
