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Journal of Scientometric Research

Volume 1, Issue 1

· pp. 1–93 · 13 articles

Volume
1
Issue
1
Published
Pages
1–93
Articles
13
Sections
5
ISSN
Print - 2321-6654, Online - 2320-0057
Journal
JSR
InsightReview ArticleResearch ArticleResearch NoteWebliography

In this issue

Insight

  1. Article

    Introduction to editorial board members

    Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya, Ph.D

    pp. 3–6 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.2 · Published

    Sujit Bhattacharya is a Senior Principal Scientist in NISTADS, New Delhi and Editor-In-Chief of the ‘Journal of Scientometric Research’. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) in Quantitat…

  2. Article

    Journal of Scientometric Research: Affiliation and support system

    Dr. M Ahmed, Ph.D

    pp. 7–8 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.3 · Published

    Journal of Scientometric Research (JSCIRES) is an internationally targeted official publication of SciBiolMed.Org. It also receives support from Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide and INPHARM Association. The second issue o…

  3. Article

    Issue highlights

    Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya Ph. D

    pp. 9–10 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.4 · Published

    The inaugural issue is expansive in its scope and covers a broad range of conceptual domains within scientometrics. The issue contains one review paper, six research articles, one research note and one webliography. The …

Review Article

  1. Review

    Text mining for science and technology – a review part I – characterization/scientometrics

    Dr. Ronald N. Kostoff

    pp. 11–21 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.5 · Published

    This article is the first part of a two-part review of the author's work in developing text mining procedures. The focus of Part I is Scientometrics. Novel approaches that were used to text mine the field of nanoscience/…

Research Article

  1. Article

    Basic independence axioms for the publicationcitation system

    Ronald Rousseau, Fred Y Ye

    pp. 22–27 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.6 · Published

    Following the idea of the Bouyssou-Marchant independence axiom, a basic independence axiom for an indicator is introduced. It is shown that the average number of citations nor the h-index satisfy this basic axiom. Among …

  2. Article

    Edited volumes, monographs and book chapters in the Book Citation Index (BKCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A&HCI)

    Loet Leydesdorff, Ulrike Felt

    pp. 28–34 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.7 · Published

    In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BKCI) as part of the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for both ‘Books’ and ‘Book Chapters’ a…

  3. Article

    Reality-check: Cost-related journal assessment from a practical point of view

    Christian Gumpenberger, Ambros Wernisch, Juan Gorraiz

    pp. 35–43 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.8 · Published

    In the light of global economic crisis, stretched library budgets, price inflation, bundled acquisition practices and a worldwide boycott against one of the major publishers, library managers more than ever need to have …

  4. Article

    Brazilian growth in the mainstream science: The role of human resources and national journals

    Jacqueline Leta

    pp. 44–52 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.9 · Published

    In the last decade, the number of Brazilian publications in the main international databases has increased considerably. Using data from Scopus and Web of Science, the present study aims at discussing the recent trends o…

  5. Article

    The world of science according to performance indicators based on percentile ranking normalization

    Gangan Prathap, Loet Leydesdorff

    pp. 53–59 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.10 · Published

    The academic research performance of the world over the decade from 2000 to 2010 is assessed using indicators of various orders based on quality values assigned to percentile ranking classes. Quality proxies are derived …

  6. Article

    Measles: A quantitative analysis of world publications during 2001–2010

    Adarsh Bala, B.M. Gupta

    pp. 60–70 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.11 · Published

    The study investigates research efforts in measles—ranked among the top ten global burden of diseases, both as a cause of death and as a cause of disability adjusted life years (DALYs). Quantitative analysis of publicati…

  7. Article

    Biomedical research coverage in English-language Indian newspapers

    Bharvi Dutt, KC Garg

    pp. 71–78 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.12 · Published

    The present paper explores biomedical research coverage in the Indian English-language newspapers. Science and technology coverage in the Indian English-language newspapers revealed dominant representation of biomedical …

Research Note

  1. Article

    Indicators for websites: Particular reference to geriatric sites

    Divya Srivastava, Renu Bahadur

    pp. 79–85 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.13 · Published

    Several initiatives which could be applied at different levels to improve the average quality of web sites have been proposed. In the present ongoing study, efforts have been made to test the risk markers for disappearan…

Webliography

  1. Article

    Webliography of STI indicator databases and related publications

    Anup Kumar Das, Parveen Arora, Sujit Bhattacharya

    pp. 86–93 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.2012.1.14 · Published

    The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) indicators have become essential tools for assessing knowledge capacity in a country or a region and as evidence for setting policy actions. Indicator development has become p…