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Author(s) -
Dennis F. Thompson,
Peter A. Chyka,
Martha Earl,
Sandra Benavides,
Joshua Caballero,
William R. Wollowich,
Angela S. García,
Kerry Wilbur,
Peter J. Jewesson,
Suzanne G. Bollmeier,
Eric Wombwell,
Syed Imran Ahmed,
Syed Shahzad Hasan,
Mohamed Azmi Hassali,
Melissa Durham,
Chin Ken Lee
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of pharmaceutical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.796
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1553-6467
pISSN - 0002-9459
DOI - 10.5688/aj7410193
Subject(s) - dna vaccination , virology , dna , covid-19 , computational biology , coronavirus , pandemic , biology , antigen , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , immunology , disease , immunization , genetics , pathology
explored the correlation of faculty members’ publication productivity to student-faculty ratios in colleges of pharmacy. These investigators also evaluated the influence of other factors, such as research funding, public vs. private university status, and supportive faculty members on scholarship. While these areas are important topics of investigation where additional insight would be welcomed, I would like to point out 2 potentially serious methodological errors in the study. These authors attempted to compile publication rates of colleges of pharmacy by searching PubMed. While there is insufficient detail in the article about how these searches were performed, it appears that the authors utilized the affiliation field of the MEDLINE database to search for individual schools and colleges. Unfortunately,
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