INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 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?

INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 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 INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 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 INTRODUCTION

THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE 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 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 Secundary Questions What database to use to the articles collection? – What to search? – How to search? – How to classify?

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY DATABASE SELECTION (5, 6, 7)

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY PARTICIPANT SELECTION 2. 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

THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE 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 PUBLICATIONS 2. PARTICIPANT SELECTION 2. 2 P r e l i m i n a r r e s u l t s - Hosp S. João but not FMUP

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 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.

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 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

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 RESULTS

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY Number of articles by department

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY Sum of the Impact Factor by department

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY Number of articles by department published by authors in first and last position

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY Number of articles by group

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY Sum of impact factor by group

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY Number of articles by group published by authors in first and last position

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 CONCLUSIONS

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 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

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 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

THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 PROTOCOL 1. Select the channel of information 2. Choose of the query 3. Research at ISI the articles with the chosen query, in Select the articles published by FMUP, in Analyse the quality criteria of each article 6. Organize all the information in SPSS 7. Statistic analysis 8. Results 9. Discussion 10. Conclusion INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE

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THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 REFERENCES 1.Garfield E. Citation indexes for science: a new dimension in documentation through association of ideas. Science 1955,122: 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: The Impact Factor, from the Thomson ISI website 4.Strehl L. Impact factor od ISI and evaluation of scientific production: conceptual and methodological aspects In: Ci. Inf. vol.34 no1. Brasília Jan./Apr 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 Bakkalbasi, N; Kathleenauer B, Glover J, Wang L: Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science; Biomed Digit Libr. 2006; 3:7 7.Giustini D.; Barsky E: A look at Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations; JCHLA / JABSC, : 85–89

THIRD PRESENTATION MAY 2007 THE END THANKS FOR THE ATENTION GROUP: Ana Francisca Costa Cristina Soeiro Joana Catarata Patrícia Seabra Hugo Carvalho Luís Morgado Tiago Tuna INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE