Nobel laureates: Their publication productivity, collaboration and authorship status

B. S. Kademani, V. L. Kalyane, Vijai Kumar and Lalit Mohan
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B. S. Kademani: Scientific Information Resource Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
V. L. Kalyane: Scientific Information Resource Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Vijai Kumar: Scientific Information Resource Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Lalit Mohan: Scientific Information Resource Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Scientometrics, 2005, vol. 62, issue 2, No 7, 268 pages

Abstract: Summary The application of the measurement of scientific and technical activities has been a lengthy process of the appropriate metrics and the assignment of the standards and benchmarks for their usage. Although some studies have addressed issues of the management of science and technology and their relation to scientometrics and infometrics, there is nevertheless a need to consider the linkages between the conceptual background of scientific generation and progress - and the measurement of its process and outcomes. This paper first reviews the three main approaches to the generation and progress of human knowledge in general and scientific activity in particular. These approaches are reviewed in terms of the demands they would make on the measurement of scientific process and outputs. The paper then examines the currently used categories of metrics, and arrives at several conclusions. The paper provides an analysis of these conclusions and their implications to the generation and utilization of metrics of science and its outcomes. The review of the conceptual or philosophical foundations for the measurement of science offers an in-depth examination, resulting in the correlation of these foundations with the metrics we now use to measure science and its outcomes. The paper suggests research directions for a much needed link between theories of science and knowledge, and the application of metrics used to measure them. Finally, the paper offers several hypotheses and proposes potential empirical studies.

Date: 2005
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