In order to deal with the heterogeneous systems and variety of business data, business model and description of different enterprises in the interoperation process, a semantic interoperability framework for business collaboration is proposed in this paper. In the framework, a multi-facet ontology system supporting business collaboration is introduced to give unified understanding throughout int...

Digitalization and internet have changed academic practices, such as publishing and publicity of research results, but also the ways academics work and collaborate. This paper presents a new type of open research collaboration, as conducted by the SOMUS research project, for discussion and further development. In this paper we describe and evaluate the tools and practices of this ongoing resear...

or the past 2 years, a team of investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has collaborated with scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Defense (DOD), academic centers, and international partners to undertake a research agenda on variola virus, the etiologic agent of smallpox. Objectives of the pro...

Manion • Editorial A noted in previous contributions to JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (2005;105:19), the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) is “[commited] to promoting student involvement in research at all the colleges of osteopathic medicine.” Currently, two student awards are acknowledged each fall at the AOA Research Conference, an event that takes pla...

The field of e-collaboration research has provided a context for examining the embeddedness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in virtually all realms of everyday life. Such routine transactions as managing personal finances, ac-cessing information available on the Internet, using e-communication technologies to participate in geographically distributed tasks, and managing fam...

Academic publication metadata can be used to analyze the collaboration, productivity and hot topic trends of a research community. Recently, it is shown that authors with uninterrupted and continuous presence (UCP) over a time window, though small in number (about 1%), amass the majority of significant and high-influence academic output. We adopt the UCP metric to retrieve the most active autho...

There is an increasing amount of research investigating retractions. Yet little attention has been paid to the relationship between retractions and collaboration. This study draws upon two notions from the social psychological literature on group interaction – diffusion of responsibility and internal auditing – to examine the effect of collaboration size on retraction. We test our hypotheses re...

127 Key message Knowing and managing the cross cultural and multidisciplinary benefits and limitations of comparative effectiveness research (CER) will be the key component in building a strong foundation for the proof of concept in precision medicine.Unprecedented funding for CER is now available but this often favors national applicants even though the research is completed in other nations. ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the multiple collaboration types, quantitatively evaluate the publication trends and review the performance of institutions or countries (regions) across the world in COPD research. MATERIALS AND METHODS Scientometric methods and social network analysis were used to survey the development of publication trends and understand current collaboration in the...