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Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications

Faults in the communication of scientific evidence and citations

Recent results spotlight concerns with the communi- cation of evidence and its citation. Begley and Ellis re- cently found that only 11% of research findings they examined from the academic literature could be repro- duced in a biopharmaceutical laboratory [8]. Fang et al…

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Some Thoughts On Journal Impact Factor

Problems with impact factor

But impact factor is extremely problematic for many reasons. It's based on citations, which (over the long run) may be an OK measure of impact, but are subject to many confounding factors, including field-specific citation patterns. It's an attempt to predict the success of…

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