Volume 9, Issue 1

Andrey Mikhaylov, Anna Mikhaylova, Dmitry Hvaley

pp. 1–10 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.1 · 2020

The intensified globalization of science and internationalization of research collaboration ties questions the conventional center-peripheral mode of national knowledge space. The traditional perception of metropolises a…

Elena Pallari, Mursheda Begum, Ajay Aggarwal, Grant Lewison

pp. 11–18 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.2 · 2020

We evaluated prostate cancer research outputs from leading countries to see if they reflected the countries’ research expenditure and disease burden and determined their impact. Were the countries making the largest cont…

S Ramkumar

pp. 19–28 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.3 · 2020

Sanskrit, the voice of India’s soul and wisdom contains a vast repository of knowledge covering a wide spectrum. To what extent doctoral guidance in Sanskrit Universities have explored the multiple vistas remains un-inve…

Avinash Kumar, Sambit Mallick, Pradip Swarnakar

pp. 29–39 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.4 · 2020

This paper aims to capture the pattern of collaboration operating in the field of rice crop research in India. The present study employs both bibliometric techniques as well as social network analysis to analyze the publ…

Sara Mikhail, Ayushi Anand, Shrikalaa Kannan, Vijaya Raghavan

pp. 40–53 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.5 · 2020

Using biomass to produce an alternative and sustainable source of energy is an attractive possibility. Hydrothermal carbonization is a relatively new technique that is growing in popularity due to the fact that its produ…

Priti Kumari, Rajeev Kumar

pp. 54–62 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.6 · 2020

Prominence of Computer Science (CS) research articles in journals and conferences has been a topic of research. Major issues regarding these publications are pros. and cons. of review process and scientometric data which…

Rabishankar Giri, Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri

pp. 63–69 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.7 · 2020

Influence of a research journal is usually assessed in contemporary academia by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) given by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published annually by Clarivate Analytics. JCR also provides Journal Imm…

CH Peidu

pp. 70–76 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.8 · 2020

The paper is an exploratory research that examines on the general perception that certain research papers or genre of papers, such as open-access papers, co-authored papers, etc., tend to be cited more than others. It ex…

Ayman Saleh, Fei Cao, Salih Selek

pp. 77–81 · DOI: JScientometRes-9-1-77 · 2020

Measuring academic productivity is important in hiring, promoting and award selection. This study provides an example of a cross-sectional evaluation of faculty members in the UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, T…

A. Gopikuttan

pp. 82–84 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.10 · 2020

Information design is the art of presenting information in a logically compatible way that enables the information consumers to assimilate the information by their brains. The term ‘Information design’ is broadly used fo…

A. Gopikuttan

pp. 85–87 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.11 · 2020

In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Estragon and Vladimir waits for the arrival of a stranger named Godot who never arrived. During waiting they were engaged in so many discussions and faced three other characters. This wait…