Volume 6, Issue 1

Hildrun Kretschmer, Theo Kretschmer

pp. 1–5 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.1 · 2017

Eugene Garfield was the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and a pioneer in the field of citation analysis.He founded the ISI in 1960 and developed an indexing system for science literature, based …

Ramkumar Subramanian, Narayanasamy Nammalvar

pp. 6–14 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.2 · 2017

Introduction:Productivity as a function of demographic variables is a management conundrum. While previous studies have covered the sciences and humanities, the field of allied health sciences remains uninvestigated. Aim…

Alireza Mohebbi, Yousef Douzandegan

pp. 15–22 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.3 · 2017

There is a common idea, that title variables like article title length would influence article citations. The aim of the present study was to investigating possible relationship between size of article title and number o…

Nimita Pandey, Pranav N Desai

pp. 23–35 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.4 · 2017

The Indian Biopharmaceutical landscape interests scholars from innovation studies, economic geography and policy learning to understand various regional dimensions that fuel knowledge production in relation to emerging t…

Aragudige Nagaraja, K C. Gangadhar, M. Vasantha Kumar

pp. 36–46 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.5 · 2017

Bibliometric analysis is one of the methods to measure the research output published in journals. It is very important for policy holders to know the area of research interest of faculty members as well as their selectio…

B. Elango

pp. 47–50 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.6 · 2017

The purpose of this study is to compare the bibliometric characteristics between funded and non-funded publications in the field of tribology. The Science Citation Index – Expanded (SCI-E) is used to retrieve the bibliog…

Ronald N. Kostoff

pp. 51–53 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.7 · 2017

A monograph identifying the full spectrum of actionable Alzheimer's Disease (AD) contributing factors has been published recently.[1] Elimination of these actionable contributing factors offers the promise of 1) potentia…

Manoj Changat, Thara Prabhakaran, Hiran H. Lathabhai

pp. 54–56 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.8 · 2017

The advancement of the scientific fields through accumulation of knowledge is tremendous so that in order to remain updated, the researchers are forced to rely on comprehensive surveys and literature reviews.[1] Publishe…

Poonam Pandey

pp. 57–59 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.9 · 2017

Rethinking Revolutions: Soyabean, Choupals, and the Changing Countryside in Central India; by Richa Kumar, Oxford University Press, 2016, Hardback, 413 Pages, ISBN: 9780199465330.The countryside in India is changing. But…

Sharique Hassan Manazir

pp. 60–61 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.10 · 2017

Scientifically Yours: Selected Indian Women Scientists1, edited by Gauhar Raza, R. Gopichandran, T.V. Venkateswaran, and Kinkini Dasgupta Misra. CSIR-NISCAIR and Vigyan Prasar, India, 2016, hardcover, 135 pages, ISBN: 97…

Sanghamitra Das

pp. 62–64 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.6.1.11 · 2017

Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier, by Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Toluwalogo Odumosu. Harvard University Press, 2016, hardcover, 176 pages, ISBN 9780674967960.