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The Clinical Informatics Revolution
No full textThis latest IIPP booklet on The Clinical Informatics Revolution represents a foray into subject matter which will profoundly influence the shape of professional practice throughout the NHS in years to come, and with which many members and readers may presently be relatively unfamiliar. This issue follows naturally from our recent survey of workplace attitudes among surgeons to the call by the Secretary of State to move to a Paperless NHS by 2018, published recently as an IIPP. We are grateful to the author for teasing out someof the principles and complexities in this national policy objective, and in pointing us to some possible solutions as we engage with a rapidly changing digital health economy
Trust, quality assurance and the classification of academic publishers
No full textThe behaviour of publishers is central to the sustainability of trust in the academic world. The internet and the open access publishing movement have transformed the modern academic publishing industry through the inherent ease of setting up an academic publishing operation by any institution, professional association or commercial body.In consequence, a very large number of new and primarily online publishers have surged into the industry since the early 2000s from around the world. The ethics, governance, trustworthiness and vulnerability to malign exploitation of these publishers vary hugely. The scope of malign behaviours includes citation and authorship malpractice; paper mills which forge and market content for profit; false content, and bribery and corruption in the editorial process.These factors individually and collectively threaten to undermine the global ecosystem of trustworthy knowledge creation and research investment by nations with a flood of fakery. The recent explosive growth of artificial intelligence systems further empowers malevolent behaviour and threatens further harm to the industry.Modern bibliometric systems can closely analyse the performance of authors, institutions, journals and their publishers with a range of indices and data analytic tools. However, these analyses are demanding of human and technical resources and of scarce bibliometric expertise. There is as yet there no system for the validation and classification of publishers, of the transparency and ethical basis of their business practices, and of their defences against malpractice.The formal development of such a system is overdue. In this essay, the author sets out a range of issues of relevance to the quality assurance of academic publishers, so as to encourage debate on this complex and controversial subject, where there are many competing interests and a very strong profit motive with high margins for the successful participants.<br/
The complex universe of citation data for bibliometric systems
No full textCitation analysis has been the foundation of bibliometrics and of academic performance measurement for 70 years. Citations are based on the references and information networks which underpin academic writing. They are regarded as a proxy for the significance, importance or respect in which the cited article is held and of academic performance.Citations are an imperfect form of the measurement of the impact of ideas, of individuals and organisations, but they underpin a huge global investment in academic appraisal, performance evaluation and promotion systems. SCOPUS and the Web of Science (WoS) are commercial citation systems which support this information ecosystem with quality assurance processes. They process selected academic journals, books and other sources into core collections with detailed author, article and journal based bibliometric profiles. These core collections are regarded as primary sources for citation analysis. Beyond the core collections lie a large number of citation sources, which are identified from the primary sources but which are not curated by SCOPUS or WoS. There are known as secondary sources. Outwith the primary and secondary sources is a large volume of uncurated tertiary content whose size unknown and which is neither linked nor readily targetable for bibliometric analysis. These spheres of sources can be modelled as a “bibliometric universe of citation activity”, which I explore further in this essay. Citation based career recognition creates perverse incentives to game the citation system for personal or institutional gain. Many sophisticated schemes have been devised to create false and dishonestly enhanced citation scores. Efforts must therefore be made to educate the global academic community on the benefits and limitations of citation based evaluations; to maximise the trustworthiness of bibliometric data; and to develop methodologies which minimise the opportunities to game the system for fraudulent purposes.<br/
Blood, heat and + dust: Operation Telic and the British medical deployment to the Gulf 2003-2009
No full textThis is the second edition of the e-book Blood Heat and Dust, which describes British Military Medical Operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, in the wider context of the military campaign and the transformation of complex trauma care. The Author is Southampton Consultant General Surgeon Colonel David Rew QVRM MChir FRCS, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps and of the UK Defence Medical Services Reserve. The book is Illustrated with original paintings by Squadron Leader Gora Pathak RAF and oil paintings by David Rowlands ([email protected]) and with several hundred original photographs. The Foreword to the second edition is written by former Surgeon General, Lt General Louis P. Lillywhite CB MBE.This e-book is made freely available to download, thanks to the Trustees of the Royal Army Medical Corps Charity, who provided a generous grant for pre-production preparation and typesetting.The Creative Commons CC-BY license permits re-use of content, subject to reference to the source using the citation provided on this page
Curating the world's peer-reviewed literature
No full textNew technologies are transforming academic publishing, including surgical research. The author considers a variety of the new systems, platforms and search engines that are fuelling this information revolution, as well as the bibliometrics and citation analysis necessary for filtering quality material for the increasingly inundated researcher.</p
Clinical outcomes in the Google era: The PB Desai Oration, ASICON 2013
No full textThis article is based upon the PB Desai Oration which was given by the author in Ahmedabad on 28th December 2013 at the National Congress of the Association of Surgeons of India at the invitation of the Executive Board of the Indian Association for Surgical Oncology.</p
Conference Report: The 56th Scientific Meeting of the British Association of Surgical Oncology (BAS0)
No full textA Pan-University Role for the WSI Academic Advisory Board in Digital Education: Observations from the Medical Workforce
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