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Does hybridization between divergent progenitors drive whole-genome duplication?
No full textThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: BUGGS, R. J. A., SOLTIS, P. S. and SOLTIS, D. E. (2009), Does hybridization between divergent progenitors drive whole-genome duplication?. Molecular Ecology, 18: 3334–3339, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04285.x This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Harnessing fern stress adaptations: From evolution and ecophysiology to molecular biology
No full textFerns are the second most diverse vascular plant lineage after angiosperms and have been a key ecological component of Earth's biodiversity for more than 380 million years. Importantly, ferns are sister to seed plants, providing a critical outgroup for understanding the evolution of seed plant features. Ferns are remarkably resilient to abiotic and biotic stresses due to a long evolutionary history with adaptations to diverse habitats, stresses, and herbivores. As a result, ferns produce a multitude of secondary metabolites with unique bioactivities; these chemicals are potentially linked to the adaptation of ferns to herbivory, various abiotic and biotic stresses, and changing environments. Assembled reference genomes and the identification of key metabolic compounds of multiple ferns have already made significant contributions to human health and well-being. Here, we review the recent scientific advances in fern research, including evolution, stress resistance, metabolites and medicinal utilization, and comparative multi-omics applications. We propose that integrated investigations involving ecological, physiological, and molecular techniques will facilitate the future research translation of fern resources in diverse areas including soil remediation, biopesticides, and medicine. Advances in our understanding of fern molecular biology will provide new insights into the evolution of land plants and promote the utilization of ferns for heightened environmental restoration, crop protection and human health.Dongmei Yang, Guang Chen, Wei Jiang, D. Blaine Marchant, Shengguan Cai, Xiaoshu Zhu, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Zhong-Hua Che
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
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