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This study analyzed whether the number and influence of academic papers published by East Asian researchers affect the peer review and editing activities of international academic journals. Data from Web of Science Researcher Profiles of 506 active East Asian reviewers on article publications, peer reviews, and editorial contributions were subjected to regression and moderating effect analyses. The results showed that research productivity had a weak effect on the number of peer reviews and editorial contributions; thus, scholars who produce many papers do not necessarily review many international journals (β = 0.325, p < 0.01). In addition, the academic performance of East Asian reviewers did not show a positive (+) moderating effect in the pathway in which the amount of review affects the editorial contribution. Effort to induce contributions from highly productive and influential Asian researchers to the editing of international journals is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

目的 分析国家自然科学基金脑血管病领域面上项目结题情况，探讨该领域研究现状和存在问题，预测发展趋势，为决策提供参考。 方法 通过国家自然科学基金大数据知识管理服务门户网站获得2019—2021年申请代码为H0906（脑血管结构、功能异常及相关疾病）结题面上项目的基本信息，采用Excel软件、Power Query组件对结题项目的成果产出、依托单位分布、地域分布、研究方向分布进行分析，使用VOSviewer软件对研究热点进行分析。 结果 2019—2021年申请代码为H0906的结题项目有177项，依托于51家单位（其中14家承担110项，占62.15%），产出学术论文1532篇，培养人才324名。依托单位中综合类院校承担96项（54.24%），每项产出论文9.52篇，较医科类院校多1.91篇。依托单位所属19个省（直辖市），其中上海市、江苏省、北京市、广东省、湖北省、重庆市等6省（直辖市）结题113项（63.84%），授权专利数30项（90.91%），参加国际会议27人次（75.00%）。H0906下设18个研究方向，涉及缺血性脑血管病研究107项（60.45%）。关键词聚类分析显示，脑血管病领域基础研究热点是炎性反应、小胶质细胞、神经保护及神经再生等。 结论 国家自然科学基金脑血管病领域面上项目成果产出类型多样，以论文和人才培养为主，依托单位以综合性院校为主，地域分布不均衡，研究方向相对集中，以缺血性脑血管病为主。 Abstract: Objective To analyze the completion condition of general projects in the field of cerebrovascular diseases of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and discuss the status and existing problems of basic research in this field. Predict the development trend and provide reference for decision-making. Methods Through the big data knowledge management service portal of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the basic information of the concluding projects with application code H0906 (cerebrovascular structure, function abnormalities and related diseases) during 2019 to 2021 were obtained. Excel software and Power Query components were used to analyze the research achievements, supporting institution distribution, regional distribution and research direction distribution of the concluding project, and VOSviewer software was used to analyze research hotspots. Results There were 177 concluding projects with code H0906 during 2019 to 2021, supported by 51 institutions (14 of which undertook 110 projects, 62.15%). 1532 academic papers were produced and 324 talents were cultivated. Among the supporting institutions, comprehensive colleges and universities undertook 96 projects (54.24%), and each project produced 9.52 academic papers, with 1.91 papers more than that from medical colleges and universities. Among the supporting institutions from 19 provinces and cities, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Beijing, Guangdong, Hubei, Chongqing 6 provinces and cities completed 113 projects (63.84%), the number of authorized patents was 30 (90.91%), and 27 person-time participated in international conferences (75.00%). There were 18 research directions under H0906, involving 107 projects of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases (60.45%). Keyword cluster analysis showed that the basic research hotspots in the field of cerebrovascular diseases were inflammatory response, microglia, neuroprotection and nerve regeneration. Conclusions Research achievements of general projects in the field of cerebrovascular diseases of National Natural Science Foundation of China were of various types, were mainly papers and talent training, supported by comprehensive colleges and universities with unbalanced geographical distribution, and research directions were relatively concentrated, which were mainly ischemic cerebrovascular diseases.

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In the past ten years, research achievement exhibition services have risen and developed rapidly in domestic and foreign university libraries. Combining the practical cases from many university libraries around the world, this paper expounded the university libraries exhibition of research achievements from three aspects: the topic selection, the design and construction and the promotion and operation. The paper summarized the characteristics of diversification of exhibits, originality of display content, institutionalization of display form and refinement of exhibition management. Then the implementation values of university library research achievements exhibition service were demonstrated. It was believed that through this practice, university libraries were moving from behind the scenes of academic exchanges to front of the stage, becoming active communicators of campus academic content, and showing the development trends of segmentation of university library business, all-round refining of the librarian team and deepening of foreign partnership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article published on 5 July 2021 is well-written and of interest. However, some improvements could be made, such as ten Tables/Figures can be shortened to highlight the focused results, and the author-weighted scheme(AWS) has not taken into account to fairly quantify contributions in articles. We demonstrated contributions in countries/regions to professionalism-related articles between 2010 and 2019 using the AWS and x-index. The US states and provinces in China were identified in the comparison of research achievements with other counterparts. Otherwise, the US always dominates the scientific disciplines around the world. We observed that the top three counties/regions were the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia in weighted publications, and the US, Canada, and Illinois(US) in weighted citations denoted by the x-index. Many journals require only five Tables and Figures in an article for focusing their findings as concisely as possible. The AWS-based x-index was demonstrated using the choropleth map and the Kano diagram to display research achievements on Google Maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The h-index has its popularity in the global scientific community. Despite the h-index being used as an indicator of individual research achievement, two main disadvantages have not been solved: (1) all coauthors contributing equally to article bylines and (2) the integer nature of the h-index making it hard to differentiate the IRAs among entities. This article aims to evaluate the most cited authors, institutes, and the US states in ophthalmology since 2010 using a proposed hx-index. Authors who worked for departments of ophthalmology in the United States were selected for identifying their IRAs in Pubmed Central (PMC) since 2010. Using the PubMed search engine, we conducted an observational study of citation analyses in affiliated research institutes and the US states for all authors who worked for departments of ophthalmology since 2010. A total of 18,289 published articles from 46,121 authors related to ophthalmology from the 50 states were analyzed. The bootstrapping method was applied with an estimated 95% confidence interval (CI) to distinguish the differences in IRAs among states and institutes. The x-index and the Kano model were complemental to the h-index for identifying the IRA characteristics and rankings. A pyramid plot was used to illustrate the importance of the author-weighted scheme (AWS) used for evaluating IRAs in academics. The hx-index combined both advantages of h-/x-indexes was proposed to assess IRAs for each facility. A significant difference was identified by observing two bands of estimated 95% CIs that were not overlapped. Furthermore, we drew a choropleth map on Google Maps to visualize the differences of IRA among states. There is a significant rise over time in the number of publications. The top-ranking states in hx-index based on publications and citations were Massachusetts (42.28), California (39.24), and Pennsylvania (34.29). If only the top 100 authors were included for calculating the median hx-index in each state, the top three were California (6.45), Massachusetts (3.97). and New York (3.07), with no significant difference found using the bootstrapping method. The institute and author with the highest hx-index were Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts) and Robert N Weinreb (California), respectively. We demonstrated that Dr. Medeiros from California published 466 articles in PMC and used the example to elucidate the importance of AWS when IRAs were assessed. With an overall increase in publications in the field of ophthalmology, IRAs assessed by these (1) hx-index, (2)the bootstrapping method, and (3) AWS should be synergically and complementarily combined together to evaluate author/institute IRA in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Government funding is a key scientific research resource, and it has made a concrete contribution to the world's science and technology development. But these funds come from common taxpayers, so we need to evaluate the effectiveness of these funds. Generally speaking, policymakers adopt the method of peer review to make assessments. Compared to kinds of shortcomings of peer review, the paper here proposed the benchmarking evaluation method based on the academic publication outputs of supporting funds, mainly guiding indicators from scientometrics. At first, with the academic publication output extracted from the concluding report project manager submitted to the government after the fund finished, we designed the analysis framework to search and define the research field the fund belonged to. And then from the following three perspectives, including quantity, quality and relative influence, we compared the research fund output to the field output. Later, we took one fund program from national program on key basic research project of China (973 Program) in the field of quantum physics as an example to make an empirical analysis to demonstrate its effectiveness. At last, we found that the funded program performance was superior to the field, and even about 11.65% of the research achievement reaches the top 1/1000 of the world, but the research was lacking in remarkable papers, so it needs further improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In November 2016, Rimma D. Goldina, doctor of historical sciences, professor of the Udmurtia History, Archaeology and Ethnography Department, Director of the Institute for History and Culture of the Urals Peoples, Udmurtia State University, will have her birthday anniversary. The article briefly describes some milestones of her biography and research activities as a brilliant and genuine scholar, teacher and organizer of the Urals-Volga, in particular, and the Russian archaeology, in general.

Purpose:The present study was undertaken to assess academic achievement, teaching aptitude and research attitude of Indian agricultural universities’ faculty, to predict indicators for successful teachers and researchers, and thereby enhancing the quality of higher agricultural education.Methodology:Five hundred faculty members were selected to elicit information on academic, teaching and research achievements. Teaching aptitude and attitude of faculty towards research were measured through standard psychometric tests. Correlation and regression analysis was carried out to establish the relationship among selected variables.Findings:Combination of academic achievement and teaching aptitude was a superior predictor for the teaching achievement compared to either of them alone. Similarly, research achievement of faculty was predicted better by the combination of academic achievement and research attitude. Practical Implications:The study showed the need for training faculty members in interpersonal relationships for effective teaching, and in research methodology and research processes for improving research attitude of faculty.Theoretical Implications:The expectancy-value model provides a useful framework to understand the role of attitude/aptitude in better prediction of research and teaching behavior. Originality/Value:The present study showed that teaching aptitude and research attitude be considered along with academic achievements for promoting quality teaching and research and hence the educational programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governmental research grants are financially supported by taxpayers to meet financial requirements of research, particularly research that is unlikely to be supported by private funds. Researchers reward donors by producing knowledge. Publishing research results in an academic journal reflects achievement by researchers; however, receiving a grant award does not. The latter only provides the researcher with the capacity to perform his/her research. Applicants may receive more financial support than they actually need because there is no strict audit on the amount of money requested by each research proposal. There are fewer opportunities to apply for a governmental grant than there are for publishing an academic article, and the application process for governmental grants is not flexible. Some potentially innovative research may be impeded by the intense competition among scientific researchers applying for financial support. Researchers face stiffer competition at this stage than at the stage of publishing results. This paper suggests that scientific foundations can improve their efficiency by giving funding preference to economic proposals. Methods for estimating the efficiency of grants are proposed. The practice followed by the Small Grants for Exploratory Research programme of the National Science Foundation validates my analysis and recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]