Scientific publishing in Benin as seen from Scopus

2,215 publications covering the period going from 1959 to 2011, with at least one author affiliated to Benin, were searched from Scopus and analyzed. These publications were co-authored by 10,225 scientists that correspond to 5,122 single authors in several disciplines of which the most prolific are Agricultural and biological science, and Medicine. None of the Benin-based journals were indexed in Scopus; approximately 5 % of the publications appeared in African reviews covered by Scopus. Researchers’ home institutions are mainly the University of Abomey-Calavi, its laboratories and some international organizations or cooperation agencies. The private universities were not mentioned in the affiliations list. The yearly percentage of international collaboration is over 80 %; France, the former colonial power is the main research partner whereas the West African region is the main partner at the African continent level; others partners are from Europe and America continents. This study suggests the setting up of a national database to index the domestic scientific literature; it should contribute to the improvement of the national research output.     

Scientific knowledge in South Africa: information trends,patterns and collaboration

Scientometrics - South Africa has made remarkable progress in science and technology. In the production of scientific information it is a leading country not only in sub-Saharan Africa but also in...     

Scientific Cooperation Between East and West in Difficult Times

The development of physics in Russia and the Soviet Union since the beginning of this century is briefly discussed. The relations between Eastern and Western physicists and especially the isolation during the cold war are outlined, mainly on the basis of personal experience. Finally the dramatic situation that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Union is treated and efforts to help science in the FSU (Former Soviet Union) to survive.     

Scientific publications of engineers in South Africa, 1975?C2005

In the production of scientific knowledge, as revealed by publication output, South Africa is at the forefront of many other countries in the developing world and in the African continent. This study examines for the first time the publication trends of South African engineering researchers for a period of 30?years since 1975. Drawing data from the ISI Web of Knowledge, this paper specifically looks at the publication patterns of engineering researchers in South Africa.     

Scientific research in the Indian subcontinent: selected trends and indicators 1973–2007 comparing Bangladesh,Pakistan and Sri Lanka with India,the local giant

As part of a research program to analyse research in Bangladesh we provide a comparison between research indicators related to India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In this investigation we make use of Web of Science (WoS) data as well as Scopus data (using the SCImago website). Special attention is given to collaboration data and to the evolution of country h-indices. A comparison based on relative quality indicators shows that Sri Lanka is the best performer among these four countries. Such a result agrees with the ranking of these countries according to the United Nations’ Human Development Index (HDI).     

Research collaboration in Ghana: patterns,motives and roles

This study had three objectives: to examine patterns of research collaboration in Ghana, to study reasons why Ghanaian-affiliated researchers collaborate with others (both inside and outside Ghana), and to determine the roles of Ghanaian-affiliated researchers in collaborations. The methodology comprised a bibliometric analysis of articles in the Web of Science for the years 1990 to 2013, and an online survey of 190 Ghanaian-affiliated corresponding authors of articles. Collaboration increased from 73% in 1990–1997 to 93% in 2006–2013, and international collaboration from 49 to 73% over the same time. The public university and government sectors, together with the three most research-productive organisations in each sector, were found to be highly dependent on collaboration for research production. The online survey revealed that collaboration with researchers in three regions (within Ghana, within the rest of Africa, and outside Africa) was to a large extent initiated by existing personal/working relationships. Access to expertise and enhanced productivity were the main reasons why Ghanaian-affiliated researchers collaborated with others in these three regions. Collaborators within Ghana were largely involved in the collection of data or fieldwork. Collaborators from outside Africa played instrumental roles in providing resources and securing research funds.     

Mainstream engineering publishing in Latin America: The Chilean experience

An analysis was made using databases at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia concerning the productivity in the field of engineering sciences in Chile, a developing country with a neoliberal economy which has mainstream articles related to the Latin American context. This paper also mentions policies and actions to be adopted in order to strengthen R&D activities to attain a higher scientific and technological progress.     

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences

Scientometrics - Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation...     

Characteristics of motorcycle-related hospitalizations: comparing states with different helmet laws

This study compares U.S. motorcycle-related hospitalizations across states with differing helmet laws. Cross-sectional analyses of hospital discharge data from 33 states participating in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project in 2001 were conducted. Results revealed that motorcyclists hospitalized from states without universal helmet laws are more likely to die during the hospitalization, sustain severe traumatic brain injury, be discharged to long-term care facilities, and lack private health insurance. This study further illustrates and substantiates the increased burden of hospitalization and long-term care seen in states that lack universal motorcycle helmet use laws.     

Measuring client satisfaction with public education II: comparing schools with state benchmarks

Because the results of the client satisfaction evaluation trials conducted in the state's public schools revealed that levels of client satisfaction differed in significant and meaningful ways between parents and students as well as between types of schools, this research consultancy provided school versus benchmark comparison reports based on groups of generally comparable school types. The state benchmark for each set of comparable schools estimated how easy it was, on average, for the members of the benchmark group (parents or students) to endorse each of the 20 School Opinion Survey Likert-scale items (King and Bond, 2003). The school satisfaction level for each item was calculated by a similar process to estimate how easy it was, on average, for the members of the school sample (parents or students) to endorse that item. Reports to individual schools used easy to interpret Parent/Student Satisfaction Graphs which plotted the Rasch-modeled differences between the state benchmark level and the school level for each item. In very small schools where the small amount of data did not allow for item-by-item graphs to be constructed, overall satisfaction graphs provided one global comparison with the appropriate benchmark to be reported.     

The relationship between academic patenting and scientific publishing in Norway

This paper adds to the growing empirical evidence on the relationship between patenting and publishing among university employees. Data from all Norwegian universities and a broad set of disciplines is used, consisting of confirmed patent inventors and group of peers without patents matched to the inventors by controlling for gender, age, affiliation and position. In general, the findings support earlier investigations concluding that there is a positive relationship between patenting and publishing. There are, however, important differences among fields, universities and possibly types of academic entrepreneurs, underscoring the need to look at nuanced and contextual factors when investigating the effects of patenting.     

两种绝热型式低温液体槽车的分析比较

文章从绝热性能、外形尺寸与重量、有效载液容积、制造工艺难度及槽车价格五个方面对真空粉末绝热与高真空多层绝热低温液体槽车进行了比较 ,分析了各自在使用上的优势与不足 ,并对具体运用时槽车的选择提出一些建议     

Endothelial repair process and its relevance to longitudinal neointimal tissue patterns: comparing histology with in silico modelling

Re-establishing a functional endothelium following endovascular treatment is an important factor in arresting neointimal proliferation. In this study, both histology (in vivo) and computational simulations (in silico) are used to evaluate neointimal growth patterns within coronary arteries along the axial direction of the stent. Comparison of the growth configurations in vivo and in silico was undertaken to identify candidate mechanisms for endothelial repair. Stent, lumen and neointimal areas were measured from histological sections obtained from eight right coronary stented porcine arteries. Two re-endothelialization scenarios (endothelial cell (EC) random seeding and EC growth from proximal and distal ends) were implemented in silico to evaluate their influence on the morphology of the simulated lesions. Subject to the assumptions made in the current simulations, comparison between in vivo and in silico results suggests that endothelial growth does not occur from the proximal and distal ends alone, but is more consistent with the assumption of a random seeding process. This may occur either from the patches of endothelium which survive following stent implantation or from attachment of circulating endothelial progenitor cells.     

First-author gender differentials in business journal publishing: top journals versus the rest

Scientometrics - Prior literature suggests that the publication rates of female academics are less than the publication rates of male academics. This holds true in nearly every academic field and...     

"一带一路"战略下西亚北非技术性贸易措施分析及对策研究

文章对1995年到2016年间的西亚北非主要贸易国家TBT/SPS通报进行统计分析,研究其TBT/SPS通报的发展趋势及特点,最后重点进行对策研究,以最大限度保护我国出口企业合法权益,合理规避技术性贸易壁垒,促进中国对西亚北非贸易地区的出口.