AUTHORSHIP PATTERN AND COLLABORATIVE MEASURES IN THE FIELD OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

The study highlights the authorship pattern and research collaboration in the area of Crystallography based on 45320 scholarly communications appeared in the Crystallography during 1989-2013. Study illustrates various significant aspects like types and trends of authorship, author productivity, degree of collaboration, collaborative index, Collaboration coefficient, Moderate Collaboration. Multiple author papers are more popular among Crystallography literature. There is a significant correlation found between number of authors and number of papers, further, the given data set is verified through Kolmogorov Simonov test. Finally it can be concluded that Crystallography literature does follow the Lotka’s law of author productivity and found that there is a Positive Co-relation in Crystallography literature

Authorship Pattern and Research Collaboration of Journal of Informetrics

The study highlights the authorship pattern and research collaboration in the area of Informetrics based on 420 scholarly communications appeared in the Journal of Informetrics during 2007 to 2013. Study illustrates various significant aspects like –types and trends of authorship, author productivity, degree of collaboration,collaborative index, geographical diffusion and institutional diversification of authorship. Findings suggest tangible growth of Informetrics literature over the years with predominantly multi-authored contributions. Result also show that Informetrics research is unevenly scattered among 251 institutions from 38 countries around the globe

Distinguished graduates in mathematics of the Jagiellonian University in the interwar period. Part I: 1918-1926

In this study, we present profiles of some distinguished graduates in mathematics of the Jagiellonian University from the years 1918-1939. We discuss their professional paths and scholarly achievements, instances of scientific collaboration, connections with other academic centers in Poland and worldwide, involvement in mathematical education and teacher training, as well as their later roles in Polish scientific and academic life. We also try to understand in what way they were shaped by their studies and how much of Krak\'ow scientific traditions they continued. We find strong support for the claim that there was a distinct, diverse and deep mathematical stream in Krak\'ow between the wars, rooted in classical disciplines like differential equations and geometry, but also open to new trends in mathematics. Part I concerns the graduates before the university reform, in 1918-1926.Comment: 5 photos; minor corrections to the first versio

Leadership, Research and Resource-Sharing: Components of Dynamic Academic Libraries

Digital scholarship, new directions on information literacy framework, open access, regional collaboration and advocacy are some of the top trends and issues in academic libraries in 2016. Getting into the scholarly communication and promoting equitable access to information becomes more challenging as the knowledge society keep with fast pace of emerging technology. This paper shares insights about how to create dynamic libraries looking into the three pillars: leadership, research and resource sharing

Bowling Together: Scientific Collaboration Networks of Demographers at European Population Conferences

Studies of collaborative networks of demographers are relatively scarce. Similar studies in other social sciences provide insight into scholarly trends of both the fields and characteristics of their successful scientists. Exploiting a unique database of metadata for papers presented at six European Population Conferences, this report explores factors explaining research collaboration among demographers. We find that (1) collaboration among demographers has increased over the past 10 years, however, among co-authored papers, collaboration across institutions remains relatively unchanged over the period, (2) papers based on core demographic subfields such as fertility, mortality, migration and data and methods are more likely to involve multiple authors and (3) multiple author teams that are all female are less likely to co-author with colleagues in different institutions. Potential explanations for these results are discussed alongside comparisons with similar studies of collaboration networks in other related social sciences

An Analysis of the Elements of Collaboration Associated with Top Collaborative Tools

United States government agencies have historically experienced problems with inter-agency information sharing and collaboration. In fact, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United Stated recommended that the U.S. government “increase information sharing” and “improve collaboration across government agencies.” To this day, no collaborative tools are being used to fully address that recommendation. In fact, there is little agreement as to what collaboration necessarily means and what characteristics or capabilities are best suited for the design and use of collaborative tools. Before we can improve collaboration across agencies, we need to better understand the nature of collaboration itself, and the hallmarks of better collaborative tools. As such, this research developed a comprehensive definition of collaboration grounded in relevant academic and scholarly research. With this definition in hand, the foundational elements of collaboration were documented and explicitly articulated in the form of a collaborative framework. This framework was then used to assess current trends and state-of-art in collaborative tools and specifically to identify the key elements of better collaborative tools. Six of the nine academic elements of collaboration were strongly supported throughout the assessments indicating which features, functionalities, or aspects of the collaborative problem space should be addressed or instantiated within collaborative technologies and tools

Research Performance of Top Universities in Karnataka: Based on Scopus Citation Index

Paper furnishes the results of the analysis of citations of research papers covered by Scopus database of Elsevier, USA. The coverage of the database is complete; citations depicted by Scopus upto June 2019 are considered. Study projects the research performance of six well established top universities in the state of Karnataka with regard the number of research papers covered by scholarly journals and number of scholars who have cited these research papers. Also projected is the average citations per research paper and h-Index of authors. Paper also projects the performance of top faculty members who are involved in contributing research papers. Collaboration with authors of foreign countries in doing research work and publishing papers are also comprehended in the study, including the trends in publishing research papers which depict the decreasing and increasing trends of research wor