Researcher and Author Profiles: Opportunities, Advantages, and Limitations.

Researcher and Author Profiles: Opportunities, Advantages, and Limitations.

Gasparyan AY, Nurmashev B, Yessirkepov M, Endovitskiy DA, Voronov AA, Kitas GD. Researcher and author profiles: opportunities, advantages, and limitations. Journal of Korean medical science. 2017 Nov 1;32(11):1749-56. Have you often found yourself wondering- "Are the online platforms I use for getting information all very similar, or are they different?" For instance, how do you know if PubMed is any different from Publons? Would ScienceDirect give you the same results as ScienceOpen? So many of you use PubMed, but how many of you know that ORCID issues unique identifiers for authors and contributor names in PubMed so that you don't…
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Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews

Paez A. Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews. J Evid Based Med. 2017 Aug; 10(3):233-2 Systematic reviews are publications that provide a state-of-art synthesis of evidence on any given research question. While clinical trials and large studies are analysed to synthesize evidence, you cannot afford to ignore gray literature. The concept of Gray literature is described in this article as “that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers”. Simply put, gray literature comprises the whole collection of research works that have…
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Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation

Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation

Drozd B, Couvillon E, Suarez A. Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review. JMIR medical education. 2018 Jan;4(1). Do your patients check YouTube videos for getting health information? The answer is a most likely "Yes". Not only would they get them directly on YouTube, but their friends would forward them YouTube links too. How many of them think about the authenticity / quality of these videos? And if they did, how many would know how to evaluate them and then make a decision to view them? Here is a review article where the authors have identified 37 studies…
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