Author: VPInstitute

  • Feature report on China: a bibliometric analysis of China-related articles

    China’s rise in science has been widely acknowledged. Yet we know little empirically about academic research focusing on China. Utilizing a uniquely constructed large-scale dataset, this paper explores China-related publications through bibliometric analysis. Our data suggests that not only interest in China but also knowledge about China has developed rapidly over the years. Despite an…

  • Interdisciplinarity among Academic Scientists: Individual and Organizational Factors

    Today when interdisciplinary research (IDR) is becoming increasingly important in generating innovative research results and solving complex problems in academia, discussions of IDR antecedents, processes and outcomes are becoming increasingly important in research policy and sociology of science. This study addresses two primary questions: 1) what individual and organizational factors affect academic scientists’ engagement in…

  • Collaboration within Engineering Education Research’s Community of Practice

    Engineering education research (EER) is a relatively young field of inquiry, established with the intent to improve the academic experiences of young and emerging engineers. While many researchers’ perceptions of how to improve engineering education stem from traditional classroom experiences, a select group of researchers belong to EER-oriented departments, labs, and research centers. These on-campus…

  • Visualization of social network for scientific research evaluation

    In order to enrich the existing scientific research evaluation methods for scientific researchers, institutions, regions or journals that engaged in some technical field, subject or field, the paper reviews the shortcoming in current visualization used for scientific research evaluation. And then, the paper designs and realizes three applications of social network visualization, first improves the…