introduction: based on iran’s 20-year prospective national vision document, iran may be seen as the most developed country in science and technology in the region by 2025. in this report, bibliometric indicators are used to compare the research productivity in endodontics between iran and 28 selected asian countries. materials and methods: medical subject headings keyword-searching of pubmed up...

The online availability of scientific-literature databases and natural-language-processing (NLP) algorithms has enabled large-scale bibliometric studies within the field of scientometrics. Using NLP techniques and Thomson ISI reports, an initial analysis of the role of Alzheimer's disease (AD) within the neurosciences as well as a summary of the various research foci within the AD scientific co...

Java is a high productivity object-oriented programming language that is rapidly gaining popularity in high-performance application development. One major obstacle to its broad acceptance is its mediocre performance when compared to Fortan or C, especially if the developers use object-oriented features of the language extensively. Previous work in improving the performance of object-oriented, h...

BACKGROUND The study aims to examine whether the end of specialty in trauma surgery in 2003 influenced the scientific productivity of the area in Brazil. METHODS We identified and classified the manuscripts and their authors, from databases such as PubMed, Scielo and Plataforma Lattes and sites like Google, in addition to the list of members of SBAIT, the sole society in Brazil to congregate ...

INTRODUCTION The number of publications and the impact factor of journals are accepted estimates of the quantity and quality of research productivity. The objective of the present study was to assess the worldwide scientific contribution in the field of critical care medicine. METHOD All research studies published between 1995 and 2003 in medical journals that were listed in the 2003 Science ...

Hall-Mairesse-Turner June 2005 2 Identifying Age, Cohort and Period Effects in Scientific Research Productivity: Discussion and Illustration Using Simulated and Actual Data on French Physicists 1 Bronwyn H. HALL, Jacques MAIRESSE, and Laure TURNER

Introduction Despite the significant number of research institutions and rich scientific heritage, published research from Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan) is traditionally underrepresented in international scientific literature. The goal of this paper was to analyze publication patterns in Central Asian countries, and to explore the factors that c...

Satisfactory and robust explanations of sex differences in scientific productivity remain elusive.This article provides a multidimensional, longitudinal description of the productivity of male and female biochemists. Several jindings have implications for explaining differences in productivity.Sex differences in the numbers ofpublicarions and citarions increase during the first decade o...

Recent studies have shown that in many science and engineering fields, almost 40% of faculty are affiliated with university-based research centers (Corley & Gaughan, 2005). As major science funding organizations continue to increase annual levels of funding for interdisciplinary science centers, it is likely that this number will increase significantly over the next decade. Moreover, some schol...