Research performance of tenured professors in Portuguese civil engineering departments

This paper presents a bibliometric evaluation of the research performance of tenured Professors in Civil Engineering Departments of six Portuguese Universities using Scopus/Elsevier database. The research performance of Full Professors in Civil Engineering Departments at the Imperial College London (ICL) and MIT was used as benchmark. The bibliometric indexes used in this assessment were the number of papers in SCI journals, ratio SCI papers/year, number of citations (self-citations excluded); ratio citations/SCI paper, h-index, ratio h-index/year, self-citations percentage and uncitedeness rate. Results show that only the Portuguese Civil Engineering Professor with the highest h-index exceeds the average h-index of Full Professors in ICL and almost reach the average h-index of Full Professors in MIT. Top 5% Portuguese Full Professors have more citations and also a higher ratio citations/SCI papers than their counterparts at ICL. The comparison between the average performance of the Top 5% Portuguese Full Professors in the five year period (2009-2013) and their counterparts at the ICL and MIT shows that the former produced slightly more papers, received almost the same citations of ICLs and 64% of the citations received by MITs Top 5% Full Professors in that period

Scrutinising uncitedness and few h-type indicators of selected Indian physics and astronomy journals

13-27The uncitedness of twelve Indian physics and astronomy journals over twelve years (2009-2020) time span is analysed here. Besides Uncitedness Factor (UF), three other indicators are discussed, viz., Time-normalized Citation per paper (CY), H-core Density (HD) and Time-normalised H-index (TH). The journal-wise variational patterns of these four indicators, i.e., UF, CY, HD and TH and the relationships of UF with the other three indicators are analysed. The calculated numerical values of these indicators are observed to formulate seven hypotheses, which are tested by the F-Test method. The average annual rate of change of uncited paper is found to be 67% of the total number of papers. The indicator CY is found temporally constant. The indicator HD is found to be nearly constant journal-wise over the entire time span, while the indicator TH is found to be nearly constant for all the journals. The UF inversely varies with CY and TH for the journals and directly varies with TH over the years. Except for a few Indian journals in physics and astronomy, the majority of the other journals face the situation of uncitedness. The uncitedness of Indian journals in this field is higher by 12% as compared to foreign journals in the same field, which indicates a possible poor circulation of the journals

Avaliação da produção científica de professores de Departamentos de Engenharia Civil em Universidades Portuguesas

O presente artigo contém uma análise da produção científica, na base de dados Scopus/Elsevier, de Professores Associados e Catedráticos de Departamentos de Engenharia Civil em seis Universidades Portuguesas. A mesma é baseada no número de artigos em revista, no rácio artigos/ano, no número de citações, no rácio citações/artigo, no índice-h, no rácio índice-h/ano, na percentagem de auto-citações e na percentagem de artigos não citados. O artigo contém ainda uma comparação com desempenho da produção científica média de Professores “Catedráticos” (Full Professors) do Imperial College em Londres (ICL) e do MIT. A referida análise permite concluir que a produção científica Portuguesa na área da Engenharia Civil apresenta diferenças significativas entre os Professores Associados e os Professores Catedráticos das diferentes Universidades, que os Professores de Departamentos de Engenharia Civil mais antigos apresentam uma menor produtividade média que os seus congéneres em Departamentos de Engenharia Civil mais recentes. Particularmente desfavorável é a comparação entre o número médio das citações recebidas pelos artigos publicados em revista dos Professores Catedráticos Portugueses. O grupo dos 5% de Professores Catedráticos de Engenharia Civil em Portugal com o melhor desempenho, apresentam um maior número de citações e um maior rácio citações/artigo do que os seus congéneres no ICL. Quando a comparação de desempenho é feita somente para o quinquénio 2009-2013, os resultados mostram que os primeiros produziram um número de artigos em revista ligeiramente superior ao grupo dos 5% de Professores Catedráticos de Engenharia Civil no ICL e no MIT, mostra também que os artigos dos primeiros receberam quase o mesmo número de citações que os artigos dos seus congéneres no ICL e 64% das citações dos artigos dos “Catedráticos” do MIT. Propõe-se que os indicadores bibliométricos referentes à produção científica mínima, durante um quinquénio, para efeitos de um desempenho excecional incluam cumulativamente 5 artigos/ano, 6 citações/artigo e um índice-h de 7

What happens to our ideas? A bibliometric analysis of articles in Social Work in Health Care in the 1990s

Scholars spend a considerable amount of time reflecting upon their professional work. When individuals decide to communicate their professional thoughts beyond informal venues, the penultimate expression of their reflection is the peer reviewed journal article. The study reported here entailed a bibliometric analysis of articles appearing in the journal Social Work in Health Care during the 1990s, in order to better understand what happens to our ideas after they appear in a peer reviewed journal article. Final version of manuscript for citation: Rosenberg, G., Holden, G., & Barker, K (2005). What happens to our ideas? A bibliometric analysis of articles in Social Work in Health Care in the 1990s. Social Work in Health Care, 41, ¾, 35-66. © by The Haworth Press, Inc

The power law model applied to the marathon world record

In September 2013 the world record in the marathon men's race was broken. The aim of this study is to apply to the 2013 Berlin Marathon a mathematical model based on the power law that analyses the marks distribution and checks its connection. The results show that the correlations obtained in all the different categories have been very significant, with a result of (r ≥ 0.978; p < 0.000) and a linear determination coefficient of (R2 ≥ 0.969). As a conclusion it could be said that the power law application to the 2013 Berlin Marathon Men's race has been an useful and feasible study, and the connection between the data and the mathematical model has been so accurat

What happens to our ideas? A bibliometric analysis of articles in Social Work in Health Care in the 1990s

Scholars spend a considerable amount of time reflecting upon their professional work. When individuals decide to communicate their professional thoughts beyond informal venues, the penultimate expression of their reflection is the peer reviewed journal article. The study reported here entailed a bibliometric analysis of articles appearing in the journal Social Work in Health Care during the 1990s, in order to better understand what happens to our ideas after they appear in a peer reviewed journal article. Final version of manuscript for citation: Rosenberg, G., Holden, G., & Barker, K (2005). What happens to our ideas? A bibliometric analysis of articles in Social Work in Health Care in the 1990s. Social Work in Health Care, 41, ¾, 35-66. © by The Haworth Press, Inc

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

Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Management in American Zoos

The researcher investigated whether frontline, tacit knowledge about zoo animals was captured by zookeepers, curators, researchers, veterinarians, and outside researchers and, if so, whether and how it was transmitted into the scholarly literature. A bibliometric analysis was done of a representative sample of peer-reviewed zoo research articles published between 1973 and 200 I. This was extended to grey literature and acknowledgements statements from the same period to obtain a more global picture. Research participants were evaluated in terms of their contributions (journal articles, conference papers, or acknowledged research assistance). Changes were mapped chronologically and by profess ion. The participation of keepers and curators was of particular interest, as was the role of tacit knowledge and its intergenerational transmission. The role of outside researchers in zoos was examined, as was the use of zoo research by the wider scientific community, as measured through citations by non-zoo authors. Interviews with a cross-section of zoo research personnel completed the portrait of zoo research during these decades. The study found that keepers\u27 university training did not change their status as invisible research assistants and inter professional tensions remained high, despite higher educational levels among keepers and curators. The rise in female research participants was not proportional to the shift from mainly male to mainly female staff over time. Only a tiny percentage of zoo research was heavily cited by outside researchers. Zoo biology showed some signs of becoming an academic discipline, but continued to rely heavily on tacit knowledge. Outside collaborators quickly lost interest in zoos, due to numerous obstacles. The study concluded that an institution\u27s research productivity was a function of leadership, rather than size, budget or number of personnel. Minimizing the role of tacit knowledge in favor of scientific research area hurt the transmission of invaluable oral folklore, particularly among keepers. It was recommended that zoos capture their tacit knowledge base to meet their conservation goals more efficiently and respond more effectively to critics of zoos\u27 scientific approach. Finally, mentoring programs would enable more staff to participate in research and publishing