NewsThe ever increasing demands from society, politics, and economics for benefits from science calls for new instruments to demonstrate the societal quality of science.
Has publication pressure grown too large to handle for medical professors? This study shows the relations between the degree of publication pressure and burnout symptoms at Dutch medical professors.
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It is well known that, due to vastly different publication and citation practices, the distributions of references made and citations received by scientific articles have very different characteristics across scientific fields.
The US are still the dominant scientific world power, but new centres of science are emerging. MIT is the university which has the highest citation impact of its publications in the world. Princeton and Harvard take positions two and three.
The authority of scientific knowledge is regularly called into question. This has worried prominent researchers. Those worries go beyond the fraude of a Tilburg social psychologist or the presumed conflict of interest of a Rotterdam virologist
Dutch universities are a 'scientific highland' in science: Above average quality, without too many quality differences compared with the rest of the world. This is one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the new 2011 Leiden Ranking.
In spite of broad support across disciplines, only a small percentage of scientific and scholarly publications are available through open access.
Despite the high amount of public funds allocated to academic research and development (R&D), only a few studies have provided systematic evidence on the effects of such investment at regional scale.
' ACUMEN: Academic Careers Understood by Measurement and Norms' will be the symposium contribution of Paul Wouters.
Ever since the beginnings of modern philosophy of science its practitioners realized that facts are based on human decisions.
Confrontated with the disambiguation of Japanese authors and inventors in the field of biotechnology, in the identification of authors a more socially-oriented approach is proposed.
Professor Robert Tijssen has joined the Dual PhD Centre The Hague , an institute of Leiden University’s Campus The Hague.
On this Thursday our colleagues Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck both will defend their theses at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Robbin te Velde and Sven Maltha (Dialogic) studied the (im)possibilities of internet-based data collection for official statistics. In this lecture they will explore the extension of this research towards (near)real-time internet measurements for and from different perspectives.
Our colleague Clifford Tatum is member of the team that was awarded SURFfoundation's 'Enhanced Publication of the Month'.
Proposed is a mode of data publishing called nanopublications. A nanopublication is the smallest unit of publisheable information, and has the form of a semantic assertion (Subject-Predicate-Object) plus provenance metadata (e.g., author, time-stamp).
This is the conclusion of a publication by CWTS researchers Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A new, free downloadable, version VOSviewer software has been released. VOSviewer is an easy-to-use computer programme for creating, viewing, and exploring bibliometric maps of science.
The programme of the September 26 - 30, 2011 Graduate Course: 'Measuring Science and Research Performance' is now available
