27 research outputs found
SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE ON GRAVITY
The present study explores the quantitative analysis of literature on gravity from 2015 to 2019 based on INSPEC database. Scientometric is the study of quantitative analysis of scientific documents. For the present study data was collected from the INSPEC database published by Elsevier during the period from 2015 to 2019. The study evaluated the different dimensions of the scientometric analysis like, growth of literature, institution wise distribution, most prolific author, relative growth rate and doubling time etc. Highest number (7562) of articles published in the year 2018. The relating growth rate is decreasing and doubling time is increasing over the period. Majority of the articles are in the form of journals, China is the most productive country in global level, Sharif, M is the most prolific author in the field of gravity for the period of 2015 to 2019
The Landscape of Academic Literature in Quantum Technologies
In this study, we investigated the academic literature on quantum
technologies (QT) using bibliometric tools. We used a set of 49,823 articles
obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database using a search query
constructed through expert opinion. Analysis of this revealed that QT is deeply
rooted in physics, and the majority of the articles are published in physics
journals. Keyword analysis revealed that the literature could be clustered into
three distinct sets, which are (i) quantum communication/cryptography, (ii)
quantum computation, and (iii) physical realizations of quantum systems. We
performed a burst analysis that showed the emergence and fading away of certain
key concepts in the literature. This is followed by co-citation analysis on the
highly cited articles provided by the WoS, using these we devised a set of core
corpus of 34 publications. Comparing the most highly cited articles in this set
with respect to the initial set we found that there is a clear difference in
most cited subjects. Finally, we performed co-citation analyses on country and
organization levels to find the central nodes in the literature. Overall, the
analyses of the datasets allowed us to cluster the literature into three
distinct sets, construct the core corpus of the academic literature in QT, and
to identify the key players on country and organization levels, thus offering
insight into the current state of the field. Search queries and access to
figures are provided in the appendix.Comment: 32 pages, 10 figures, draft version of a working pape
Scientometric analysis of research publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics research in India: a study based on WoS
This paper describes about the research productivity of Astronomy and Astrophysics research in India. The study is an investigation of total research productivity of India’s Astronomy and Astrophysics research for the period of thirty years during 1988-2017. Total 20,311 research publication’s bibliographic data were harvested from Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic database and analyzed using scientometric tools and techniques. The research is conducted with a purpose to know the Astronomical literature growth, document types, open access publications, prolific source journals, collaborating countries, research funding agencies as well as prolific institutions and authors of India. Findings also indicate the publication pattern, CAGR, degree of collaboration, H-Index as well as the nature of the research activities carried out
How do scientific disciplines evolve in applied sciences? The properties of scientific fission and ambidextrous scientific drivers
One of the fundamental questions in science is how scientific disciplines
evolve and sustain progress in society. No studies to date allows us to explain
the endogenous processes that support the evolution of scientific disciplines
and emergence of new scientific fields in applied sciences of physics. This
study confronts this problem here by investigating the evolution of
experimental physics to explain and generalize some characteristics of the
dynamics of applied sciences. Empirical analysis suggests properties about the
evolution of experimental physics and in general of applied sciences, such as:
a) scientific fission, the evolution of scientific disciplines generates a
process of division into two or more research fields that evolve as autonomous
entities over time; b) ambidextrous drivers of science, the evolution of
science via scientific fission is due to scientific discoveries or new
technologies; c) new driving research fields, the drivers of scientific
disciplines are new research fields rather than old ones; d) science driven by
development of general purpose technologies, the evolution of experimental
physics and applied sciences is due to the convergence of experimental and
theoretical branches of physics associated with the development of computer,
information systems and applied computational science. Results also reveal that
average duration of the upwave of scientific production in scientific fields
supporting experimental physics is about 80 years. Overall, then, this study
begins the process of clarifying and generalizing, as far as possible, some
characteristics of the evolutionary dynamics of scientific disciplines that can
lay a foundation for the development of comprehensive properties explaining the
evolution of science as a whole for supporting fruitful research policy
implications directed to advancement of science and technological progress in
society.Comment: 44 pages, 6 figures, 6 table
Properties of the evolution of scientific fields: An inductive study in applied sciences
Abstract. The evolution of science is made possible when experimental results are compared with expectations from theory and are consistent. In this context, experimental physics, as applied science, plays a vital role for the progress of science in society. The experimental physics is a discipline where physics scholars have an intensive laboratory experience that concentrates on experiments for substantiating and/or challenging established and/or new theories in physics. No studies to date allows us to explain the endogenous processes that support the evolution of scientific disciplines and emergence of new scientific fields in applied sciences of physics. In fact, one of the fundamental questions in science is how scientific disciplines evolve and sustain progress in society. This study confronts this question here by investigating the evolution of experimental physics to explain and generalize, whenever possible, some characteristics of the dynamics of applied sciences. Empirical analysis suggests a number of properties about the evolution of experimental physics and in general of applied sciences, such as: a)scientific fission, the evolution of scientific disciplines generates a process of division into two or more research fields that evolve as autonomous entities over time; b)ambidextrous drivers of science, the evolution of science via scientific fission is due to scientific discoveries or new technologies; c)new driving research fields, the drivers of scientific disciplines are new research fields rather than old ones (e.g., three scientific fields with a high scientific production in experimental physics are emerged after 1950s); d)science driven by development of general purpose technologies, the evolution of experimental physics and applied sciences is due to the convergence of experimental and theoretical branches of physics associated with the development of computer, information systems and applied computational science (e.g., computer simulation). Results also reveal that average duration of the up wave of scientific production in scientific fields supporting experimental physics is about 80 years. Overall, then, this study begins the process of clarifying and generalizing, as far as possible, some characteristics of the evolutionary dynamics of scientific disciplines that can lay a foundation for the development of comprehensive properties explaining the evolution of science as a whole for supporting fruitful research policy implications directed to advancement of science and technological progress in society.Keywords. Research Fields; Scientific Disciplines; Scientific Fields; Evolution of Science; Dynamics of Science; Applied Sciences; Basic Sciences; Experimental Physics; Scientific Fission; Scientific Development; Scientific Paradigm; Branching in Science; Sociology of Knowledge; Scientific Knowledge; Philosophy of Science.JEL. A19; C00; I23; L30
Scientific Revolutions and the Explosion of Scientific Evidence
Scientific realism, the position that successful theories are likely to be approximately
true, is threatened by the pessimistic induction according to which the history of science is full of suc-
cessful, but false theories. I aim to defend scientific realism against the pessimistic induction. My main
thesis is that our current best theories each enjoy a very high degree of predictive success, far higher
than was enjoyed by any of the refuted theories. I support this thesis by showing that both the amount,
and quality, of scientific evidence has increased enormously in the recent past, resulting in a big boost
of success for the best theories
Scientific Revolutions and the Explosion of Scientific Evidence
Scientific realism, the position that successful theories are likely to be approximately
true, is threatened by the pessimistic induction according to which the history of science is full of suc-
cessful, but false theories. I aim to defend scientific realism against the pessimistic induction. My main
thesis is that our current best theories each enjoy a very high degree of predictive success, far higher
than was enjoyed by any of the refuted theories. I support this thesis by showing that both the amount,
and quality, of scientific evidence has increased enormously in the recent past, resulting in a big boost
of success for the best theories
Scientific Revolutions and the Explosion of Scientific Evidence
Scientific realism, the position that successful theories are likely to be approximately
true, is threatened by the pessimistic induction according to which the history of science is full of suc-
cessful, but false theories. I aim to defend scientific realism against the pessimistic induction. My main
thesis is that our current best theories each enjoy a very high degree of predictive success, far higher
than was enjoyed by any of the refuted theories. I support this thesis by showing that both the amount,
and quality, of scientific evidence has increased enormously in the recent past, resulting in a big boost
of success for the best theories