Volume 4, Issue 3

Elena Pallari, Grant Lewison

pp. 124–134 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174864 · 2015

This paper describes a new indicator of research impact or influence, namely the research experience of health advisory committee members in 21 European countries, and how this relates to the burden of disease in those c…

J. John Jeyasekar, P. Saravanan

pp. 135–142 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174863 · 2015

Research collaboration is an essential component of research. Researchers, as well as the policy makers, are showing increasing interest in research collaboration. Forensic Science being multidisciplinary subject collabo…

Koen Beumer

pp. 143–152 · DOI: k.beumer@rug.nl · 2015

This article explores the relation between nanotechnology and the public in India. Nanotechnology is expected to have far‑reaching consequences for developing countries and India has been particularly active in supportin…

Magdalena Bemke‑Świtilnik, Aneta Drabek

pp. 153–160 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174861 · 2015

This paper presents the analysis of a Polish mining sciences journal (Prace Naukowe GIG. Górnictwo i Środowisko; title in English: Research Reports of the Central Mining Institute. Mining and Environment; acronym in Engl…

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

pp. 161–171 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174865 · 2015

The paper examines world publications output on social media research (46354) published during 2001–2014. The publications data, sourced from Scopus database, averaged annual 14.61% growth. The paper profiles top 25 most…

Ari Voutilainen, Mari Kangasniemi

pp. 172–177 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174866 · 2015

The purpose of this study was to test the usefulness of a slightly modified Shannon’s diversity index (H) as a numerical measure of intragroup research collaboration diversity based on coauthorship. Altogether, 527 peer‑…

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

pp. 178–194 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174859 · 2015

The main objective of this research was to identify highly cited papers in materials science and to analyze their publication and citation data to study their citation characteristics and to understand what role contribu…

Fernanda Strozzi, Claudia Colicchia

pp. 195–205 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.174860 · 2015

The field of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has recently gained considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. This has caused an exponential growth in the number of publications related to different…

Anup Kumar Das

pp. 206–207 · 2015

In a knowledge‑based economy, innovation takes a central stage. The knowledge economy nurtures the innovation frameworks across the board while encouraging the development of the innovation ecosystem in the country by es…

Bidyarthi Dutta

pp. 208–209 · 2015

Ontology is a holistic study of the nature of being, becoming, existence in past, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. The subject ontology classically belongs to the broad discipline of philosop…

Sujit Bhattacharya

pp. 210–212 · 2015

Nanotechnology is promising to be the “transformative” technology of the 21st century with its boundless potential to revolutionize a wide range of industries, perceived to provide novel innovative solutions to complex t…