BACKGROUND The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) grant program provides fellows and junior faculty members with grant support to stimulate their careers. The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of recipients of FAER grants since 1987. METHODS Recipients were identified in the FAER alumni database. Each recipient's affiliation was identified using an Internet search...

Much of the current Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research aims to contribute to the field by creating practical music applications or algorithms that can be used as part of such applications. Understanding how academic research results influence and translate to commercial products can be useful for MIR researchers, especially when we try to measure the impact of our research. This study a...

Compilation of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) corpora is a task which is fraught with several difficulties (mainly time and human effort), because it is not easy to discern between specialized and non-specialized text. The aim of this work is to study automatic specialized vs. non-specialized sentence differentiation. The experiments are carried out on two corpora of sentences extracted ...

As the discipline of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) has continued to expand rapidly over the past twenty years, scientometric research has been increasingly applied to analyze its trends and patterns. Drawing inspiration from Social Network Analysis, this study aims to quantify academic research impact and identify patterns of influence at an institutional and regional level in Chin...

Organizational decision-makers are confronted with pervasive Information Technology. Investments in Information Technology form a large portion of total investments, requiring a focus on the governance of IT. One prevalent IT Governance Framework is COBIT 5. Despite its widespread use, there is a claimed lack of research on COBIT 5. To validate this claim, we have looked at academic literature ...

Today an increasing number of researchers and scientists follow Open Access. Open Access is a movement that offers researchers and the academic community the opportunity to share and access academic information freely and immediately. The Library and Information Services at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) has defined Open Access as one of its main strategies. An author fund has been e...

The academic world has come to place enormous weight on bibliometric measures to assess the value of scientific publications. Our paper has twomajor goals. First, we discuss the limits of numerical assessment tools as applied to computer science publications. Second, we give guidelines on how to write a good paper, where to submit the manuscript, and how to deal with the reviewing process. We r...

background: web of science (wos) is an online academic citation index provided by thomson reuters which supplies valuable bibliometric information for comparing impact of specific author, organization, or country in science production. the aim of this study was to compare toxicology publications of iran and turkey indexed in wos from bibliometric point of view. methods: the wos database was que...

Title of Document: MANAGING AN ACADEMIC CAREER IN SCIENCE: WHAT GENDER DIFFERENCES EXIST AND WHY? Gayle Patrice Richards, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Bart Landry Sociology Department The present study examines the career trajectories of academic scientists during the period from 1993 to 2001 to explore gender differences in mobility. Data from the National Science Foundati...