Volume 8, Issue 2

Aparna Basu, Deepika Malhotra, Taniya Seth, Pranab Kumar Muhuri

pp. 72–78 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.12 · 2019

Most currently available schemes for performance-based ranking of Universities/ Research organizations, such as, Quacarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE), Shanghai University-based All Research of World Univ…

Shakil Ahmad, Hisham I. M. Abdel-Magid, Isam Mohammed Abdel-Magid, Enayat Bano, Abu Waris

pp. 79–85 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.13 · 2019

This paper aims at presenting the reputation and practice of SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), Eigen Factor Score (ES) and Cite Score (CS) indicators in comparison with Journal Impact Factor. These scientometric instruments we…

Mohammad Alaee Arani, Faramarz Soheili, Afshin Mousavi Chelak, Ali Akbar Khasseh

pp. 86–93 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.14 · 2019

This study aims at conducting a meta-analysis on the use of software packages in scientometric-related articles published in Iranian journals. The study consisted of 170 research papers selected based on their credibilit…

Sadik Batcha Majeed

pp. 94–101 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.15 · 2019

Scientometrics is a method used to analyze and quantify the bibliographic data, offering a powerful set of methods and measures for studying the structure and process of scholarly communication. Cardiovascular disease am…

Bahmani Jahromi Maryam, Salehi Alireza, Marzban Maryam, Habibi Amin

pp. 102–108 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.16 · 2019

Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) is scientific investigations that evaluate the safety and efficacy of new drugs or therapeutic procedures by using human subjects. This study aimed to assess the quality of RCT reports a…

Satish Sivaprakasam, Vasna Joshua

pp. 109–116 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.17 · 2019

The objective of the study is to perform scientiometrics analysis of the published literature related to NIPAH Virus globally using the Web of Science database, for the period 1999-2018 and to compare the results with tw…

Bidyarthi Dutta

pp. 117–118 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.18 · 2019

Data science is the 21st Century subject. But in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet published in 1887, Sherlock Holmes said that it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twis…

Ashish Gosain

pp. 119–124 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.8.2.19 · 2019

The book discusses the increasing importance of urban regions, especially in Asia and South America in the overall backdrop of the global economic landscape and the fundamental transformations of the world economy. The k…