Context: An enormous number of papers (more than 70,000) have been published in the area of Software Engineering (SE) since its inception in 1968. To better characterize and understand this massive research literature, there is a need for comprehensive bibliometrics assessments in this vibrant field. Objective: The objective of this study is to utilize automated citation and topic analysis to c...

background: thesis is an important part of specialisation and doctorate education and requires intense work. the aim of this study was to investigate the publication rates of turkish public health doctorate theses (phdt) and public health specialization (phst) theses in international and turkish national peer-review journals and to analyze the distribution of research areas. methods: list of al...

Problems and Theories The head of a prestigious scientific institution recently said, by paraphrasing a famous quotation: "we solve problems that are posed, not that we pose". This view totally misses the history and role of human knowledge construction and prepares wrong ways for evaluating it. Science is not problem solving, it is theory building. Any relevant, difficult problem requires the ...