Problems and Theories The head of a prestigious scientific institution recently said, by paraphrasing a famous quotation: "we solve problems that are posed, not that we pose". This view totally misses the history and role of human knowledge construction and prepares wrong ways for evaluating it. Science is not problem solving, it is theory building. Any relevant, difficult problem requires the ...

The open access movement in scientific publishing and search engines like Google Scholar has made scientific articles more broadly accessible. During the last decade, the availability of scientific papers in full text has become more and more widespread thanks to the growing number of publications on online platforms such as ArXiv and CiteSeer [1]. The efforts to provide articles in machine-rea...

In this paper we provide an introduction to the field of Bibliometrics. In particular, first we briefly describe its beginning and its evolution; we mention the main research fora as well. Further we categorize metrics according to their entity scope: metrics for journals, conferences and authors. Several rankings have appeared based on such metrics. It is argued that these metrics and rankings...

This paper investigates the consequences of institutional changes on academic research practices in eight fields of natural science. We analyze the similarities and differences among the dynamics of these different fields and reflect on possible explanations for the changes observed. This study shows that the increasing pressure for productivity, as measured in bibliometric terms, can counterac...

Introduction Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg , located in close geographic proximity of each other, have over a longer period of time developed collaboration in many areas and in many ways, which is, amongst other things, reflected by joint departments and research centers as well as joint scientific publishing. In this study special attention is devoted to patter...

This paper uses network analysis to identify the pioneering scholars and seminal works which have influenced recent papers in leading journals. The analysis extends beyond rankings of scholars by using co-citation networks to visualize the relationships between the most influential scholars and works and to uncover the disciplinary contributions which have supported the emergence of tourism as ...

The objective of this research is to carry out an analysis of the evolution of scientific research on the concept of “platform”. The study employed a bibliometric method for the quantitative analysis, followed by a qualitative analysis of the contents of selected articles and books identified of greater relevance.

Universities in Australia are becoming increasingly concerned with their reputation as 'engaged' institutions. Yet there is significant confusion about what this idea of 'engagement' means and no clear way of measuring or reporting it. In part, this is because of the nature of engagement itself which is dependent on local context, partnerships and communities. This presents a difficulty for aca...