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This paper conducted detailed research on publication activity in the public-private partnership (PPP) field based on bibliometric analysis. The main aim was to research the different literature materials and systematize trends and priority fields of PPP research. Scopus tools were used to determine the dynamics of the number of indexed publications, research belonging to the country and journals, and the branch structure of publication activity on the research topic, highlighting academics' contributions in the PPP research field by the number of citations and published papers. The search for the most relevant publications used the key concept of "private-public partnership" in titles, abstracts, and keywords in the bibliometric database Scopus for 1952 - 2022. VOSviewer software is used to build network maps of keyword compatibility, collaborate with authors by country, and measure the research time. Based on the results of the literature review, conclusions are drawn about the growing dynamics of the number of publications in the PPP field; 3 stages of scientific interest in PPP research are identified; the multidisciplinary nature of the concept under study is confirmed; the PPP term is clarified; 7 clusters that characterize the main areas of research in the field of PPP are identified; the leading countries and the most cited authors are identified by their affiliation to a particular country; it is established that the intensive development of scientific research in PPP in the countries of the world took place in the period 2010-2014; the development of PPP in CEE and Ukraine is characterized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Collaborations are an essential element of scientific activity and particularly important in fields such as pediatric anesthesiology, where the evidence base in general is relatively limited. A recent scientometric analysis revealed a geographic diversification of publication activity in pediatric anesthesiology within the last two decades, accompanied by a surge in international collaborations. Objectives: Given the hypothesis of a similar growth in the activity and dynamics of publications in pediatric anesthesiology, the objective of this scientometric study was to analyze the publication activity and collaboration habits in research in pediatric anesthesiology from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (D-A-CH). Method: This secondary analysis identified all publications on pediatric anesthesiology with an affiliation from the D‑A-CH countries between 2001 and 2020 from PubMed and Web of Science. The query parameters included the timeframe 2001–2020, authors' affiliations tied to anesthesiology departments (using various forms of the term "anesthesia"), and the mention of pediatric interest in titles or abstracts. The data underwent standardization to account for linguistic variations. The publications were assigned to a state, city and institution based on the correspondence address, to a year based on the publication date and to a source based on the journal. The primary endpoint was publication activity and dynamics, represented by the number of publications and the respective growth rates (calculated as the linear regression slope). Secondary endpoints included the share of collaborations within and outside the D‑A-CH region (at the country and institutional level), the distribution of publication activity and the most prominent sources of publications. Results: Between 2001 and 2020 a total of 3406 publications on pediatric anesthesiology involving authors from the D‑A-CH countries were identified. Of these 2807 (82.4%) had a correspondence address in D‑A-CH. The average annual growth rate of publications with a correspondence address was + 2.9% for the D‑A-CH countries and + 7.7% for publications with collaborations. The number of publications in which an institution from D‑A-CH was named as a coauthor from a correspondence address outside D‑A-CH also increased by an average of 7.4% per year during the study period. The majority of collaborations occurred between institutions within the D‑A-CH region, although Swiss institutions exhibited a much higher proportion of collaborations outside the region. Of all publications with a correspondence address 90% originated from 46 cities. The most prominent source was Die Anästhesiologie for publications from Germany, and Pediatric Anesthesia for publications from Austria and Switzerland. Conclusion: The number of publications in pediatric anesthesiology from the D‑A-CH countries has increased over the past two decades, accompanied by a surge in collaborations. It is hoped that increased collaboration will contribute to a higher level of evidence in pediatric anesthesiology care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The publication activity of Russian scientists in various fields in chemistry is analyzed. Data on the indexing of articles of Russian Empire chemists in Chemisches Zentralblatt and Chemical Abstracts indicate active development of Russian science at the end of the 19th century and its rapid recovery and competitive ability after the First and Second World Wars. The collapse of the USSR dealt a severe blow to the scientific potential of the country, which was among the top five in all areas of chemical science before 1990. Currently, Russian scientists hold the strongest positions in the field of organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. The number of publications of Russian scientists in foreign journals exceeds 50% of the total number of papers, and one third of the research is carried out with international cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To inform a response to recent critiques of physical and health education (PHE) research activity within Canadian universities, this research inquired into peer-reviewed PHE publications by Canadian-based authors between 2010 and 2015 via an analysis of published research method framed within a 'health' metaphor. The three-phase method involved: (a) identifying Canadian-authored English-language PHE journal articles via targeted database keyword searches designed in consultation with an academic librarian and the Physical and Health Education Canada Research Council executive; (b) categorizing the publications by extracting data related to author affiliation, journal name, research question, and funding acknowledgement; and (c) conducting basic descriptive statistics to report findings on publication topics, authorship characteristics, journal outlets, and funding rates and sources. Results were interpreted through the lens of common criteria within Canadian tenure, promotion, and performance reviews for 'healthy' research publication activity: quantity of publications, prestige of publication outlets, knowledge mobilization to national and international practitioners and academics, and (external) funding. Findings revealed relatively 'healthy' measures of publication quantity, prestigious external funding, and nationally-focused knowledge mobilization to stakeholders inside and outside of academia. However, findings also revealed limits in the proportion of research published in prestigious journals and journals easily accessible to international audiences, both of which could be interpreted or represented (and subsequently weaponized) by others as 'illness'. While it is neither our aim, nor place, to prescribe a way forward – as that is for the larger community of Canadian-based PHE scholars to consider together – it is our hope that this research provides the descriptive data and reflection needed to inform the beginnings of evidence-based discussion, action, and advocacy regarding PHE research publication activity in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scientific and organizational activity of the Division of Chemistry and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2021, as described in the summary reports of Academician Secretary of the Division, Academician of RAS M. P. Egorov, and his Deputy, Doctor of Science V. I. Maleev, is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The main objective of this paper is to explore the key bibliometric characteristics, trends and patterns related to publication activity, productivity and collaboration of authors of the papers published in the journal Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske in the period from 1950 to 2020. Approach/methodology/design. The study uses standard bibliometric indicators and tools to analyse 986 papers published in Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske from 1950 to 2020. Findings. The results have shown that Vjesnik, with 95 % of papers published in the Croatian language during the analysed period, used to be and has remained the journal intended for the Croatian community of librarians and other information professionals. Over the last 25 years, Vjesnik has gradually been transformed from a predominantly professional to a scholarly journal that publishes almost the same amount of research (44.2 %) and professional (47.2 %) papers. Moreover, an increasing number of authors (professors and students) from the academic sector publish their research results in Vjesnik. Most of the papers published in the journal are single-authored (72.6 %), but this has started to change from 2010 in favour of multi-authored papers (51.5 %), which indicates the gradual development of the culture of collaboration and the development of collaborative research networks. Research limitations/implications. The non-standard and non-uniform way of stating the author's institutional affiliation in the printed journal and on different web sources (the Hrčak portal and the Archives on the journal's website) required a lot of manual editing, which might have caused potential errors. In the authorship analysis, certain errors in frequency counts of the authors' productivity are possible due to undetected surname changes, most often with female authors due to marriage. Originality/value. The paper presents an in-depth bibliometric research that covers almost the entire publication period (70 years) of Vjesnik and analyses the publication characteristics of the journal, the productivity, and collaboration of the authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scientific and science-organizational activity of the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2020 is highlighted. The most significant results obtained by scientists of the institutes of the Department in 2020 are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background This study was designed to evaluate the publication performance of management teams consisting of chief and senior physicians in German university cardiac surgery units over a 10-year period and to facilitate benchmarking. Methods The cutoff date for consideration of staffing from the unit Web site and publications was July 1, 2017. The literature search was based on an evaluation of the PubMed database. The 5-year impact factor (IF) from 2016 was assigned to each journal. Results Two thousand five hundred thirty-five publications (average IF 3.02) were registered, published in 323 journals. Of a total of 341 management team members, 235 (68.9%) published as first or last author over the 10-year period. The number of publications from the units divided into quintiles varied considerably with the first six units contributing 39.0% of all publications and the last nine units 9.4%. With a cumulative IF total of 3265, the publications of the first six units accounted for 42.7% of the cumulative IF, the last unit quintile amounted to 621 (8.1%) of the cumulative IF. When considering publications per managing member, the first quintile averaged 11.9 publications (29.6 IF) per managing member, the last quintile 3.3 publications (8.0 IF) per member. Conclusions The six units of the first quintile published on average 3.6 times more per managing member than the nine units in the last quintile and the average cumulative IF per member in the first quintile was almost five times higher. Further investigation must show whether this considerable difference in publication activity between the university units is also observed in other operative fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main role in university competitiveness realizes a university library as one of the structural unit within Russian universities' project "Top 5-100" to promote the mission of the university and its academic community, provide the best practices and innovations in education and research process, in managing and studying information and preserving the intellectual and cultural heritage. The authors discuss various ways to improve the research activity of university staff, explore the role of university libraries as centers of information resources, identifying trends in the development of modern university libraries that intend to increase the publication activity of university staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is shown that interdisciplinarity in soil science as a scientific area has been growing ever more rapidly in recent years, while the dissemination of related information over different scientific journals has become excessive and still continues to increase. In particular, the number of Russian journals publishing papers on soil science and represented in the eLIBRARY.ru database increased by more than six times in 14 years (2005–2018) and, by the moment of our study, comprised over 600 names of journals and other Russian-language publications. Since 1997, the segment of papers on soil research has finally shifted from the category of soil science to environmental sciences. The Russian array of publications of 1975–2018 on soil research is analyzed in terms of its positioning in the world. Currently, the number of papers on soil science is actively increasing both in Russia and worldwide. The highest growth rate in the Russian document flow in this scientific area was observed in 2016–2018. In the number of publications, Russian soil science is in a good position in the world. Citation analysis demonstrates an increase in the citation rate in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) and Scopus databases. Contrary to the widespread opinion on the preferential citation of papers, monographs are prevalently cited in the area of soil science in the eLIBRARY.ru. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of knowledge spillover and its role in the development of the national and regional innovation system is of significant interest, since in the modern global world the advantages are obtained by those innovative systems that are able to both generate knowledge and use knowledge external to them. The flexibility of regional innovation systems to disseminate knowledge enables them to be more effective. In general, knowledge is considered to be implicit and explicit. Both explicit and implicit knowledge have the potential to influence the emergence of new ideas and their design in the form of innovations. Codified knowledge (for example, patent citations) has a significantly larger distribution area compared to non-codified knowledge. Implicit knowledge, for which the direct contact of the knowledge carrier and its “recipient” is important, can also play an important role in the dissemination of knowledge and innovation in clusters, i.e. have an even more limited distribution area. In this regard, the question arises about the mechanisms of codification of knowledge, methods of research directions of their distribution and intensity of knowledge spillover. Such codification may be based primarily on patents and publications. The above mentioned determines the aim of the study, which novelty concerns the development of a methodological approach to assessing the publication activity of scientists of research institutes of the corporate sector as a method of studying the regional specificity of the spillover effects of knowledge. As a result of approbation of the author's approach Russian regions have been classified on intensity and orientation of codification of knowledge basis. Regions with high values of publication activity of scientists of research institutes of corporate sector and significant external codification of knowledge when publications are carried out jointly with foreign scientists or scientists from other organizations have been determined. It has been proved that the higher the level of external-oriented codification, the greater the potential for spillover effects of knowledge in the regional economic system. To assess the prospects for the application of knowledge in the innovation process on the basis of comparing the results of the typologization of regions and the map of clusters in Russia, the hypothesis about the positive impact of clusters on the dissemination of knowledge has been verified. At the same time, it has been shown that for the majority of subjects of the Russian Federation there is a low publication activity, in the process of which knowledge is codified, which indicates insignificant spillover effects of knowledge and a low level of development of regional innovation systems in general. Prospects for the development of this problem are associated with the assessment of the effectiveness of the use of external knowledge in regional innovation systems, as well as with proposals to improve the efficiency of its dissemination. An important task is to justify the necessary minimum level of inter-firm codification of knowledge through publications based on the experience of innovative regions-world leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract We explore the formation of Logic as an academic discipline and community in Russia before the revolution of 1917. In particular, we look at the various communication strategies that emerged within this community and its relations with the wider international scientific community. Interaction with Mathematics, which was undergoing its own "foundational revolution," played a major role in the transition from archaic syllogistic to modern formal logic. We make extensive use of original sources, many of which have not been reprinted since their first publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature on the consequences of academic inbreeding shows ambiguous results: some papers show that inbreeding positively influences research productivity measured by the quantity and quality of publications, while others demonstrate the opposite effect. There are contradictory results both in the studies of different countries and within countries. This variety of results makes it impossible to transfer the findings from one academic system to another, and in Russia this problem has been under-explored. This paper focuses on the relationship between inbreeding and publication activity among Russian faculty. The research was conducted using data from the ‘Monitoring of Educational Markets and Organizations’ survey. The results show that there is no significant effect of academic inbreeding on publication productivity: no substantial and robust differences in publication activity between inbreds and non-inbreds have been found. The paper finishes with a discussion of possible explanations inherent in the Russian academic system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Ukrainian library and information science/studies (LIS) accumulated many problems that impede the quality training of library staff. In the process of reforming education and science in Ukraine, several initiatives have been implemented at the legislative level for improving quality of research and its presentation by Ukrainian scientists, including research in the library science. In particular, in order to obtain a PhD in Ukraine, the applicant must publish an article in a foreign journal, which, in the opinion of the promoters of the government initiative, should improve the presentation of scientific achievements of Ukrainian scientists in the world. The paper presents the results of the study of the publishing activity of PhD students in the Ukrainian library science (2015-2017). Data on articles in non-Ukrainian journals are received from the synopses of the theses that were in open access. The journals in which these articles were published were analyzed by country of origin, languages of publications, indexing in the leading abstracts and citation databases and the "misleading metrics", information about the peer review process. The results indicate that Ukrainian LIS PhD students published their papers in the journals with a limited reader audience, mainly in Ukrainian journals and regional journals of the countries bordering with Ukraine. In some journals are noticeable the dubious editorial policy. In the article, the reasons for it are discussed, and some recommendations for overcoming the undesirable practice are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes publication activity and its Canadian content for a random sample of current academic faculty in Canadian economics departments using both descriptive evidence and time-dependent panel regression models. We find some support for Anthony Scott’s (1993) hypothesis that publications with Canadian content are delayed until later career stages, but we also find strong evidence of declining interest in Canadian content for newer faculty hired since 1990 and for faculty in Canada’s top-rated departments. Canadian academics have tended to publish in the Canadian Journal of Economics (CJE/RCE) early in their career and Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques (CPP/Adp) in mid-career, but both these outlets feature fewer publications from faculty hired since 1990. Publication in the CJE/RCE persists for top departments into mid-career but is less common among those hired with a PhD from outside Canada, while publication in CPP/Adp is more likely among faculty in departments outside the top ten. The contracting supply of content for Canadian economics journals, particularly CPP/Adp, appears to be aggravated by the recent hiring and retention decisions of departments seeking to improve their ranking based on top journal publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various parameters of publication activity according to the Web of Science are demonstrated on the sample of 109 associate professors and professors in psychology. 41 % of the sample publish only in Czech journals, 7 % do not publish in journals listed in the Web of Science at all. 29 % of the sample (32 persons) have not been cited at all, 40 % do not have any citation of a paper where associated professor/professor is the first author. The h-index equals 0 in 28 % of the sample. According to the Web of Science, associated professors and professors Kebza, Nakonečný, Břicháček, Kožený, Vymĕtal, Kratochvíl, Křivohlavý and Hoskovec had high number of publications (70 and more) although the types of publications vary (full papers vs. abstracts and other publication outputs). Among the journals with the highest impact factor, where Czech psychologists published, were American Journal of Psychiatry (professor Kožený, 1997) and American Psychologist (professors Hoskovec and Janoušek, 2004). The authors with the highest citations (in total) were Kožený, Fraňková and Balcar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This paper presents an application of new measures of research excellence, namely and derived indexes. It gives a ranking of French departments of Economics, departments of Management and Business schools based on the quality of the academic environment offered by these institutions using these measures. It argues that, since the bulk of the research is done by a very small number of researchers, a greater concentration of the best researchers seems necessary for France to achieve international visibility in Economics and Management. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Objectives: To perform a bibliometric evaluation of publications from European Union (EU) countries in the international urological journals between 2000–2005 according to their national origin and in relation to international context. Methods: Articles except reviews, editorials, letters, and reports published during 2000–2005 in 19 international urological journals were screened using Web of Science database. The total number of publications and the cumulative impact factor were determined for the first 15 EU member states (EU15), the USA, and the world. These data were related for every country to the population size and the socio-economic indicators gross domestic product, gross domestic expenditure on research and experimental development, and expenditure on health care. Results: A total of 19.709 articles were published of which 6.878 (34.9%) came from the EU15 countries and 7.927 (40.2%) from the USA. About 15% of all papers from the EU15 countries were in collaboration with USA researchers. In the EU, the number of publications and the cumulative impact factor were dominated by United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy with about 52% of all papers and 50% of the cumulative impact factor. If adjusted for demographic and socio-economic factors the smaller countries Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden (alphabetical order) revealed a distinctly higher publication rate. Conclusions: This study based on bibliometric analyses in urological journals demonstrated a feasible solution to validate and compare the contribution of the various EU countries towards the urological research. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]