We analyse the coauthorship networks of researchers affiliated at universities in Turkey by using two databases: the international SSCI database and the Turkish ULAKBIM database. We find that coauthorship networks are composed largely of isolated groups, permitting little knowledge diffusion. Moreover, there seems to be two disparate populations of researchers. While some scholars publish mostl...

Aggregated journal-journal citations for 1999 are compared with similar data in the Journal Citation Reports 1998 of the Social Science Citation Index. In addition to indicating local change, probabilistic entropy measures enable us to analyze changes in distributions at different levels of aggregation. The indicators are compared by elaborating the journal-journal mappings and in relation to s...

Journal articles constitute the core documents for the diffusion of knowledge in the natural sciences. It has been argued that the same is not true for the social sciences and humanities where knowledge is more often disseminated in monographs that are not indexed in the journal-based databases used for bibliometric analysis. Previous studies have made only partial assessments of the role playe...

The purpose of the study was to determine comparison between perceptual motor abilities of intellectual children and children with mild intellectual disability. 30 intellectual children from D. A. V. Public School, Patiala and 30 children with mild intellectual disability from Patiala school for the Deaf, Saifdipur were selected randomly as the subjects for this study. The necessary data was co...

One of the most important prerequisites for building a more visual social science is demonstrating that visual data provide answers to research questions, which are not addressed satisfactorily by the use of more conventional, non-visual, methods. In this article the author argues that a systematic analysis of the images in print advertisements not only accounts for patterns in contemporary Ame...

Parents are the prime educators until the child attends an early year setting of the school and they remain a major influence on their children’s learning throughout school and beyond. The school teachers and parents both have crucial roles to play in case of Mentally Challenged children. Nevid, Rathus and Greene (2000) agree that people who have mental retardation are often demeaned and ridicu...