Scientific Research Performance Research Articles

Characteristics and trends in global tea research: a Science Citation Index Expanded‐based analysis

SummaryA bibliometric approach to assess trends in global tea research using literature in the Science Citation Index Expanded database from 1991 to 2014 has been conducted. Articles were analysed by scientific output and research performances of countries and institutions. The distribution of keywords in the articles’ titles, author‐supplied keywords and KeyWords Plus as well as citation and publication trends of tea‐related articles was used to evaluate the research trends. The research output devoted to tea science increased greatly after the year 2002 indicating a paradigm shift that demonstrated that researchers became increasingly keen on biochemical relevance of active compounds in tea in mitigating emergent health challenges over classical tea research.

The New NABERS Indoor Environment tool – the Next Frontier for Australian Buildings

In our ambition to improve the environmental performance of office buildings, it is easy to lose sight of their real purpose – to accommodate people. To understand the future of sustainable buildings, it is important to recognise that services such as HVAC and lighting are provided to create suitably comfortable conditions for staff to be productive.Providing a good quality indoor environment has been shown to increase staff productivity from improved comfort, health and wellbeing. Productive staff are essential for creating competitive businesses. The Property Council of Australia has estimated for offices that a 1% improvement in productivity would be equivalent to the whole energy cost of a building or, nationally $2 billion annually. The indoor environment quality (IEQ) of an office is complex and determined by many factors, including the layout of the space, lighting, air quality, thermal conditions and noise levels. These are influenced by the building characteristics, maintenance practices, tenant equipment and behaviour. The new NABERS Indoor Environment (IE) tool measures these IEQ factors and compares their performance against a set of benchmarks that reflect industry standards, scientific research and current market performance of office buildings. NABERS IE converts this complex information into a score on a six star scale – providing a direct measure of the overall IEQ for the office. This star rating provides a common language which can assist in coordinating multiple parties in setting goals, evaluating performance and recognising market achievements in occupant comfort and wellbeing.A high NABERS IE rating will help attract and retain tenants with excellence in indoor air quality and thermal comfort identified by tenants as significantly more important than other building attributes [14]. While for businesses, a high NABERS IE tenancy rating will identify you as an employer of choice – helping you to attract and retain staff.

EDUCATIONAL MODELS of the ORGANIZATION of SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RUSSIA I V OF THE USA. Part 1: PLAN STAGE

Positions of scientists and results of author's researches on problems of the organization of research activity at the universities of Russia and the United States of America are presented in article. Motives of the choice of a scientific subject and personal meanings of graduate students to performance of scientific research are considered. Mechanisms of the choice of a problem of a research are defined and functions of the research supervisor and the researcher at a stage of a plan of scientific work are opened. Authors brought and compared educational models of the organization of scientific research of students and graduate students in Russia and in the USA. In article are also given the content of activity of research supervisors in a foreshortening presented models of relationship them with young researchers at a stage of the choice of a problem and a subject of a research. Sources of scientific problems and ways of the description of the problem field of a research are shown. The similarity and difference of positions of research supervisors in the USA and Russia is determined by interaction problems with young researchers during preparation them to defense of a thesis. Article represents discussion of results of the author's research conducted in six higher education institutions of Russia and the USA.

Model of Evaluation on Sports Scientific Research Performance Based on Grey Correlation Analysis in Universities

Evaluation on the sports scientific research performance, as the way to judge the scientific research ability of sports teachers for universities and colleges, is of great significance to improve the over-all sports scientific research quality. This paper studied on the evaluation on the sports scientific research performance from the following perspectives. Firstly, the fundamental methods of evaluating the sports scientific research performance was given; the second was to present the indices for the performance evaluation and analyze specifically the indices; thirdly, the gray ideal domain of the evaluation indices was established as well as the gray correlation coefficients of the evaluated objects and the gray ideal domain; the fourth was to obtain the weight of indices via the comprehensive analysis method and to build the weighted gray correlation analysis model for the sports scientific research performance evaluation to get the gray correlation degree of the evaluated objects which served to judge the sports scientific research ability and level of objects. For the last part, this paper conducted the case study which verified the simple calculation and operation of the model.

THE WORLD MAJOR SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS TO BE USED BY RESEARCHERS OF “RENEWABLE ENERGY, LOCAL AND SECONDARY ENERGY RE-SOURCES”

It is known that the selection of а n acceptably representative sample of the world scientific periodicals to be used as backgrounds of a high-quality research should focus not only on specialized journals, but also on periodicals, the topics and the titles of which are formally not related to the research area. In the present study the determination of the best periodicals to be used in research on “Renewable energy, local and secondary energy resources” has been fulfilled with the aid of four varieties of citation analysis, twelve journals specialized in power production being used as the source items of citation data. The methods of the analysis were clarified and elaborated; the concept and the term “discipline receptivity factor” were proposed. The practical result is a list of 378 world periodicals, that is planned to be used in creating a comfortable scientific information environment by using the world leading databases reflecting the most valuable collection of scientific journals that are necessary for quality performance of scientific research on Priority areas of scientific-technical activity in the Republic of Belarus for 2016–2020 followed by the establishment of an operational system of electoral alert leading experts implementing the respective areas.

Promoting the overall development of children's hospital by strengthen the scientific research management in hospital

To analyze the present situation of scientific research management in Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, summarize the achievements, find the problems, analyze the countermeasures, establish the development direction of the future research work, and try to establish the scientific management system for children's specialist hospitals in order to promote the overall development of the hospital. At present, there was a high level of scientific research work in the Beijing Children's Hospital, but we still had improvement space on the number of projects and the amount of funding, the quantity and quality of the papers, the award, the patents and the transformation, and so on. We suggested to make research work even better through the implementation of hospital policy tilt, adding hospital’s financial support, the whole process management of scientific research project, scientific research performance evaluation index system, the combination of clinical and basic research, and a series of scientific research management measures as well as creating a good atmosphere for scientific research. Key words: Hospital scientific research management; Children′s hospital; Overall development

University Teaching and Research and Scientific Research Performance Quantitative Statistics System Based on Web

University Teaching and Research and Scientific Research Performance Quantitative Statistics System Based on Web

Evaluation of Chongqing municipal universities' scientific research performance

Objective To improve the utilization efficiency of scientific research resources and optimize the allocation of resources in universities on the basis of scientific research performance evaluation. Methods This article selects the data envelopment analysis study for twelve universities in Chongqing, using MaxDEA 6.0 software to get the results of effectiveness of universities scientific research performance. Results DMU6 and DMU8 are in a fully effective state, DMU4, DMU5, DMU10, DMU11 are in invalid state, the remaining eight universities are in effective or weak state. Conclusion There are only two universities in Chongqing ordinary higher institutions whose scientific research input and output are relatively reasonable. The rest universities need to make more or less improvement and most universities need to make a little change. Key words: Universities; Performance of scientific research; Data envelopment analysis; The distribution of resources

Modelling Complex Systems with Distributed Agency and Fuzzy Inference Systems. Knowledge-based Curricula in Higher Education

Higher education has become a cornerstone in the arise of knowledge society conceptualization. This concept covers a new type of social configuration that puts knowledge as the main value in human interaction for future social and economic development and also as one of the main actions to improve in order to gain a better quality of life. In this paper we discuss the importance of this structure and its characteristics, then we focus in the need to generate a higher education curriculum that fits this emphasis in social development of a new knowledge-based society. Finally, we use complex systems simulation to analyze six agents including: 1) Students; 2) Teaching - Teachers; 3) Training plan - Teachers; 4) Scientific research, IT development, innovation and professional performance; 5) Management - Managers; and 6) Environment and relevance or External Agents and five variables for this study: 1) Teaching; 2) Extracurricular activities; 3) Research and development; 4) Management; and 5) Educational culture. The final goal is to propose a curriculum that includes a projection to create knowledge-based society from higher education as a main factor to achieve this objective.

Unravelling the performance of individual scholars: Use of Canonical Biplot analysis to explore the performance of scientists by academic rank and scientific field

Abstract Individual research performance needs to be addressed by means of a diverse set of indicators capturing the multidimensional framework of science. In this context, Biplot methods emerge as powerful and reliable visualisation tools similar to a scatterplot but capturing the multivariate covariance structures among bibliometric indicators. In this paper, we introduce the Canonical Biplot technique to explore differences in the scientific performance of Spanish CSIC researchers, organised by field (Chemistry and Materials Science) and grouped by academic rank (research fellows and three types of full-time permanent scientists). This method enables us to build a Biplot where the groups of individuals are sorted out by the maximum discriminating power between the different indicators considered. Besides, as confidence intervals are displayed in the plot, statistical differences between groups are liable to be studied simultaneously. Since test hypotheses are sensitive to different sample size effects, sizes for some pairwise comparisons are computed. We have found two gradients: a primary gradient where scientists mainly differ in terms of age, production, number of collaborators, number of highly-cited papers and their position in the byline of the publications; and a second gradient, in which scientists with the same academic rank differ by sort of field.

Можливості та перспективи застосування європейських практик державного управління у сфері інновацій

Стаття присвячена теоретичному аналізу можливостей застосування позитив-ного досвіду європейських практик державного управління у сфері інновацій. Про-аналізовано основні державні програми щодо стимулювання розвитку інновацій українах-членах ЄС та виділено основні управлінські підходи щодо залучення при-ватних інвестицій у науково-дослідницькі та інноваційні проекти (поширення та пе-редача новітніх технологій, залучення венчурного і початкового капіталу для про-ведення науково-дослідних та дослідно-конструкторських робіт, а також наданняподаткових пільг для інноваційної діяльності та стимулювання розвитку інноваційв європейському дослідницькому просторі). Визначено, що ключовими проблемами,пов’язаними із впровадженням інновацій, є: скорочення фінансування інноваційної,наукової та науково-технічної сфери; неефективність системи бюджетного фінансу-вання інноваційної, наукової та науково-технічної сфери; наявність законодавчихобмежень, що ускладнюють фінансування інноваційної, наукової та науково-тех-нічної сфери; відсутність економічних стимулів у суб’єктів господарської діяльностіздійснювати технологічну модернізацію шляхом запровадження нових науково-тех-нічних розробок та ін. Також проаналізовані особливості функціонування науковихпарків у країнах-членах ЄС, діяльність яких направлена на розвиток науково-техніч-ної та інноваційної діяльності у вищих навчальних закладах та наукових установахз подальшою комерціалізацією результатів наукових досліджень та їх впровадженняна вітчизняному та закордонному ринках.

Open Source Software Distribution Held Not Exempt Function

Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit CounselVolume 32, Issue 4 p. 3-4 Articles Open Source Software Distribution Held Not Exempt Function First published: 18 March 2015 https://doi.org/10.1002/npc.30055Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract The IRS has ruled that a nonprofit organization's development and distribution of open source software is not a charitable undertaking because anyone can use the software for any purpose, including commercial, personal, recreational, lobbying, and/or political campaign purposes, and that the organization's undertakings do not serve a charitable class, educate individuals, or amount to the performance of scientific research in the public interest (Priv. Ltr. Rul. 201505040). Volume32, Issue4April 2015Pages 3-4 RelatedInformation

Развитие национального индекса цитирования как условие формирования системы оценки результатов научной деятельности

Nowadays the management of resources allocated to science depends directly on the availability of information about the state of scientific research in the country and abroad. Due to the increasing number of research projects that receive public funding and that are carried out with the support from various funds, special importance is attached to the issue concerning the analysis and comprehensive evaluation of scientific research performance and the choice of the most promising research topics. The article substantiates the necessity to develop a national information and analytical system of citation, which should become part of the system to assess the effectiveness and performance of Russian scientists and scientific organizations. The author uses the analysis of bibliometric indicators of the Russian Science Citation Index and shows the evolution of publication activity of organizations engaged in economic research and subordinate to the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations of Russia. The results demonstrate that scientific organizations increase their publication activity in the RSCI, improve the quality of publications and their scientific and practical significance, as evidenced by the steadily increasing citation rates. The indicators of a scientometric monitoring prove that in the future the RSCI along with expert assessment can be used as a tool to evaluate performance efficiency of scientific institutions; it can be viewed as an alternative to international databases that are officially used for this purpose at present.

Business-Oriented Research Professionals – Empirical Results for Academics’ Interdisciplinarity and Their Collaboration with Enterprises

The work presented in this paper has been supported by project “Interdisciplinarity in research with reference to scientific performance of individual researchers” National Science Centre grant No 2013/09/D/HS4/02729 and statutory founding from the Information Processing Institute, public research institute financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland.

An aggregated index for assessment of the scientific output of researchers

A variety of indices based on different strategies have been proposed in the literature to evaluate the scientific output of researchers. The majority of those indices were designed to quantify the production of researchers and the impact of their publications. Currently, finding a suitable index among existing indices or developing a new index for evaluating the quality of research is a challenging task for the scientific community. The evaluation of the scientific performance of researchers should rely upon a proper aggregation of reliable and valid indices. However, very few studies have been reported on aggregating different indices to possibly generate better results. In this paper, a weighted index to combine the results from individual indices is proposed. The proposed index utilises a policy of consensus that assigns the weights to indices and linearly combines them. We evaluate and compare the weighted consensus index with the 25 indices. Experimental results on two citation data demonstrate that the weighted index may serve as a supplement to h-index and its variants to better draw the evaluation results.

A new ranking scheme for the institutional scientific performance

We propose a new performance indicator to evaluate the productivity of research institutions by their disseminated scientific papers. The new quality measure includes two principle components: The normalized impact factor (IF) of the journal in which paper was published, and the number of citations received per year since it was published. In both components, the scientific impacts are weighted by the contribution of authors from the evaluated institution. As a whole, our new metric, namely, the Institutional Performance Score (IPS) takes into account both journal based impact and articles specific impacts. We apply this new scheme to evaluate research output performance of Turkish institutions specialized in astronomy and astrophysics in the period of 1998–2012. We discuss the implications of the new metric, and emphasize the benefits of it along with a comparison to other proposed institutional performance indicators. This study contains a new bibliometric indicator were developed to measure the scientific research performance of the institutions.

Criteria for Assessment of Current Condition and Development of Research Studies Based on Scientometric Data Analysis (Comment by P. Arefiev)

The article reviews criteria for scientific research performance assessment. It analyzes feasibility of the task to develop scientifically based methods that would allow assessment of activities performed by individual research departments and teams. The authors believe that a full-scale study of the dynamics of scientific departments and teams development should be based on the Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) within companies integrated into the national CRIS. The authors suggest a method to assess performance of the ongoing research studies based on the review of ratings of journals on which a research team’s studies are published.

The relationship between the research performance of scientists and their position in co-authorship networks in three fields

Abstract Research networks play a crucial role in the production of new knowledge since collaboration contributes to determine the cognitive and social structure of scientific fields and has a positive influence on research. This paper analyses the structure of co-authorship networks in three different fields (Nanoscience, Pharmacology and Statistics) in Spain over a three-year period (2006–2008) and explores the relationship between the research performance of scientists and their position in co-authorship networks. A denser co-authorship network is found in the two experimental fields than in Statistics, where the network is of a less connected and more fragmented nature. Using the g-index as a proxy for individual research performance, a Poisson regression model is used to explore how performance is related to different co-authorship network measures and to disclose interfield differences. The number of co-authors (degree centrality) and the strength of links show a positive relationship with the g-index in the three fields. Local cohesion presents a negative relationship with the g-index in the two experimental fields, where open networks and the diversity of co-authors seem to be beneficial. No clear advantages from intermediary positions (high betweenness) or from being linked to well-connected authors (high eigenvector) can be inferred from this analysis. In terms of g-index, the benefits derived by authors from their position in co-authorship networks are larger in the two experimental fields than in the theoretical one.

Should the research performance of scientists be distinguished by gender?

The literature on gender differences in research performance seems to suggest a gap between men and women, where the former outperform the latter. Whether one agrees with the different factors proposed to explain the phenomenon, it is worthwhile to verify if comparing the performance within each gender, rather than without distinction, gives significantly different ranking lists. If there were some structural factor that determined a penalty in performance of female researchers compared to their male peers, then under conditions of equal capacities of men and women, any comparative evaluations of individual performance that fail to account for gender differences would lead to distortion of the judgments in favor of men. In this work we measure the extent of differences in rank between the two methods of comparing performance in each field of the hard sciences: for professors in the Italian university system, we compare the distributions of research performance for men and women and subsequently the ranking lists with and without distinction by gender. The results are of interest for the optimization of efficient selection in formulation of recruitment, career advancement and incentive schemes.

Data Processing in Scientific Research Performance Evaluation of University Based on DEA and Supervision Measures

The university scientific research performance has being a hot issue in recent years. The scientific research performance evaluation of university is one of important bases for rationally allocating educational resources. Data processing is very important for evaluation. This study analyzes many factors that affect the university scientific research performance to collect evaluation indicators for data processing. The collected indicators are classified into input indicators and output indicators. Then Factor Analysis is used to reduce the number of two types of indicators with professional software SPSS. Further, the selected 32 universities are evaluated on research performance by using DEA method. Finally, the results of scientific research performance of university are obtained, and the improvements and supervision measures are proposed.