Research Productivity Growth Research Articles

A bibliometric review of positive psychology and well-being research in Africa.

Positive Psychology rapidly developed into an influential field of study and intervention, initially situated in Psychology, and later becoming multidisciplinary. Research interest in the study of (psychological) well-being has gained global popularity, with increasing salience in Africa. Although the global trends of these developments are relatively well-known, a bibliometric analysis of positive psychology research in Africa was necessary to shed light on the present hotspots and trends and future trajectories in this region of the world. The data source of the present bibliometric analysis study was Scopus, from which Positive Psychology and well-being research literature from Africa between 1983 and 2023 were searched. Using biblioshiny and VOSviewer, the 622 extracted articles were analysed, from which findings about the current condition, research hotspots, and thematic developmental patterns could be made. Africa experienced an initial slow growth period from 1983 until 2005, after which a rapid growth in research productivity, relevance and impact was experienced. In this regard, the results show that the focal point of scientific productivity is South Africa, with the dominance of South African institutions, particularly the North-West University, from where most positive psychology research is produced and cited. Even with potential access to international journal, African researchers seem to prefer to place their publications in the regional journals such as Journal of Psychology in Africa and South African Journal of Psychology. The research reviewed tends to be characterised by more dominant thematic clusters of positive psychology, psychological well-being, and subjective well-being, with a focus on human individuals. An increasing concern for contextual factors and potential antecedents and dynamics of well-being is also observed. The findings provide a good map from which identification of future research priorities can be deduced. As such, we speculate that future positive psychology research in Africa ought to be concerned with the following: greater distribution and intercountry collaborations across the continent, questions of conceptual clarity of terms, better understanding of contextual factors which influence well-being, and well-being research embracing the complexity of bio-psycho-social-ecological well-being, and science concerned with health-promotion interventions.

Mapping the Evolution of the European Union Retail Supply Chain Technology Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

Effective supply chain management (SCM) technology is crucial for the success of retail businesses in the European Union (EU). This research thesis aims to employ bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive examination of global contributions and contemporary keyword trends in the field of SCM technology within the EU. Using the Web of Science database, a systematic search was conducted, resulting in a total of 3,173 relevant articles. Bibliometric Analysis and VOSviewer (VOS) were employed to analyze the research landscape. The analysis shows that although this topic is based on the European Union, the scientific productivity and influence on the topic from China, Britain and the United States are higher than that of many EU countries. The European Journal of Operational Research emerged as the most influential journal in terms of both productivity and impact. Affiliations primarily consisted of universities, with a significant contribution from five universities showing consistent growth in research productivity. The results of Network visualization and Thematic Map analysis results of keywords show that technology-based red keyword clustering is very important for the research in this field, including demand response, microgrids, algorithms, price, policies, simulation and so on. This analysis highlights the importance of technology-related topics in the supply chain of EU retailers.

Assessing the Research Performance of the Iranian Medical Academics and Universities: A Bibliometric Analysis.

Implementing bibliometric indicators is the most prominent way to quantify the current status of research performance. This study aimed to map out the research performance of Iranian medical academics and universities in 2020 and determine its progress from 2016. Data were extracted from the Iranian scientometric information database and universities' scientometric information database. Then, the data were analyzed to provide descriptive statistics of bibliometric indicators. Besides, the association between the research productivity of academics or universities with their background characteristics was investigated using Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis, and chi-square tests. Iranian medical academics had extensive research productivity from 2016 to 2020, leading to 2.5-fold increase in their median number of papers. The research productivity was heterogeneous among the academics, with an H-index ranging from 0 to 98, and a median of 4. The research productivity was different by gender, academic position, general field of study, and academic degree. The class 1 universities had a higher quantity in research performance; however, there was no difference in quality-related indices comprising citations per paper ratio and high impact publication rate (SJR Q1) among different university classes. The median international collaboration rate has followed a growing trend in recent years and was 17% in 2020. There is a remarkable growth in the research productivity of Iranian academics and universities. Iranian research community historically had rare international research collaborations; however, promising growth is shown in this regard. To maintain the growth in research productivity, the country should increase research and development expenditure, address gender disparities, supply universities that are lagging behind, facilitate further international collaboration, and support national journals to be indexed in the international citation databases.

Letter: Research Productivity of Physicians in the Pandemic and Post-pandemic Era: A "Productive Outbreak'".

Letter: Research Productivity of Physicians in the Pandemic and Post-pandemic Era: A "Productive Outbreak'".

Comprehensive analysis of research outcomes from selected Indian Council of Medical Research Institutes

Background: Given the importance of the ICMR in shaping the research landscape in India, it is essential to understand the research outcomes produced by the various ICMR institutes over the years. Aim and Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the research outcomes from the top six selected Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) institutes over a period of 33 years, from 1989 to 2021. Materials and Methods: The six ICMR institutes analyzed were the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, the National Institute of Malaria Research, the National Institute of Nutrition, and National Institute of Virology. Results: A total of 8174 research outcomes were identified, including research articles, review articles, and meeting abstracts. The study analyzed the relative growth rate and doubling time, document types, top journals and research areas, and collaborations and funding agencies associated with these outcomes. The study found that there was a steady growth in research productivity over the years, although a decline was observed in 2021, possibly due to the COVID19 pandemic. The study also identified specific institutes that had the maximum number of publications in certain fields, such as immunology. Conclusion: The study's findings can provide valuable insights for policymakers, funding agencies, and researchers interested in understanding the research landscape and trends in India..

Social network analysis of biomedical research growth at a primarily undergraduate institution.

The National Institutes of Health Institutional Development Award Programs support the establishment and growth of biomedical research infrastructure in states that receive a low level of federal funding for biomedical research. The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the growth in research productivity over time. This program fostered an environment in which a biomedical research program could be developed and allowed to grow at Boise State University, a primarily undergraduate institution. The growth of the biomedical research community can be visualized through social network analysis.

Trends, patterns and determinants of research productivity at the Technical University of Kenya

This paper explores the trends, patterns and determinants of research productivity at the Technical University of Kenya (TU-K). It analyses the research output of full-time academic staff collected from Google Scholar using Harzing’s “Publish or Perish” software. Further information was obtained from the top ten researchers based on productivity from the analysed research output. Additional information was obtained from purposively sampled officers of the university, including the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Academics, Research and Students; three executive deans of faculties; and the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange. The study revealed gradual growth in research productivity at TU-K. The study also revealed that insufficient funding, lack of motivation, limited time and lack of equipment are some of the factors affecting research productivity at TU-K. Full implementation of performance contracting targets and establishment of the Directorate of Research and Knowledge Exchange are some of the strategies being implemented to increase research output, visibility and impact. The authors recommend that the university should nurture interest in, as well as enhance capability for inquiry and investigation to increase research productivity. The university should also create mechanisms for building intrinsic motivation and address the extrinsic factors in order to catapult research productivity.

Applied artificial intelligence : A bibliometric study of an International Journal

Purpose: The study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of an international journal “Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI)” to analyze publication trends, authorship patterns, collaborative networks, citation behaviors, and research hotspots of authors, organizations, and countries. Research Design/Methodology: “Applied Artificial Intelligence” is a peer-reviewed international journal, published by Taylor & Francis. The journal has published more than 1100 articles in 34 volumes so far. The idea was conceived to conduct the bibliometric study of the AAI journal. The data were collected from the Web of Science (WOS) database, owned by the Clarivate Analytics. A total of 1109 articles were retrieved and their metadata was collected for further analysis and interpretation. Additionally, the VOS viewer software was used for mapping and visualization of the bibliographic information. Findings: The journal has experienced positive growth in research productivity and negative growth in citations. Authors of 74 prominent countries have contributed to the journal and the USA has occupied the first position in publication count followed by Italy, India and England respectively. All the countries work in close collaboration and created a collaborative network and sub-networks. The USA is the pivot of the collaborative network, mostly collaborating with England, Japan, Italy, China and Germany. The keywords like the classification, optimization, algorithms and neural networks are the most common and hence the hot topics of research in the journal. Originality/Value: The main advantage of this study is that it provides profound knowledge of the content structure and developmental process of the journal to date. It is also valuable for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence to identify the research hotspots in this field.

Scientific Research Productivity and Quality of Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions Analysis Based on Integrated Database of Web of Science and Scopus

This study develops integration of the WoS and Scopus articles of Vietnamese authors into the Vietnam Citation Gateway system of Vietnam National University Hanoi; sets up a merging tool to filter the duplication for these two databases and establishes their bibliometric and citation index. Based on this integrated database, the reality of international publications of Vietnam and Vietnamese universities in the period of 2014-2018 was analyzed, benchmarked and discussed. For the first time, a completed data on WoS & Scopus publications has been established. Accordingly, in 2018, the annual productivity of international publications in Vietnam has almost reached the number of 10,000 articles, of which higher education institutions contribute up to 70%. The rate of increase in WoS & Scopus articles has strongly increased every year (34.7% for the Vietnam, in general, and 41.6% for higher education institutions, in particular). The growth of research productivity was also described for young universities such as Ton Duc Thang University and Duy Tan University. In terms of research quality, Vietnam has an average citation index of 9.2, which is comparable to that of Asian higher education institutions. This analysis allows classifying research-oriented universities and high impact research fields for Vietnam. Specially, this work also emphasizes the relation between university autonomy and the improvement of research productivity and quality.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder research: Growing in scope, advances unclear

There has been impressive growth in scholarly research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). As a general rule, this can be construed as a sign of health in the subspecialty within anxiety disorder research. One factor that likely contributed to the growth in research on OCD was the observation that obsessional experiences can be placed on a dimension from normal to abnormal (or non-clinical to clinical) (Rachman and de Silva, 1978). While the dramatic growth in OCD research has led to increased sophistication in clinical conceptualization of various presentations of this heterogeneous condition, it has not led to a commensurate increase in the availability of efficacious treatment. This gap, between awareness of the disorder and delivery of evidence-based treatment, serves as a limiting factor in enthusiasm regarding the growth in research productivity on OCD as a sign of health in the subspecialty.

SCOPUS reflected study of selected research and higher education institutions (HEIs) of Chandigarh: a city of education and research

SCOPUS reflected study of selected research and higher education institutions (HEIs) of Chandigarh: a city of education and research

Study on New Product Development, by Networking

The paper presents a situation of working in network in order to design or improve a new product. To implement theoretical models and to validate a working algorithm into a virtual research, there was proposed a specific theme from drilling and chamfering tool. The facilities offered by the research centers – database, software - led to rapid selection and configuration solutions, demonstrating achieving research productivity growth and a substantial reduction of times redesign.

Latin American and Caribbean Countries in the Global Quest for World Class Academic Recognition: An Analysis of Publications in Scopus and the Science Citation Index between 1990 and 2010

The article investigates global participation in academic research productivity through the growth of publications from Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C) in two of the most prestigious bibliographic indexes, Scopus and the Science Citation Index (SCI). Data were obtained from the SCImago Journal and Country Rank and the Iberian-American and Inter-American Network of Science and Technology Indicators databases. Tables were created for the number of citable documents in Scopus, the publications in SCI, and the comparative indicators of the number of publications in SCI from LA&C countries adjusted for number of researchers, full-time researchers, inhabitants, and national research and development (R&D) expenditure. The countries with the highest number of publications since 1990 SCI and 1996 Scopus were Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Colombia shows the largest growth in research productivity over the periods studied and became in 2010 the country with the fifth highest number of publications in both indexes. Comparative indicators adjusted for numbers of researchers, population and national R&D expenditures do not show clear differences in performance across countries. The article concludes with suggestions for the need to provide greater contextual analysis and including other bibliographic indexes and databases in order to have a fuller understanding of the reasons for particular levels of research productivity across LA&C countries.