73,026 research outputs found
Trends in Russian research output indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
Trends are analysed in the annual number of documents published by Russian
institutions and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, giving special attention
to the time period starting in the year 2013 in which the Project 5-100 was
launched by the Russian Government. Numbers are broken down by document type,
publication language, type of source, research discipline, country and source.
It is concluded that Russian publication counts strongly depend upon the
database used, and upon changes in database coverage, and that one should be
cautious when using indicators derived from WoS, and especially from Scopus, as
tools in the measurement of research performance and international orientation
of the Russian science system.Comment: Author copy of a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal
Scientometrics, May 201
A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Ideal Two-Fluid Plasma Equations
A discontinuous Galerkin method for the ideal 5 moment two-fluid plasma
system is presented. The method uses a second or third order discontinuous
Galerkin spatial discretization and a third order TVD Runge-Kutta time stepping
scheme. The method is benchmarked against an analytic solution of a dispersive
electron acoustic square pulse as well as the two-fluid electromagnetic shock
and existing numerical solutions to the GEM challenge magnetic reconnection
problem. The algorithm can be generalized to arbitrary geometries and three
dimensions. An approach to maintaining small gauge errors based on error
propagation is suggested.Comment: 40 pages, 18 figures
Scientific Endeavors of A.M. Mathai: An Appraisal on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, April 2015
A.M. Mathai is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill
University, Canada, and Director of the Centre for Mathematical and Statistical
Sciences, India. He has published over 300 research papers and more than 25
books on topics in mathematics, statistics, physics, astrophysics, chemistry,
and biology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
National Academy of Sciences of India, President of the Mathematical Society of
India, and a Member of the International Statistical Institute. He is the
founder of the Canadian Journal of Statistics and the Statistical Society of
Canada. He is instrumental in the implementation of the United Nations Basic
Space Science Initiative. The paper is an attempt to capture the broad spectrum
of scientific endeavors of Professor A.M. Mathai at the occasion of his
anniversary.Comment: 21 pages, LaTe
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