Science Dynamics and Research Production by Nikolay K. Vitanov
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Science Dynamics and Research Production

Science Dynamics and Research Production


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Part I Society, economics and science.- Scientific structures and systems.- Complex structure and system of science.- Nonlinear dynamics of scientific entities.- Science is so important.- On the connection between science and technology.- Several features of technological progress.- Science as important component of the economic growth of a country: global point of view.- Role of technology for the growth of a GDP of a country.- Role of science for development of technology.- Factors for growth of science.- Science as important component of economic growth of a country: local point of view.- Why the size of the scientific community is important?.- The effective solutions of the scientific problems depend on the size of the scientific community.- Increasing complexity of problems requires increase of the size of group of scientists that has to solve them.- Science structures are dissipative. Three levels of the structure of science.- Science as open system.- Financial, material, and human resource flows keep science in an organized state.- Levels and characteristic features of science structures.- Role of instability for evolution of science.- Model of science as a part of global model of a social system.- Two scenarios based on the model of science as a part of the social system.- Scientific competition among the nations. Extended academic diamond.- Several concluding remarks.- References.- Quality and quantity in the study of science, research work and research productivity. The role of mathematics.- Remarks about publications and other aspects of evaluation of performance in science.- Quality management systems. Processes and process indicators.- Performance measurement systems.- Analysis of key processes.- Analysis of the needs of the organization and its stakeholders.- Plan of the system and plan for implementation of the system.- An example of quality management model: EFQM.- Latent variables and their operational definition by means of groups of indicators.- Measurements, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis.- Scales and 2 kinds of measurements.- Qualitative analysis and measurement.- Differences in statistical characteristics of processes in Nature and society.- About the non-Gaussian nature of processes in society and science.- Well, many distributions in social sciences are non-Gaussian.What follows from this?.- Several notes on scientometrics.- Examples of quantities that can be analyzed in the process of study of science dynamics.- Inequality of scientific achievements.- Knowledge landscapes.- Scientific productivity and its evaluation.- Role of science structure and system for scientific productivity.- Age effects in scientific productivity.- Notes on statistical analysis of scientific productivity.- Other factors that affect scientific productivity.- Complexity of scientific productivity.- Method of expert evaluation.- Scientific publications as a characteristic of scientific productivity.- Notes on scientce indicators and inequality.- Examples of evaluation and assessment of research work.- How to perform a complex evaluation of a researcher.- How to assess basic research.- An example of institute evaluation system: The SEP system of Netherlands.- Second example of institutes evaluation system: AERES (France).- Example for system of indicators for evaluation of national research policy: OECD indicators.- On mathematics and quantification of research performance.- English-Czerwon method for quantification of performance of research units.- Scientific performance from the point of view of information production processes.- Additional notes on application of mathematics for quantifications of scientific achievements.- Part II Indicators and indexes of scientific productivity.- Scientific productivity of individual researchers.- Introduction remarks.- Money cuts and "value for money". Peer review and evaluation by a sets of indicators and indices.- Indicators and indexes.- The h-index of Hirsch.- Adv


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  • ISBN-13: 9783319416298
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2016
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 652 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3319416294
  • Publisher Date: 11 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 285
  • Series Title: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scho
  • Sub Title: Indicators, Indexes, Statistical Laws and Mathematical Models
  • Width: 156 mm


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