Severe limitations of the FEve metric of functional evenness and some alternative metrics [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The metric of functional evenness FEve is an example of how approaches to conceptualizing and measuring functional variability may go astray. This index has several critical conceptual and practical drawbacks: Different values of the FEve index for the ...
Evsey Kosman +2 more
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Alternative metrics for assessing clinical benefit with immunotherapy in oncology [PDF]
OncoImmunology, 2019 Therapies for cancer have traditionally been assessed with metrics such as the response rate, hazard ratio, or median survival. Such metrics have value in measuring the outcomes of conventional therapies, but may not be the most appropriate for new ...
E. Chan +6 more
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Recent trends in the use of social media in parasitology and the application of alternative metrics [PDF]
Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2021 In recent times, the use of social media for the dissemination of “news and views” in parasitology has increased in popularity. News, Twitter and Blogs have emerged as commonplace vehicles in the knowledge dissemination and transfer process.
John Ellis +3 more
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A Bibliometric Analysis Using Alternative Metrics for Articles in the [PDF]
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020 Objective To investigate the articles in the Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine (ARM) using a bibliometric analysis to verify whether there is a correlation between the topics of interest for expert groups and the public media.
Seok Cheol Han +4 more
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Alternative article-level metrics: The use of alternative metrics in research evaluation. [PDF]
EMBO Rep, 2018 EMBO Reports (2018)e47260 Over the past few years, a new group of metrics, known as alternative metrics or altmetrics, has become the topic of interest and research in scientometrics. The name indicates that it begs to differ from classical bibliometrics by providing an alternative to citation analysis.
Bornmann L, Haunschild R.
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Complementary and alternative metrics for tracking population-level trends in child linear growth. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Stunting prevalence is commonly used to track population-level child nutritional status. However, other metrics derived from anthropometric datasets may be used as alternatives to stunting or provide complementary perspectives on the status of linear ...
Ashley M Aimone +7 more
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Bibliometric and Alternative Metrics
Наукові праці Національної бібліотеки України імені В.І. Вернадського, 2016 The article analyzes the state and development of technologies of effectiveness of science researches evaluation in conditions of rapid development of science and progressive accumulation of huge scattered arrays of scientific information.
Zhabin Olexander
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Relationship Between Effective Dose, Alternative Metrics, and SSDE: Experiences with Two CT Dose-Monitoring Systems [PDF]
DiagnosticsBackground: We assessed the frequency and causes of discrepancies in CT dose indices such as dose-length product (DLP), size-specific dose estimate (SSDE), and effective dose (ED), as calculated by CT dose-monitoring systems.
Lilla Szatmáriné Egeresi +10 more
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Surface metrics: an alternative to patch metrics for the quantification of landscape structure
Landscape Ecology, 2009 Modern landscape ecology is based on the patch mosaic paradigm, in which landscapes are conceptualized and analyzed as mosaics of discrete patches. While this model has been widely success- ful, there are many situations where it is more meaningful to model landscape structure based on continuous rather than discrete spatial heterogeneity.
Sermin Tagil +2 more
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Ecological and economic implications of alternative metrics in biodiversity offset markets [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2022 Martin Dallimer +2 more
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