Abstract
Many medical specialties use scientometrics to assess the impact of publications, journals, and authors. The aim of this study was to analyze and compare trends of publications from a hospital medical center to publications from a college of medicine connected to that hospital and compare collaboration rates between them to other domestic and international institutions. We used Elsevier’s SCOPUS database to compare Penn State College of Medicine (PSCOM) publications to Hershey Medical Center (HMC) publications, analyzing 31,856 total publications. We hypothesized that HMC and PSCOM have room to improve on both internal and international collaborations. Our results show that despite PSCOM’s international collaboration being nearly three times higher than HMC, overall international collaboration is less than 2%, far below the US national average.
Highlights
Scientometrics measures and analyzes scientific literature and is a subset of bibliometrics
Our results show that despite Penn State College of Medicine (PSCOM)’s international collaboration being nearly three times higher than Hershey Medical Center (HMC), overall international collaboration is less than 2%, far below the US national average
All of our null hypotheses are not rejected, as our analysis provides data contrary to our hypotheses that given their physical, financial, and leadership connections, in addition to shared research aims, that the collaboration rate between PSCOM and HMC will be higher than all other institutions combined, that their top authors and most cited articles will be the same, and that they will have similar publication rates in journals, as well as data contrary to international collaboration being high
Summary
Scientometrics measures and analyzes scientific literature and is a subset of bibliometrics. Many medical specialties use bibliometrics to compile, use, and review the most-cited works [1]. This is especially useful, as the exponential rise in publications and resources makes it difficult for learners to process information efficiently. It identifies salient topics and assesses the impact of publications, journals, and authors. Bibliometrics takes a snapshot in time of objective metrics, which can highlight scientific progression, historical trends, and prolific individuals. Review began 11/17/2020 Review ended 12/08/2020 Published 12/15/2020
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