Relationship between bibliometric indicators and university ranking positions.

A growing interest for demonstrating prestige and status of higher education institutions has spurred the establishment of several international ranking systems. A major percentage of these rankings include parameters related to scientific productivity. Here, we examined the differences between diverse rankings as well as correlation with bibliometric parameters and disciplines for the top universities.

[Author-overdose. When will we come clean? - asks the medical librarian].

The present study intends to draw attention to the importance of authorship ethics. It is necessary since papers these days that have many authors--even 10-12 authors--become increasingly general. In the first part of this study the change of author-number in four journals--JAMA, Nature, Lancet and Science--was analyzed based on the main document types--article, editorial material, letter and review--from 1975 until 2009.

[The unknown acquaintance, or the impact factor and others].

Nobody doubts the importance of the scientific performance's evaluation. At the same time its way divides the group of experts. The present study mostly deals with the models of citation-analysis based evaluation.

[Features of publications of Hungarian medical universities as reflected in numbers].

Introduction: The majority of scientific results from Hungarian Medical Universities are published in international periodicals in foreign languages.

Aim: This study shows that in what numbers, with what kind of impact factors and where the results of the scientific work in the Hungarian Medical Universities are published.

Methods: The examined period is between 2000 and 2003.