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REGENT: Professor Dr. Altamiro da Costa Pereira

COORDINATOR: Professor Dr. Armando Teixeira-Pinto

Class 20

Scientific Articles Published in the FMUP

What is the quantity and quality of scientific activity at FMUP?

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• Scientific publication: succinct presentation of the results of a research done with the scientific methodology

• Journal Impact factor: the average number of citations of each article of the journal

• is related to the journal, and not to the article;

• the same journal may have highly citated articles and articles that are not citated at all

• Article Citation number: number of times that the articles were quoted on other articles

• is more precise in the aspect referred above

• however, it is not constant in time

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• First author: is usually the researcher who was more involved in the worker and was responsible for writing the article, letter or review

• Last author: is often the mentor of the work

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• Develop one adequate method able to qualify and quantify the articles published by FMUP

• Describe the Scientific publications of researchers of FMUP during the year 2005

• AIMS

METHOD

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Database Selection

Search Options: Data Range?

Yes No

Search Options: Adress?

Citation Number?

Yes

Yes

Journal Impact Factor?

No

No

Databases Excluded(PubMed, Scopus,

Scholar Google)

Yes

Database Selected: ISI Web of Science

Adress = Porto OR Oporto

General Search

Publication Year = 2005

n publications

x articles analised/person

Included publications

Publications/person

Mentions FMUP?

No

Yes

Yes

No

Article?

Letter?

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Excluded Publications

Included Publications

Data Introduction in

SPSS

Statistical Analisis in SPSS

Mentions Hosp Sao Joao?

Review?

No

End

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Secundary Questions

• What database to use to the articles collection?

– What to search?– How to search?– How to classify?

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1. DATABASE SELECTION (5, 6, 7)

Beginning

Database Selection

Search Options: Data Range?

Yes

No

Search Options Adress?

Citation Number?

Yes

Yes

Journal Impact Factor?

No

Databases Excluded

(PubMed, Scopus, Scholar Google)

Yes

Database Selected: ISI Web

of Science

No

End

No

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2. PARTICIPANT SELECTION2 . 1 P u b l i c a t i o n s s e l e c t i o n

• Criteria of Selection

• Inclusion Criteria

• Indexed articles/journals• All the departments of FMUP• Research done by or with collaboration of members of FMUP• Published in 2005

• Exclusion Criteria

• Articles not published in the year 2005• Articles not done by or with collaboration of any member of FMUP

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Year = 2005

Adress: Porto OR Oporto

2900 publications

Belonguing to Hosp São João

Belonguing to FMUP

305 publications

Articles, Letters, Reviews

2900 publications

305 publications

176 publications

Annual report 2005

+169 PUBLICATIONS

2. PARTICIPANT SELECTION2 . 2 P r e l i m i n a r r e s u l t s

-Hosp S. João but not FMUP

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3. DATA INTRODUTION IN SPSS

• Department Attribution: when there were more than one FMUP authors from different departments, the article was attributed to all departments present in the address.

• Authors From Hospital S.João: some authors did not adress their articles to FMUP, but to Hospital S. João. When this happened, we checked if the authors were FMUP’s faculty.

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4. STATISTICAL ANALISIS

• Statistical analysis was conducted in SPSS 15.0

• Factores that were analised:

a) Number of articles published by group and department

b) Average Journal Impact Factor

c) Average Citation Number

d) First and last author

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RESULTS

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5.1 Number of articles by department

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5.2 Sum of the Impact Factor by department

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5.3 Number of articles by department published by authors in first and last position

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5.4 Number of articles by group

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5.5 Sum of impact factor by group

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5.6 Number of articles by group published by authors in first and last position

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CONCLUSIONS

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1. LIMITATIONS

• Journals and/or articles not indexed at ISI or cited at the Relatório Anual 2005 were not analised or classified

2. DIFICULTIES FOUND• There are several designations for FMUP:

- FMUP- Oporto School of Medicine- Oporto Medical School- Fac Med Oporto- Oporto Univ Hospital- …

• Some articles that belong to FMUP authors are not signed with the faculty adress

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• Some articles are only adressed as HSJ, even if they belong to FMUP

• Impact Factor of different areas are not comparable

3. COMPARING WITH OTHER DATA– FMUP’s 2005 Annual Report

• According to the FMUP’s 2005 Annual Report there were 149 articles indexed articles• We analised 169 articles indexed at ISI• Some of the articles that did not belongued to ISI according to FMUP’s 2005 Annual Report were indexed at Isi and vice-versa

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PROTOCOL

1. Select the channel of information2. Choose of the query3. Research at ISI the articles with the chosen query, in 20054. Select the articles published by FMUP, in 20055. Analyse the quality criteria of each article6. Organize all the information in SPSS7. Statistic analysis8. Results9. Discussion10. Conclusion

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REFERENCES

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2. Garfield E. How to use citation analysis for faculty evaluations, and when is K relevant? Pares I and 2. Essays of an information scientist Vol 6. Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1984:354-72.

3. The Impact Factor, from the Thomson ISI website

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5. Jacso P.; As we may search – Comparison of major features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar citation-based and citation-enhanced databases; Current science Vol 89, No 9; 10 November 2005

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THE ENDTHANKS FOR THE ATENTION

GROUP:

Ana Francisca Costa

Cristina Soeiro

Joana Catarata

Patrícia Seabra

Hugo Carvalho

Luís Morgado

Tiago Tuna

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