Over the last few years, there has been an increasing use of citation data by government, industry, and academia for measuring scientific performance. The unique, massive citation databases of the Institute for Scientific Information@ (ISI@) have played a central roie in tie growth of the field called “scientometrics.” Under the direction of Henry Small, 1S1’sResearch Department provides custom...

Over the past 2 decades, many new techniques and drugs for the treatment of acute pain have achieved widespread use. The main aim of this study was to assess the progress in their implementation using scientometric analysis. The following scientometric indices were used: 1) popularity index, representing the share of articles on a specific technique (or a drug) relative to all articles in the f...

Executive Summary This study aimed to evaluate the potential of pharmacogenomic science and technology (S&T) in Canada. In order to do so, the multiple scientific and ethical issues related to pharmacogenomic research were reviewed. Scientometric and technometric analyses were performed to provide a quantitative evaluation of Canada's performance in this field relative to that of the world and ...

The main focus of brand personality is the emotional bond that consumer establishes with product or service on offer and strategies are developed to strengthen such bond. This concept has received increasing attention both its study applications have escaped field where it initially originated: marketing. Despite above, no studies been carried out analyze scientific production trends associated...

Schinus terebinthifolius (Anacardiaceae) is among the medicinal species native to Brazil, known as mastic-red and mastic-pepper, whose stem bark used fight inflammation of various origins, it has anti-inflammatory healing properties. The objective this study explore trends in publications portrayed on S. terebinthifolius, analyzing axes such time, countries, journals, impact factors citations, ...

background: the quantitative analysis of scientific output, scientific policy making, scientific relationships of researchers, and drawing historiographic outlines are all parts of scientometric discipline. this paper was designed for scientometric analysis of 20 top journals in the field of genetics and heredity in 2000-2008 and to map the scientific structure of their papers. methods: this re...

Forensic linguistics is a distinct field of study in the science language that places significant emphasis on observation usage our daily lives, including spoken and written language, listening, reading. This focus provides legal perspective for analysis language. Initially, forensic was confined to identification documents settings, police prison language; however, has expanded include speech ...

A class of extended aggregation operators, called impact functions, is proposed and their basic properties are examined. Some important classes of functions like generalized ordered weighted averaging (OWA) and ordered weighted maximum (OWMax) operators are considered. The general idea is illustrated by the Producer Assessment Problem which includes the scientometric problem of rating scientist...

We advocate a scientometric, top-down and institution-based research-assessment methodology that is based on total citations accumulated from all publications associated with a specific university during the survey period. The exercise could be done every year using a rolling seven-year retrospective sample and should be performed by at least two independent auditors. Identification of elite ‘r...