the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and views of faculty members on criteria for authorship by international committee of medical journal editors (icmje), their current practice of choosing the authors, views on gift authorship and problems they had faced concerning authorship.it was a cross sectional survey from january 2011 to july 2011 among faculty members of various pri...

We present an efficient and effective automatic method for determining the research focus of scientific communities found in co-authorship networks. It utilizes bibliographic data from a database to form the network, followed by fastgreedy community detection to identify communities within large connected components of the network. Text analysis techniques are used to identify community-specifi...

BACKGROUND This study designed and applied accessible yet systematic methods to generate baseline information about the patterns and structure of Canada's neglected tropical disease (NTD) research network; a network that, until recently, was formed and functioned on the periphery of strategic Canadian research funding. METHODOLOGY MULTIPLE METHODS WERE USED TO CONDUCT THIS STUDY, INCLUDING: (...

PURPOSE The social network analysis (SNA) is a paradigm for analyzing structural patterns in social re- lations, testing knowledge sharing process and identifying bottlenecks of information flow. The purpose of this study was to determine the status of research in the fleld of violence in Iran using SNA. METHODS Research population included all the papers with at least one Iranian affiliation...

Authorship profiling is of growing importance in the current information age, partly due to its application in digital forensics. Methodologies of profiling like any other authorship analysis consist majorly of feature extraction and application of analytical techniques. Choice of feature sets and analytical techniques may significantly affect the performance of authorship analysis. Hence, a ne...

Link prediction in social networks aims at estimating the likelihood of the appearance of a new link between two nodes, based on the existing links and the attributes of the nodes. Many methods for link prediction problem in social networks have been proposed in literature. We especially analyze the shortcomings of common neighbor leading method. Accordingly we generate a new modified common ne...

We study the national production of academic knowledge in all Iberoamerican and Caribbean countries between 1973 and 2007. We show that the total number of mainstream scientific publications listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) follows an exponential growth, the same as the national productivity expre...

INTRODUCTION We may define the nanomedicine as the use of nanotechnology in the health care, disease diagnoses and treatment in order to maintain and increase the health status of a population through improve pharmacotherapy. The main objective of the current study is to analyze and visualize the co-authorship network of all papers in the field of nanomedicine published throughout 2002-2014 in ...