This is the first of two chapters on Eugene Garfield and the impact factor, the second part of which will be published in next year’s volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and Tkchnology. Garfield is the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now Thomson Scientific, which launched the Science Citation Index (SCI), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and t...

Over the years, mathematics and statistics have become increasingly important in the social sciences. A look at the history quickly confirms this claim. At the beginning of the 20 century most theories in the social sciences were formulated in qualitative terms while quantitative methods did not play a substantial role in the formulation and establishment of them. Moreover, many practitioners c...

introduction: the integration of behavioral and social sciences (bss) into the curriculum of medical students in order to equip them with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes is an essential issue, emphasized in many researches. our aim is to investigate the barriers to integrate bss into the general medicine curriculum as well as the recommended strategies to overcome such barriers th...

OBJECTIVES Since last decade, Saudi Arabia has been swiftly moving ahead to promote an education and research in the country. This study aimed to investigate the research outcome of Saudi Arabia in medical sciences during the period 1996-2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this study, the research papers published in various global science journals during the period 1996-2012 were accessed. We reco...

Thomson ISI's bimonthly web-product ISI Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an in-depth analytical tool that regularly reports quantitative analyses of research performance and science trends, covering about 8,500 scientific journals from the entire world. In each issue ESI lists the scientists, institutions, countries and journals that are most improved from one update to the next, i.e. that...

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It first scholarly in focusing on research field and Distance Learning (ODL), being since 1997. provides platform to publish pedagogy relating teaching learning at level, particular (ODL). also forum for review articles related areas Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering...