When is a problem a research problem?

Various definitions of and approaches to research and research problems are explored with numerous examples given. Guiding criteria for applied research are also discussed, along with potential pitfalls, the role of intuition in the process, and the qualities that are needed to make a good researcher.published or submitted for publicatio

Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem

Citation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. In this study we define popularity as the number of times an author is cited and prestige as the number of times an author is cited by highly cited papers. Information Retrieval (IR) is the test field. We compare the 40 leading researchers in terms of their popularity and prestige over time. Some authors are ranked high on prestige but not on popularity, while others are ranked high on popularity but not on prestige. We also relate measures of popularity and prestige to date of Ph.D. award, number of key publications, organizational affiliation, receipt of prizes/honors, and gender.Comment: 26 pages, 5 figure

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A cast of thousands: Co-authorship and sub-authorship collaboration in the twentieth century as manifested in the scholarly journal literature of psychology and philosophy.

We chronicle the use of acknowledgements in twentieth century scholarship by analyzing and classifying more than 4,500 specimens covering a 100-year period. Our results show that the intensity of acknowledgment varies by discipline, reflecting differences in prevailing socio-cognitive structures and work practices. We demonstrate that the acknowledgment has gradually established itself as a constitutive element of academic writing, one that provides a revealing insight into the nature and extent of sub-authorship collaboration. Complementary data on rates of co-authorship are also presented to highlight the growing importance of collaboration and the increasing division of labor in contemporary research and scholarship

Putting Boyd in His Place

In this paper we provide a bibliometric profile of Boyd Rayward. We begin by describing and categorizing his output over the course of his career. We identify all those whom he has cited in his published works and those who, in turn, have cited him. We also identify those with whom he has collaborated and those whom he has acknowledged in his writings for their intellectual contributions. A picture emerges of an independently minded scholar who favors solo authorship.published or submitted for publicatio

Salud, políticas y producción científica en México

Mexico is undergoing an intense epidemiologic transition characterised by a decline in the incidence of infectious diaeases and a rapid increaae in the importance of chronic illnesses and accidents . As the Constitutional ammendment establishing the right to the protection of health implies the importance of research for the solution of health problems, a subset o Mexican institutions involved in health research are analysed, from the bibliometric point of view, matching their activities and productivity against stated health policy aims.En el marco de una transición epidemiologica, donde las enfermedades propias del subdesarrollo están siendo reemplazadas por las enfermedades degenerativas y los accidentes, el gobierno mexicano, al elevar a rango constitucional el derecho a la protección de la salud, ha reconocido la importancia de la investigación en la solución de los problemas de salud. De esta manera, se realiza un análisis bibliométrico de un subconjunto de instituciones mexicanas involucradas en la investigación en salud, relacionando sus actividades y productividad con metas explicitas de las políticas de salud