scholarly journals A re-examination of online journal quality and investigation of the possible impact of poor electronic surrogate quality on researchers

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Ladd
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Content Information ◽  
Do So

Objective – This study re-examines the findings of a paper (Ladd, 2010) that investigated whether evidence indicated print equivalent journal collections needed to be preserved, based on the quality of their electronic surrogates. The current study investigates whether: 1) electronic surrogate articles that failed (i.e., the print equivalent article needed to be consulted to view all the content/information) in the first study had improved in quality; and 2) there was evidence that poor-quality electronic surrogates could impact on research if the print equivalent articles did not exist. Methods – Each of the 198 PDF documents identified in the 2010 study as failing were re-examined to assess whether any change in quality had occurred. To assess the possible impact for researchers if they needed to rely solely on poor-quality electronic journal surrogates, citation data were collected for each of the failed scholarly PDFs using Web of Science and Scopus, and usage count data were collected from Web of Science. Results – Across the electronic journal backfiles/archives examined, there were 13.6% fewer failures of electronic surrogates for all PDF documents than in the original study, while for scholarly PDF documents (e.g., research papers) there were 13.8% fewer failures. One electronic journal archive accounted for 91.7% of the improvement for scholarly PDF documents. A second archive accounted for all the observed improvement for non-scholarly PDF documents. The study found that for the failed scholarly PDF documents from the original study, 58.7% had been cited or had Web of Science usage counts from 2010 onward. Conclusion – The study demonstrates a continued need for retaining print equivalent journal titles for the foreseeable future, while poor-quality electronic surrogates are being replaced and digitally preserved. There are still poor-quality images, poor-quality scans of text-only articles, missing pages, and even content of PDF documents that could not be explained (e.g., incorrect text for images when compared to the print). While it is known that not all researchers will consult each of the papers that they cite, although it is best practice to do so, the extent of citations of the failed scholarly PDF documents indicate that having to rely solely on electronic surrogates could pose a problem for researchers.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature on Measuring Techniques for Manipulating Financial Statements

Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Ioana Lavinia Safta ◽  
Andrada-Ioana Sabău (Popa) ◽  
Neli Muntean
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Creative Accounting ◽  
Measuring Techniques ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Over Time

Creative accounting has its background since early studies in 1975, until the present time. It continues to be a subject of great interest for the companies and interested parties. Thus, the current paper will aim to answer the following proposed research questions: 1. Which are the most used methods for detecting the manipulation of financial statements in the literature? 2. Which are the terms that are most frequently encountered in the literature associated with “creative accounting? 3. Which are the journals that have the highest frequency of articles written on the topic “creative accounting”? 4. Over time, how did research evolve in the field of creative accounting? 5. Which countries are most preoccupied in publishing regarding this topic? To answer the research question 1, the models published in the literature for measuring manipulation techniques through creative accounting were reviewed and analyzed. For the remaining research questions, a bibliometric analysis for the publications in this area was performed. For collecting the sample, articles on this topic were selected from the international Web of Science database. Following this, a bibliometric analysis of the articles was performed, using the VOSviewer program. A total of 4045 publications on creative accounting were identified. Through the bibliometric analysis we have answered research question 2, by identifying the key words that have the closest proximity to creative accounting. To answer the remaining research questions, we identified the journals with the highest frequency of publication and the countries with the highest interest on the topic. It is especially important to evaluate the quality of this many research papers and to obtain valuable information.

Research Commentary: A Rejoinder: A Reflection on the Evolution of a Replication Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiza M. Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Reward System ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Replication Study ◽  
Expectancy Effects ◽  
Opportunity To Respond ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Teacher Expectancy ◽  
Do So

I appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful comments made by Alan Schoenfeld (2018) and Jon Star (2018) in their commentaries on replication studies in this issue of JRME, including their comments on our study of teacher expectancy effects (Jamil, Larsen, & Hamre, 2018). I have decided to write this rejoinder in the form of a personal reflection. As academics, we carry the tremendous burden of expertise, and perhaps that is partly why, as pointed out by Schoenfeld (2018), the academic reward system focuses so heavily on novelty and innovation. With our expertise, we are supposed to have all the answers, solve all the problems, and do so in brilliant, new ways. Replication studies are undervalued because they not only, by definition, recreate past research but, perhaps, also bring into question another scholar‧s expertise. Star (2018) even states that one of the three criteria of an outstanding replication study is that it “convincingly shows that there is reason to believe that the results of the original study may be flawed” (p. 99). Although this rigorous examination is precisely the way to build trust in the quality of our findings and move the field forward, it is also what makes it challenging to have candid conversations about what we do not know.

scholarly journals Improving the quality of life of people with advanced respiratory disease and severe breathlessness

Breathe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Booth ◽  
Miriam J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Respiratory Disease ◽  
Symptom Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Symptom Burden ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
List Type ◽  
The Impact

Advanced respiratory disease imposes a greater symptom burden than many cancers but not does have comparable recognition of the need for supportive and palliative care or the infrastructure for its systematic delivery. Consequently, many people with advanced respiratory disease (and those closest to them) have a poor quality of life, disabled by chronic breathlessness, fatigue and other symptoms. They are socially isolated by the consequences of long-term illness and are often financially impoverished. The past decade has seen an increasing realisation that care for this group must improve and that symptom management must be prioritised. Clinical guidelines recommend person-centred care, including access to supportive and palliative care as needed, as part of standard medical practice. Advanced lung disease clinics and specialist breathlessness services (pioneered within palliative care) are developing within respiratory medicine services but are provided inconsistently.This review covers the comprehensive assessment of the patient with advanced respiratory disease, the importance of supporting carers and the current best practice in the management of breathlessness, fatigue and cough. It also suggests ways to incorporate person-centred care into the general respiratory clinic, assisted by better liaison with specialist palliative and primary care. Emerging evidence shows that excellent symptom management leads to better clinical outcomes and reduces inappropriate use of emergency medical services.Key pointsPeople living with advanced respiratory disease and severe chronic breathlessness (and those closest to them) have a poor quality of life.Chronic breathlessness is a disabling symptom, and acute-on-chronic/episodic breathlessness is frightening to experience and observe.Chronic breathlessness imposes profound physical limitations and psychosocial burdens on those suffering from it or living with someone experiencing it.Fatigue and cough are two other cardinal symptoms of advanced respiratory disease, with very detrimental effects on quality of life.The impact of all these symptoms can be alleviated to a variable extent by a predominantly non-drug complex intervention.Many of the interventions are delivered primarily by allied health or nursing professionals.Doctors, nurses and other health professionals also need to play an active part in promoting quality of life as part of excellent medical care.A person-centred, psychologically informed approach is needed by all clinicians treating patients with advanced respiratory disease.Educational aimsTo give specialist respiratory clinicians practical clinical tools to help improve the quality of life of their patients with advanced respiratory disease and chronic breathlessness.To outline the evidence base for these interventions with reference to definitive sources.To highlight the importance of person-centred care in people with respiratory disease at all stages of illness.

Factors affecting moral distress in nurses working in intensive care units: A systematic review

2020 ◽  
pp. 147775092092717
Author(s):  
Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh ◽  
Faraz Tayyar-Iravanlou ◽  
Zeynab Ahmadian Chashmi ◽  
Fatemeh Abdi ◽  
Rosana Svetic Cisic
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Factors Affecting

Background Moral distress is a major issue in intensive care units that requires immediate attention since it can cause nurses to burnout. Given the special conditions of patients in intensive care units and the importance of the mental health of nurses, the present study was designed to systematically review the factors affecting moral distress in nurses working in intensive care units. Methods PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct were systematically searched for papers published between 2009 and 2019. Original articles from quantitative and qualitative studies were reviewed. The CONSORT and STROBE checklists were used to assess the quality of the quantitative papers. The JBI checklist was applied for qualitative studies. Results Factors affecting moral distress in nurses include lack of nursing staff, nurses with inadequate experience, lack of support from organizations and colleagues, inadequate education and lack of knowledge of nurses, poor collaboration of physicians with nurses, ethical insensitivity and lack of teamwork, heavy workload, poor quality of care and moral violence and they are considered as risk factors for moral distress. Conclusion Many of the related causes are due to the nature of nurses’ work and it is necessary to manage the underlying conditions of this phenomenon so that it can be effectively prevented from spreading. Levels of moral distress require more attention of authorities in the use of prevention strategies and the reduction of effective factors in distress.

scholarly journals Faith, social prestige and violence against surgeon in India and subcontinent: a narrative review

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1679
Author(s):  
Karan J. Yagnik
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Poor Patient ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Low Health Literacy ◽  
Judicial Procedure

Violence against surgeons is universal problem but unique in India. It is reported on a daily basis across India. A lot of literature is available. Analysis and review are required. This article is about the best solutions to violence’s against surgeon. Various books, conference presentation and proceedings, workshop lectures, various electronic databases, symposium lectures, research papers and talks have been selected. Selected full articles were reviewed (total-13 article). This review is conducted for the practical knowledge to prevent violence against surgeon and hence patient-doctor satisfaction. Poor patient surgeon communication and lack of faith in medical system are major reasons for violence. There are more reasons which are discussed in details. Poor image of surgeons, cost of healthcare, poor quality of healthcare and poor communication is major factor for violence against surgeons. Low health literacy and lack of faith in the judicial procedure are also important factor. Media can explain all these things but they are not interested. Surgeon should understand the nature of patient and their relatives and act accordingly. Proper explanation in people’s language can change things in tremendous way.

scholarly journals In-text citation’s frequencies-based recommendations of relevant research papers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e524
Author(s):  
Abdul Shahid ◽  
Muhammad Tanvir Afzal ◽  
Abdullah Alharbi ◽  
Hanan Aljuaid ◽  
Shaha Al-Otaibi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
User Study ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Deep Level ◽  
Bibliographic Coupling ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Study Results ◽  
High Degree

From the past half of a century, identification of the relevant documents is deemed an active area of research due to the rapid increase of data on the web. The traditional models to retrieve relevant documents are based on bibliographic information such as Bibliographic coupling, Co-citations, and Direct citations. However, in the recent past, the scientific community has started to employ textual features to improve existing models’ accuracy. In our previous study, we found that analysis of citations at a deep level (i.e., content level) can play a paramount role in finding more relevant documents than surface level (i.e., just bibliography details). We found that cited and citing papers have a high degree of relevancy when in-text citations frequency of the cited paper is more than five times in the citing paper’s text. This paper is an extension of our previous study in terms of its evaluation of a comprehensive dataset. Moreover, the study results are also compared with other state-of-the-art approaches i.e., content, metadata, and bibliography. For evaluation, a user study is conducted on selected papers from 1,200 documents (comprise about 16,000 references) of an online journal, Journal of Computer Science (J.UCS). The evaluation results indicate that in-text citation frequency has attained higher precision in finding relevant papers than other state-of-the-art techniques such as content, bibliographic coupling, and metadata-based techniques. The use of in-text citation may help in enhancing the quality of existing information systems and digital libraries. Further, more sophisticated measure may be redefined be considering the use of in-text citations.

scholarly journals How to Improve the Visibility of Research in the Countries from the ‘scientific Periphery’: A ‘case Study’

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
A. Dzubur Kulenovic ◽  
L. Puljak ◽  
A. Ivanis ◽  
K. Vukojevic ◽  
L. Zaletel-Kragelj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Review Process ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
List Type ◽  
Regional Collaboration ◽  
Teaching Principles

Case history and symptoms:Small number of prestigious scientific journals publishes most of the world's scientific information. Although scientists in developing countries represent 25% of the world's scientific community national journals from this "scientific periphery" are poorly visible: the Science Citation Index (SCI) included less than 2% of these journals in 1995.Clinical presentation:A vicious cycle of inadequacy for these journals: small number and poor quality of manuscripts submitted, inadequate review process, and imperfect English prevents them from reaching higher visibility and eventually escaping form anonymity. Key problems seem to be poorly designed and unoriginal research, lack of knowledge of research methods and data presentation.Treatment:1.Teaching principles of scientific research in medical schools.2.Author-friendly editorial policy - a procedure where most of the articles received are pre-reviewed intramurally and improved by providing guidance to the authors, before being sent out for extramural review.3.Proactive board of editors - who seek interesting research and encourage researchers to communicate their results.4.Networking regional collaboration.Treatment outcome:In the case of Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) that followed and partly developed the "treatment" described, such policy resulted in significant formal success - inclusion of CMJ in the most selective international indexing databases (MEDLINE, Current Contents and Web of Science), open access status, decent visibility and attention of researches (impact factor 1.2). The original, active and efficacious approach of the editors of CMJ will be analyzed in this presentation.

scholarly journals Normalizing Book Citations in Google Scholar: A Hybrid Cited-side Citing-side Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mingers ◽  
Eren Kaymaz
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Normalization Method ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Manual Intervention ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Business And Management

Abstract Purpose To design and test a method for normalizing book citations in Google Scholar. Design/methodology/approach A hybrid citing-side, cited-side normalization method was developed and this was tested on a sample of 285 research monographs. The results were analyzed and conclusions drawn. Findings The method was technically feasible but required extensive manual intervention because of the poor quality of the Google Scholar data. Research limitations The sample of books was limited and also all were from one discipline —business and management. Also, the method has only been tested on Google Scholar, it would be useful to test it on Web of Science or Scopus. Practical limitations Google Scholar is a poor source of data although it does cover a much wider range citation sources that other databases. Originality/value This is the first method that has been developed specifically for normalizing books which have so far not been able to be normalized.

How to Improve the Visibility of Research in the Countries from the ‘Scientific Periphery’: A ‘Case Study’

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
A. Dzubur Kulenovic ◽  
L. Puljak ◽  
A. Ivanis ◽  
K. Vukojevic ◽  
L. Zaletel-Kragelj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Review Process ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
List Type ◽  
Regional Collaboration ◽  
Teaching Principles

Case history and symptoms:Small number of prestigious scientific journals publishes most of the world's scientific information. Although scientists in developing countries represent 25% of the world's scientific community national journals from this 'scientific periphery' are poorly visible: the Science Citation Index (SCI) included less than 2% of these journals in 1995.Clinical presentation:A vicious cycle of inadequacy for these journals: small number and poor quality of manuscripts submitted, inadequate review process, and imperfect English prevents them from reaching higher visibility and eventually escaping form anonymity. Key problems seem to be poorly designed and unoriginal research, lack of knowledge of research methods and data presentation.Treatment:1.Teaching principles of scientific research in medical schools.2.Author-friendly editorial policy - a procedure where most of the articles received are pre-reviewed intramurally and improved by providing guidance to the authors, before being sent out for extramural review.3.Proactive board of editors - who seek interesting research and encourage researchers to communicate their results.3.Networking regional collaboration.Treatment outcome:In the case of Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) that followed and partly developed the 'treatment' described, such policy resulted in significant formal success - inclusion of CMJ in the most selective international indexing databases (MEDLINE, Current Contents and Web of Science), open access status, decent visibility and attention of researches (impact factor 1.2). The original, active and efficacious approach of the editors of CMJ will be analyzed in this presentation.

scholarly journals Updating an International Medical Device Standard: A Process for Audible Alarms

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Judy Reed Edworthy ◽  
Richard McNeer ◽  
Christopher Bennett ◽  
Roman Dudaryk
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Safety Standard ◽  
Alarm Fatigue ◽  
Clinical Alarms ◽  
Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽  
The Poor

Many human factors and ergonomics problems are associated with clinical alarms, usaually referred to as ‘alarm fatigue’. Among these problems is the nature of auditory signals used to attract attention, as these signals are often difficult to learn, easily confusable, and sometimes prone to masking. Symptomatic of this problem is the poor quality of the audible alarms associated with a global medical device safety standard, IEC 60601-1-8. A project aimed at improving and updating these sounds according to best practice is being carried out. This paper charts the progress of this venture and summarizes the results and the published papers which present those results.

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