Volume 2, Issue 3

Research Article

1. Article

   Brazil’s scientific production in mathematics: Contribution to mainstream science (2002-2011)

   Renata Cristina Gutierres Castanha, Maria Cláudia Cabrini Grácio

   pp. 161–168 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135405 · Published

   This research aims to conduct a diachronic study of the scientific production in the mathematics area with the presence of Brazilian researchers, based on Scopus from 2002 to 2011, identifying its impact on the internati…

2. Article

   Temporal study of countries’ scientific evolution based on two‑dimensional approach

   Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini Jenab

   pp. 169–172 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135406 · Published

   Evolution of 50 top most countries in scientific production is analyzed over 16 years (1996-2011) based on two‑dimensional approach, that is, considering both quantity and quality simultaneously. By applying an averaging…

3. Article

   A bibliometric analysis of a national Journal: The case of the Turkish Journal of Psychology

   Engin Arik

   pp. 173–184 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135407 · Published

   What contributions do researchers in the social sciences and humanities in Turkey make to science internationally? In an attempt to answer this question, this study conducts a bibliometric analysis of the Turkish Journal…

4. Article

   Research trends in agricultural science: A global perspective

   Anil Sagar, Basavaraj Shivappa Kademani, Karanam Bhanumurthy

   pp. 185–201 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135409 · Published

   This paper attempts to highlight quantitatively and qualitatively the growth and development of global agricultural science publication output and citations as per Web of science during 1993-2012. The objective of this s…

5. Article

   Transient and continuant authors in robotic medicine: A scientometric view

   J. P. S. Kumaravel, P. Pricilla Rani, S. Kalai Selvi

   pp. 202–205 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135410 · Published

   The purpose of this study is to conduct a scientometric analysis of the body of literature on robotic medicine covered by PubMed database for a period from 2000-2011 and identify the quantum of transient and continuant a…

6. Article

   Migration of scientists to novel areas of biomedical research: Role of article‑related productivity

   Igor Kissin, Edwin L. Bradley Jr

   pp. 206–213 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135411 · Published

   In a previous study (Kissin 2011), frequency of a surname among the general population and the number of articles published by all authors with exactly the same surname were used to estimate surname‑based article‑related…

7. Article

   Triple Helix of university‑industry‑government relationships in West Africa

   Eustache Mêgnigbêto

   pp. 214–222 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135413 · Published

   The West African countries’ scientific publications data are downloaded from Web of Science. Analyses focus on university‑industry‑government collaboration. We compute data on each sector’s production and collaboration a…

8. Article

   Cooperation in health: A cluster analysis of 190 research institutions

   Pamela Barreto Lang, Fabio C. Gouveia, Jacqueline Leta

   pp. 223–230 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135414 · Published

   Introduction:Webometrics has been recognized as a science with great potential for application in various fields. However, studies in this area are still restricted to the large field of informetrics. Moreover, the debat…

9. Article

   Why and where Wikipedia is cited in journal articles?

   Fariba Tohidinasab, Hamid R. Jamali

   pp. 231–238 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.135415 · Published

   The aim of this research was to identify the motivations for citation to Wikipedia in scientific papers. Also, the number of citation to Wikipedia, location of citation, type of citing papers, subject of citing and cited…