Publication Alert

Journal citation cartels?

51 journals were given "time-outs" from the Impact Factors

Last week, Thompson Reuters published the 2011 edition of Journal Citation Reports, otherwise known as the Journal Impact Factors.?á Several things are new about this newest edition of JCR such as?á increased coverage of regional journals and the addition of 526 new journals to the Impact Factor rolls.?á However, one new factor, while positive for JCR, was not very positive for journal publishers.?á JCR removed 51 journals for “anomalous citation patterns,” aka: systemic self-citation.

How do these “anomalous citations patterns” occur??á There are several ways:

1.?á Editors may require authors to cite articles in the publishing journal.

2.?á An editor may publish a short review article citing every article in the journal published within a certain time period.

3.?á An editor may publish a bibliometric study of the papers published in the?á journal and then cite each paper.

4.?á Several journals may cooperate to form a “citation cartel” whereby the journals cite each other in order to raise their impact factors.?á These cartels can be much more difficult to detect because the citations are not just self-cites, they contain cites in several journals.

Although these journals were removed from the JCR for 2011, they will have a chance to return to the impact factor rolls when their citation patterns return to a similar pattern to other journals within their field.

According to Thompson Reuters:

“Suppressed titles were found to have anomalous citation patterns resulting in a significant distortion of the Journal Impact Factor, so that the rank does not accurately reflect the journalÔÇÖs citation performance in the literature. The Journal Impact Factor provides an important and objective measure of a journalÔÇÖs contribution to scholarly communication, and its distortion by an excessive concentration of citations is a serious matter. JCR staff will monitor these journals going forward and the titles will be included in a future edition of JCR when the problem of citation concentration has been resolved.”

Whatever you may feel about the validity and usefulness of a journal’s Impact Factor, this year’s JCR demonstrates that Thompson Reuters attempts to uphold high standards in scholarly publishing.

For more information about the Citation Cartels, check out The Scholarly Kitchen.

LSUHSC affiliated patrons can access the newest Journal Citation Reports through this link.

Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

Available for checkout in the library

Do patients have rights to revenue streams should their tissue hold value for biomedical research? Science Journal’s Policy Forum discusses the ethics of tissue research as examined in Rebecca Skloot’s book?áthe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which was LSUHSC’s first book club selection ealier this year. Physician-investigators weigh in on property rights in human tissue and investigators’ obligations to individuals from whom they seek tissue for research.

Full citation: Science 6 July 2012:
Vol. 337 no. 6090 pp. 37-38
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216888?á(barcode & PIN?árequired?áoff campus)
POLICY FORUM -?áRESEARCH ETHICS
Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Robert D. Truog -?áChildren’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA,?áAaron S. Kesselheim?áBrigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA, Steven Joffe -?áDana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

LSUHSC-NO Researchers Spotlighted in July

The Library has placed the latest round of featured faculty publications on display for the month of July. Eight recent articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1.?áAtkinson E, Miklowski M, Lopez F, Klibert D. ÔÇ£Clinical Case of the Month: A 23-Year-Old Man with Fever and Malaise.ÔÇØ Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society. 2012; 164(3): 164-175.

2.?áCrombet O, Lastrapes K, Zieske A, Morales-Arias J. “Complete morphologic and molecular remission after introduction of dasatinib in the treatment of a pediatric patient with t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and ABL1 amplification.” Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2012; 59(2): 333-334.

3.?áHomer MA, Rubin SS, Horowitz TD, Richter E. “Linguistic testing during ON/OFF states of electrical stimulation in the associative portion of the subthalamic nucleus.” Neuromodulation. 2012; 15(3): 238-245.

4.?áLanson NA, Pandey UB. “FUS-related proteinopathies: Lessons from animal models.” Brain Research. 2012; 1462: 44-60.

5.?áLarzelere MM, Williams DE. “Promoting smoking cessation.” American Family Physician. 2012; 85(6): 591-598.

6.?áGoldstein BD, Osofsky HJ, Lichtveld MY. “Current concepts: The gulf oil spill.” New England Journal of Medicine. 2011; 364(14): 1334-1348.

7.?áOsofsky HJ, Osofsky JD, Hansel TC. “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Mental Health Effects on Residents in Heavily Affected Areas.” Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness. 2011; 5(4): 280-286.

Also Featured This Month: LSUHSC-NO Participants in the 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 23-27ÔÇöSan Francisco, California. Published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. 2012; 36(s1): 1A-398A.

Recent (brief) Interview with Rowena Spencer

Pictured: Rowena Spencer, Cruz Hernandez, infant patient – July 1964

Happy Birthday to former/retired faculty member, Rowena Spencer on her 90th birthday.

A recent brief interview with her was published on the American Medical Student Association Blog.

The Isché Library has two copies of her 2003 monograph, Conjoined twins: developmental malformations and clinical implications.

Friday Fun: the first MRI of a baby being born

A recent video making the Internet rounds is the first MRI of a baby being born.

The images were shot during a normal birth at Charit?® University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, in November, 2010, researchers say in a report published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Still MRI pictures of the birth were previously published, but this is the first look at the video, made with time-lapsed images over the last 45 minutes of labor.

The MRI is of a baby boy in the final moments in utero and his mother, a 24-year-old woman with two younger children. The last moments of birth (the “money shot” if you will) are not included. Physicians shut down the MRI machine slightly before delivery because they did not want to expose the baby’s ears to the common thumping sound associated with MRIs.

Reports USA Today, “The doctors don’t say how they convinced a woman to go through the final stages of labor in an MRI machine — but do say she weathered the experience just fine.”

Citation

Bamberg C, Rademacher G, G??ttler F, Teichgr?ñber U, Cremer M, B??hrer C, Spies C, Hinkson L, Henrich W, Kalache KD, Dudenhausen JW.?áHuman birth observed in real-time open magnetic resonance imaging. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Jun;206(6):505.e1-6. Epub 2012 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 22425409.
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Top 10 free iPad Medical Apps

Just in time for medical internships to begin July 1st, iMedicalApps.com ?áhas released a curated list of top 10 free iPad medical apps. Resources include AHRQ’S EPSS, MicroMedex, and MedScape. Notoriously missing is Epocrates.com. Why? Turns out they don’t even have a native app for iPad.

Check out the link for the entire list, short reviews and videos after the cut. (Users must ?álog in or create a free iMedicalApps account to view the videos, which this librarian finds highly annoying.)

Read more >

New Issue of the Library Bulletin

The latest issue of the LibraryÔÇÖs Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.

Kick off Summer with LSUHSC-NO Research

This monthÔÇÖs featured faculty publications are now on display! Eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1. Atencio DC, Gachiani JM, Richter EO. ÔÇ£Air embolus to arachnoid cyst as a rare delayed complication of intrathecal medication delivery.ÔÇØ?á Neuromodulation.?á2012; 15(1): 35-38.

2.?áColeman MT, Pasternak RH. ÔÇ£Effective strategies for behavior change.ÔÇØ?á Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice.?á2012; 39(2): 281-305.

3.?áHonore PA, Stefanak M, Dessens S. ÔÇ£Anatomy of a public health agency turnaround: The case of the General Health District in Mahoning County.ÔÇØ?áJournal of Public Health Management & Practice.?á2012; 18(4): 364-371.

4.?áLedet EM, Sartor O, Rayford W, Bailey-Wilson JE, Mandal DM. ÔÇ£Suggestive evidence of linkage identified at chromosomes 12q24 and 2p16 in African American prostate cancer families from Louisiana.”?áProstate.?á2012; 72(9): 938-947.

5.?áLisch W, Bron AJ, Munier FL, Schorderet DF, Tiab L, Lange C, Saikia P, Reinhard T, Weiss JS, Gundlach E, Pleyer U, Lisch C, Auw-Haedrich C. ÔÇ£Franceschetti hereditary recurrent corneal erosion.ÔÇØ?áAmerican Journal of Ophthalmology.?á2012; 153(6): 1073-1081.

6.?áOpelka FG, Rosinia FA. ÔÇ£The surgical quality alliance.ÔÇØ?á Anesthesiology.?á2012; 117(6): 1-2.

7.?áPan B, Waguespack J, Schnee ME, LeBlanc C, Ricci AJ, Amer Physiological Soc. ÔÇ£Permeation properties of the hair cell mechanotransducer channel provide insight into its molecular structure.ÔÇØ?áJournal of Neurophysiology.?á2012; 107(9): 2408-2420.

8.?áTokg?Âz Z, Siepmann TJ, Streich Jr. F, Kumar B, Klein JM, Haas AL. ÔÇ£E1-E2 interactions in ubiquitin and Nedd8 ligation pathways.ÔÇØ?áJournal of Biological Chemistry.?á2012; 287(1): 311-321.

Faculty Articles for May

This month’s featured faculty publications are now on display! Eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1.?áBamgbola OF. ÔÇ£Pattern of resistance to erythropoietin-stimulating agents in chronic kidney disease.ÔÇØ?áKidney International.?á2011; 80(5):464-474.

2.?áHe J, Bazan HE. ÔÇ£Mapping the nerve architecture of diabetic human corneas.ÔÇØ?áOphthalmology.?á2012; 119(5):956-964.

3.?áKoski ME, Chermansky CJ. ÔÇ£Does estrogen have any real effect on voiding dysfunction in women?ÔÇØ?áCurrent Urology Reports.?á2011; 12(5):345-350.

4.?áLarochelle J, King A, Tanas M, Day K, Marshall H, Patel S, Tyler A. ÔÇ£The pharmacy practitioner’s g uide to publishing.ÔÇØ?áHospital Pharmacy.?á2012; 47(4):279-284.

5.?áLopez C, Ilie CC, Glancy DL, Quintal RE. ÔÇ£Goldberger’s electrocardiographic triad in patients with echocardiographic severe left ventricular dysfunction.ÔÇØ?áAmerican Journal of Cardiology.?á2012; 109(6):914-918.

6.?áPerrin, KM, Begue, RE. ÔÇ£Use of palivizumab in primary practice.ÔÇØ Pediatrics. 2012; 129(1): 55-61.

7.?áStuke LE, Pons PT, Guy JS, Chapleau WP, Butler FK, McSwain NE. ÔÇ£Prehospital spine immobilization for penetrating trauma–review and recommendations from the prehospital trauma life support executive committee.ÔÇØ?áJournal of Trauma.?á2011; 71(3):763-9; discussion 769-70.

8.?áYoshida T, Semprun-Prieto L, Wainford RD, Sukhanov S, Kapusta DR, Delafontaine P. ÔÇ£Angiotensin II reduces food intake by altering orexigenic neuropeptide expression in the mouse hypothalamus.ÔÇØ Endocrinology.?á2012; 153(3):1411-1420.

Recent Faculty Publishings

Eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the Library’s Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the Library’s Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 – present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a PDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1. Ballif B, Rosenfeld J, Traylor R, Theisen A, Bader P, Ladda R, Sell S, Steinraths M, Surti U, McGuire M, Williams S, Farrell S, Filiano J, Schnur R, Coffey L, Tervo R, Stroud T, Marble M, Netzloff M, Hanson K. ÔÇ£High-resolution array CGH defines critical regions and candidate genes for microcephaly, abnormalities of the corpus callosum, and seizure phenotypes in patients with microdeletions of 1q43q44.ÔÇØ Human Genetics. 2012; 131(1): 145-156.
2. Cole L, Polfus L, Peters ES. ÔÇ£Examining the incidence of human papillomavirus-associated head and neck cancers by race and ethnicity in the U.S., 1995-2005.ÔÇØ PLoS One. 2012; 7(3): e32657.
3. Fitzgerald-DeJean D, Rubin SS, Carson RL. ÔÇ£An application of the experience sampling method to the study of aphasia: A case report.ÔÇØ Aphasiology. 2012; 26(2): 234-251.
4. Geisz-Everson MA, Bennett MJ, Dodd-McCue D, Biddle C. ÔÇ£Disrupted by disaster: Shared experiences of student registered nurse anesthetists affected by Hurricane Katrina.ÔÇØ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing. 2012; 50(1): 32-38.
5. Hsieh M-C, Velasco C, Wu X-C, Pareti LA, Andrews PA, Chen VW. ÔÇ£Influence of socioeconomic status and hospital type on disparities of lymph node evaluation in colon cancer patients.ÔÇØ Cancer. 2012; 118(6): 1675- 1683.
6. Martin DH. ÔÇ£The microbiota of the vagina and its influence on women’s health and disease.ÔÇØ American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 2012; 343 (1): 2-9.
7. Zolochevska O, Xia X, Williams BJ, Ramsay A, Li S, Figueiredo ML. ÔÇ£Sonoporation delivery of interleukin-27 gene therapy efficiently reduces prostate tumor cell growth in vivo.ÔÇØ Human Gene Therapy. 2011; 22(12): 1537-1550.

Also Featured: Conference abstracts of the February 2012 Southern Regional Meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research, which was held in New Orleans. Various LSUHSC authors.

Faculty Research Highlighted

Eight recent articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers are on display in the Library. The publications on are on view in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building, and are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1. Chen K, McAleer JP, Lin Y, Paterson DL, Zheng M, Alcorn JF, Weaver CT, Kolls JK. “Th17 cells mediate clade-specific, serotype-independent mucosal immunity.” Immunity. 2011; 35(6): 997-1009.
2. Li YY, Alexandrov PN, Pogue AI, Zhao Y, Bhattacharjee S, Lukiw WJ. “miRNA-155 upregulation and complement factor H deficits in down’s syndrome.” NeuroReport. 2012; 23(3):168-173.
3. Liu SJ, Savtchouk I. “Ca 2+ permeable AMPA receptors switch allegiances: Mechanisms and consequences.” Journal of Physiology. 2012; 590(1): 13-20.
4. Melvan JN, Siggins RW, Stanford WL, Porretta C, Nelson S, Bagby GJ, Zhang P. “Alcohol impairs the myeloid proliferative response to bacteremia in mice by inhibiting the stem cell antigen-1/ERK pathway.” Journal of Immunology. 2012; 188(4): 1961-1969.
5. Russo VM, Graziano F, Peris-Celda M, Russo A, Ulm AJ. “The V2 segment of the vertebral artery: Anatomical considerations and surgical implications – laboratory investigation.” Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 2011; 15(6): 610-619.
6. Taylor T, Zitzmann MB. “Dipylidium caninum in a 4-month old male.” Clinical Laboratory Science. 2011; 24(4): 212-214.
7. Xiao L, Gao L, Lazartigues E, Zucker IH. “Brain-selective overexpression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 attenuates sympathetic nerve activity and enhances baroreflex function in chronic heart failure.” Hypertension. 2011; 58(6): 1057-1065.
8. Yano J, Noverr MC, Fidel PL, Jr. “Cytokines in the host response to candida vaginitis: Identifying a role for non-classical immune mediators, S100 alarmins.” Cytokine. 2012; 58(1): 118-128.

Articles by LSUHSC-NO Scholars Kick Off Spring

There are eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers now displayed in the Library. The publications on are on view in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building, and are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page here. This page includes a handy link to a PDF of the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact Kathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

Desai SD, Reed RE, Burks J, Wood LM, Pullikuth AK, Haas AL, Liu LF, Breslin JW, Meiners S, Sankar S. ÔÇ£ISG15 disrupts cytoskeletal architecture and promotes motility in human breast cancer cells.ÔÇØ Experimental Biology & Medicine. Jan 2012; 237:38-49.

Harch PG, Andrews SR, Fogarty EF, Amen D, Pezzullo JC, Lucarini J, Aubrey C, Taylor DV, Staab PK, Van Meter KW. ÔÇ£A phase I study of low-pressure hyperbaric oxygen therapy for blast-induced post-concussion syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder.ÔÇØ Journal of Neurotrauma. Jan 2012; 29(1):168-185.

Pedersen KB, Sriramula S, Chhabra KH, Xia H, Lazartigues E. ÔÇ£Species-specific inhibitor sensitivity of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and its implication for ACE2 activity assays.ÔÇØ American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative Physiology. Nov 2011; 301(5):R1293-1299.

Starr, SP. ÔÇ£Genetic Blood Disorders: questions you need to ask.ÔÇØ Journal of Family Practice. Jan 2012; 61(1):37-37.

Theall KP, Scribner R, Broyles S, Yu Q, Chotalia J, Simonsen N, Schonlau M, Carlin BP. ÔÇ£Impact of small group size on neighbourhood influences in multilevel models.ÔÇØ Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Aug 2011; 65(8):688-695.

Wang P, Thevenot P, Saravia J, Ahlert T, Cormier SA. ÔÇ£Radical-containing particles activate dendritic cells and enhance Th17 inflammation in a mouse model of asthma.ÔÇØ American Journal of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology. Nov 2011; 45(5):977-983.

Wang Y, Shenouda S, Baranwal S, Rathinam R, Jain P, Bao L, Hazari S, Dash S, Alahari SK. ÔÇ£Integrin subunits alpha5 and alpha6 regulate cell cycle by modulating the chk1 and Rb/E2F pathways to affect breast cancer metastasis.ÔÇØ Molecular Cancer. Jul 2011; 10:84.

Wu XC, Lund MJ, Kimmick GG, Richardson LC, Sabatino SA, Chen VW, Fleming ST, Morris CR, Huang B, Trentham-Dietz A, Lipscomb J. ÔÇ£Influence of race, insurance, socioeconomic status, and hospital type on receipt of guideline-concordant adjuvant systemic therapy for locoregional breast cancers.ÔÇØ Journal of Clinical Oncology. Jan 2012; 30(2):142-150.

New Issue of the Library Bulletin

The latest issue of the LibraryÔÇÖs Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.

CDC’s Carnival Advisory

Library Shoebox Float - 2010

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a Carnival Advisory linked from their main webpage at the moment.

A couple of quick points about the page:

Nursing Jobs???

The November/December 2011 issue of the publication Dean’s Notes has an interesting article reporting the number of recent RN graduates who have been unable to find jobs in nursing. Don’t like what you are reading? Critique the author’s research methodology.