Volume 9, Issue 3

Alireza Abbasi, Hamid R Jamali

pp. 236–244 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.31 · 2020

This research aims to investigate whether universities should go for greater diversity in their research or specialise and concentrate their research and try to only excel in a few fields. To answer this question, we ass…

Amit Nath, Sibsankar Jana, Soumik Kerketta

pp. 245–252 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.32 · 2020

Altmetrics have been used as a complementary or alternative to traditional citation metrics, offering alternative ways to measure societal impact and public engagement with scientific publications. Conceivably, journal a…

Biswajit Ghosh, Saheli Pal Dutta, Ajoy Mallik

pp. 253–267 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.33 · 2020

Cryptography is a crucial technique, involving protection of information and it’s communication in a secure manner. This is a practice of storing transmitted data in a particular form that forbids an unauthorized person …

Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell, Rickard Danell, Pia Vuolanto

pp. 268–276 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.34 · 2020

The aim of this article is to analyze the development of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a research domain over the period 1966-2016. Using bibliometric methods, the publication pattern will be analyzed w…

Isabel PA Schilder, Désirée H Veening-Griffioen, Guilherme S Ferreira, Peter JK Van Meer, Christine C Gispen-de Wied, Huub Schellekens, Wouter PC Boon, Ellen HM Moors

pp. 277–292 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.35 · 2020

Investments in drug development for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have not led to the availability of a treatment to cure or halt the progression of the disease. This study aimed to provide insights into the current lack of a…

Jafar Kolahi, Saber Khazaei, Elham Bidram, Roya Kelishadi, Pedram Iranmanesh, Abbasali Khademi, Mohammad H. Nekoofar, Paul M. H. Dummer

pp. 293–299 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.36 · 2020

The present study aimed to analyze and visualize the science map of Cochrane systematic reviews (CSRs) with high Altmetric attention score (AAS). On 2020-07-29, the altmetric data of the Cochrane Database of Systematic R…

Prashant Kumar Sinha, Subhranshu Bhushan Sahoo, Sagar Bhimrao Gajbe, Kanu Chakrabory, Shiva Shankar Mahato

pp. 300–309 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.37 · 2020

The present study explores the altmetrics research area through bibliometric analysis and visualization. For the investigation of research material Scopus database was chosen, to obtain the bibliographic data. The search…

Roberto E Lopez-Martinez, Gerardo Sierra

pp. 310–318 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.38 · 2020

This work presents a review, using bibliometric methods, of the state of research on the whole field of natural language processing (NLP), understanding this as the methods to process human language, including semantic t…

Noémi Gaskó, Florentin Bota, Mihai Alexandru Suciu, Rodica Ioana Lung

pp. 319–325 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.39 · 2020

The field of Academic Writing is analyzed from a network perspective combined with a game theoretical approach by using co-authorship networks and the Shapley value concept. The Shapley value of each author indicates its…

Saleh Rahimi, Faramarz Soheili, Yousef Amini Nia

pp. 326–334 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.40 · 2020

Social influence refers to the interaction of one person with other researchers in the/a social network and is calculated by the analysis of co-authorship networks and centrality indices. The purpose of the present study…

Rosaria Ciriminna, Irina L Simakova, Mario Pagliaro, Dmitry Yu Murzin

pp. 335–343 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.41 · 2020

The outcomes of the present scientometric analysis of research in catalysis provide chemistry and catalysis scholars with a closer bibliometric knowledge of an old and central field of chemical research. The field nowada…

Aurelia Magdalena Pisoschi, Aneta Pop, Gabriel Predoi, Letitia Purdoiu

pp. 344–351 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.42 · 2020

After an overview of the general fiscal and non-fiscal measures for stimulating the Research and Development system (R&D), with a punctual analysis of some countries, the paper examines Romania’s situation from the bibli…

Gautam Sharma, Stuti Haldar

pp. 352–355 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.43 · 2020

Department of Science and Technology, India recently released the S&T indicators for the year 2019-20 which once again reveals the stagnation of India’s gross expenditure in R&D at 0.7 percent of the GDP. The R&D trends …

Sujit Bhattacharya

pp. 356–358 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.44 · 2020

Pankaj draws upon a rich repository of research materials, engaging with wide cross-disciplinary researchers, and dives deep into the theoretical underpinning of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to develop a thesis t…

Hemant Kumar

pp. 359–360 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.3.45 · 2020

This book traces the ‘genealogy’ of ‘models’ used in the field of Science Technology and Society (STS)/Science Technology and Innovation (STI) studies. Benoît Godin, one of the profound historians of innovation, has earl…