(Jun 1) Seventeen scientific work of the National Cancer Institute of Milan will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a world’s leading scientific society, to be held in Chicago from today and until June 5. The Italian Institute will also receive the Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Award, an important recognition for the work of the oncologist Andrea Necchi. According to SIR World Report 2011, the Institute in Milan is the leader in Italy in the health sector, in all three different categories in which are classified entities institutes in this area. SCImago. The first, called Excellence Rate (ER),indicates which percentage of an institution’s scientific output is included into the set formed by the 10% of the most cited papers in their respective scientific fields: it is a measure of high quality output of research institutions. The second value is the Normalized Impact (NI). Expressed in percentages, it shows the relationship of an institution’s average scientific impact and the world average, which is 1, –i.e. a score of 0.8 means the institution is cited 20% below average and 1.3 means the institution is cited 30% above average.The last indicators is the High Quality publications (Q1), which indicates the ratio of publications an institution publishes in the world most influential scholarly journals. (Red)
