this article analyzed the various bibliometric components of the articles published in the malaysian journal of library and information science from 1996 to 2012. various quality aspects of the 279 articles published in the period were studied. the study demonstrates and elaborates on the various aspects of the journal, such as its distribution of article by year, authorship patterns, distribut...

Chagas disease is a chronic, tropical, parasitic disease, endemic throughout Latin America. The large-scale migration of populations has increased the geographic distribution of the disease and cases have been observed in many other countries around the world. To strengthen the critical mass of knowledge generated in different countries, it is essential to promote cooperative and translational ...

using bibliographic records from the social science citation index, science citation index, and arts & humanities index, this paper tries to give a complete view of the characteristics of top ten iranian authors during 1990-2007 according to their authorship pattern. findings revealed that during 1990-2007 a total of 2650 articles were written by top ten iranian authors. findings showed that m....

Collaborative development is a key tenet of open source software, but if not properly understood and managed, it can become a liability. We examine author contribution data for the newest revision of 251,633 Java source files in 592 Eclipse projects. We use this observational data to analyze collaboration patterns within files, and to explore relationships between file size, author count, and c...

This article analyzed Cuban research on sea turtles from a thematic and bibliometric perspective. has been mixed investigation in which content analysis techniques were applied. The Google Scholar database was used to retrieve documents. authors with the highest productivity those Fisheries Research Center (Cuba). areas most studied were: Studies nesting (41%) Conservation management (25.6%). s...

Most existing methods on research collaborator recommendation focus on promoting collaboration within a specific discipline and exploit a network structure derived from co-authorship or co-citation information. To find collaboration opportunities outside researchers’ own fields of expertise and beyond their social network, we present an interdisciplinary collaborator recommendation method based...