Category: Research profiling

  • A bibliometrical analysis of biological invasions under the global climate change.

    Biological invasions seriously threat the global biodiversity and ecosystem health, causing great losses to global environment and economy. However, rapid climate change could significantly affect the diffusion and invasion of alien species. To explore the development situation of biological invasions under climate change could be helpful for better understanding the status and hot spots in…

  • Open Teaching: a New Way on E-learning? (full-text)

    Open Teaching is currently considered an ambiguous and polysemic concept but has nevertheless become a growing global trend in ICT-based education. To identify key issues on the subject, this article presents a study on Open teaching that combines meta-synthesis and content analysis of research published over the last twenty years in major peer-reviewed databases. Six main analytical…

  • Patentometric analysis of the process technologies of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN)

    This article aims at profiling the technological development of production processes of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN). It analyzes the deposits of patent of CSN between the years of 1971 and 2009, classifying them in product technologies and process technologies. It was concluded that the CSN has made more deposit of patent for process technology than…

  • International Faculty Contribution to Local Research Capacity Building: A View from Publication Data

    This descriptive single case study uses a combination of bibliometric, social network analysis, and content analysis methods to explore how international faculty members employed at a flagship university in Kazakhstan contribute to local research capacity building. The database for the study includes 361 scholarly articles retrieved from the Thompson Reuters Web of Science database, in…