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Research supports UN millennium development goals
The UN Millennium Development Goals aim to combat the effects of extreme poverty. Bringing together governments, industry and research, this global effort hopes to solve some of our greatest challenges by 2015. Research Trends looks at how research on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria measures up to the impact of these diseases. |
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Analyzing a multidisciplinary research field
The analysis of multidisciplinary research can be very difficult, in large part due to the fact that scientific terminology is often shared with the traditional fields it draws together. In a multidisciplinary field, such as energy, keywords can be ambiguous. Research Trends explores a delineation based on subject categorization to measure country specialization and collaboration against impact. |
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Small countries lead international collaboration
The global nature of many of science’s most pressing challenges demands greater international collaboration. Research Trends looks at how different countries measure up and finds that smaller nations are leading the way. |
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Iranian universities pushing ahead
Iran is steadily publishing more papers and attracting an increasing number of international citations. Is the Middle East on the brink of a scientific revival? Research Trends investigates. |
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Jorge Hirsch: the man behind the metric
Four years ago, the h-index burst onto the bibliometric scene, sparking an explosion of studies on the metric itself, its potential use in different contexts, and a host of variant metrics on the same theme. But the man who shares his initial with the index, Professor Jorge Hirsch, is a physicist, not a bibliometrician. Research Trends goes direct to the source to find out where the h-index came from. |
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Germany is a world leader in fuel-cells research
Even though Germany is only ranked sixth in the world for output of research papers on fuel cells, it carries out the most in-depth research in this area (1). This is according to a new method that measures multidisciplinarity in science and has revealed some very surprising results. In fact, while Germany’s total number of papers is lower than the USA, its percentage of papers in so-called Distinctive Competencies (indicating in-depth research) is higher.
The Distinctive Competency method measures multidisciplinarity by revealing research strengths that reference literature from a single discipline as well as those that are highly interdisciplinary. Identifying Distinctive Competencies rather than simply replying on citation counts shows where competition could come from in the future. While Germany may not yet be leading alternative-energy research, it is developing deep expertise in a wide range of disciplines, which could result in breakthroughs in the near future.
References
(1) Katzen, J., Klavans, D. and Boyack, K. (2009) Research Leadership Redefined... Measuring Performance in a Multidisciplinary Landscape, Elsevier Webinar |
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Editorial Board
Iris Kisjes | Gert Jan Geraeds | Andrew Plume | Judith Kamalski | Sarah Huggett | Aschwin Wijnsma | Thomas Jones | Nina Mehta | Michelle Pirotta, The Write Company |
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