R. D. Shelton

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Selected Papers, 1970-2010:

"Noise Bandwidth of Common Filters", AF Atkins & RD Shelton. IEEE Transactions on Communications Technology, Vol. COM-18, No. 6, pp. 828-830, December, 1970.

Efficiency Ratios for Engineering Schools. RD Shelton & JC Prabhakar.  Proceedings of the IEEE 59 843-849. June, 1971.

"Optimum Filters for Narrow-Band Frequency Modulation", RD Shelton. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 127-128, January 1972.

"Linear Systems Analysis with FASP II", A. Neel & RD Shelton. Proceedings of the IEE, 122, No. 5, p. 573, May, 1975. 

Benchmark Technologies Abroad: Findings from 40 Assessments 1984-94. RD Shelton. Baltimore: ITRI. April, 1994. Report

American Leadership of Science and Technology: Reality or Myth?  RD Shelton, Brad Mooney, and Geoff Holdridge. Presented at the S&T 2000 Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, May 24-27, 2000.  . Paper.  Slides.

The US-EU Race for Leadership of Science and Technology: Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators. RD Shelton & G. Holdridge.  Paper , Slides. Scientometrics , 60 (3) 353-363. (2004).   Also 9th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Beijing, Aug., 2003.

 Relations Between National Research Investment Input and Publication Output: Application to an American Paradox, RD Shelton. 9th International Conference on S&T Indicators, Leuven, Sept., 2006 and Scientometrics  74 (2), 191-205, Feb., 2008.

National Efficiencies in Publishing Scientific Papers. RD Shelton & P Foland. 10th International Conference on S&T Indicators, Vienna, Sept. 2008.   

Do New SCI Journals have a Different National Bias?  RD Shelton, P. Foland and R. Gorelskyy. 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Madrid, June, 2007, and  Scientometrics 79 (1-2) April - May, 2009.  RD Shelton, P. Foland and R. Gorelskyy.

2010-2013:

The Race for World Leadership of Science and Technology: Status and Forecasts.RD Shelton & P. Foland.    Science Focus 5 (1) pp. 1-9 (Feb. 2010) in Chinese.  Also in English, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, pp. 369-380, Rio de Janeiro, July, 2009. 

Why is Europe so Efficient at Publishing Scientific Papers, And Does This Explain the European Paradox? RD Shelton & P. Foland.   11th International Conference on S&T Indicators, Leiden, Sept. 2010. 

Bibliometric Evidence for Empirical Trade-offs in National Funding Strategies, RD Shelton & L. Leydesdorff. Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, pp. 763-774. July, 2011, Durban.

Why the US Lost Leadership in the Scientific Paper Indicator. RD Shelton & L. Miller. Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Sept., 2011.

Scientometric Secrets of Efficient Countries: Turkey, Greece, Poland, and Slovakia, RD Shelton & H. Ali. Collnet Conference, Istanbul, Sept., 2011.

Scientometrics and the Diplomacy of Science, First International Conference of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Pyongyang, Oct. 2011. With L. Miller.

Publish or Patent: Bibliometric Evidence for Empirical Trade-offs in National Funding Strategies. RD Shelton & L. Leydesdorff. (2012) Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 63(3): 498-511.

Input-Output Modeling and Simulation of Scientific Indicators: A Focus on Patents,  RD Shelton & S. Monbo. Proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, pp. 756-767. Montreal, September 5-8, 2012.

Scientific Collaboration as a Window and Door onto North Korea.  RD Shelton & Grant Lewison. Presented at the 13^th Collnet Conference, Seoul, October 23-26, 2012. Scientometrics 97:1 3-11, Sept., 2013.

2013-2018:

Validation of Forecasts of Scientific Indicators: The Case of National Leadership. RD Shelton. Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, September, 2013. SlideShow

Scientific Insight on a Bottom Line of Innovation: High Technology Exports.  Working Paper. 2013

Scientometric Insight on a Bottom Line of Innovation: High-Technology Manufacturing. RD Shelton & Tarek Fadel. Presented at Collnet 2014 in Ilmenau, Germany, September, 2014.   SlideShow .

Causal Connections Between Scientometric Indicators: Which Ones Best Explain High-Technology Manufacturing Outputs?. RD Shelton, Patricia Foland &Tarek Fadel. Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, pp 662-672. Istanbul, June, 2015. SlideShow

The Research Group as a Unit of Aggregation. P. Foland, Michael Stopa & RD Shelton. Presented at Collnet 2016, Dec. 12, 2016, Nancy, France.  Paper