citation databases (Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities), both as implemented on the Dialog Information Services … (Thomson ISI databases) and on the Web of Knowledge platform, known as Web of Science (WoS). The databases were searched to … research achievements of countries are the rate of cited reference enhanced records and the rate of presence of country …

conceptual research. First the SECI model of organisational knowledge creation is applied to knowledge management in science … scientific knowledge. In doing so, the focus is set on scientific research as one core function of higher education institutions … terms of economic efficiency, OA has the potential to significantly decrease the costs of scholarly communication. Research …

) agriculture research against its non‐OA counterparts. Design/methodology/approach – At the article level, the paper compared the … citation counts of self‐archived research with non‐OA articles based upon a sample of 400 research articles from ISI …/value – Self‐archived agriculture research articles tended to attract higher citations than their non‐OA counterparts. This …

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss some caveats about the findings of Part 1 of the Royal Society's report from the …/methodology/approach – The paper argues that the Royal Society's report gives too much emphasis to the growth rate of the publications of Chinese … much better measures for the assessment of research activity than the one‐dimensional productivity numbers, such as the h …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the new version of the Web of Science (WoS) software. Design …/methodology/approach – This paper discusses the new version of the Web of Science (WoS) software. Findings – The new version of the Web of Science … evaluating the research performance of individuals, research groups, educational and research institutions as well as serial …

to calculate their h‐index the numbers of papers and citations in each university were gathered from Web of Science …, including the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Authority control dealing with variations in university … produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The results confirm the validity of the h‐index in the assessment of research …

Masters of Science degree programme in energy and the environment in Quito, Ecuador, to train professionals to assist OLADE … electronic databases, research materials and document delivery as on‐campus students. Technology and the Internet have enabled …‐ROM presentations, access to full‐text and index databases, e‐mail, research resources and document delivery requests were effectively …