Author: VPInstitute

  • The global intellectual property landscape of induced pluripotent stem cell technologies

    Will freedom to research and innovate be restricted as the induced pluripotent stem cell field advances toward the clinic, or are concerns premature within a rapidly changing ecosystem? Intellectual property (IP) rights lie at the core of the commercialization process, serving as a powerful incentive to harness the potential of technologies for therapeutic applications. However,…

  • Current performance and future trends in health care sciences and services research

    Health care sciences and services research (HCSSR) has come to the fore in recent years and related research literature increased rapidly over the last few decades. The main purpose of this study is to describe the global progress and to determine the current trends on HCSSR by using a scientometrics approach to survey related literature…

  • Analyzing patent topical information to identify technology pathways and potential opportunities

    As a basic knowledge resource, patents play an important role in identifying technology development trends and opportunities, especially for emerging technologies. However patent mining is restricted and even incomplete, because of the obscure descriptions provided in patent text. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to try out alternative methods with Derwent Innovation Index…

  • 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…

  • Digging for gold with a simple tool: Validating text mining in studying electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication

    Text-based electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication has increasingly become an important channel for consumers to exchange information about products and services. How to effectively utilize the enormous amount of text information poses a great challenge to marketing researchers and practitioners. This study takes an initial step to investigate the validities and usefulness of text mining, a…

  • Development of carbon-based nanomaterials indicators using the analytical tools and data provided by the web of science database

    The recent rise of nanotechnology and nanomaterial research is marked by the huge amount of publications indexed in electronic databases, which can be evaluated using bibliometric indicators in order to help researchers find hidden trends, gain novel insights and support new scientific developments. Although in-depth analyses require specialized software and advanced methodologies, some initial indicators…

  • Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global health systems research

    In the last few decades, health systems research (HSR) has garnered much attention with a rapid  increase in the related literature. This study aims to review and evaluate the global progress in HSR and assess the current quantitative trends. Based on data from the Web of Science database, scientometric methods and knowledge visualization techniques were applied…