caa a22 4500 445348690 CHVBK 20180317142837.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0359-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0359-0 Scope, characteristics, and use of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's intramural research [Elektronische Daten] [Stanislaw Kosecki, Robbin Shoemaker, Charlotte Baer] This article presents for the first time a portrait of intramural research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). We describe the nature, characteristics, and use of USDA research based on scientometric indicators using patent analysis and three bibliometric methods: publication analysis, citation analysis, and science mapping. Our analyses are intended to be purely descriptive in nature. They demonstrate that USDA maintains several core scientific competencies and its research is much broader than and reaches well beyond traditional agricultural sciences for which it is best known. We illustrate the current status, recent trends, and clear benchmarks for planning and assessing future USDA research across an array of scientific disciplines. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Agriculture nationallicence Intramural research nationallicence Research benchmarking nationallicence Research output nationallicence USDA nationallicence Federal research nationallicence Education nationallicence Extension nationallicence Kosecki Stanislaw National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Abraham Lincoln Building, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, 20705-2351, Beltsville, MD, USA aut Shoemaker Robbin National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 800 Ninth St., S.W., 20024, Washington, DC, USA aut Baer Charlotte National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 800 Ninth St., S.W., 20024, Washington, DC, USA aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/3(2011-09-01), 707-728 0138-9130 88:3<707 2011 88 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0359-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0359-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kosecki Stanislaw National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Abraham Lincoln Building, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, 20705-2351, Beltsville, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shoemaker Robbin National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 800 Ninth St., S.W., 20024, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baer Charlotte National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 800 Ninth St., S.W., 20024, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/3(2011-09-01), 707-728 0138-9130 88:3<707 2011 88 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer