The current study is the first scientometric analysis of research activity and output in the field of inflammatory disorders of the heart (endo-, myo- and pericarditis). Scientometric methods are used to compare scientific performance on national and on international scale to identify single areas of research interest. Interest and research productivity in inflammatory diseases of the heart hav...

INTRODUCTION Curare is one of the best-examined neurotoxins of the world, which has empirically been used for centuries by American Indigenes. Research on curare has been performed much later, a global scientometric analysis on curare research or its derivates does not yet exist. This bibliometric analysis is part of the global NewQis-project and should illuminate both toxic and historic issues...

Designing fair and unbiased metrics to measure the “level of excellence” of a scientist is a very significant task because they recently also have been taken into account when deciding faculty promotions, when allocating funds, and so on. Despite criticism that such scientometric evaluators are confronted with, they do have their merits, and efforts should be spent to arm them with robustness a...

using bibliographic records from the social science citation index, science citation index, and arts & humanities citation index, this paper tries to give a complete view of the evolution of the field of scientometrics based on its literature published during 1980 to 2009. this is a descriptive survey using scientometric indicators. findings revealed that out of 691 articles in the field of sci...

Characteristics of JASIST and 76 other journals listed in the Information Systems category of the Journal Citation Reports – Science edition 2009 were analyzed. Besides reporting usual bibliographic indicators, we investigated the human cornerstone of any peer-reviewed journal: its editorial board. Demographic data about the 2,846 gatekeepers serving in IS editorial boards were collected. We di...

BACKGROUND A critical evaluation of scientific efforts is needed in times of modified evaluation criteria for academic personnel and institutions. METHODS Using scientometric benchmark procedures and density-equalizing mapping, we analysed the global scientific efforts on "silicosis" of the last 92 years focusing on geographical changes within the last 30 years, specifying the most productive...

Background and aim There is a competition between scientific journals in order to achieve leadership in their scientific field. There are several Romanian biomedical journals which are published in English and a smaller number in Romanian. We need a periodical analysis of their visibility and ranking according to scientometric measures. Methods We searched all biomedical journals indexed on i...

While general publication practices clearly differ between disciplines, knowledge about scientometric indicators can also greatly vary. The observed heterogeneity in bibliometric knowledge inspired us to define the concept of ‘metric-wiseness’ for researchers. Being metric-wise can lead to an advantage for knowledgeable researchers over uninformed colleagues, even when they are of otherwise equ...

In this chapter, we elaborate on the topic of European integration in science. We will not deal with questions related to the effects of European integration, but only with the scientometric question how one can quantitatively indicate integration of the European science system. Our study is intended to facilitate and supplement debates rather than to provide a final answer to the questions whe...

This paper presents analytical outcomes of scientometric mapping of research work done on the important emerging area of ‘Recommender Systems. Research on ‘Recommender Systems’ started during last few years and within a short span of time has gained tremendous momentum. It is now considered as important emerging areas of research in computational sciences and related disciplines. We have analyz...