This report presents data on peer-reviewed S&E journals and conference proceedings reflecting the rapidly expanding volume of research activity, the involvement and scientific capabilities different countries, and the expanding research ecosystem demonstrated through international collaborations. Publication output grew about 4% annually over…

Using data on academic citations, career and educational histories of mathematicians, and disaggregated distance data for the world's top 1000 math departments, we study how geography and ties affect knowledge flows among scholars. The ties we consider are co-authorship, past colocation, advisor-mediated relationships, and alma mater relationships…

This document was produced as an added resource for the report "Outcomes from the Productivity Places Program, 2009." The study reported the outcomes for students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) under the Productivity Places Program (PPP) during 2008. This document presents an alphabetical arrangement of the…

The average citation per article in chemistry by age of citation is related to the Poisson frequency distribution. This provides a formula for calculation of a half-life for chemistry which depends on the structure of the research front exhibited in the literature. (Author/FM)

This report is California's response to the four questions that the United States Department of Education (USDE), Division of Adult Education and Literacy, requires of all states and territories receiving federal funding from the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), Title II of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). The questions…

If the best universities in the world--who have the widest choice of candidates--systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of the question: are they currently appointing distinguished…

Reports the results of a study that analyzed citations from 140 journals and 148 monographs in social science fields. Data presented in the article's 10 tables include date distributions, forms of material cited, subject distributions, countries of publication cited, and rank order of journals cited. (JD)

The scientific information diffusion theory is used to explain the increased citation frequency of recently published articles in respect to the normal exponential decay of older articles. Appendices illustrate this approach. (Author/FM)

This volume describes how the statistical series on agricultural land values and on acreages of cropland and other land in the United States are constructed and used. It identifies sources of current and historical data and information used in constructing the series. The first section examines agricultural land values and rents, including…

Citing the confusion generated for both librarians and users that results from the Romanization of bibliographic entries written in non-Roman scripts, it is argued that a standardized solution generally applicable to the arrangement of non-Roman script entries in bibliographic control tools should be found and adopted. Such entries should not be…

Illustrates a method to divide large citation database files into clusters of journals without requiring the use of arbitrary starting points. Results are discussed relative to biomedical literature. (Author/FM)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the extent to which deans holding office in 1983 in American Library Association (ALA) accredited graduate library education programs fulfilled the expectations of academia and the ALA "Standards'" requirement with respect to sustained productive scholarship and evidence of aptitude for research through…

Discusses, in the context of the National Research Council's next study of research-doctorate programs, arguments over continuing use of reputational surveys as the primary measure of program quality, as opposed to more objective measures of research performance. Eleven tables rank institutions for specific fields by reputation, citation density,…

Entries in the "Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1967" (LB) were tabulated in order to determine the statistical characteristics of periodical coverage within each subject and language category in the LB's table of contents. The periodicals for which entries were tabulated included 998 journals and series, of which 632 are noted at least once…

Total headcount enrollment at Connecticut's colleges and universities reached 176,560 students in fall 2006, a fifth consecutive record year. The increase of 2,287 students (or 1.3%) over fall 2005 is the ninth year of enrollment growth, but the rate of increase is slowing. The average annual growth rate since 2003 was 1.0 percent, less than half…