made by calls for interdisciplinarity in Canadian health research. …This paper explores social scientists' and humanities (SSH) scholars' integration within the academic medical research … environment. Three questions guided our investigation: Do SSH scholars adapt to the medical research environment? How do they …

This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research … teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero … Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for the effects of international research collaboration on team output …

our research in showing the preferred journals of the authors affiliated to Spanish universities, the quality of these …

priority to forestry research. The ten questions were derived from a participatory exercise; the Top Ten Questions for Forestry … research (T10Q) completed in 2008. Analysis of the first-ranked question, relating to invasive species, pests and diseases … bibliometrics to link stakeholder priorities with the existing knowledge base to provide a richer picture of the state of scientific …

Interdisciplinary scientific research (IDR) extends and challenges the study of science on a number of fronts … alone cannot adequately capture this process. Among the quantitative measures considered, bibliometrics (co-authorships, co … toward providing a more holistic view of measuring IDR, although research and development is needed before metrics can …

The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous …

of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …What have we learned about productivity in the past two decades? In this article, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the … Study of Living Standards reviews a recently published NBER volume entitled New Development in Productivity Analysis, edited …

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency … efficiency or productivity of a public service requires a measurement of the value or utility generated by the service. However … ironically undermined the effectiveness and productivity of the public and voluntary sectors. She illustrates the perverse …