Overview
- Presents mathematical methods to evaluate the efficiency of research
- Describes models, indicators and indexes to quantify research productivity
- Shows ways to improve the output of research groups and organizations
- Discusses nonlinear dynamics of scientific entities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication (QQASSC)
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Keywords
- Dynamics of Research Structures and Systems
- Evaluation of Research Organizations
- Evaluation of Researchers
- Indicators and Indexes of Research Productivity
- Indices for evaluation of research
- Ranking scientific productivity
- Research Productivity
- Studying scientific productivity
- nonlinear science dynamics
Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Science and Society. Research Organizations and Assessment of Research
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Indicators and Indexes for Assessment of Research Production
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Statistical Laws and Selected Models
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science Dynamics and Research Production
Book Subtitle: Indicators, Indexes, Statistical Laws and Mathematical Models
Authors: Nikolay K. Vitanov
Series Title: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41631-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41629-8Published: 11 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82401-7Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41631-1Published: 01 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-8371
Series E-ISSN: 2365-838X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods, Printing and Publishing, R & D/Technology Policy, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Methodology of the Social Sciences