Scholarship in the Information Age
Welcome to my first blog post! I invite you to return often and engage as I reflect on a variety of topics from MMA to mobile apps and DOME to biodesign.
Today’s musings are inspired by a multi-talented young man, Logan Wang, who designed and built this website, and also recommended that this long-standing professor establish a Google Scholar profile. While PubMed is the go-to biomedical and life science database for those of us in a university setting, Google Scholar tends to be more accessible to the public whom www.drstanleyliu.com aims to reach. Moreover, I marvel at the Google search engine’s prowess in uncovering old manuscripts!
A study comparing PubMed to Google Scholar:
Shariff and colleagues found that compared with PubMed, the average search in Google Scholar retrieved twice as many relevant articles (PubMed: 11%; Google Scholar: 22%; P<.001), while precision was similar (PubMed: 6%; Google Scholar: 8%; P=.07). Google Scholar also provided nearly three times greater access to free full-text publications (PubMed: 5%; Google Scholar: 14%; P<.001).
With humility and pride in equal measure, I present my brand-new Google Scholar page:
A word about my web developer: Logan Wang is a brilliant, budding data scientist who has created an elegant yet approachable platform for me to share my expertise and experience as a sleep apnea surgeon and academician - first as Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Stanford School of Medicine, and now as Chair of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Assistant Dean of Hospital Affairs at Nova Southeastern University. This dream space allows me to easily share insights from the integration of sleep medicine, ENT, OMFS, dentistry, myofunctional therapy, and digital health tools. Thank you, Logan!
It is often said that data, a collection of raw unprocessed facts that requires context to be useful, is not information. These days, I would add that unsubstantiated “data” from anonymous sources contributes to misinformation. Whether you are a patient, provider, or anyone interested in learning more about treatments for sleep-disordered breathing, I encourage you to explore this website and get to know my practice, research, and collaborations in service of my overarching mission (DOME pun intended for you clinical practitioners) to restore sleep airway health as a gateway to wellness.
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