An initiative to increase biopharmaceutical research productivity by capturing, sharing and computationally integrating proprietary scientific discoveries with public knowledge is described. This initiative involves both organisational process change and multiple interoperating software systems. The software components rely on mutually supporting integration techniques. These include a richly s...

Construction of the unified and shared domain ontology is significant for effective knowledge management. For the acquisition and sharing of scientific research knowledge under Web2.0, a novel approach of building Interval Valued Fuzzy Ontology (IVFO) in scientific research domain is presented. Through interval valued fuzzy theory, the definition and constructing framework of IVFO is proposed. ...

Scientific collaboration is one of the key factors to trigger innovations. Coauthorship networks have been taken as representations of scholars’ collaboration for a long time. This study investigates how the authors’ attributes and the coauthorship network structures simultaneously influence the scientific collaboration among them. Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are adopted in this res...

A scientist may publish tens or hundreds of papers over a career, but these contributions are not evenly spaced in time. Sixty years of studies on career productivity patterns in a variety of fields suggest an intuitive and universal pattern: Productivity tends to rise rapidly to an early peak and then gradually declines. Here, we test the universality of this conventional narrative by analyzin...

INTRODUCTION The present study was motivated by the need to systematically assess the research productivity of the Heart Institute (InCor), Medical School of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. OBJECTIVE To explore methodology for the assessment of institutional scientific research productivity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bibliometric indicators based on searches for author affiliation of origi...

The pattern of economic competitiveness has changed globally now days. Many countries have joined the global economic competition to capture global market in order to remain profitable and competitive by increasing its productivity. There are many factors that influence the productivity of a manufacturing organisation. The most widely tackled issue is how to improve efficiency and productivity....

Perspectives on Productivity Improvement The productivity improvement movement has a long history having had its beginnings with the work simplification practices advocated by F.W. Taylor under the famous ‘scientific management principles’. Since then there has been an increasing attention on evolving various approaches and strategies to enhance productivity, and more particularly labour produc...

BACKGROUND The field of psychiatry has seen significant progress in recent years due to worldwide contributions. National productivity, however, in the field of psychiatry is still unclear. In our study, we investigated contributions of individual nations to the field of psychiatry. METHODS The Web of Science was used to perform a search from 2011 to 2015 on the subject category "psychiatry"....

Understanding the relationship between scientific productivity and research group size is important for deciding how science should be funded. We have investigated the relationship between these variables in the life sciences in the United Kingdom using data from 398 principle investigators (PIs). We show that three measures of productivity, the number of publications, the impact factor of the ...