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Scientific Articles Published By FMUP

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REGENT: Professor Dr. Altamiro da Costa Pereira

COORDINATOR: Dr. Armando Teixeira-Pinto

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QUESTION

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

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• The quality of a Faculty can be measured by its Scientific Activity

• The Scientific Activity can be classified based on the quantity and quality of its Scientific Publications

• The Scientific Publications – Scientific Articles – quality is related to the Impact Factor (IF) (1;2) of the scientific journals in which they are published and to the Citation Number (3;4) of the article

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Citation Number(3;4): number of times that the articles were quoted on other articles

Impact Factor (IF)(1;2): the average number of citations of each article of the journal

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Bibliographic Database

• Online access

• Easier and quicker article research

• Examples:

• ISI Web of Knowledge

• PubMed

• Scopus

• …

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AIMS

• 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

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SECONDARY QUESTIONS

1. What database to use to the articles collection?

i. What to search?ii. How to search?iii. How to classify?

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METHOD

1. STUDY DRAW

• The units of observation and analysis are the scientific articles published by FMUP during the year 2005

• Concerning the period of following, this study is classified as a transversal study

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2. CHANNEL OF INFORMATION SELECTION

• The data collection instrument used in this study is the ISI Web of Science Database

WHY?

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2.1 Functionalities

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2.2 Queries

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3. ARTICLES SEARCH

• Query: “Porto OR Oporto”

• Year: 2005

4. SELECTION OF ARTICLES

• Criteria of Selection

4.1 Inclusion Criteria:

• Indexed articles/journals

• All the departments of FMUP

• Researches done by or with collaboration of members of FMUP

• Published in 2005

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4.2 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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5. DEPARTMENT ATRIBUITION

• If the authors of the article happen to belong to different departments of FMUP, it will be classified as belonging to one of them according to the main of the rank author of the article

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6. LIMITATIONS

• The articles published at journals not indexed at ISI are not going to be analysed or classified

• Articles that are not properly referenced

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7. PROTOCOL

1. Select the channel of information2. Choose of the query3. Research using 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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8. STATISTIC ANALYSIS

• SPSS 14.0 will be used for statistic analysis

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REFERENCES

1. The Impact Factor, from the Thomson ISI website

2. Strehl L. Impact factor od ISI and evaluation of scientific production: conceptual and methodological aspects In: Ci.

3. Garfield E. Citation indexes for science: a new dimension in documentation through association of ideas. Science 1955,122:108-111

4. 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.

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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; 2005

6. 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, 2005 26: 85–89

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GROUP:

Ana Francisca Costa

Cristina Soeiro

Joana Catarata

Patrícia Seabra

Hugo Carvalho

Luís Morgado

Tiago Tuna

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