Highly Cited Publications in WoS, Biomedical Engineering in Science Citation Index Expanded A Bibliometric Analysis

Yuh-Shan Ho

doi:10.48112/bcs.v1i1.83

Abstract

Identified and analyzed highly cited publications in the Web of Science category of biomedical engineering in the last three decades were investigated. Documents that have been cited more than 100 times from Web of Science Core Collection since publication year to the end of 2020 were defined as highly cited publications. The analyzed aspects covered document types, distribution of annual production and its citations per publication, journals, countries, institutes, authors, and the top cited articles. Publication performance of countries and institutions were evaluated by six publication indicators. Y-index was applied to evaluate authors’ publication potential and their publication characteristics. Citation indicators including total citation and citations in 2020 were used to compare the most frequently cited articles. Results shows that most highly cited papers were published in journals with high impact factors. The USA dominated the six publication indicators. The G7 were ranked in the top ten productive countries. Eight of the top ten productive institutes were all located in USA. Results from Y-index shows that highly cited authors had higher proportion of corresponding-author articles and first-author articles. The article by Kokubo and Takadama in 2006 was the most frequently cited and the article by Litjens et al. in 2017 was the most impactful in 2020.

Highlights

In 1962, ―The development of biomedical engineering‖ (Brewer et al, 1962) was presented by Brewer et al Biomedical engineering, sometimes called bioengineering, includes all disciplines that combine engineering knowledge with biological and medical systems (Garfield, 1987)
In 2020, 90 journals were classified in the Web of Science category of biomedical engineering
From 1991 to 2020, a total of 251,537 documents including 217,960 articles were retrieved based on the category of biomedical engineering

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Introduction

In 1962, ―The development of biomedical engineering‖ (Brewer et al, 1962) was presented by Brewer et al Biomedical engineering, sometimes called bioengineering, includes all disciplines that combine engineering knowledge with biological and medical systems (Garfield, 1987). Since the 1970s, clinical engineering has become a specialty of applying information generated by biomedical engineering (Oakes and Johns, 1973; Donahue and Sonnenburg, 1974) It includes important management functions for hospitals, information systems, and healthcare delivery systems (Garfield, 1987). Cited Publications in WoS, Biomedical Engineering in Science Citation Index Expanded: A Bibliometric Analysis. The earliest publications in the Web of Science category of biomedical engineering in the Science Citation Index Expanded were found in 1949, for example, the classic letter entitled ―Brain stem reticular formation and activation of the EEG‖ (Moruzzi and Magoun, 1949) and highly cited article entitled ―Diffuse projection systems: The integrative action of the thalamic reticular system‖ (Jasper, 1949)

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