Free Scientific Literature Ranking Service Predicts Future Impact of Recent Publications
Ion Channel Media Group Ltd. has launched a scientific literature ranking service in 7 key biotechnology fields. These fields include ion channels, knockout & transgenic mouse research, high-throughput screening, atrial fibrillation, AIDS & HIV, protein kinases and apoptosis. The service helps researchers pinpoint newly released scientific literature predicted to have a high impact in the specific fields.
(PRWEB) August 3, 2005 -- Privately held media company, Ion Channel Media
Group Ltd. has released a free literature ranking service for field-specific
biomedical literature. The literature ranking takes into account the prior
citation history of the principal investigator and the citation history of the
journal in which the research is published.
This scheme allows
researchers to quickly identify articles of interest and also to rank leading
laboratories in their specific field of interest. The literature ranking
complements Ion Channel Media Group's career, news and structural databases. The
biotechnology fields which are currently being targeted include ion channels (http://www.ionchannels.org),
knockout and transgenic mouse research (http://www.knockoutscience.com), high throughput screening (http://www.htscreening.org),
atrial fibrillation (http://www.atrial-fibrillation.org), AIDS and HIV research (http://www.aidshivresearch.com), protein kinases (http://www.kinaseresearch.com) and apoptosis (http://www.caspases.org).
"Citation analysis used to be only the domain of Thomson Scientific
Corp. (ISI), but with increased computing power and optical character
recognition technology, citation analysis is becoming available to all
researchers. Open-source journal publishing will further increase the access to
information since the digital format makes citation analysis even faster and
easier. Citation analysis was an important part of Google's rise to fame and the
structure of references in biomedical literature inspired them to create their
pagerank algorithm.
Citation numbers remain the best metric of interest
in an article, be it on the web or in the scientific literature. The users of
our websites find it very useful to have quick access to recent news and
literature published in prominent scientific journals from high impact
laboratories," said CEO of Ion Channel Media Group, Christian Hesketh.
Google launched Google Scholar in late 2004, a free service which ranks
scientific literature based upon citation frequency. There are also many
fee-based services which provide citation analysis. What makes Ion Channel Media
Group's offering different is that it uses an algorithm to predict the impact an
article is expected to have in the future based on the citation history of the
author and the journal. This forward-approach allows evaluation of scientific
research immediately upon its release, permitting instant identification of
important scholarly works.
Ion Channel Media Group is working on many
more subject areas, but is limiting itself to biomedical literature for
now.
About Ion Channel Media Group Ltd.
Ion Channel Media Group
Ltd. is a privately-held media corporation based in Montreal, Quebec. The goal
of the media group is to provide highly-targeted traffic to advertisers who wish
to target a specific biotechnology field through targeted email or banner
advertising campaigns. The other goal of the group is to provide free access to
authoritative niche websites in order to build a highly targeted traffic-base.
Contact information:
Christian Hesketh - CEO
+1(514)245-8107
http://www.ionchannels.org
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb268598.htm