Volume 4, Issue 2

Kheradparvar Najmeh, Shokrpour Nasrin

pp. 48–60 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167252 · 2015

This study focused on the “text histories,” peer reviewers’ comments, and authors’ responses of 20 medical research articles published in ISI indexed journals. To identify the types of comments peer reviewers frequently …

Yann Demarigny, Virginie Soldat, Laetitia Gemelas

pp. 61–69 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167247 · 2015

The lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis, formerly named Streptococcus lactis, has been known and used for many years, even before its re-affiliation in 1985. The number of published papers featuring one of the two n…

Selçuk Bilir, Ersin Göğüş, Özgecan Önal Taş, Talar Yontan

pp. 70–76 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167254 · 2015

We propose a new performance indicator to evaluate the productivity of research institutions by their disseminated scientific papers. The new quality measure includes two principle components: The normalized impact facto…

Li Gu, Yiying Zhou, Liqiang Ren, Weichun Yan

pp. 77–84 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167253 · 2015

A statistical analysis technique is proposed to research and analyze the quality of patent agents. We apply time nodes and collect data and try to explore the demand for “patent agents” for China’s intellectual property …

Bidyarthi Dutta

pp. 85–95 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167249 · 2015

The scientometric study of individual scientists was started in around early 80’s of last century that required in‑depth data on the concerned person only. Such kinds of studies involved contemporary scientists only. No …

Anil Sagar, Basavaraj Shivappa Kademani, Karanam Bhanumurthy

pp. 96–103 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167251 · 2015

This paper attempts to highlight the quantitative and qualitative growth and development of the literature on electron probe microanalysis in terms of publication output as per Web of Science (1992–2013) database. A tota…

B. M. Gupta, S. M. Dhawan, Ritu Gupta

pp. 104–114 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167248 · 2015

The publication examines 6800 global publications on “Internet of Things” (IoT), as covered in Scopus database during 2005–2014, experiencing an annual average growth rate of 98.63% and citation impact of 1.97. The globa…

S. Kannan, S. Gowri

pp. 115–118 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167245 · 2015

Statistics has to be used appropriately in order to draw credible result. Statistical flaws have been detected in many biomedical journals but have not been evaluated for and published in dental journals. Hence, the pres…

Poonam Pandey

pp. 119–121 · 2015

What questions do we generally ask when we want to know about the history of technological innovation? The usual route is to look at who invented it, presumably, by finding out the Nobel Prize winner for the invention an…

Bidyarthi Dutta

pp. 122–123 · 2015

The concept of open data may be viewed as a consequence of open source movement since the 80’s of the last century. The word “open” is very old, but the inherent concept of it has been rediscovered in the context of open…