BACKGROUND A minority of scientific journals publishes the majority of scientific papers and receives the majority of citations. The extent of concentration of the most influential articles is less well known. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The 100 most-cited papers in the last decade in each of 21 scientific fields were analyzed; fields were considered as ecosystems and their "species" (journal)...

Identifying authorship correctly and efficiently is a difficult problem when the literature is abundant, but poorly recorded. Homonyms are tedious to differentiate. This paper describes how the field of economics has organized itself with respect to author identification. We describe the RePEc project with a special emphasis on the RePEc Author Service. We then discuss how the concept is curren...

BACKGROUND Recent technological developments in medicine, including modern radiology have promoted the impact of scientific researches on social life. The scientific outputs such as article and patents are products that show the scientists' attempt to access these achievements. OBJECTIVES In the current study, we evaluate the current situation of Iranian scientists in the field of radiology a...

Background: Planning for the decrease of scientific misconducts among students requires the recognition of subjects and relevant cases. The aim of the current study is determining the categories of scientific immorality among university students and categorizing them. Method: The current study is in the category of descriptive studies and data gathering is done using the systematic review meth...

In view of the increasing need to facilitate processing the content of scientific papers, we present an annotation scheme for annotating full papers with zones of conceptualisation, reflecting the information structure and knowledge types which constitute a scientific investigation. The latter are the Core Scientific Concepts (CoreSCs) and include Hypothesis, Motivation, Goal, Object, Backgroun...

Using Stokes’s (1997) “quadrant model of scientific research,” this paper deals with how the entrepreneurial orientation of scientists affects their scientific performance by considering its impact on scientific production (number of publications), scientific prestige (number of forward citations), and breadth of research activities (interdisciplinarity). The results of a quantitative analysis ...

In view of the increasing need to facilitate processing the content of scientific papers, we present an annotation scheme for annotating full papers with zones of conceptualisation, reflecting the information structure and knowledge types which constitute a scientific investigation. The latter are the Core Scientific Concepts (CoreSCs) and include Hypothesis, Motivation, Goal, Object, Backgroun...