High prevalence of human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8) infection has been reported on the island of Sardinia. Among emigrants from Sardinia, rates of HHV-8 infection are lower than they are in Sardinia and are similar to those observed in the local population. Thus, environmental factors seem to play a relevant role in affecting the prevalence of HHV-8 infection.

by RIChARd KENdALL Using various education and census databases 1 this policy brief explores the Latino education pipeline in New York State and, where possible, uses disaggregated data to analyze the changes in educational enrollment, attainment, and achievement for Latinos between 1990 and 2000. The education pipeline represents the distribution of Latinos nrolled in preschool through graduat...

introduction: self-citation is considered as one of the greatest shortcomings of citation analysis. although self-citation is natural for journals, its excessive use would eliminate the journal from evaluations made by databases. this study examined the rate of self-citation of iranian scientific medical journals in english indexed in scopus citation index during 2005-2009. methods: this descri...

highly cited papers are mostly authored in international collaboration. it is expected that   co-authored papers bring more citations. on the other hand, it is inevitable that a part of citations is self-citation. this study investigates 134 and 236 highly cited papers in iran and turkey, respectively, to determine the extent to which highly cited papers are affected by author self-citation. a ...

the aim of this paper is to determine if the centrality degree and density of latin-american and caribbean countries (la-c) predicts their citation based performance in academic research in the management discipline. for our analysis, we use publication data of the social science citation index in the field of ‘‘management’’ between 1988 and 2013, extracted from isi web of science. the resultin...

objective:  the aim of the research was investigating and visualizing the intellectual structure of thermodynamics subject area based on outputs of iranian scholars of the field indexed in thomson reuters web of science during time span of 1990-2009.   method: the population of the research was all references of the mentioned publications. the sample was the top 1 percent cited scholars of the ...