The relative citation ratio: what is it and why should medical librarians care?

Bibliometrics is becoming increasingly prominent in the world of medical libraries. The number of presentations related to research impact at the Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting has been increasing in past years. Medical centers have been using institutional dashboards to track clin...

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Autores principales: Surkis, Alisa, Spore, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medical Library Association 2018
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271298
http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.499
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description Bibliometrics is becoming increasingly prominent in the world of medical libraries. The number of presentations related to research impact at the Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting has been increasing in past years. Medical centers have been using institutional dashboards to track clinical performance for over a decade, and more recently, these institutional dashboards have included measures of academic performance. This commentary reviews current practices and considers the role for a newer metric, the relative citation ratio.
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spelling pubmed-61485952018-10-01 The relative citation ratio: what is it and why should medical librarians care? Surkis, Alisa Spore, Stuart J Med Libr Assoc Commentary Bibliometrics is becoming increasingly prominent in the world of medical libraries. The number of presentations related to research impact at the Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting has been increasing in past years. Medical centers have been using institutional dashboards to track clinical performance for over a decade, and more recently, these institutional dashboards have included measures of academic performance. This commentary reviews current practices and considers the role for a newer metric, the relative citation ratio. Medical Library Association 2018-10 2018-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6148595/ /pubmed/30271298 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.499 Text en Copyright: © 2018, Authors. Articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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