This paper quantitatively explores the social and socio-semantic patterns of constitution of academic collaboration teams. To this end, we broadly underline two critical features ...
The Ranking web of World Repositories (http://repositories.webometrics.info) is introduced. The objective is to promote Open Access Initiatives supporting the use of repositories ...
With reference to social constructivist approaches on citing behavior in the sciences, the hypothesis of acceleration of citing behavior after the millennium was empirically tested...
This paper presents a methodology to aggregate multidimensional research output. Using a tailored version of the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis model, we account for the...
This article reports the results of a scientometric assessment of the Southern Africa Development Community countries. The National Science Indicators database of Thomson- Reuters...