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Item Analyzing the literature on drugs with Web of Science and HistCite: Institutional affiliations of the most prolific authors publishing on Atorvastatin (Lipitor)(2008) Baykoucheva, SvetlaThe current aggressive tactics of pharmaceutical companies to promote their drugs directly to consumers makes it important to researchers, physicians, and the general public to know what the affiliations and co‐authorships of those publishing on these drugs are. The most widely used database for retrieving biomedical literature is MEDLINE/PubMED, because it is a comprehensive and free resource. New refining and analytical tools available from the Web of Science (WoS), though, allow performing a much more in‐depth analysis of the literature in a particular field. WoS has recently become even more attractive to researchers with the addition of HistCite, a program that allows identifying the key literature and reconstructing the history and development of a particular research field. This study examines the institutional affiliations and co‐authorships of the most prolific authors who have published articles on the cholesterol‐lowering drug Atorvastatin (Lipitor). The literature on the latter was chosen because this drug has been on the market for a long time and it is currently the most prescribed drug in the world. Since WoS is usually not the preferred database for retrieving biomedical literature, the number of documents published on Atorvastatin that were retrieved from the WoS was compared to the number of documents retrieved through MEDLINE. The HistCite software allows performing in‐depth analysis of the scientific literature, but it can be used only with the WoS. In order to justify the use of WoS in this study (MEDLINE is considered the standard database for retrieving biomedical literature), the performance of WoS was compared to the performance of MEDLINE. Identical searches were performed in both WoS and MEDLINE and the results were limited to documents published on atorvastatin from 1994 to 2007. WoS retrieved more documents than MEDLINE (4,173 and 2910, respectively), for the period under study, and performed equally well or even better with respect to the number of documents retrieved for each year.Item Behind the Stage: Interview with Leah Solla, Former Program Chair of the Chemical Information Division(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2009) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Solla, LeahItem Beyond Plagiarism: Scientific Ethics and Its Other Aspects(MDPI, 2018-05-08) Baykoucheva, SvetlaThe purpose of science is to advance human knowledge, cure diseases, and make life for people better. Does the current competitive environment in academia allow researchers to pursue such noble goals? The increase we see in the number of articles retracted by even reputable journals is quite alarming, and we need to have an honest discussion about why this is happening. When talking about scientific ethics, we usually focus on plagiarism and scientific fraud. Scientific misconduct may be very subtle (like, not citing peer’s articles), but sometimes it is more obvious (fabricating results). Scientific ethics, though, is much more than plagiarism and fabrication of data. As you will see, the authors of the articles included in this issue have looked at scientific ethics from a broader perspective.Item A Career in Chemistry and Chemical Information: Interview with Bill Town, Chair of the CINF Publications Committee(American Chemical Society, Chemical Information Division, 2009) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Town, BillItem A career in science and politics: Guy Ourisson (1926-2006)(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2007) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem The Chemical Heritage Foundation-past, present, and future: Interview with Arnold Thackray(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2008) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem The Chemical Information Bulletin at 60(American Chemical Society, 2009) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem Chemistry and art: The Incredible life story of Dr. Alfred Bader(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2007) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Bader, AlfredSvetla Baykoucheva, editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin, wrote an article about Dr. Alfred Bader, founder of the Aldrich Chemical Company and a renown expert on Rembrandt and Old Dutch Masters paintings. An interview with Dr. Bader is also included.Item Comparison of the contributions of CAPLUS and MEDLINE to the performance of SciFinder in retrieving the drug literature(Association of College and Research Libraries * Science and Technology Section, 2011) Baykoucheva, SvetlaSciFinder (SF) is a platform that provides access to two large databases, the Chemical Abstracts database (CAPLUS) and MEDLINE. This article analyzes and compares the individual and combined contributions of these two databases to the performance of SF in retrieving the drug literature. Test searches in which the names of two individual drugs (lisinopril and lovastatin) and a group of drugs (SSRI antidepressants) were used as keywords retrieved document sets that were analyzed for total and annual literature output, document types, journal coverage, and language of publication. While the total literature output from CAPLUS was larger than the output from MEDLINE (which was attributed to the presence of patents), MEDLINE performed significantly better than CAPLUS in retrieving the non-patent literature. The overlap of documents between CAPLUS and MEDLINE was found to be only 20-24%, depending on the name of the drug used to perform the searches. This article analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of CAPLUS and MEDLINE and shows how these two databases, when searched together in SF, complement each other in covering the drug literature. In addition to the extended coverage of the literature, SF provides sophisticated (but easy-to-use) refining and analytical tools not available on some other platforms.Item The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins(Chandos Publishing (Imprint of Elsevier), 2015-07-24) Baykoucheva, SvetlaGary Wiggins was the head of the Indiana University (IU) Chemistry Library from 1976 to 2003. During the final four years of his professional career, he served as Director of the Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Programs in the IU School of Informatics, helping to create one of the first graduate programs in the United States that offer specialized training in cheminformatics. For many years, he taught courses in chemical information and science reference at IU. His textbook, Chemical Information Sources, was eventually converted to a Wikibook. Dr. Wiggins received several prestigious awards throughout his career, including the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information’s Herman Skolnik Award and the Patterson-Crane Award of the ACS Columbus and Dayton Sections. He was also elected to the Special Libraries Association Hall of Fame. Much of his research involved the improvement of teaching information literacy to chemistry and science students and the improvement of communication among scientists. In May 1991, Gary Wiggins started a chemical information discussion list, CHMINF-L, in Indiana University. Through the years, this forum became an institution of its own, providing a medium for exchanging information and ideas and attracting people interested in chemical information, but who approached it from different perspectives. In this era of social media, it is surprising that an e-mail Listserv based on technology developed over 20 years ago is still thriving. In many ways, CHMINF-L is still the information source for everyone from chemists to science librarians and publishers.Item The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: A mountain, a cathedral, a battleship, or … an iceberg? An interview with David R. Lide, Editor-in-Chief(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2009) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Lide, David R.Svetla Baykoucheva, editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin, interviews David R. Lide, Editor-in-Chief of The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, about the past and present of this major resource for chemical information and his role, in the course of 20 years, in leading it.Item Designing a Science Information Literacy Program for the Digital Age(Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [Институт по Математика и Информатика, Българска Академия на Науките], 2017) Baykoucheva, SvetlaThe rapid growth of scientific information is presenting many challenges to researchers and students, who need to learn to use new tools and approaches for finding and managing scientific literature and research data more efficiently. This paper describes a large-scale information literacy program implemented at the University of Maryland College Park (USA), which has trained more than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students how to use new digital technologies to find, filter, manage, share, and communicate scientific information.Item Discovering scientific information(Chandos Publishing, 2022) Baykoucheva, SvetlaWith so much information available on the Internet, it is difficult for users to figure out which resources are the most appropriate to use. Before going to a bibliographic indexing database, they often do a preliminary search in Google Scholar or in some other popular search engine. A large volume of searches, though, are now also occurring on Baidu Scholar, Dimensions, so.com, x.mol.com, and The Lens—newcomers that are beginning to play a critical role on the information landscape. As the integration of diverse information resources on a single platform is becoming a norm, bibliographic literature databases are sharing "home" with resources for finding properties of chemical compounds, patents, book catalogs, and other resources. This chapter presents different scenarios and strategies for discovering scientific information more efficiently. An overview of the current scholarly communication formats is followed by examination of the major science information resources. The process of discovering scientific information is presented through specific examples of searching for literature, properties of chemical compounds, research datasets, and other scientific information; refining and analyzing search results; and using bibliographic management tools to export, store, and cite references. The chapter also looks at some informal ways of keeping up with the most recent research, using social media and networking.Item Ethics in scientific publishing(Elsevier, 2015-07) Baykoucheva, SvetlaThe scientific publishing enterprise relies strongly on the ethics of the scientific community. The editors and reviewers of scholarly journals try to do their best to identify areas of concern when reviewing a paper for publication, but they, as much as anyone, are not immune to bias. With the tremendous pressure on researchers to publish and the huge competition to have papers accepted by high-impact journals, scientific fraud is on the rise. Fabricating results in medical research is particularly dangerous, as it could affect the well-being of many people. Although there is no system of control that can completely eliminate fraud, everything possible should be done to prevent it, because the intentional misconduct of a single author can seriously damage the reputation of a department, an institution, and a publication. This chapter discusses unethical behavior and what scientific journals are doing to detect it prior to publication.Item Eugene Garfield – The Giant of Scientific Information (1925 – 2017)(Az-buki National Publishing House [Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“], 2017) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Байкушева, СветлаThe article analyzes the impact of Eugene Garfield's legacy on science and scientific information. The Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia (USA), which was founded by Garfield, developed many new revolutionary information products such as the Science Citation Index (SCI), the journal "Current Contents," and many scientific databases. The Science Citation Index has been one of the most important events in science, as it has changed how researchers find information, communicate their results, and even how they are evaluated and promoted. Garfield's idea to use works cited in scientific articles to find scientific information has led to the creation of new disciplines such scientometrics, infometrics, and bibliometrics. [Статията анализира приносите на Юджийн Гарфийлд към науката за информацията. Основаният от него "Институт за научна информация" във Филаделфия стана люлка за създаването на много иновационни продукти, като Научния индекс на цитиране, списанието "Current Contents" и ценни научни бази данни. Идеята на Гарфийлд да се използуват цитираните статии за намиране на научна информация доведе до създаването на нови дисциплини като наукометрия, инфометрия и библиометрия.]Item Eugene Garfield’s Ideas and Legacy and Their Impact on the Culture of Research(MDPI, 2019-06-14) Baykoucheva, SvetlaEugene Garfield advanced the theory and practice of information science and envisioned information systems that made the discovery of scientific information much more efficient. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which he founded in Philadelphia in 1960, developed innovative information products that have revolutionized science. ISI provided current scientific information to researchers all over the world by publishing the table of contents of key scientific journals in the journal Current Contents (CC). Garfield introduced the citation as a qualitative measure of academic impact and propelled the concepts of “citation indexing” and “citation linking”, paving the way for today’s search engines. He created the Science Citation Index (SCI), which raised awareness about citations; triggered the development of new disciplines (scientometrics, infometrics, webometrics); and became the foundation for building new important products such as Web of Science. The journal impact factor (IF), originally designed to select journals for the SCI, became the most widely accepted tool for measuring academic impact. Garfield actively promoted English as the international language of science and became a powerful force in the globalization of research. His ideas changed how researchers gather scientific information, communicate their findings, and advance their careers. This article looks at the impact of Garfield’s ideas and legacy on the culture of research.Item Eugene Garfield’s Ideas and Legacy and Their Impact on the Culture of Research(MDPI, 2019-06-14) Baykoucheva, SvetlaEugene Garfield advanced the theory and practice of information science and envisioned information systems that made the discovery of scientific information much more efficient. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which he founded in Philadelphia in 1960, developed innovative information products that have revolutionized science. ISI provided current scientific information to researchers all over the world by publishing the table of contents of key scientific journals in the journal Current Contents (CC). Garfield introduced the citation as a qualitative measure of academic impact and propelled the concepts of “citation indexing” and “citation linking”, paving the way for today’s search engines. He created the Science Citation Index (SCI), which raised awareness about citations; triggered the development of new disciplines (scientometrics, infometrics, webometrics); and became the foundation for building new important products such as Web of Science. The journal impact factor (IF), originally designed to select journals for the SCI, became the most widely accepted tool for measuring academic impact. Garfield actively promoted English as the international language of science and became a powerful force in the globalization of research. His ideas changed how researchers gather scientific information, communicate their findings, and advance their careers. This article looks at the impact of Garfield’s ideas and legacy on the culture of research.Item First German Conference on Chemoinformatics(American Chemical Society, 2006) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem From the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS): Interview with Bonnie Lawlor(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2010) Baykoucheva, Svetla
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