Volume 1, Issue 1

Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya, Ph.D

pp. 3–6 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.2 · 2012

Sujit Bhattacharya is a Senior Principal Scientist in NISTADS, New Delhi and Editor-In-Chief of the ‘Journal of Scientometric Research’. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) in Quantitat…

Dr. M Ahmed, Ph.D

pp. 7–8 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.3 · 2012

Journal of Scientometric Research (JSCIRES) is an internationally targeted official publication of SciBiolMed.Org. It also receives support from Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide and INPHARM Association. The second issue o…

Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya Ph. D

pp. 9–10 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.4 · 2012

The inaugural issue is expansive in its scope and covers a broad range of conceptual domains within scientometrics. The issue contains one review paper, six research articles, one research note and one webliography. The …

Dr. Ronald N. Kostoff

pp. 11–21 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.5 · 2012

This article is the first part of a two-part review of the author's work in developing text mining procedures. The focus of Part I is Scientometrics. Novel approaches that were used to text mine the field of nanoscience/…

Ronald Rousseau, Fred Y Ye

pp. 22–27 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.6 · 2012

Following the idea of the Bouyssou-Marchant independence axiom, a basic independence axiom for an indicator is introduced. It is shown that the average number of citations nor the h-index satisfy this basic axiom. Among …

Loet Leydesdorff, Ulrike Felt

pp. 28–34 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.7 · 2012

In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for both ‘Books’ and ‘Book Chapters’ a…

Christian Gumpenberger, Ambros Wernisch, Juan Gorraiz

pp. 35–43 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.8 · 2012

In the light of global economic crisis, stretched library budgets, price inflation, bundled acquisition practices and a worldwide boycott against one of the major publishers, library managers more than ever need to have …

Jacqueline Leta

pp. 44–52 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.9 · 2012

In the last decade, the number of Brazilian publications in the main international databases has increased considerably. Using data from Scopus and Web of Science, the present study aims at discussing the recent trends o…

Gangan Prathap, Loet Leydesdorff

pp. 53–59 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.10 · 2012

The academic research performance of the world over the decade from 2000 to 2010 is assessed using indicators of various orders based on quality values assigned to percentile ranking classes. Quality proxies are derived …

Adarsh Bala, B.M. Gupta

pp. 60–70 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.11 · 2012

The study investigates research efforts in measles—ranked among the top ten global burden of diseases, both as a cause of death and as a cause of disability adjusted life years (DALYs). Quantitative analysis of publicati…

Bharvi Dutt, KC Garg

pp. 71–78 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.12 · 2012

The present paper explores biomedical research coverage in the Indian English-language newspapers. Science and technology coverage in the Indian English-language newspapers revealed dominant representation of biomedical …

Divya Srivastava, Renu Bahadur

pp. 79–85 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.13 · 2012

Several initiatives which could be applied at different levels to improve the average quality of web sites have been proposed. In the present ongoing study, efforts have been made to test the risk markers for disappearan…

Anup Kumar Das, Parveen Arora, Sujit Bhattacharya

pp. 86–93 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.14 · 2012

The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) indicators have become essential tools for assessing knowledge capacity in a country or a region and as evidence for setting policy actions. Indicator development has become p…