10/17/24 (#15)

Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements. Relatively fine-grained measurements about publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Relatively large-grained measurements about complete text corpora. 

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• Updates:
  
  • CITI and IRB issues
  • We will need IRB approval to work with data, even public data like SEER. This means getting "CITI" certification and submit applications for IRB approval.
  • Go to https://about.citiprogram.org/ which is where the "CITI" program is.
  • Click to go to "Select Your Organizational Affiliation" and find UALR.
  • You'll have to register at the site: see the "REGISTRATION" link
  • Ultimately take the online mini-course "RCR - Responsible Conduct of Research" and get the certificate of completion.
  • Paper discussion hints:
  • There is a section about how to deal with an article that you are want to review or discuss in my hints for PhD students, at: https://thehumanraceintospace.blogspot.com/p/how-to-do-research-and-get-phd-few-hints.html.
• TO updates:
• See https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com/p/to.html for latest plans
• Teach us something about one of the articles being read... we want to learn!
  
• Will be away Oct. 17 & 24. But then later will teach us something more!
• Update: is writing the proposal draft.
  
• NM updates:
  
• Teach us something about the paper at https://akjournals.com/view/journals/11192/82/2/article-p391.xml... we want to learn! Some time will tell us about the "H-type" index.
  
• Update: thesis document is essentially finished being drafted.
  
• HB will be gone 10/24 & 10/31.
  

• R&D (read & discuss): 
• It was suggested for people to present summaries of papers during meetings.
• Meho, L.; Akl, E. Using Bibliometrics to Detect Unconventional Authorship Practices and Examine Their Impact on Global Research Metrics, 2019-2023. Preprints 2024, 2024070691, https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0691.v1. We finished up to but not including Table 1.
  
• We adjourned at around: 12:11.