Open source software development represents the work of hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of developers around the world and is a critical component of many widely-used software products. Much of this development is self-organizing, taking place outside the structures of specific organizations. In this regard, open-source development communities are similar to academic research communiti...

Interest in bibliometrics—the quantitative analysis of publications, authors, bibliographic references, and related concepts—has never been greater, as universities, research councils, national governments, and corporations seek to identify robust indicators of research effectiveness. In Scholarly Metrics Under the Microscope, editors Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto bring together and exp...

Why authors cite particular documents has been the subject of both speculation and empirical investigation for decades.This article provides a short history of attempts to understand citation motivations and reports a replication of earlier surveys measuring reasons for citations. Comparisons are made among various types of scholars. The present study identified six highly cited articles in the...

Access to a pool of talented employees is an important element of entrepreneurial firms’ ability to build innovative capabilities. Through an empirical examination of two European biotechnology clusters – Cambridge, UK, and Munich, Germany – we investigate the degree to which macro-labor market institutions shape the micro-dynamics of career affiliation networks between scientific employees. Us...

Objective(s): Recent evidence has shown underlying roles of gut dysbiosis and metabolic endotoxemia in obesity and its complications. Despite the large number of experimental and clinical researches performed on gut microbiota and obesity, no bibliometrics’ study has been conducted so far. We aimed to assess the trend of global scientific publications in the field of gut microbiota and obesity....

Research output in the tourism field has grown enormously in the last decade and this growth has led to the establishment of new networks of researchers collaborating on a variety of projects. The purpose of this paper is to provide a new approach to the study of collaboration in the tourism field by using bibliometrics and social network analysis to examine co-authorship patterns in Australia ...

During the last decades, industrial districts have been at the forefront of academic and policy-making debate as important players of the economic development of small and medium sized companies in many countries. Nevertheless, a number of factors have strongly damaged these networks and questioned their competitiveness. Literature suggests that district governance is a proper solution to these...

The research goal of this paper is to identify major academic branches and to detect research trends in design research using text mining techniques. In this paper, the information about scientific literature in design research isprocessed. A combination of clustering and bibliometric analysis led to shaping four academic branches and summarizing each academic branch. Then, research trends and ...

Research funding and reputation in the UK have, for over two decades, been increasingly dependent on a regular peer-review of all UK departments. This is to move to a system more based on bibliometrics. Assessment exercises of this kind influence the behavior of institutions, departments and individuals, and therefore bibliometrics will have effects beyond simple measurement.