Collaboration in science has been the subject of many studies. In this study we focus on the influence of the research profile of an institute on its collaborative behaviour and pattern. The classification model developed by the authors provides a helpful tool to identify the specialisms of a...

The growing importance of technology-relevant non-publication output of university research has come into the focus of policy-makers' interest. A fierce debate arose on possible negative consequences of the increasing commercialization of science, as it may come with a reduction in research...

This paper introduces a dynamic perspective on institutional research performance that can be used for evaluative purposes. It combines four principles: importance of national situation; evolution data; multiple indicators and similar institutes. The perspective is applied to five Israeli...

It was demonstrated that the phenomenon of ‘Sleeping Beauties’ in scientific literature is a rather useful and instructive model in studying the mechanisms of scientific information flow. On the basis of the several idiosyncratic behavioral patterns in the citation histories of Sleeping...