The complexity of government tasks today suggests that virtual interaction processes that could streamline flows and exchanges of information between governments and society in public policymaking may contribute to more effective intervention that is more closely attuned to the heterogeneity and diversity of social problems. Innovative participatory government administration initiatives have pr...

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 29 Sup:S4-S6, 2013 Health technology assessment (HTA) focuses on understanding the clinical, economic, environmental, social, political, and legal implications of new technologies, or changes in established ones. This multidisciplinary field can provide various decision-makers with hierarchical analyses of the available options for health policy implementatio...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the scientific output of Spanish universities that offer a bachelor's degree in dentistry through the use of various bibliometric indicators. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 21 universities offered a bachelor's degree in dentistry in academic year 2016-2017. The search for papers published by authors associated with these institutions was carried...

F the few scientists who earn a Nobel prize, the impact and relevance of their research is unquestionable. Among the rest of us, how does one quantify the cumulative impact and relevance of an individual’s scientific research output? In a world of limited resources, such quantification (even if potentially distasteful) is often needed for evaluation and comparison purposes (e.g., for university...

BACKGROUND Measures of research productivity are increasingly used to determine how research should be evaluated and funding decisions made. In psychiatry, citation patterns within and between countries are not known, and whether these differ by choice of citation metric. METHOD In this study, we examined publication characteristics and citation practices in articles published in 50 Web of Sc...

Dear Sir, In the May issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal, we published an update [1] of a previous bibliometric analysis of the scientific work of Dutch professors in clinical cardiology [2]. The paper was accompanied by an editorial [3] in the same issue and another one in the subsequent June issue [4]. Van der Wall [3] summarises our paper and emphasises that we have stated ‘....that citat...

We analyze a set of three databases at different levels of aggregation (i) a database of approximately 10 publications of 247 countries in the period between 1980–2001. (ii) A database of 508 academic institutions from European Union (EU) and 408 institutes from USA in the 11 year period between during 1991–2001. (iii) A database comprising of 2330 Flemish authors in the period 1980–2000. At al...

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 22(5):886-887, mai, 2006 The growth in overall Brazilian scientific output in dentistry is shown by the increase in the number of articles published in dentistry journals by researchers affiliated with Brazilian universities, according to MEDLINE, the largest international index of scientific periodicals in health, as follows: until 1980 = 2; 1981-1985 = 0; 1...

this study aims to describe the way in which bibliometric analysis can become a trend recognition tool. the research work shows the application of bibliometric analysis in science. such analyses provide information about the response received by scientific publications. the paper indicates how, with the aid of a tripartite division, it becomes possible to examine the past, present and future. f...