Gali Halevi

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | MSSM · Academic Informatics & Technology

Content marketing can be a powerful tool formarketing the services of academic and healthsciences libraries. Competing for the attention ofbusy students and faculty, the library must developits own channels of engagement, which makescontent-driven activities essential. A commonexample is resource licensing. Once a library licensesa new resource, dr...

In this study we sought to find whether there is a correlation between the journals that scientists read to those that they publish in. For the analysis, we selected the journals that include at least 10 articles authored or coauthored by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai scientists and journals that were used at least 10,000 times in 2015. F...

In this paper we explore post retraction citations to retracted papers. The reasons for retractions in our sample were data manipulation, small sample size, scientific misconduct, and duplicate publication by the authors. We found, that the huge majority of the citations are positive, and the citing papers usually fail to mention that the cited art...

This purpose of this study was to discover whether there are scholarly evaluation metrics that can be applied to a wide range of books’ types and contents. We analyzed over 70,000 books and collected various metrics per each title including traditional and altmetrics measures. The analysis in this paper depicts the top books showing the highest rat...

A new methodology is proposed for comparing Google Scholar (GS) with other citation indexes. It focuses on the coverage and citation impact of sources, indexing speed, and data quality, including the effect of duplicate citation counts. The method compares GS with Elsevier's Scopus, and is applied to a limited set of articles published in 12 journa...

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are significant charges for publishing Open Access (OA), and have no accepted standards for authors to source the funds or negotiate the charges. While there is a growing body of literature exploring academic authors’ perceptions of OA publishing, there is little data on how authors pay for APCs. The aim of this st...

Since 1990, systematic reviews are growing exponentially with thousands being published each year. The objectives of this study were to determine both their temporal characteristics in terms of growth per year, subject areas, and publishing affiliations as well as their scientific impact. In this study we used 106,038 systematic reviews collected f...

For 3 years Henk Moed acted as the editor in chief of “Research Trends” (RT), an online publication from Elsevier that aimed to provide straightforward insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric research. During his tenure, the publication saw a tremendous growth in scope and content. Thanks to Henk’s directive and contributions, what st...

Henk Moed’s scientific works are well known. He is a prolific author whose publications have been highly cited through the years. With hundreds of publications indexed in various databases, his profile features thousands of citations and a high h-index. Henk’s work includes collaborations with over 60 authors from 30 countries spanning across conti...

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the scholarly and scientific achievements of Judit Bar-Ilan through an analysis of her publications. The article sketches the various disciplines she published in, her collaboration network as well as the impact of her work seen by citations and altmetric indicators.

This article describes some of the characteristics of retracted articles in Arts and Humanities. A total 129 retracted articles in Arts and Humanities journals were identified using Retraction Watch and Scopus and then analyzed. The analysis shows that the main reasons for retracting Arts and Humanities articles is recycling and plagiarism. The ana...

This paper examines the data accuracy and number of altmetric counts reported by Mendeley, altmetric.com and PlumX at two points in time: June 2017 and April 2018 for the dataset of 2,728 articles and reviews published in JASIST between 2001 and 2014. The findings show growth in the number of citations and Mendeley readers over time. In addition, t...

Electronic books are a substantial component of many academic libraries. Many libraries aim to make their collections easily discoverable through curated lists. The authors’ library devised a methodology to identify and flag all e-books authored by our institution’s faculty using MARCEdit and Microsoft Access. We highlight some of the challenges in...

This article describes how The Levy Library at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai founded its institutional Publishing Press and journals to support scientific publishing education. By creating trainee-driven open access journals, the library was able to offer students, trainees and faculty an opportunity to edit, manage and publish scient...

Background: In this study we surveyed over 200 healthcare leaders who hold high level management positions across institutions regarding their use and awareness of social media. Method: An online and on-site survey was used to gather information about social media use. Results: The survey found that that healthcare leaders have very little awarenes...

This article reports on a multi-dimensional model to collection development and licensing applied in our library following a major separation from a joint-licensing venture with another institution. Our model includes the use of several core metrics, including usage and the context in which usage is measured. The model includes three metrics; Resea...

A recent survey from Pew Research Center (NW, Washington & Inquiries 2018) found that over 44 million people receive science-related information from social media channels to which they subscribe. These include a variety of topics such as new discoveries in health sciences as well as “news you can use” information with practical tips (p. 3). Social...

There are three main reasons for retraction: (1) ethical misconduct (e.g. duplicate publication, plagiarism, missing credit, no IRB, ownership issues, authorship issues, interference in the review process, citation manipulation); (2) scientific distortion (e.g. data manipulation, fraudulent data, unsupported conclusions, questionable data validity,...

In this article we examined the scholarly output and impact of 81 women scientist at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Mount Sinai. The group was divided into three career level sub-groups based on the first year of publication of each scientist. We examined the number of publications, citations, readership and social media attention pe...

As Google Scholar (GS) gains more ground as free scholarly literature retrieval source it’s becoming important to understand its quality and reliability in terms of scope and content. Studies comparing GS to controlled databases such as Scopus, Web of Science (WOS) and others have been published almost since GS inception. These studies focus on its...

This study examines the nature of citations to articles that were retracted in 2014. Out of 987 retracted articles found in ScienceDirect, an Elsevier full text database, we selected all articles that received more than 10 citations between January 2015 and March 2016. Since the retraction year was known for only about 83% of the retracted articles...

This article examines whether domestic or international mobility of scientists have positive effect on the productivity or impact of their work. We analyzed 100 top producing authors from 7 disciplines and found that mobility between at least two affiliations increases both output (number of publications) and impact (number of citations). However,...

A new methodology is proposed for comparing Google Scholar (GS) with other citation indexes. It focuses on the coverage and citation impact of sources, indexing speed, and data quality, including the effect of duplicate citation counts. The method compares GS with Elsevier’s Scopus, and is applied to a limited set of articles published in 12 journa...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether scientific mobility, either between countries or between affiliations has an effect on researchers’ productivity and impact. In order to investigate this issue, we examined the relationships between the number of institutional affiliations and countries of the top 100 authors in seven disciplines. Th...

A statistical analysis of full text downloads of articles in Elsevier's ScienceDirect covering all disciplines reveals large differences in download frequencies, their skewness, and their correlation with Scopus-based citation counts, between disciplines, journals, and document types. Download counts tend to be 2 orders of magnitude higher and less...

This study was designed to examine the manner by which academic personnel including students, faculty, librarians and administrators, not only access and read scientific literature bust also interacts with it. In addition, the study examines whether there are differences in accessing, reading and interaction behavior between different groups in aca...

This article presents two bibliometric techniques for the study of international scientific migration and international collaboration. The first is based on tracking of an author's career in terms of the institutions from which he or she has published their research articles, and the second on co-authorship relations between researchers active in d...

The increase of data availability and computational advances has led to a plethora of metrics and indicators being developed for different levels of research evaluation. Whether at the individual, program, department or institution level, there are numerous methodologies and indicators offered to capture the impact of research output. These advance...

In the past decade, many scientific literature publishers have implemented usage monitoring systems based on data including clickstreams, downloads and views of scholarly publications recorded on an article level, that allow them to capture the number of times articles are downloaded in their PDF or HTML formats. This type of data is not only used...

This article introduces the Multidimensional Research Assessment Matrix of scientific output. Its base notion holds that the choice of metrics to be applied in a research assessment process depends upon the unit of assessment, the research dimension to be assessed, and the purposes and policy context of the assessment. An indicator may by highly us...

The assessment of scientific merit and individuals has a long and respectable history which has been demonstrated in numerous methods and models utilizing different data sources and approaches. The proliferation and increasing availability of primary data has created the ability to evaluate research on many levels and degrees of complexity, but ha...

A bibliometric approach is explored to tracking international scientific migration, based on an analysis of the affiliation countries of authors publishing in peer reviewed journals indexed in ScopusTM. The paper introduces a model that relates base concepts in the study of migration to bibliometric constructs, and discusses the potentialities and...

This article analyzes the context of citations within the full text of research articles. It studies articles published in a single journal: the Journal of Informetrics (JOI), in the first year the journal was published, 2007. The analysis classified the citations into in- and out-disciplinary content and looked at their use within the articles' se...

The main purposes of this paper are to sketch the general trends of funded A&H awards by: - Allocated capital: i.e. how much money is dedicated to A&H funding over time - Geographical distribution and monetary attributions: i.e. how much funding is allocated to A&H and in which countries - Type of funding: i.e. what are the comparative contribution...

In this article, we sought to find out the extent to which CAM has penetrated modern practices by means of a bibliometric study that looks at journals, articles and citations of alternative medicine in mainstream medical research.

This study introduces a bibliometric approach to study international scientific migration, based on an analysis of the affiliation countries of authors publishing in peer reviewed scientific-scholarly journals indexed in Scopus. A model is presented relating base notions in migration and collaboration studies to bibliometric constructs, and its pot...

This study examines the characteristics of research articles published in Library Science journals and the manner by which they are cited in patents. A search of 42 top performing LIS journals within the non patent literature citations between 1991 and 2011 revealed 8 distinct journals cited in patents. The articles cited were mainly ones featuring...

Field study discovered some information needs of homeless people visiting public libraries in New York. During summer 2006, reference areas of New York public libraries were observed unobtrusively to track homeless patrons’ use of library resources and services. Findings include the use of resources and services by homeless patrons groups.

The team from Long Island University (LIU) participated for the first time in the TREC 2007 Legal Track – Interactive Task. We received a call for participation in mid-March 2007 while a doctoral seminar titled Information Retrieval was in session. All nine students, evenly divided into three groups, performed this task till early May when the seme...