Continuously Variable Rating: a new, simple and logical procedure to evaluate original scientific publications
ClinicsPublished 1 December 2011Open access
Mauricio Rocha e Silva
Citations12
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.61
SNIP0.75
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Continuously Variable Rating is shown to be a simple computer based procedure capable of accurately providing a valid rating for each article within the journal and time frame in which it was published.
Abstract
Skewness followed the Pareto Distribution for (1<K<2). Observed Positive Predictive Values ranged from 24 - 43% for over 98% of the selected journals in the ISI database. Continuously Variable Rating is shown to be a simple computer based procedure capable of accurately providing a valid rating for each article within the journal and time frame in which it was published.
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