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      H-index, mentoring-index, highly-cited and highly-accessed: how to evaluate scientists?

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      Journal: Retrovirology
      Publisher: BioMed Central

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          How best to evaluate scientists within a peer group is a difficult task. This editorial discusses the use of the H-index and total citations. It also raises the consideration of a mentoring-index and the value of understanding the frequency that a published paper is accessed by readers.

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          Does the h-index have predictive power?

          J. E. Hirsch (2007)
          Bibliometric measures of individual scientific achievement are of particular interest if they can be used to predict future achievement. Here we report results of an empirical study of the predictive power of the h-index compared to other indicators. Our findings indicate that the h-index is better than other indicators considered (total citation count, citations per paper, and total paper count) in predicting future scientific achievement. We discuss reasons for the superiority of the h-index.
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            The discovery of endogenous retroviruses

            Robin Weiss (2006)
            When endogenous retroviruses (ERV) were discovered in the late 1960s, the Mendelian inheritance of retroviral genomes by their hosts was an entirely new concept. Indeed Howard M Temin's DNA provirus hypothesis enunciated in 1964 was not generally accepted, and reverse transcriptase was yet to be discovered. Nonetheless, the evidence that we accrued in the pre-molecular era has stood the test of time, and our hypothesis on ERV, which one reviewer described as 'impossible', proved to be correct. Here I recount some of the key observations in birds and mammals that led to the discovery of ERV, and comment on their evolution, cross-species dispersion, and what remains to be elucidated.
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              Host-virus interaction: a new role for microRNAs

              Vinod Scaria, Manoj Hariharan, Souvik Maiti … (2006)
              MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a new class of 18–23 nucleotide long non-coding RNAs that play critical roles in a wide spectrum of biological processes. Recent reports also throw light into the role of microRNAs as critical effectors in the intricate host-pathogen interaction networks. Evidence suggests that both virus and hosts encode microRNAs. The exclusive dependence of viruses on the host cellular machinery for their propagation and survival also make them highly susceptible to the vagaries of the cellular environment like small RNA mediated interference. It also gives the virus an opportunity to fight and/or modulate the host to suite its needs. Thus the range of interactions possible through miRNA-mRNA cross-talk at the host-pathogen interface is large. These interactions can be further fine-tuned in the host by changes in gene expression, mutations and polymorphisms. In the pathogen, the high rate of mutations adds to the complexity of the interaction network. Though evidence regarding microRNA mediated cross-talk in viral infections is just emerging, it offers an immense opportunity not only to understand the intricacies of host-pathogen interactions, and possible explanations to viral tropism, latency and oncogenesis, but also to develop novel biomarkers and therapeutics.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Retrovirology
                Title: Retrovirology
                Publisher: BioMed Central
                ISSN (Electronic): 1742-4690
                Publication date Collection: 2008
                Publication date (Electronic): 25 November 2008
                Volume: 5
                Page: 106
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                [1 ]The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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                Publisher ID: 1742-4690-5-106
                DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-106
                PMC ID: 2607307
                PubMed ID: 19032780
                SO-VID: 5956d965-1ddf-42cd-83e5-4eddfdde372a
                Copyright © Copyright © 2008 Jeang; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                Date received : 16 November 2008
                Date accepted : 25 November 2008
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