Special Libraries, April 1940

Volume 31, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1940/1003/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, November 1950

Volume 41, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1950/1008/thumbnail.jp

Trends for nanotechnology development in China, Russia, and India

China, Russia, and India are playing an increasingly important role in global nanotechnology research and development (R&D). This paper comparatively inspects the paper and patent publications by these three countries in the Thomson Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) database and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database (1976–2007). Bibliographic, content map, and citation network analyses are used to evaluate country productivity, dominant research topics, and knowledge diffusion patterns. Significant and consistent growth in nanotechnology papers are noted in the three countries. Between 2000 and 2007, the average annual growth rate was 31.43% in China, 11.88% in Russia, and 33.51% in India. During the same time, the growth patterns were less consistent in patent publications: the corresponding average rates are 31.13, 10.41, and 5.96%. The three countries’ paper impact measured by the average number of citations has been lower than the world average. However, from 2000 to 2007, it experienced rapid increases of about 12.8 times in China, 8 times in India, and 1.6 times in Russia. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) were the most productive institutions in paper publication, with 12,334, 6,773, and 1,831 papers, respectively. The three countries emphasized some common research topics such as “Quantum dots,” “Carbon nanotubes,” “Atomic force microscopy,” and “Scanning electron microscopy,” while Russia and India reported more research on nano-devices as compared with China. CAS, RAS, and IIT played key roles in the respective domestic knowledge diffusion

Special Libraries, January 1949

Volume 40, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949/1000/thumbnail.jp

Bibliometrics and scientometrics in India: An overview of studies during 1995-2014Part II: Contents of the articles in terms of disciplines and their bibliometric aspects

This part of the study highlights the contents of the published articles in terms of various disciplines or sub-disciplines and the bibliometric aspects discussed in these articles. The analysis of 902 papers published by Indian scholars during1995-2014 indicates that the main focus of bibliometrics/scientometrics is on assessment of science and technology in India in different sub-disciplines including contributions by Indian states and other individual countries followed by bibliometric analysis of individual journals. Papers dealing with bibliometric laws received a low priority as compared to other subdisciplines of bibliometrics/scientometrics. The analysis of data indicates that the share of theoretical studies using mathematical and statistical techniques which were missing in the earlier period (1970-1994) has increased during 1995-2014. The field of medicine as a discipline received the highest attention as compared to other disciplines

Special Libraries, July-August 1949

Volume 40, Issue 6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949/1005/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, December 1945

Volume 36, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1945/1009/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, July-August 1962

Volume 53, Issue 6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1962/1005/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, March 1953

Volume 44, Issue 3https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1953/1002/thumbnail.jp