Bibliometric Measures Research Articles

Does altmetric score affect the impact factor of anatomy journals?

The impact of a scientific article is measured by the impact factor (IF) of the journal in which it was published and the number of citations. The real impact is causing delays as citations happen over time. The Altmetric score originated as a measure of the digital dissemination of a scientific article across multiple social platforms. Our study aims to determine whether the Altmetric scores are related to the journal impact factor and the number of citations in the anatomy literature. The top 10 most cited articles were determined for the 15 anatomy journals with the highest impact factor in 2014, 2017 and 2019. Citation counts and Altmetric scores were recorded for each article. The relationship between the Altmeric score and 2019, 2017 and 2014 citation numbers were evaluated. It was also evaluated in correlation with the 2020 impact factor. At the same time, it was determined whether the articles had anatomical content or not. In 2014, Altmetric scores did not correlate with citation number (r = 0.368, P = 0.177) and journal impact factor (r = 0.43, P = 0.52). In 2017, there was significant positive correlation between Altmetric scores and citation number (r = 0.914, P = 0.000), as well as between Altmetric scores and journal impact factor (r = 0.038, P = 0.003). Also significant positive correlation between 2017 Altmeric scores and 2019 impact factor (r = 0.065, P = 0.021). This study is the first to link traditional bibliometric measurements with newer digital dispersion measurements for anatomy publications. The altmetric score correlates only weakly with citation numbers in the anatomy literature. However, the increase in the number of citations or the impact factor of the journals in which articles on anatomy are published shows that anatomy studies can be effective.

An analysis of research published in the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business from 2008 to 2019

PurposeThis study examines scholarly communications in the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (IJMPB) and identifies the journal's leading trends from 2008 to 2019.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzed a sample of 522 articles published in the IJMPB since its inception in 2008 until 2019. A set of bibliometric measures was used in the study to identify publication trends, citation structures, leading authors, institutions and countries. Additionally, analysis of research methodologies, industrial sectors and research themes of the articles was carried out through a rigorous content analysis. To examine the changes in journal expansion over time, the duration of publications (from 2008 to 2019) was divided into three subperiods.FindingsThe study findings show that 793 authors from 370 institutions and 58 countries contributed to the journal during this period. In terms of contributions, Australia and the Scandinavian countries are at the top, while Asian and African countries occupy a lower position. Moreover, among authors, Derek H.T. Walker was found to be the most prolific, with the highest weighting score and number of articles. Similarly, RMIT University of Australia emerged as the most productive institution. The articles were predominantly case studies followed by mixed methods (i.e. both surveys and interviews are used for data collection). Most of the articles in the sample were related to project management in general. However, several articles reported on construction, information technology (IT) and manufacturing projects.Practical implicationsThis study is useful for the researcher community to understand the journal's scientific productivity. Further, it will also help identify dominant topics in the field of project management.Originality/valueThis is the first comprehensive review article presenting a general overview of the journal's leading trends and researchers since its inception in 2008.

498 Assessing Knowledge Silos in the Craniosynostosis Literature

INTRODUCTION: The surgical treatment of craniosynostosis has traditionally been a multidisciplinary effort, involving pediatric neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons. Advances in treating this condition may result from collaboration between these two specialties, yet there exists a certain risk of sequestering clinical knowledge between the two which may limit continued progress in this regard. METHODS: During September 2020, the Scopus database was queried to identify journal articles related to craniosynostosis. Bibliometric measures were collected for each article, and a database was constructed to assess knowledge sharing between neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons. RESULTS: 5335 articles were identified. 720 (13.5%) were published in a neurosurgery journal with 499 (9.4%) published by neurosurgeons and 665 (12.5%) by neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons collaborating together. As expected, neurosurgeons published primarily (319, 63.9%) in neurosurgical journals, whereas plastic surgeons published most in plastic surgery journals (990, 65.7%). Collaborations were mostly published in plastic surgery journals (326, 49%). After normalizing for years in press, neurosurgeons were observed to be cited significantly less than plastic surgeons (p <0.0001), and articles published in neurosurgery journals were cited at a lower rate than those published in plastic surgery journals. The differential association of terms used in plastic surgery versus neurosurgery article abstracts illustrates the potential sites of knowledge silo formation in the craniosynostosis literature. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that a distinct sequestering of knowledge exists between neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons publishing on the topic. Publications by plastic surgeons are more highly cited than by neurosurgeons. While there are certainly specialty-based topics within craniosynostosis, we recommend continued collaboration on all research fronts to avoid sequestration of knowledge and progress.

Six decades of publication performances and scientific maps on sports nutrition

A well-balanced diet is essential for individuals, particularly athletes, because it improves overall health by supplying energy besides repairing and replacing damaged cells. A well-balanced diet is also benefitting athletes to fuel their bodies before, during, and after training. This study aims to examine the intellectual structure of sports nutrition research using bibliometric measures from 1959 to 2021 based on the Scopus database. The study was investigated using SciMAT software, which employed keyword co-occurrence analysis to extract performance and scientific output vis-à-vis critical topics or themes in sports nutrition. The findings indicated that sports nutrition possesses enormous potential and growth potential. The most prevalent themes in this research area are trace elements, exercise, questionnaire, carbohydrate, and adolescent. Also, this study put up to analysing sports nutrition in countless fields, assisting in understanding its intellectual structure. Future researchers could use this data to identify the focus of awareness and make decisions in multiple ways. This study has a few limitations: 1) the researchers’ interpretation of the themes in this study was grounded on their knowledge; 2) this study only considered publication records from the Scopus database, and some sports nutrition publications may not have been included; and 3) if additional databases, such as Google Scholar, Microsoft Academics, or Dimensions, were accessed, the subject area may have shifted. The findings of this study should be accepted as a single evidence-based framework for developing future studies on sports nutrition research that will benefit researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Merit and placement in the American faculty hierarchy: Cumulative advantage in archaeology.

If faculty placement in the American academic hierarchy is by merit, then it correlates with scholarly productivity at all career stages. Recently developed data-collection methods and bibliometric measures test this proposition in a cross-sectional sample of US academic archaeologists. Precocity-productivity near the point of initial hire-fails to distinguish faculty in MA- and PhD-granting programs or among ranked subsets of PhD programs. Over longer careers, on average archaeologists in PhD-granting programs outperform colleagues in lower programs, as do those in higher-ranked compared to lower-ranked PhD programs, all in the practical absence of mobility via recruitment to higher placement. Yet differences by program level lie mostly in the tails of productivity distributions; overlap between program levels is high, and many in lower-degree programs outperform many PhD-program faculty even when controlling for career length. Results implicate cumulative advantage to explain the pattern and suggest particularism as its cause.

What Is Wrong With the Current Evaluative Bibliometrics?

Bibliometric data are relatively simple and describe objective processes of publishing articles and citing others. It seems quite straightforward to define reasonable measures of a researcher's productivity, research quality, or overall performance based on these data. Why do we still have no acceptable bibliometric measures of scientific performance? Instead, there are hundreds of indicators with nobody knowing how to use them. At the same time, an increasing number of researchers and some research fields have been excluded from the standard bibliometric analysis to avoid manifestly contradictive conclusions. I argue that the current biggest problem is the inadequate rule of credit allocation for multiple authored articles in mainstream bibliometrics. Clinging to this historical choice excludes any systematic and logically consistent bibliometrics-based evaluation of researchers, research groups, and institutions. During the last 50 years, several authors have called for a change. Apparently, there are no serious methodologically justified or evidence-based arguments in the favor of the present system. However, there are intractable social, psychological, and economical issues that make adoption of a logically sound counting system almost impossible.

Data Integration for the Study of Outstanding Productivity in Biomedical Research

Our goal is to analyze improvement of scientific performance in a multidimensional outcome space, with a focus on US-based biomedical research. With the growing diversity of research databases, limiting assessment of scientific productivity to bibliometric measures such as number of publications, impact factor of journals and number of citations, is increasingly challenged. Using a wider range of outcomes, from publications through practice improvements to entrepreneurial outcomes, overcomes many current limitations in the study of research growth. However, combining such heterogeneous datasets raise three challenges: 1. gathering in one common place a variety of data shared as csv, xml or xls files, 2. merging and linking this data, that sometimes overlap, 3. assessing the impact of research production and inclusive practices in a multidimensional space, that are often missing from the datasets. We would like to present our solution for the first of those challenges, and discuss our leads for the second and third challenges.

Data citation and the citation graph

Abstract The citation graph is a computational artifact that is widely used to represent the domain of published literature. It represents connections between published works, such as citations and authorship. Among other things, the graph supports the computation of bibliometric measures such as h-indexes and impact factors. There is now an increasing demand that we should treat the publication of data in the same way that we treat conventional publications. In particular, we should cite data for the same reasons that we cite other publications. In this paper we discuss what is needed for the citation graph to represent data citation. We identify two challenges: to model the evolution of credit appropriately (through references) over time and to model data citation not only to a data set treated as a single object but also to parts of it. We describe an extension of the current citation graph model that addresses these challenges. It is built on two central concepts: citable units and reference subsumption. We discuss how this extension would enable data citation to be represented within the citation graph and how it allows for improvements in current practices for bibliometric computations, both for scientific publications and for data.

Education Management using Blockchain as Future Application Innovation

This paper means to give a precise writing audit on blockchain innovation in training to offer a definite comprehension of the current situation as far as advantages, boundaries, current uses of blockchain innovation and future regions where blockchain innovation can be carried out in different spaces of schooling. A bibliometric investigation was performed for information in distributions, diaries, creators and gathered references, and checked by applying bibliometric measures. The investigation shows that blockchain innovation in schooling is as yet a youthful discipline, yet has a great deal of potential to help the training area on the loose. This examination gives an establishment to instructive organizations, strategy creators and specialists to investigate different regions where blockchain innovation can be executed, albeit this exploration additionally recommends some potential employments of blockchain innovation in different elements of the training framework, more applications can be brought into the schooling framework to exploit the capability of blockchain innovation. This paper examines the use of blockchain in innovation in schooling with the assistance of bibliometric examination. This is one of the main realized investigations to survey blockchain innovation by distinguishing the current advantages, boundaries, and utilizations of blockchain innovation.

Journal flipping to Open Access: The Perception of Spanish Journal Managers

There is a growing interest in determining the factors that influence a journal’s flipping to Open Access (OA). Using semi-structured interviews combined with bibliometric indicators, this paper uncovers the perception of Spanish managers related to OA and the decision to flip. The key research questions are twofold: How well do bibliometric measures reflect the changes in the status of the journal? How do journal managers perceive the flipping process? In order to answer these, twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with journal managers of Spanish Journals. The findings suggest the great majority of managers are aware of the indicators, but only two considered they reflect their reality. The results indicate as the main motivations to flip to OA: being imposed by the host institution, economic reasons, and increase visibility and internationalization. An increase in the number of submissions, visibility, or internationalization since the transition is perceived as a benefit while the loss of interchanges with other institutions is seen as the major drawback. Although flipping to OA is perceived by the managers to have many advantages, it raises some challenges too, especially the need for funding, lack of resources capacity for technical support, and the creation of alliances.

Historical Dynamics of Disruption in Science and Technology

Theories of scientific and technological change largely view discovery and invention as recombinative processes, wherein prior accumulated knowledge serves as the basis for future progress. Recent decades have witnessed exponential growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, thereby creating conditions that should in principle be ripe for fostering major advances in science and technology. Yet contrary to this view, a growing stream of literature reports evidence of slowing rates of discovery and invention. To reconcile this tension, we examine changes in the nature of contributions to science and technology using large-scale data on 25 million research papers and 4 million patents published over more than 6 decades. Using novel bibliometric and text-based measures, we observe a consistent pattern such that over time, papers and patents are increasingly less likely to propel science and technology in new directions by disrupting existing streams of knowledge. Further, we find an inverse relationship between the growth of knowledge and its utilization; as the volume of scientific and technological knowledge increases, scientists and technologists focus their attention on increasingly narrow spectra of prior work. These changes in utilization may help account for the simultaneous growth of scientific and technological knowledge alongside slowing progress in discovery and invention.

A bibliometric analysis of the research on Sponge City: Current situation and future development direction

AbstractWith the rapid development of urbanization, more and more cities are facing the risk of flood disasters and the threat of water environment safety during the rainy season. Sponge City, as a new urban water resources management method, has attracted extensive attention in the academic circle. In order to promote the development of Sponge City, a bibliometric analysis method based on Web of Science (WoS) database and Bibliometrix tool is proposed in this study. After refining the retrieved 26,383 papers, 1456 papers were obtained. All the article information including author, keywords and publication time was downloaded. The bibliometric analysis model was established to analyse and discuss the development of Sponge City and related researches during the period 1998–020 (data up to 15 August 2020). Research performance, research focus and development trend were displayed by bibliometric measurement indicators and visual graphics. The results show that the number of research papers on Sponge City has been increased year by year in the past 10 years (2010–2020). Sponge City and related research are increasing rapidly, and the top five countries in terms of research volume are China, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Canada. China, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia are the countries with the most extensive international cooperation in the field of Sponge City. Keywords such as ‘Sponge City’, ‘LID (Low Impact Development)’ and ‘SWMM (Storm Water Management Model)’ appeared frequently. In our opinions, interdisciplinary research methods, digital information management technology and comprehensive performance evaluation are the hot research directions for Sponge City in the future. This study aims to provide directions for future research on Sponge City, as well as scientific guidance and reference for government decision makers on Sponge City.

Measuring novelty in science with word embedding.

Novelty is a core value in science, and a reliable measurement of novelty is crucial. This study proposes a new approach of measuring the novelty of scientific articles based on both citation data and text data. The proposed approach considers an article to be novel if it cites a combination of semantically distant references. To this end, we first assign a word embedding–a vector representation of each vocabulary–to each cited reference on the basis of text information included in the reference. With these vectors, a distance between every pair of references is computed. Finally, the novelty of a focal document is evaluated by summarizing the distances between all references. The approach draws on limited text information (the titles of references) and publicly shared library for word embeddings, which minimizes the requirement of data access and computational cost. We share the code, with which one can compute the novelty score of a document of interest only by having the focal document’s reference list. We validate the proposed measure through three exercises. First, we confirm that word embeddings can be used to quantify semantic distances between documents by comparing with an established bibliometric distance measure. Second, we confirm the criterion-related validity of the proposed novelty measure with self-reported novelty scores collected from a questionnaire survey. Finally, as novelty is known to be correlated with future citation impact, we confirm that the proposed measure can predict future citation.

Are bibliometric measures consistent with scientists’ perceptions? The case of interdisciplinarity in research

Are bibliometric measures consistent with scientists’ perceptions? The case of interdisciplinarity in research

A bibliometric review of cryptocurrencies as a financial asset

ABSTRACT Within a decade, cryptocurrencies have captured significant attention. After Bitcoin's emergence in 2008, new cryptocurrencies started to enter the financial market. We use bibliometric analysis to explore the cryptocurrency literature in the areas of business and management. We review and analyze 464 research articles through bibliometric measurements and social network analysis using Biblioshiny in R. Our study highlights the most influential authors, institutions, countries, and studies. Using the results of the social network analysis of the authors and countries, we illustrate the co-authorship and collaboration among authors from various countries at the institutional level and demonstrate how they have expanded the knowledge in this area. We identify four streams in the current cryptocurrency literature: (i) the determinants of cryptocurrency returns, (ii) the efficiency of cryptocurrencies, (iii) tests of portfolio diversification and sheep flock behaviour and (iv) the regulation, governance, and socio-economic impact of cryptocurrencies. Finally, we present an agenda for future research in the field.

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS FOR THE ASIAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL FROM 2015 TO 2019

Journal publications on AAJM since 1996 until 2019 that total published 24 volume consisting of 20 countries. This study is to identify of publication journals on Asia Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ) from 2015 to 2019. The general topics published in AAJM journals such as Banking, Corporate Governance, Economics, Human Resource, Internationalization, Leadership and Work Values, Marketing, SME and Entrepreneurship, Technology Management, and other areas related to management. This study only 77 articles were published up to 27 September 2019. The data were transferred into an MS Excel file and major facets like authorship pattern, country-wise distribution of contributions, ranking of authors and contributions by affiliations were analysed using appropriate bibliometric measures. The analysis result of 77 papers revealed that there were only 54 articles that were cited by other researchers based on the Scopus index and Google Scholar. Majority authorship patterns of AAMJ was led by three-authors more than three-author papers, two-author papers, and followed by single-author papers. The research methodology most used in AAMJ is quantitative method, followed by Literature Review (LR) method, Qualitative method, and mix method. The keywords used by author in AAMJ are “Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)”, “Performance”, and “Organisational commitment”. The contributed of identification AAJM journal can help researchers and guide people over the world in field of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The Most Disruptive Publications in Craniofacial Surgery (1954-2014).

Emphasis on the quantification and qualification of scientific literature has increased over recent years. The newly validated disruption score is a bibliometric measure that identifies groundbreaking research that eclipses prior research in a specific field of study. The 100 most disruptive craniofacial surgery publications were identified through query of the 4 top craniofacial journals and 10 of the most prominent Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journals, looking at craniofacial specific publications. Presented is the compilation and analysis of the 100 most disruptive publications in the field of craniofacial surgery compared to the 100 most cited publications between 1954 and 2014. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery had the most papers in the top 100 (n = 56) followed by Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (n = 22), and British Journal of Surgery (n = 12). The correlation coefficient between disruption scores and citation counts was -0.001 and -0.07 among all papers, and the top 100 most disruptive papers, respectively. For craniofacial journals, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery had the highest average disruption score for all published papers. The most common decade represented in the top 100 was the 1980's (n = 32) and the least common was the 2000's (n = 14). Randomized controlled trials did not comprise a large amount of either the most disruptive (n = 1) or most cited (n = 2) lists. This is the first use of disruption index score to describe craniofacial surgery research. The disruption score can help recognize paradigm shifts and innovative research in this unique surgical subspecialty.

Conference Accreditation and Need of a Bibliometric Measure to Distinguish Predatory Conferences

Academic conferences offer scientists the opportunity to share their findings and knowledge with other researchers. However, the number of conferences is rapidly increasing globally and many unsolicited e-mails are received from conference organizers. These e-mails take time for researchers to read and ascertain their legitimacy. Because not every conference is of high quality, there is a need for young researchers and scholars to recognize the so-called “predatory conferences” which make a profit from unsuspecting researchers without the core purpose of advancing science or collaboration. Unlike journals that possess accreditation indices, there is no appropriate accreditation for international conferences. Here, a bibliometric measure is proposed that enables scholars to evaluate conference quality before attending.

The impact of Economics and Finance research published in Central and Eastern Europe

Research quality dictates the reputation of faculty, colleges, and universities, regardless of their location. In order to shed some light on the quality construct, this research reports on the scholarly impact of economics and finance journals published in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A comparison of coverage by Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and Cabell’s, three scholarly databases, reveals the lesser coverage of CEE journals within WoS and Scopus. Examination of E&F journals published in Poland, Romania, and the remainder of CEE, as defined by the Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research, discloses that the level of quality varies by nation. There are variations across the popular CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, and percentage of articles cited bibliometric measures. Furthermore, this research documents the existence of impact variation between journals focused on Eastern Europe published in Eastern Europe and published elsewhere in the world.

Targeting the right parameters in PAH remediation studies

Contaminated land burdens the economy of many countries and must be dealt with. Researchers have published thousands of documents studying and developing soil and sediment remediation treatments. Amongst the targeted pollutants are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), described as a class of persistent organic compounds, potentially harmful to ecosystems and living organisms. The present paper reviews and discusses three scientific trends that are leading current PAH-contaminated soil/sediment remediation studies and management. First, the choice of compounds that are being studied and targeted in the scientific literature is discussed, and we suggest that the classical 16 US-EPA PAH compounds might no longer be sufficient to meet current environmental challenges. Second, we discuss the choice of experimental material in remediation studies. Using bibliometric measures, we show the lack of PAH remediation trials based on co-contaminated or aged-contaminated material. Finally, the systematic use of the recently validated bioavailability measurement protocol (ISO/TS 16751) in remediation trials is discussed, and we suggest it should be implemented as a tool to improve remediation processes and management strategies.