Production Of Scientific Publications Research Articles

Composition of scientific teams and publication productivity

The production of scientific knowledge has evolved from a process of inquiry largely based on the activities of individual scientists to one grounded in the collaborative efforts of highly specialized research teams, which have become an increasingly prominent means of knowledge production. This study examines data from 1,415 experiments conducted by scientific teams at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) to examine how the diversity of science teams along several key variables—including institutional diversity, disciplinary diversity, gender, seniority, and the network position—impacts overall team productivity as measured by peer reviewed journal publication. The results from correlation and quantile regression analysis indicate high productivity in teams is associated with high disciplinary diversity and low seniority diversity in team membership; team cohesion also positively related to productivity. Teams with members in central structural positions performed better than other teams. A better understanding of the factors that impact scientific teams, as determined by this and future research, may enable key stakeholders to facilitate more effective and efficient team operations and increase overall scientific productivity.

Medical research in South Africa: a scientometric analysis of trends, patterns, productivity and partnership

Being a scientifically active country in Africa, South Africa has made significant strides in the production of scientific publications. Medicine is one branch of science that has achieved a remarkable position in this regard. Extracting and analyzing medical publications for three decades and at regular intervals (1975–2005) from the SCI database, this paper pioneers an attempt to find out whether the reported pace of growth in the production of scientific papers in medicine is an effect of partnerships that scholars have with their counterparts within the organization, within the country, or with those in other countries. This paper also presents the unique patterns of scientific research in medicine, taking into account factors such as the count and fractional count of papers, citations, trends of growth, sectoral participation, partners, and publication outlets, and seeks to provide new insights into the directions medical science is taking in South Africa today.

Analytical chemistry in Balkan and East Mediterranean countries during 1994–2001

Research activity in the Balkan and East Mediterranean countries was evaluated on the basis of publications appearing in Analytical Abstracts (AA) during the cumulative 8-year period of 1994–2001. This was accomplished by assessing the scientific publication productivity in analytical chemistry as the number of publications from each country and the number of publications per population unit. To assess the impact in the scientific community, the mean impact factor for each country was calculated. The publication productivity trend was recorded for the 7-year period 1994–2000. Moreover, the preference to publish in specific journals per country was appraised. According to the total number of publications, Egypt (765 publications) and Greece (717 publications) are the most productive countries, while Slovenia shows the highest number of publications per million of population (140). Scientists from Israel published their work in the highest impact analytical journals with a mean impact factor of 2.02, followed by Slovenia (mean impact factor of 1.67) and Greece (mean impact factor of 1.53). Studies of scientists from different countries do not show any obvious preference to a single specific journal. It is interesting to note that preference for journals reveals the research interests of scientists from each country for sub-fields of analytical chemistry.

Analytical chemistry in the European Union during 1993–1999: an appraisal on the basis of papers abstracted in Analytical Abstracts

This study focuses on the status of analytical chemistry publications among the member states of the European Union (EU) during the cumulative 7-year period 1993–1999. For assessing the scientific publication productivity in analytical chemistry and its impact among the EU countries, the total number of publications from each country, the number of publications per head of population and the mean impact factor for each country are calculated. Moreover, the preference to publish in specific journals per country is appraised.

Scientific publication productivity of Korean medical colleges: an analysis of 1988-1999 MEDLINE papers.

To identify where the quality research activity has been and is carried out in Korea, and to examine to what extents Korean medical colleges play leading roles in the production of international research papers, we investigated the publication productivity of Korean medical colleges and their medical departments as measured by the number of papers published in foreign journals indexed in MEDLINE. The 12-year period from 1988 to 1999 is covered. A total of 4,881 papers is published in MEDLINE foreign journals by the researchers in Korean medical colleges during the period. The production of MEDLINE papers are concentrated in a few universities. More than 60% of MEDLINE foreign journal papers is published by top five universities 25% by Seoul National University, and 15% by Yonsei University. The newly established medical colleges at the University of Ulsan and Sungkyunkwan University produced outstanding numbers of papers in less than ten years. Radiology has led the internationalization of Korean medical papers. It was the most productive specialty identified in this study. The productivity of Internal medicine is on the rise from the mid-1 990s, and the field began to produce the most number of papers since then.

Black Africa in the science citation index

According to a quantitative analysis of the publications of the Black African Countries indexed in the SCI between 1992 to 1998, Nigeria seems to be the leader in scientific production on the black continent during that period (the term ‘Black Africa’ refers to all African countries excluding South Africa, Maghrebi, and Egypt). However, an analysis that only takes into account the number of publications does not necessarily disclose very much about neither the dynamics of the respective scientific community nor about the representativity of the country’s production with respect to its total population. Therefore, the number of publications per country is compared with the respective total population. According to this method, Kenya turns out to be the leader in scientific-publication production and several other countries get higher ranks. Additionally, any evaluation of scientific production in that part of the world should also take into account the specific features of these countries, e.g. the difficulties in publication and the existence of a large number of unpublished texts.

Suggestions for a Golfball Typing-Head with Phonetic Symbols

The photographic production of scientific publications is on the increase. Consequently manuscripts which are fit for reproduction in this manner are necessary. Phonetic and linguistic papers often call for a mixed script, i.e. both the typemes of one (or more than one) language and the transcription symbols (phonetic and phonemic) are used. The preparation of a typescript of this sort is laborious even with the aid of a phonetic tandem-typewriter.