The publication of the first article in this issue, “Realizing Strategic Value through Center-Edge Digital Transformation in Consumer-Centric Industries,” provides a unique opportunity to pay tribute to the first author, Paul Gray, who passed away last year. Please join me in thanking Omar El Sawy, Guillermo Asper, and Magnus Thordarson for continuing to revise this article co-authored with Pau...

This article, co-authored by a patient with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, and an obesity medicine specialist, discusses the patient's experience with the onset of diabetes complicating obesity and with her frustration living with these diagnoses until finding an obesity medicine specialist physician who helped her lose weight and reverse her diabetes. The patient continues to maintain a ...

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Yale N. Patt [2], professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering [3], has been recognized for his tremendous body of work in microarchitecture with four papers co-authored by he and his students selected as part of the ten award winners of the inaugural Micro Test of Time Award in 2014. The Micro Test of T...

Alberto Bravin received his PhD in Physics at the University of Trieste (Italy) on the development of X-ray phase contrast imaging. In 1999, he joined the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble (France) and since 2003 he has been in charge of the Bio-medical beamline ID17. At the ESRF, he is leading the preclinical phase contrast imaging programs applied to mammography and c...

the PRISMA Lab in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering at University of Naples Federico II. He is the Past-President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Professor Bruno Siciliano is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and IFAC. His research interests include force and visual control, human-robot interaction and service robotics. He has co-authored 7 books, 70 journal papers and 170 co...

In this study we have analysed research cooperation between a Norwegian university and its affiliated university hospital using contextual metadata based on the CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) model on co-authored publications. The purpose is to analyse the extent and nature of cooperation between the institutions. The study functions as an example of how advanced metadata m...

It is widely believed that collaboration is advantageous in science, for example with collaboratively written articles tending to attract more citations than solo articles, and strong arguments that interdisciplinary collaboration can be particularly powerful. Nevertheless, it is not known whether the same is true for research that produces books. This article tests whether co-authored scholarl...

New indicators for gender studies are introduced using the multi-authored publications of a set of 64 members of the COLLNET network. Considering the sample of 223 papers and their visibility on the Web, analyses were performed on the sets comprised of publications on the one hand and the authors (social network analysis) on the other. The indicators developed include: Gender co-operation; Web ...