Faculty Publications Research Articles

A Deep Neural Network Model for Classifying Pharmacy Practice Publications into Research Domains

BackgroundPharmacy practice faculty research profiles extend beyond the clinical and social domains, which are core elements of pharmacy practice. But as highlighted by journal editors in the Granada Statements, there is no consensus on these terms. Four domains (clinical, education, social & administrative, and basic & translational) of pharmacy practice faculty research are proposed. Objectives(s): To develop a classifier for categorizing pharmacy practice faculty publications into four proposed domains, and to compare the model with zero-shot performances of state-of-the-art, general purpose large language models (gpLLMs). MethodsOne thousand abstracts from 2018-2021 documents published by pharmacy practice faculty were reviewed, labelled and used to screen and finetune several Bidirectional Encoders Representations from Transformers (BERT) models. The selected model was compared with zero-shot performances of 7 state-of-the-art gpLLMs including ChatGPT-4o, Gemini-1.5-Pro, Claude-3.5, LLAMA-3.1 and Mistral Large, using 80 randomly selected abstracts from 2023 publications labelled with ≥80% consensus by all authors. Classification metrics included F1, recall, precision and accuracy, and reproducibility was measured with Cohen’s kappa. A use case was demonstrated by testing the null hypothesis that the research domain distribution of faculty publications was independent of the pandemic. ResultThe model – Pharmacy Practice Research Domain Classifier (PPRDC) produced a 5-fold stratified cross-validation metrics of 89.4±1.7, 90.2±2.2, 89.0±1.7, and 95.5±0.6, for F1, recall, precision and accuracy, respectively. PPRDC produced perfectly reproducible classifications (Cohen’s kappa = 1.0) and outperformed zero-shot performances of all gpLLMs. F1 scores were 96.2±1.6, 92.7±1.2, 85.8±3.2, and 83.1±9.8 for education, clinical, social, and translational domains, respectively. ConclusionsPPRDC (https://redacted-pprdc.streamlit.app/) performed better than gpLLMs in this abstract classification task. Among several other impacts, PPRDC opens a new frontier in bibliometric studies; it will also advance the goals of the Grenada Statements by aiding authors and journal editors in journal selection and article prioritization decisions, respectively.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Health Sciences Faculty Towards Scholarly Open Access and Predatory Publishing

Health sciences librarians often lack knowledge of the motivations behind faculty publishing behavior. This study establishes some understanding of their choices through interviews with academic health sciences faculty members. Knowledge of the concepts of open access was lacking, as was the differences between open access and predatory publishing. Faculty had varied opinions on publication without robust peer review, its ethical implications, manuscript quality, and trust in scientific publishing. Evidence from this study suggests that librarians must take an active role in shaping the future of scholarly communication through education, advocacy, and a commitment to moving science forward equitably and ethically.

Health sciences faculty publication patterns and related information-seeking behavior.

This study aims to explore how health science faculty publication patterns at a large public research university have changed over time and examine how productivity relates to their information-seeking behavior and perception of the academic library. Two datasets were utilized: one consisted of publication records of health sciences faculty spanning a 15-year period, while the other was from a faculty survey exploring faculty's perception of and satisfaction with library resources and services related to their research. Health sciences faculty publication patterns have changed over time, characterized by greater productivity, collaboration, and use of literature in their publications. Faculty's literature use correlates with productivity, as evidenced by both datasets. The survey revealed that faculty with more publications tend to rely more on online journals and Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Similarly, the publication data indicated that less productive faculty tended to use fewer references in their publications. The publication data and survey results offer valuable insights into the health sciences faculty's information-seeking behavior and productivity. Online access to information has been effective in facilitating use of information, as indicated by the greater incorporation of references in publications. The study highlights the changing publication patterns and productivity of health sciences faculty, as well as the role academic libraries play in supporting their research and publishing activities. Although multiple variables influence faculty access to and use of information, faculty attitudes towards the library and use of the library are related to faculty research and productivity.

Medical Student Research Activity in Otolaryngology.

To investigate medical student research productivity by institutions associated with otolaryngology residency programs and identify correlates of productivity. Retrospective review. N/A. A systematic search for articles indexed on PubMed published by 116 programs from January 1, 2016 to February 28, 2021 was conducted. Primary outcomes were number of faculty publications, first-author medical student publications and medical students from each institution. Secondary outcomes included geographic region, number of otolaryngology faculty members, and program rankings. Nationally, the mean number of faculty per institution was 21.7 at the time of search. Over a 5-year period, there was a mean 98.7 total publications and 15.8 medical student first-author publications per institution consisting of a mean of 10.03 distinct medical students. One-way analysis of variance showed no statistically significant difference in medical student productivity (P = .09) or department size (P = .12) between regions. Number of medical student first-author publications positively correlated to number of faculty (R = .43, P < .05) and number of faculty publications (R = .63, P < .05). The top 30 programs ranked by United States News & World Report or National Institute of Health for funding had a statistically significantly greater mean number of medical student first-author publications and distinct medical student first authors than all other programs (P < .05). Greater numbers of faculty members likely provide more mentorship and opportunities that allow medical students to engage in projects that lead to first-author publications. These findings allow institutions to reflect on efforts in medical student engagement and provide data to students for career planning.

From the GAs: Congratulations, Publications, and Presentations

Includes book reviews by the graduate assistants for Finch House, Mall Goth, Maid for It, and Your Personal Penguin. Highlights what SLIS faculty are reading, alumni updates, faculty publications and presentations, and student congratulations.

Business faculty publications, a local citation analysis: 2019 – 2020

To determine whether the Angelo Bruno Business Library was meeting the needs of business faculty in the College of Business (COB) at The University of Alabama, and to measure the frequency of publishing via Open Access (OA) journals, a comprehensive citation analysis of business faculty (tenured/tenure-track/non-tenure track/clinical/instructor/etc.) publications was conducted for the years 2019 - 2020. There are other reasons, as well, for considering the exercise of a citation analysis. The following data were collected from Scopus: all citations from works listed by each faculty member per the COB Faculty and Staff Directory (each department in the COB was included), title of reference, authors, year of publication, source title, volume/issue, and publication type. The results were analyzed collectively as well as for each department. This study also determined how often OA journal titles were chosen as the outlet for publication. Only 24% of published works by COB authors during this time frame are OA. This research also revealed the dismal results that none of the 100 most-cited journals were OA. It is to libraries’ financial advantage that more authors use OA publishing for their works as well as their places for cited research.

Faculty Publication Patterns over 25 Years at a Large Public University: Correlations with Literature Use

Faculty Publication Patterns over 25 Years at a Large Public University: Correlations with Literature Use

Faculty publication trends in a Japanese national university: a diachronic document analysis

BackgroundWe previously demonstrated that in a Japanese national university’s medical faculty, overall paper publication frequency increased between 1979–1980 and 2017–2018, while original paper publication did not increase. Further, publication language changed from predominantly Japanese to English. However, whether these trends are specific to medicine or representative of other faculties remains unclear.MethodsWe diachronically analyzed annual university library-produced publication reports for four pharmaceutical and three medical units between 1979–1980 and 2019–2020, elucidating how publication frequency, type, and language medium changed.ResultsAll publication types increased for the pharmaceutical faculty, from 2.87 per faculty member per year to 10.77. Publication of original papers more than doubled, from 1.06 per faculty member per year to 2.37. This increase was exclusively in English publication, with no publication of Japanese original papers in 2019–2020. This contrasts with medicine, which, while it demonstrated similar increases in all publication types combined, from 4.92 papers per faculty member per year to 12.78, did not demonstrate as striking an increase in total original paper publication (English and Japanese), from 1.21 papers per faculty member per year to 1.30. However, these two faculties observed similar trends in that English largely replaced Japanese original paper publication. That both faculties’ Japanese original paper publication decreased suggests English language original paper publication comes at the expense of publishing in Japanese. Concerning both faculties together, the increase in publishing frequency for all publication types more than tripled from 4.01 to 12.38. This was largely driven by changes in conference paper publication for the pharmaceutical sciences faculty, where English publication increased 2,775% (0.06 to 1.7 papers per faculty member per year) and Japanese language publication 258% (1.33 to 4.77). While conference paper publication did increase for the medical sciences, its change in total publication frequency was largely driven by ‘other’ types of publication, which increased from 0.51 publications per faculty member per year in 1979–1980 to 5.41 in 2019–2020, largely driven by Japanese language publication.ConclusionIn 2019–2020, pharmaceutical sciences faculty members largely published original papers in English, so postgraduate education should consider the future likelihood of graduates needing to publish in English.

Development and Validation of an Automated Tool to Retrieve and Curate Faculty Publications of Academic Departments.

Introduction Academic departments need to monitor their faculty's academic productivity for various purposes, such as reporting to the medical school dean, assessing the allocation of non-clinical research time, evaluating for rank promotion, and reporting to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Our objective was to develop and validate a simple method that automatically generates query strings to identify and process distinct department faculty publications listed in PubMed and Scopus. Methods We created a macro-enabled Excel workbook (Microsoft, Redmond, WA)to automate the retrieval of faculty publications from the PubMed and Scopus bibliometric databases (available at https://bit.ly/get-pubs). Where the returned reference includes the digital object identifier (doi), a link is provided in the workbook. Duplicate publications are removed automatically, and false attributions are managed. Results At the University of Miami, between 2020 and 2021, there were 143 anesthesiology faculty-authored publications with a PubMed identifier (PMID), 95.8% identified by the query and 4.2% missed. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, between 2019 and 2021, there were 760 anesthesiology faculty-authored publications with a PMID, 94.3% identified by the query and 5.7% missed. Recall, precision, and the F1 score were all above 93% at both medical centers. Conclusions We developed a highly accurate, simple, transportable, scalable method to identify publications in PubMed and Scopus authored by anesthesiology faculty. Manual checking and faculty feedback are required because not all names can be disambiguated, and some references are missed. This process can greatly reduce the burden of curating a list of faculty publications. The methodology applies to other academic departments that track faculty publications.

Faculty Publishing Practices: Insights and Benefits for Liaison Librarianship

This study reports on the publishing preferences of engineering faculty at a research institution. Faculty publications indexed in Scopus database over a ten-year period (2012-2021) were analyzed to identify publication types, publisher preference, and changes in publisher preferences observed over the period of this study. The findings expand the liaison librarians' knowledge of the liaison area, offer ideas for future outreach and engagement activities, and provide additional data for collection development strategies.

Japanese national university faculty publication: A time trend analysis

Abstract The dominance of English in academic discourses is well established, with increased English publication used to evidence its increasing use at the expense of national language publication. However, while English publication frequency has increased over time, few studies have examined how university faculties outside higher education’s Anglophone center have changed their language of publication frequency. Thus, in this investigation, we analyzed a Japanese national university’s medical faculty’s overall frequency of publication along with publication frequency by language medium, expanding on an earlier diachronic analysis of university publication reports. We previously found English language publications largely replaced Japanese language publications for journal articles and that overall publication frequency dramatically increased. However, that initial diachronic analysis did not show when those changes manifested. The current investigation explores this through a decennial time trend historical document analysis of publication reports from 1979 to 2020. This analysis elucidates how publication frequency, type, and language medium have changed. Specifically, we find that the largest change in the overall frequency of publication is between 1989–1990 and 1999–2000. These changes are primarily driven by conference papers and other publications, publication types not typically examined in analyses of journal citation databases. Our findings establish a foundation to discuss potential causes of the trends we identify in this Japanese national university’s medical faculty’s publications.

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Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Websites: A Comprehensive Assessment and Cross-Sectional Content Analysis.

This manuscript evaluates the utility of Musculoskeletal Oncology (MSK Oncology) fellowship program websites and identifies areas for improvement. This study identified 20 MSK Oncology programs using two public databases, allocated 45 criteria domains into 6 categories, and evaluated each program independently. MSK Oncology programs had limited information (34%) on their websites, particularly under the "People" category. It is recommended that programs include more information about current fellows and their training background, faculty publications, and alumni descriptions. MSK Oncology program websites should contain necessary information for prospective applicants, particularly considering the increased virtual world during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Websites should be more comprehensive for applicants in their process of choosing their preferred programs and submitting their rank order lists.

US Departments of Pharmacy practice single terminal‐degree tenure‐track scholarly activity

AbstractIntroductionBibliometric analysis of publications is a valuable tool for quantification of academic productivity and impact. United States (US) Departments of pharmacy practice scholarship by tenure‐track (DPP‐TT) faculty is vital for future evolution of the field.ObjectivesTo quantify journal and faculty metrics based on scholarly activity among US DPP‐TT faculty over a 10‐year period.MethodsA search of PubMed was performed of single terminal‐degree DPP‐TT faculty from January 01, 2010 to 31 December, 2019. DPP‐TT faculty housed in DPP were determined through online published faculty rosters in American Association Colleges of Pharmacy rosters or college/school internet sites. For each DPP‐TT faculty publication, the journal name, journal impact factor (JIF), and number of citations were collected. DPP‐TT faculty members' Hirsch index (h‐index) and National Institutes of Health iCite weighted relative citation ratio (RCR) value were determined. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were used to compare data across demographic strata.ResultsOne hundred and thirty‐seven institutions employed 1805 single terminal‐degree pharmacy practice faculty that produced 12 670 (7.0 ± 16.3/10 years/faculty member) publications. The number of citations/publications was (mean ± standard deviation [SD]) 24.7 ± 80.8 cited most frequently in medicine, pharmacy education, and drug therapy journals with a JIF of 4.7 ± 11.5. Individual faculty members' h‐index was 6.5 ± 8.9 with a mean iCite weighted RCR of 22.1 ± 65.3. Individual metrics increased with academic rank progression (p &lt; 0.0001).ConclusionThese national single terminal‐degree DPP‐TT faculty metrics are similar to other healthcare professions, including publishing in high‐quality medicine, pharmacy education, and drug therapy journals.

Google Scholar Profile for Institutions: A Sample Study

This study examines the Google Scholar profile for Gandhigram Rural Institute. Gandhigram Rural Institute (deemed to be university) has established a Google Scholar profile for their research. The Gandhigram Rural Institute’s faculty publications information was collected from Web of Science and Scopus as of 22 January 2021. After consolidating the data from Web of Science and Scopus, a Google Scholar profile was created. After generating a profile, missing publication data were added to the profile as a sample for the year 2020. The present study information was obtained from Gandhigram Rural Institute Google Scholar profile. It was examined using data from Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus. Department publications, Google Scholar citations, the top 15 highly cited papers, and the citations and h-index of the top 15 faculty members were all analysed. It is discovered that ‘Department of Chemistry’ has published 78 (33.77%) publications and has received the greatest number of citations from Google Scholar, 294 (64.19%) citations from Web of Science and 96 (50.79%) citations from the Scopus database. It is found that Faculty S. Meenakshi has received the highest number of 232 (27.10%) citations from Google Scholar, 134 (29.26%) citations from the Web of Science and 47 (28.87%) citations from Scopus. It concluded that having an institution profile in the Google Scholar profile makes it very difficult to update and strengthen all the data in the profile. A Google Scholar profile can be useful as an individual profile if the data are kept up-to-date and maintained.

Publication outlets for school psychology faculty: 2016–2020

AbstractThis study investigated the peer‐reviewed journal publication outlets and impact of school psychology faculty research from the years 2016 through 2020. The National Association of School Psychologists website was used to identify 972 faculty from 195 doctoral and nondoctoral school psychology programs. Faculty publications were identified through a Google Scholar search and using published faculty curriculum vitaes. Journal h‐index impact factors and 2‐year citation rates were collected through SCImago. There were a total of 4354 articles published across 1125 journals during the 5‐year span. The journals Psychology in the Schools, Contemporary School Psychology, and School Psychology were where school psychology faculty published the most and accounted for 13% of the total publications. The average 2‐year citation rate for all journals was 2.83 and the average h‐index for all journals was 69.62. Discussion focuses on the historical and recent trend of school psychology faculty publications and the expanding range of nonschool psychology journals in which faculty publish.

Emotionally Preparing Doctoral Students as They Enter Academia.

Doctoral students in social work are facing a landscape of academia that is different from earlier times. For instance, in the past the review times of manuscripts and abstracts for conferences were typically shorter; however, the amount of quality submissions received and the requirement of additional publications for faculty to receive tenure have logjammed the process. The hiring process is now more reliant on virtual interviews, which could be an advantage or a disadvantage. Some journals, conferences, and universities maintain so-called normal practices. However, social work doctoral students who are entering academia must be prepared to navigate the various paths, as being unable to do so will limit their success in academia and/or motivate them to leave. In my prior research with social workers who provide care, I developed strategies of emotional preparedness that entail addressing personal emotional concerns that may arise during unprecedented and changing times. Strategies of emotional preparedness include (a) anticipation of when changing times are most intense, (b) feelings of efficacy to withstand the effects of unprecedented times, and (c) frustration tolerance. These strategies may have applicability to doctoral students being professionally and emotionally prepared to remain in the field while managing unprecedented and changing times. Simply put, in social work our emotions impact the way we act professionally. I offer the following suggestions about ways for doctoral students in social work to prepare for the changing landscape of academia.

Patterns and Profiles in Faculty Publication Productivity

Unlike prior studies that have examined the research productivity to develop various rank-order metrics of particular scholars or institutions, we seek to determine ways in which criminology and criminal justice faculty at the top 21 doctoral programs publish their research. To account for a potential diversity in faculty publication productivity, our study considers various outlets for faculty publications—journal articles, books, and book chapters—and develops composite profiles of publication productivity. Our intention is not to rank faculty and determine academic stars, but to distinguish groups of faculty similar in their patterns of faculty productivity. We analyze the publications of over 90% of all tenured and tenure-track faculty employed by the top 21 U.S. doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice. Our latent profile analysis yielded five distinct profiles of productivity among the faculty in the top doctoral programs. Our study reaffirms the need for the use of multidimensional measures of publication productivity.

The Top 5 US News and World Report National Research Universities and the Gold Open Access STEM Journals Within Which They Most Often Publish

ABSTRACT Faculty publication in Open Access (hereafter OA) journals in the sciences presents reputational risk for both faculty authors and affiliated institutions. Some OA titles are from problematic or even predatory publishers, suspect cases disappear the farther one goes up the US News and World Report (hereafter USNWR rankings. Publications from schools ranked 1st-5th, account for 79,853 of the grand total of 89,294.) PLOS ONE, which attracted 35,978 papers, is by far, the most common Gold OA outlet for work by the top USNWR schools.

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