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background: investment in science is vital for the development and well-being of societies. this study aims to assess the scientific productivity of countries by quantifying their publication of systematic reviews taking the gross national income per capita (gnipc) into account. methods: medline and isi web of science were searched for systematic reviews published between 1st january 2006 and 3...

The paper examines the evaluation of scientific productivity. It analyzes the metrification of the evaluation of scientific production, as well as the historical construction, and current uses of scientific evaluation. It argues that this process contains a paradox: the more that metrics become impersonal, the less they are recognized by scientists. The study is divided into five sections: cont...

physical education being applied in nature, the role of scientific research has been widely challenged in this field. applying a bibliometric analysis method, the present study tries to investigate scientific achievement in sports and exercises and examine its relation to practical performance, using scholarly papers indexed in isi as substitutes of scientific productivity and medals won in oly...

This paper exploits a unique 2003-2011 large dataset, indexed by Thomson & Reuters, consisting of 17.2 million disambiguated authors classified into 30 broad scientific fields, as well as the 48.2 million articles resulting from a multiplying strategy in which any article co-authored by two or more persons is wholly assigned as many times as necessary to each of them. We measure individual prod...