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Sujit Bhattacharya

pp. 1-2 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115859 · 2013

On behalf of the Board of the Journal of Scientometric Research (www.jscires.org) and my coeditors, I am glad to present the second issue of the journal. We have made a major transition with this issue. From this issue o…

Ronald N. Kostoff

pp. 3-14 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115862 · 2013

This second part of a two‑part review addressed three complementary components of text mining: Citation scientometrics, seminal literature reviews (SLR), and literature‑related discovery and innovation (LRDI). All three …

Anil Sagar, Basavaraj Shivappa Kademani, Karanam Bhanumurthy

pp. 15-29 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115865 · 2013

This paper attempts to highlight the growth and development of dark energy literature and make the quantitative and qualitative assessment by way of analyzing various features of research output based on Web of Science d…

Keshra Sangwal

pp. 30-36 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115878 · 2013

Using data generated by progressive nucleation mechanism on the cumulative fraction of citations of individual papers published successively by a hypothetical author, an expression for the time dependence of the number D…

Yaşar Tonta, A. Esra Özkan Çelik

pp. 37-51 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115890 · 2013

Cahit Arf (1910-1997), a famous Turkish scientist whose picture is depicted in one of the Turkish banknotes, is a well‑known figure in mathematics with his discoveries named after him (e.g., Arf invariant, Arf rings, the…

Malti Goel, Vandana Maurya, Pranav N. Desai

pp. 52-58 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115889 · 2013

Solar electricity is a clean energy solution for Sustainable Energy. Solar photovoltaic program in India began in early 1980s. India announced the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission for accelerating solar electricit…

Keshra Sangwal

pp. 59-69 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115881 · 2013

Using bibliometric data collected from journal citation reports (JCRs) covering the period 2008-2011, trends of the growth of scientific journals published in India, self-citation characteristics of their 2-year impact f…

Manish Anand, Deepa N.

pp. 70-73 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115875 · 2013

The paper makes a first systematic study of the media coverage about nanotechnology in India. It investigates the key research question: How is nanotechnology presented in the news media? The number and content of nanote…

Abbas Doulani, Nadjla Hariri, Ali Rashidi

pp. 74-79 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115870 · 2013

The primary goal of this paper is to investigate various elements of websites and compare the quality of two groups of university website designs. The procedure for the quality assessment of website design involves vario…

P. R. C. Rahul

pp. 80-82 · DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.115867 · 2013

There are quite many methods to asses the output of a research scientist, primarily by the number of papers he (she) publishes, where they are published and the number of times a particular paper is cited by other journa…