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Editorial
- Article
Sujit Bhattacharya
pp. 1-2 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143655 · 2014
I welcome you to the volume 3, issue 1 of the “Journal of Scientometric Research” (www.jscires.org). Hope you will find this issue useful and interesting. This issue contains five research articles, one perspective paper…
Research Article
Mery Piedad Zamudio Igami, José Carlos Bressiani, Rogerio Mugnaini
pp. 3-14 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143660 · 2014
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…
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Fragiskos G. Bersimis
pp. 15-21 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143688 · 2014
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…
Priya Girap, Tara Ashok, Karanam Bhanumurthy
pp. 22-27 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143691 · 2014
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…
Rosely A. Vargas, Samile Andrea de Souza Vanz, Ida R. C. Stumpf
pp. 28-36 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143698 · 2014
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…
Eustache Mêgnigbêto
pp. 37-45 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143704 · 2014
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…
Haim Levy, Ying Sophie Huang, Avner Wolf, Yuval Wolf
pp. 46-56 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143707 · 2014
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…
B. K. Sen
pp. 57-60 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.143709 · 2014
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…