Utilization of Electronic-resources by the postgraduate students, research scholars and faculty members of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

This paper aims to evaluate the use of Electronic resources (E-resources) by the library users of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, with a view to examine the exposure of users to e-resources. Besides, it aims to highlight the alert services offered by the library, most preferred format of the journals, awareness of E-resources, helpfulness of e-resources and efforts made by the library for better E-services to their users. This study is based on a structured questionnaire; for the purpose of this study, total 822 questionnaires were distributed among the post graduate students, research scholars and faculty members. Of all distributed questionnaires, 412 questionnaires received back duly filled by the respondents. Various statistical methods have been used for analysis of data. The result of this study is presented and discussed in this paper.
Authors: Ram Gopal Garg, Amit Kumar Tamrakar
Source: J Scientometric Res.
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A new model to identify the productivity of theses in terms of articles using co-word analysis

A thesis defense should be considered as not the end but the starting point for scientific communication flow. How many articles truly extend doctoral research? This article proposes a new model to automatically identify the productivity of theses in terms of article publications. We evaluate the use of the co-word analysis technique to establish relationships among 401 doctoral theses and 2,211 articles journal articles published by students in a graduate program at a Brazilian National Nuclear Research Institution (IPEN-CNEN/SP).To identify the relationship between a thesis and an article published by the same author, we used co-descriptor pairs from a controlled vocabulary. To validate the proposed model, a survey was applied to a random sample of theses authors (n = 128, response rate of 79%), thus establishing a minimum threshold of three coincident co-descriptors to identify the relationship between theses and articles. The agreement level between an author's opinion and the automatic method was 86.9%, with a sampling error of 7.36%, which indicates an acceptable level of accuracy. Differences between the related or nonrelated distributions of articles were also demonstrated, as was a reduction in the median lag time to publication and the supervisor's influence on student productivity.
Authors: Mery Piedad Zamudio Igami, José Carlos Bressiani, Rogerio Mugnaini
Source: J Scientometric Res.
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The growth of Brazilian metrics literature

Analysis is presented on the growth of the literature on bibliometrics, informetrics, and scientometrics published in Brazil by Brazilian and foreign authors in the form of journal articles, book chapters, and papers presented at conferences. From 1973 to December 2012, close to 2300 documents were published. This literature is growing exponentially at a rate of 24% per year and doubling in size every 3.2 years.
Authors: Rubén Urbizagástegui Alvarado, Cristina Restrepo Arango
Source: J Scientometric Res
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Ranking de instituciones académicas y de investigación peruanas en ResearchGate

Researchgate presenta su  ranking de institiciones peruanas, se observa que la Universidad Peruana Cayteno Heredia (UPCH), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) son las primeras en dicho ranking.
Fuente: ResearchGate
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Evaluación financiera para la comercialización masiva de raquetas matamoscas eléctricas

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo principal realizar la evaluación económica y financiera para la comercialización masiva de un producto innovador, la raqueta matamoscas eléctrica, producto que hasta la fecha no se comercializa de manera masiva en Perú. El estudio también tiene objetivos específicos, tales como realizar un análisis de sensibilidad de la oferta (número de puntos de venta) y demanda (porcentaje de intención de compra del producto). Luego de realizar la evaluación económica financiera bajo los supuestos planteados, se concluye que el proyecto no es rentable dado que la TIR es menor que el WAC (16.17% de TIR vs. 17.82%. de WACC). La metodología utilizada para realizar el análisis es la de Flujo de Caja Libre.
Autores: Lengua Peña, Eduardo; Ruiz Falla, José Luis
Fuente: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC. Escuela de Postgrado

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/301971