why use it?

WHY USE IT?• It’s big (coverage & time)• It’s interdisciplinary• It’s free (to you…)• It’s only a click away• It does some “tricks” that

nothing else can do

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Other stuff we can’t get to because we didn’t pay for itBecause it’s too priceyBecause we have it in some other platform

Other stuff we don’t want to talk about today

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Pamela will do

it…

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• astronomy• electronics• communications• ergonomics• computers & computing• computer science• control engineering• electrical engineering• information technology• physics

Respiratory Monitoring System on the Basis of Capacitive Textile Force Sensors

Wireless and batteryless blood pressure sensor

Design of wireless sensor system for neonatal monitoring

Non-invasive Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitoring for Neonates Using Reflectance Pulse Oximeter

Intensive care and Wireless

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Patient safety management: RFID technology to improve emergency room medical care quality

Process simulation of triage for emergency medicine under huge disaster

A Zero-Footprint 3D Visualization System Utilizing Mobile Display Technology for Timely Evaluation of Stroke Patients

Use of neural networks to predict adverse outcomes from acute coronary syndrome for male and female patientsInspec

Emergency Room Triage

Leveraging complex event processing for smart hospitals using RFID

No room for error: RFID-enabled smart point-of-care medication process in hospital wards

Dual-frequency Active RFID Solution for Tracking Patients in a Children's Hospital

An Activity Theory Analysis of RFID in Hospitals

Stage implementation of RFID in hospitals

Redesigning the replenishment process of medical supplies in hospitals with RFID

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RFID in Hospitals

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RFIDRadio WavesEquipment DesignProduct LabelingAutomatic Data ProcessingPatient Identification SystemsComputer Aided DesignMaterials Management HospitalTelemetry

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Accountable Care Organization

Social ResponsibilityQuality Assurance Health CareHealth Care ReformDelivery of Health CareQuality of Health CareModels OrganizationalManaged Care ProgramsPrimary Health Care

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Medical HomePatient Centered CareModels OrganizationalHospital RestructuringEfficiency OrganizationalTotal Quality ManagementOrganizational InnovationPatient SatisfactionDelivery of Health Care Integrated

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it…

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Cited by…

Times cited…

Which one is better…?

•Google Scholar’s simplicity may actually be a boon• Some institutions cannot afford

Web of Science•Google Scholar offers some

non-periodical sources

•Google-Scholar is much more clumsy to use, if you’re going to collect (download & analyze) citation data•Google-Scholar is valuable for

international and different formats

•Don’t trust Google Scholar to sort properly, detect duplicates, etc.

•Google scholar looks at non-scholarly sources, and this can be useful, or a distraction

•Accuracy of Google Scholar is lower…•Web of Science is criticized for

being American-based, English-language

•Google Scholar is better at finding citing sources in non-English literature from Africa, Asia and Central and South America.

•All three tools yielded unique material•There’s no simple solution

A certain published

paper,2004

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2003

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2012

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to 2011

Robin & Elliott’s paper,2004

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40 papers,

from 1976 to

2003

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• Science Citation Index (1899-present)

• Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)

Pamela will do it…

# of articles published in the

Journal in previous two years

How many times were these articles

cited this year

Impact Factor

# of articles published in the

Journal in previous two years

How many times were these articles cited

this year

# of articles published in the

Journal in previous two years

How many times were

these articles cited this year

Impact Factor

Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse

Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse

Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse

Amim, M and Mabe, M (2007) Impact factors: use and abuse

Eigenfactor Score• Times articles from a journal have been cited

over past 5 years– Gives more weight to highly cited journals – Journal self citations are removed– The scores of all JCR journals add up to be 100

Article Influence Score• A weighted 5 year impact factor– Normalized so the average influence score = 1

See Eigenfactor.org for more information