Research productivity among nations.

Can Information and Communication Technology lead to Well-Being? An Empirical Analysis

This paper extends research that has shown the effect of IT on productivity of nations. We examine the effect that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can have on the well-being of nations. This is important for two reasons. First, in the economics literature, a number of studies have focused on well-being rather than measures of GDP to assess how satisfied people are with their live...

The countries and languages that dominate biological research at the beginning of the 21st century.

Traditionally, studies of scientific productivity are biased in two ways: they are based on Current Contents, an index centered in British and American journals, and they seldom correct for population size, ignoring the relative effort that each society places in research. We studied national productivity for biology using a more representative index, the Biological Abstracts, and analyzed both...

The Scientific Impact of Developing Nations

This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this "catching up" hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to generate in terms of impact and output relative t...

Mining patterns of author orders in scientific publications

The author order of multi-authored papers can reveal subtle patterns of scientific collaboration and provide insights on the nature of credit assignment among coauthors. This article proposes a sequencebased perspective on scientific collaboration. Using frequently occurring sequences as the unit of analysis, this study explores (1) what types of sequence patterns are most common in the scienti...

A laboratory manual for the FAO/IAEA Co-ordinated Research Programme on Development, Standardization and Validation of Nuclear Based Technologies for Measuring Microbial Protein Supply in Ruminant Livestock for Improving Productivity