Volume 10, Issue 1

Richard Webber, Philip Roe, Grant Lewison

pp. 1–8 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.1 · 2021

The UK’s recent departure from the European Union may make it harder for researchers from other countries to be employed here and may discourage research institutions from seeking them. We sought to develop a methodology…

Fernanda Luz da Silva, Luana Carneiro Brandão, João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello

pp. 9–17 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.2 · 2021

The h-index, proposed in 2005, is very popular in the literature and in real-world applications, due to its simplicity and to the importance of measuring scientific impact. Many studies have proposed new indexes with sim…

Wanjun Xia, Yanping Jiang, Weifeng Zhu, Shuang Zhang, Tianrui Li

pp. 18–26 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.3 · 2021

Computer science and technology have developed rapidly in the past few decades and shown an increasing tendency of interdisciplinary research in the community. Research fronts of Computer Science (CS) have attracted the …

Renan Favarao da Silva, Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza

pp. 27–36 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.4 · 2021

Asset management is a contemporary research area that coordinates activities to realize value from assets in organizations. Consolidated with the international ISO 55000 series, it has become an active field of infrastru…

Mishra Preeti, Apte Sayali

pp. 37–46 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.5 · 2021

Electronic sector is the one of the most rapid developing sector which is also contributing towards uncontrolled handling of waste flows. It not only poses threat to environment but also to public health due to adoption …

Martin Grančay

pp. 47–54 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.6 · 2021

We adopt a concept from the field of international economics called “export sophistication” and transform it into two scientometric indicators we name PUBLY and REARY which can be considered proxies for research sophisti…

Juan Pablo Garcia Vazquez, Ricardo Salomon Torres, Dalila Blanca Perez Perez

pp. 55–62 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.7 · 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered a key element to address the current challenges facing the agricultural sector related to food production and climate change. Since AI is successfully helping to optimize human …

Bhuvana Ramkumar, Varshitha Harish, Swamy Devappa Renuka, Rashmi Srinivasaiah

pp. 63–73 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.8 · 2021

The study aims to investigate lean manufacturing from a bibliometric perspective. A systematic analysis was performed on 1893 documents extracted from the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (WoS) Collection under the “Le…

María Magdalena Sierra Flores, Alejandro Cristian Raga, Juan Claudio Toledo Roy

pp. 74–83 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.9 · 2021

We present an evaluation of the 2010-2019 production of refereed papers by Mexican astronomers. We show that the yearly number of papers grows by a factor of ~ 2 (over this period), and that this growth appears to be due…

Engin Arik, Beril Tezeller Arik

pp. 84–93 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.10 · 2021

We analyzed publications in English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English as a Second Language (ESL), Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and Teachers of English to…

Bruno Guimarães Torres, Juliana de Castro Reis, João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello

pp. 94–100 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.11 · 2021

The Olympic Games were created in 1896, where 241 men competed in 10 modalities. Since then, new editions have been held every 4 years, with more athletes, more countries, and more modalities. Although there is no offici…

Khasseh Ali A, Hasanzadeh Parisa, Isfandyari-Moghaddam Ali R, Soheili Faramarz, Mousavi Chelak Afshin

pp. 101–109 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.12 · 2021

Co-word analysis is considered as an important method to explore the network concept in different fields. This technique can reveal the knowledge structure in a given research area. This research attempts to map and anal…

Sudeepa Roy Dey, Snehanshu Saha, Rahul Reddy Nandyala

pp. 110–118 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.13 · 2021

Measuring the true influence of a researcher over the past few years has been an important problem in field of scientometrics as it not only facilitates funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers but al…

Md Safiqur Rahaman, Hashem Hussein Al-Attas, Khadeeja MN Ansari

pp. 119–125 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.14 · 2021

The study proposed identifying and assessing virology journals’ quality by virtue of internationally accepted bibliometric indicators, namely, JIF, CS, SJR, and h5-index. The data collected from Web of Science, Scopus, a…

Ronald Rousseau

pp. 126–129 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.15 · 2021

We study the interpretation of the observed/expected ratio as an indicator of international scientific collaboration. This indicator cannot be considered as representing the affinity for collaboration, in the sense of ‘t…

Vivek Kumar Singh, Satya Swarup Srichandan, Sujit Bhattacharya

pp. 130–134 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.16 · 2021

Sci-Hub, founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011 in Kazakhstan has, over the years, emerged as a very popular source for researchers to download scientific papers. It is believed that Sci-Hub contains more than 76 million …