Our study collected information about the most frequent quality defects in biomedical research. analyzed their prevalence an highlighted opportunities for prevention. Self-check your research and do not let journal reviewer catch weaknesses in your study. The below slides provide the error specifications and their associated frequencies. APA citation to the reporting article is also provided.
Biomedical Research Innovation Lab
With the rapidly expanding scientific enterprise scientific enterprise and the great interest in growing research, an unprecedented need for effectiveness studies is emerging. Informed decision-making needs wide ranging data analyses from a variety of sources. The BMRI laboratory team compiled a list of sources with description and access links.
| Name | Content | Coverage (millions) | Access Options | Provider | Url |
| Scopus | abstract, citation, academic journal rankings, author profiles, h-index calculator database | 90.6 | Limited free preview, full access by institutional subscription only | Elsevier | https://www.scopus.com/ |
| Web of Science | researcher profile | 100 | institutional subscription only | Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters | https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/search |
| PubMed | abstracts, bibliographic details | 35 | Free | NIH | PubMed (nih.gov) |
| Science Direct | article, journal, book, authors | 19.5 | Free | Elsevier | https://www.sciencedirect.com/ |
| DOAJ | open access academic database | 8 | Free | DOAJ | https://doaj.org/ |
| JSTOR | research papers | 12 | Free | ITHAKA | https://www.jstor.org/ |
| Semantic Scholar | academic papers, authors, publications, h-index, citations, influence, coauthors | 200 | Free | https://www.semanticscholar.org/ | |
| OpenCitations | publications, bibliographic metrics, citations | 1300 | Free | https://opencitations.net/ | |
| ORCID | Researchers profile, affiliations, contributions | https://info.orcid.org/orcid-statistics/ | Free | multiple publishers | https://orcid.org/ |
| ROR | open persistent identifiers for research organizations | 102 thousand organizations | Free | California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite | https://ror.org/ |
| Unpaywall | scholarly articles | 47 | Free | OurResearch | https://unpaywall.org/ |
| PubMed Central | scholarly literature | 9.2 | Free | National Library of Medicine | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ |
| The ISSN International Center | database of ISSN bibliographic records | 2.3 | Free/Subscription | network of 93 National Centers throughout the world | https://road.issn.org/ |
| OpenAlex | describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. Types of entities include works, authors, sources, institutions, concepts, publishers, and funders. | Free | https://docs.openalex.org/ | ||
| The Lens | scholarly works, patents, biological sequences disclosed in patent literature , A management tool to track, monitor, and analyze a collection of works or a collection of patents dynamically or statically. Citation analysis, user profiles, measuring influence | hundreds of millions | Free for non commercial use | Cambia | https://www.lens.org/ |
| World Wide Science | global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. | 100 databases in 70 countries, in 10 languages | Free | US Dept of Energy | https://worldwidescience.org/wws/desktop/en/search.html |
| The Academic Family Tree | academic genealogy of current and historical researchers across all fields of academia | 843,800 people and 813,500 connections | Free | nonprofit, user content-driven web database | https://academictree.org/ |
| Crossref | Crossref is the world’s largest database of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) | 150 | Free/Subscription | nonprofit. | https://www.crossref.org/ |
