Billions of dollars are spent every year to support medical research, with a substantial
percentage coming from charitable foundations. To justify these expenditures, some …

La evaluación de la actividad científica es un elemento imprescindible para todos los
programas de investigación, tecnología y desarrollo que se implementan en una sociedad …

New Public Management (NPM) was the catch phrase of the reforms in the public research
and higher education sector for the last decades. The postulated effect of the NPM reforms is …

Nowadays, the Italian science sector is undergoing a strategic reform due to budget cuts and
there is a need for measuring and evaluating research performance of public research …

This paper addresses the mobility of scientists and its implications for countries with weaker
scientific and technological systems. It focuses on the “return dilemma” and, using the …

Context: This article reviews the Researcher Development Program (RDP) component of the
Australian Government's Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation, and Development …

We have developed a formula that assigns relative values to each author of the list in any
publication according to the authors' relative positions. The formula satisfies several criteria …

Purpose The authors investigate the relationship between the structure and the functioning
of scientific and technical (S&T) personnel and the quality research and development (R&D) …

Scientific performance should not be measured by a one-dimensional metric such as
publication, since it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. A quantitative analysis of the …

This study explores the curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) association of three classical
dimension of co-authorship network centrality, degree, closeness and betweenness and the …