Volume 3, Issue 1

Research Article

1. Article

   A new model to identify the productivity of theses in terms of articles using co‑word analysis

   Mery Piedad Zamudio Igami, José Carlos Bressiani, Rogerio Mugnaini

   pp. 3–14 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143660 · Published

   A thesis defense should be considered as not the end but the starting point for scientific communication flow. How many articles truly extend doctoral research? This article proposes a new model to automatically identify…

2. Article

   An index that rates relevance of scientific work in bio‑sciences: The scientific relevance‑index

   Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Fragiskos G. Bersimis

   pp. 15–21 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143688 · Published

   This work aims to present an objective index that rates scientific relevance (SR) of scientists’ published work, the SR index, in a specific thematic field. The proposed index is calculated based on equally or weighted i…

3. Article

   Application of Bradford’s law to the evaluation of book collection of library of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

   Priya Girap, Tara Ashok, Karanam Bhanumurthy

   pp. 22–27 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143691 · Published

   Evaluation of the collection is a very important step toward the development of good and balanced collection in the library. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) library is a special scientific research library, which pr…

4. Article

   The role of National journals on the rise in Brazilian Agricultural Science Publications in Web of Science

   Rosely A. Vargas, Samile Andrea de Souza Vanz, Ida R. C. Stumpf

   pp. 28–36 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143698 · Published

   Essential to economic growth in Brazil, agricultural research is one of the most productive areas of national science. In recent years, an increase in publications from the field on international databases has helped rai…

5. Article

   Transmission power in some particular cases of bi- or tri-dimensional complex systems

   Eustache Mêgnigbêto

   pp. 37–45 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143704 · Published

   In a complex system, mutual information measures the information common to the variables involved. In more than two dimensions, it indicates the level of synergy between variables or the level of self‑organization or how…

6. Article

   Editor citation: An alleged instance of social‑professional desirability

   Haim Levy, Ying Sophie Huang, Avner Wolf, Yuval Wolf

   pp. 46–56 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143707 · Published

   One of the main pillars of the academic sphere is publication of articles, the scientific purity of which should be as higher as possible. Allegedly, scientists may prefer to cite journal editors more frequently than the…

7. Article

   Eugene Garfield–Glimpses of his writings

   B. K. Sen

   pp. 57–60 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143709 · Published

   Garfield in his active life used to contribute one article every week which appeared in Current Contents and some renowned journals. The articles thus contributed total around 1500. All these articles had finally appeare…