Volume 9, Issue 2

Maryam Emami, Nosrat Riahinia, Faramarz Soheili

pp. 88–95 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.12 · 2020

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between science and technology in the field of medical and laboratory equipment registered at the United State Patent and Trademark Office database in the period 1984-2014.…

Satya Swarup Srichandan, Rajesh Piryani, Vivek Kumar Singh, Sujit Bhattacharya

pp. 96–110 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.13 · 2020

Open Access is emerging as an important movement worldwide since last few years, triggered mainly by the high subscription cost of pay walled journals that create barriers in universal dissemination of knowledge reported…

Andreia Cristina Galina, Jacqueline Leta

pp. 111–119 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.14 · 2020

The 3D printing, a synonym for additive manufacturing, is an emerging technology based on the principle of additive manufacturing, that is, a material deposition in a tiny layer-by-layer process until the designed shape …

Patrick Kenekayoro

pp. 120–126 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.15 · 2020

Context: Identifying emerging research fronts is critical as it aids policy makers or funding agencies on their decisions in research policies, it is also a useful tool for guiding young researchers’ research direction. …

Richa Kumari, Ashraf Uddin, Byeong Hee Lee, Kiseok Choi

pp. 127–135 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.16 · 2020

Although citation-based indicators are widely used for impact assessment, time to get the first citation could also be an early indicator of scientific performance. This study examined how factors like number of authors …

Zainun Mustafa, Mohd Heikal Husin, Sharifah Mashita Syed-Mohamad, Nor Athiyah Abdullah

pp. 136–145 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.17 · 2020

This article aims to investigate from a bibliometric perspective, the pattern and trends of the pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) related studies in the field of Computer Science over the past 43 years extracted from the…

Dhiman Mondal

pp. 146–153 · DOI: 0.5530/jscires.9.2.18 · 2020

The present study reveals Indian authorship trend and their contribution in five selected highly cited journals of American Physical Society (APS) as reflected in the Web of Science (WoS) database. During 2004-2018, Indi…

Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro

pp. 154–162 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.19 · 2020

Objectives: Research is the foundation of technological progress; the aim of this study is to investigate research success in the USA, the EU and other countries in basic medical, biochemical and biotechnological topics.…

Anita Pinheiro, Madhav Govind

pp. 163–173 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.20 · 2020

Urban agriculture is the practice of production of food and non-food items in and around the urban area. This study aims to explore emerging global research trends, topical focus and gaps in peer-reviewed urban agricultu…

Kailash Chandra Garg, Suresh Kumar

pp. 174–184 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.21 · 2020

Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that causes several social problems. The paper presents a bibliometric analysis of 16,745 papers published on drug abuse research during 2011-2018 and indexed by the Web of S…

Bhaskar Mukherjee

pp. 185–194 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.22 · 2020

This COVID-19 (n-CoV) belongs to a large family of viruses known as ‘Coronaviruses’ that causes respiratory and intestinal illness among animals and human beings. The present study attempts to understand the trends in gl…

Ülle Must

pp. 195–199 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.23 · 2020

The aim of this paper is to follow highly cited researchers’ patterns of behavior based on their publications and to study HCR active research life, how long do their cooperation relations last and whether we can disting…

Kunal Sinha, Chandrahash Patel

pp. 200–203 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.24 · 2020

The chemical solutions are backbone of industrial formulation as this helps in manufacturing of various industrial products. Each formulation goes through the structural changes which requires precise instruments to capt…

Praloy Kr Bhattacharyya, Nivedita Bhattacharyya Sahu

pp. 204–213 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.25 · 2020

The publication productivity of Elinor Ostrom, the renowned American Political economist and the first woman laureate to win the most aspired highest prize that is the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for her analysis of…

Bidyarthi Dutta

pp. 214–218 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.26 · 2020

The h-index, introduced by Hirsch, is based on the mutual variation between the number of cited and source items. The temporally continuous nature of the citation accretion process causes a shift of cited items from the …

Sangeeta Narang

pp. 219–225 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.27 · 2020

Worldwide there has been tremendous development in the field of public health. That includes dissemination of relevant information to the public at large, by different means. In developed countries, the governments have …

Anup Kumar Das

pp. 226–228 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.28 · 2020

The higher education in India is at the crossroads since the release of the National Education Policy 2020 by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development in July 2020 amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. The book “…

Bidyarthi Dutta

pp. 229–231 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.29 · 2020

Social networking today has radically changed our way of life form, communication style, daily working, our relationships with other people, etc. This paradigm shift has not landed overnight but over the last one and hal…

Anurag Kanaujia

pp. 232–235 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.2.30 · 2020

The book “Midnight’s Machines: Political History of Technology in India” takes up the subject of industrial policies and reviews India’s technological development since independence. The author has focused on the ‘Make i…