E-government benchmarking is being conducted by various organizations but its assessment is based on a limited number of indicators and does not highlight the multidimensional nature of the electronically provided services. This paper outlines a multicriteria evaluation system based on four points of view: (1) infrastructures, (2) investments, (3) e-processes, and (4) users’ attitude in order t...

W e are delighted that the Hellenic Journal of Cardiology is going to be indexed in MEDLINE. We congratulate the Editor-in-Chief, Professor P. Vardas, on his success. In this context, we considered the impact of Greek scientific research. We were pleasantly surprised to find that our country (population 10.6 million) ranked (considering all scientific fields) number 28 for papers (n=47,954) and...

The World Health Report 2000 (WHR 2000) is probably best remembered for trying to stack the health systems of different countries up against each other using a uniform set of measures (WHO 2000). Certainly, senior health officials in my own country (South Africa) repeatedly referred to our ranking of 175 out of 191 countries, in terms of overall health system performance, to highlight our pligh...

The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 is a ranking of universities based on bibliometric indicators of publication output, citation impact, and scientific collaboration. The ranking includes 500 major universities from 41 different countries. This paper provides an extensive discussion of the Leiden Ranking 2011/2012. The ranking is compared with other global university rankings, in particular the Acade...

The design and implementation team of computer automation systems for the Polish power industry faced many difficult problems connected with the lack of experience in this domain in the country. Another kind of problems was implied by different levels of information and communication technology in that country and in well developed ones. The differences were generated by both internal (importat...