Scientometrics

This paper discusses a concept for inferring attributes of `frontier research' in peer-reviewed research proposals under the popular scheme of the European Research Council (ERC). The concept serves two purposes: firstly to conceptualize, define and ...

Quantifying the scientific performance of investigators has become an integral part of decision-making in research policy. The aim of the present study was to evaluate if there is a correlation between journal impact factor (IF) and researchers' ...

This paper applies panel threshold regression model to verify there is a triple threshold effect of patent citations/sales on the relationship between patent counts/sales and market value/sales in the American pharmaceutical industry. The results ...

This paper examines the strength of association between the outcomes of National Research Foundation (NRF) peer review based rating mechanisms, and a range of objective measures of performance of researchers. The analysis is conducted on 1932 scholars ...

Have Chinese universities, after enormous investment over the past decade, embraced the university's third mission--contributing to industrial and technological progress? The literature has not sufficiently addressed this question. This study intends to ...

Most academic rankings attempt to measure the quality of university education and research. However, previous studies that examine the most influential rankings conclude that the variables they use could be an epiphenomenon of an X factor that has ...

Using the university---industry co-publications (UICP) propensity indicators developed by Tijssen (CWTS Working Paper Series, CWTS-WP-2012-009, 2009 ), this paper examines the impact of university---industry R&D collaboration on university technology ...

Based on data from the Web of Science, international collaboration between China and the UK in food and agriculture has been investigated from various perspectives. A new method for classifying cross- or multi-disciplinary fields has been created. The ...

This article identifies scientific fields in Brazil that have been generating new knowledge, their evolution, tendencies and the relationship between scientific production and the National Postgraduate Program (Programa Nacional de Pós-Graduação--PNPG). ...

In this paper we focus on the analysis of peer reviews and reviewers behaviour in a number of different review processes. More specifically, we report on the development, definition and rationale of a theoretical model for peer review processes to ...

It was found that the surname-based representation of Jewish authors in the top US biomedical journals corresponds to the representation of Jewish Nobel Laureates in Medicine among US laureates: Both of them are almost equally disproportionately high, ...

This study aims to reveal the intellectual structure of Library and Information Science (LIS) in China during the period 2008---2012 utilizing co-word analysis. The status and trends of LIS in China are achieved by measuring the correlation coefficient ...

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is a post-publishing peer review web site where experts evaluate and rate biomedical publications. F1000 reviewers also assign labels to each paper from a standard list or article types. This research examines the relationship ...

Since Schumpeter's (The theory of economic development, 1934 ) seminal work on economic development, innovation is considered as one of the main drivers of firm performance and economic growth. At the same time, technological innovations vary ...

We propose a method for selecting the research guarantor when papers are co-authored. The method is simply based on identifying the corresponding author. The method is here applied to global scientific output based on the SCOPUS database in order to ...

Based on the network comprised of 111,444 keywords of library and information science that are extracted from Scopus, and taken into consideration the major properties of average distance and clustering coefficients, the present authors, with the ...

The study explores the international collaboration network consisting of 606 astronomical institutions through the analysis of international coauthored papers published in six journals in astronomy and astrophysics from 2001 to 2009. It shows that the ...

Exploring and measuring technology-relatedness and its collateral technology divergence and convergence, would have far-reaching theoretical significance and academic value on the chain mode of technology development, and also on the mastery of the laws ...

We investigated the development of astronomy and astrophysics research productivity in Turkey in terms of publication output and their impacts as reflected in the science citation index for the period 1980---2010. Our study involves 838 refereed ...