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Are we at a turning point in journal assessment? An introduction to altmetrics

The status of any journal in which research is published is an important issue for academics. For many years the impact factor has been the criteria of choice to infer the quality of the research being published by each journal. However, with the massification of the internet, research currently impacts well beyond the academic community. This study aims to introduce readers into other bibliometric and non-bibliometric (altmetric) indicators that provide a wider perspective about the impact any particular research outcome may have besides citations. From a geographic viewpoint, the documents published by AJVS between 2010-2019 were written by authors affiliated to institutions from 33 different countries, mostly from Chile (37%) and Mexico (24%). These two countries served as collaboration nodes for countries from America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. From an altmetric perspective, 59 documents published between 2010-2016 were mentioned at least once in one of the sources tracked, being the majority of them through social media. Of particular interest is one document that was used as a reference for a patent issued in 2017 by researchers that were not related to the document published in the journal. Unfortunately, data for the documents published between 2017-2019 were unavailable, probably due to issues with the journal title change. Nevertheless, it is fair to conclude that since research outputs have shown to have an impact well beyond academia, it may be time to reconsider how journals should be assessed in the near future.

The effects of dialysis modality choice on cognitive functions in patients with end-stage renal failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Cognitive dysfunction is a major consequence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and has further detrimental effects on both functionality and the quality of life for patients. While peritoneal dialysis is generally advocated in ESRD, there is a substantial knowledge gap about the differential effects of chronic dialysis modalities on cognitive dysfunction and decline. The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate cognitive function in peritoneal dialysis versus hemodialysis patients. We performed a systematic review in different databases to identify studies that assessed the effect of different dialysis modalities on cognitive functions. Inclusion criteria for our meta-analysis were all studies that compared the effects of peritoneal dialysis on cognitive functions compared to intermittent hemodialysis. The data collected were the name of the first author, journal title, year of publication, country where the study was conducted, number of patients in the peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis arms and methods of assessment of cognitive functions. Out of 2769 abstracts reviewed in different databases, 11 papers were included in our meta-analysis. Altogether, 195,774 patients were included in the final analysis. The forest plot analysis of the rate of cognitive impairment in different dialysis modalities showed decreased risk of cognitive impairment in the peritoneal dialysis population compared to hemodialysis patients (relative risk = 0.634, confidence interval ranges from 0.508 to 0.790). There was evidence of significant heterogeneity among studies with p < 0.0001 and I2 = 85.5%. The sensitivity analysis limited to studies on patients younger than 65years of age showed similar results (relative risk = 0.516; 95% confidence intervals: 0.379-0.704). Patients on peritoneal dialysis demonstrated a lower odd of cognitive dysfunction compared to those on hemodialysis. Future prospective studies should assess cognitive decline as a meaningful outcome in dialysis patients.

Mandibular canal vs. inferior alveolar canal: Evidence-based terminology analysis.

The mandibular canal, as it was formerly named in Terminologia Anatomica (TA), has also been called the inferior alveolar (nerve) canal in many scientific publications. This study was conducted to investigate how these terms have been understood in different regions and different areas of expertise and to discuss the appropriate future application of the term "mandibular canal." A literature search was conducted using PubMed, and articles using different terms for this structure were classified into two groups, inferior alveolar canal/inferior alveolar nerve canal (IAC/IANC) and the mandibular canal (MC). The 50 most recent articles in each group were included. Publication year, journal title, country of the first author, and affiliation of all authors were recorded in both groups for all 100 articles. There was a significant difference between the IAC/IANC and MC groups in the numbers of anatomy journals, other journals, and anatomy affiliations. Turkey published most frequently with a total of 15 articles, followed by Iran with 10 articles, and China/India/United States with seven each. When the six countries of the first author that had three or more publications in each group were compared, only Turkey appeared in both groups; otherwise, different countries were in the two groups. Based on the results of this analysis, and considering that the tentative new term "inferior alveolar foramen" is used in the latest TA, we suggest that the mandibular canal should be renamed the "inferior alveolar canal."

Business Continuity Management: A Preliminary Systematic Literature Review Based on ScienceDirect Database

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is commonly known as one of the most effective programs to use in the face of crisis, incident, and disaster, specifically for organizations to continue or resume their operations. Over time, the concept has gained popularity and has developed into one of the strategies in a resilience plan. The purpose of this study is to explore the trend of BCM, the subject, and the relationship between BCM and associated study fields through a preliminary systematic literature review. This research used the articles from ScienceDirect database from January 1, 1999, to December 31, 2018. This study analyzed the collected articles using their publication years, journal titles, countries, and relevant study fields. The result found that several papers have been published since 1999, which focus predominantly on the BCM standard. The rate of publication on BCM had escalated in 2015. There were 82 papers about BCM. The issues were categorized into ten main subjects. Among them, the most frequently mentioned are Information Technology (IT) security, followed by implementing BCM into diverse study disciplines, implementing new toolkits into BCM associated studies, BCM improvement, resilience, lessons learned, supply chain, and BCM advantages. The gap of the research lays a foundation for future studies in similar fields.

Análisis de la estabilidad cronológica de las listas de revistas pedagogicas por rangos de demanda en el Departamento de Acceso al Documento Primario del ISOC (1985-1988)

Se estudia la evolución de la demanda de revistas pedagógicas procedente de los usuarios del Departamento de Acceso al Documento Primario del ISOC, durante los años 1985 a 1988. Se analizan tres aspectos principales: distribución de la demanda por títulos de revista; estabilidad cronológica de las listas de revistas pedagógicas más solicitadas y accesibilidad en las bibliotecas españolas de las revistas estables y más solicitadas. Los resultados muestran: a) que las diez revistas solicitadas con mayor frecuencia en cada año del periodo estudiado satisfacen procentajes de la demanda comprendidos entre el 21% y el 27%; b) las listas de las revistas más solicitadas presentan una clara inestabilidad en el transcurso del tiempo; c) la mayor parte de las colecciones de las revistas comunes en las cuatro listas anuales están incompletas en las bibliotecas españolas. Este hecho plantea problemas de acceso a los documentos.

Educational Psychology at the Core: Adapting a Sustainable Method for Core Journal Lists

Building on previous research, the author describes the mixed-methods approach, using tools familiar to most academic librarians, utilized to create a list of journal titles for possible inclusion in a core list of journals in the discipline of Educational Psychology. The result is a five-tiered list from which 37 journals are identified as being core to the discipline.

Case Study of Trend Mining in Transportation Research Record Articles

This study employs two topic models to perform trend mining on an abundance of textual data to determine trends in research topics from immense collections of unstructured documents over the years. This study collected data from the titles and abstracts of the papers published in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, since 1974. The content of these papers was ideal for examining research trends in various fields of research because it contains large textual data. In previous studies, exploratory analysis tools such as text mining were used to provide descriptive information about the data. However, this method does not provide researchers with quantifications of the topics and their correlations. Furthermore, the contents examined in this study are largely unstructured, and therefore they require faster machine learning algorithms to decipher them. For these reasons, the research team chose to employ two topic modeling tools, latent Dirichlet allocation and structural topic model, to perform trend mining. This analysis succeeded in extracting 20 main topics, identified by keywords, from the data. The research team also developed two interactive topic model visualization tools that can be used to extract topics from journal titles and abstracts, respectively. The findings from this study provide researchers with a further understanding of research patterns within ever-evolving area of transportation engineering studies.

A Scientometric Study of Digital Literacy, ICT Literacy, Information Literacy, and Media Literacy

Abstract Purpose Digital literacy and related fields have received interests from scholars and practitioners for more than 20 years; nonetheless, academic communities need to systematically review how the fields have developed. This study aims to investigate the research trends of digital literacy and related concepts since the year of 2000, especially in education. Design/methodology/approach The current study analyzes keywords, co-authorship, and cited publications in digital literacy through the scientometric method. The journal articles have been retrieved from the WoS (Web of Science) using four keywords: “Digital literacy,” “ICT literacy,” “information literacy,” and “media literacy.” Further, keywords, publications, and co-authorship are examined and further classified into clusters for more in-depth investigation. Findings Digital literacy is a multidisciplinary field that widely embraces literacy, ICT, the Internet, computer skill proficiency, science, nursing, health, and language education. The participants, or study subjects, in digital literacy research range from primary students to professionals, and the co-authorship clusters are distinctive by countries in America and Europe. Research limitations This paper analyzes one fixed chunk of a dataset obtained by searching for all four keywords at once. Further studies will retrieve the data from diverse disciplines and will trace the change of the leading research themes by time spans. Practical implications To shed light on the findings, using customized digital literacy curriculums and technology is critical for learners at different ages to nurture digital literacy according to their learning aims. They need to cultivate their understanding of the social impact of exploiting technology and computational thinking. To increase the originality of digital literacy-related studies, researchers from different countries and cultures may collaborate to investigate a broader range of digital literacy environments. Originality/value The present study reviews research trends in digital literacy and related areas by performing a scientometric study to analyze multidimensional aspects in the fields, including keywords, journal titles, co-authorship, and cited publications.

Epistemologia em Ciência da Informação: cenário internacional a partir da Web of Science

Introdução: A publicação de artigos científicos é necessária para a divulgação da ciência. Objetivo: Neste contexto, o objetivo geral é analisar o cenário internacional da publicação científica sobre Epistemologia em periódicos da área de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, indexados pela Web of Science (WoS). Os objetivos específicos são: a) identificar os títulos de periódicos com maior número de publicação sobre o tema, bem como sua tipificação editorial; b) relatar os tipos de acesso dos periódicos por país; c) apontar as palavras-chave mais utilizadas e d) Identificar os epistemólogos mais utilizados no referencial teórico. Metodologia: O estudo foi caracterizado como exploratório, descritivo e quantitativo. Como procedimentos técnicos, fez-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica na principal coleção da WoS utilizando a estratégia de busca: (TI=(epistem*) AND SU=(library and Information Science)). O período estipulado foi de 2003 a 2018 e obteve-se um total de 113 artigos válidos. Resultados: Os resultados mostram que os periódicos com mais artigos publicados foram Knowledge Organization, com 14 artigos, seguido do Journal of Documentation, com nove artigos. Observa-se que os 113 artigos foram publicados em 41 títulos de periódicos e que pertencem a 26 editoras distintas. Quanto aos epistemólogos mais citados, o destaque foi para Kuhn. Conclusões: Conclui-se que as editoras comerciais possuem um amplo mercado, prevalecendo os altíssimos valores das taxas. O valor médio foi de 2.778,88 dólares americanos. Por fim, verificou-se que a produção científica sobre Epistemologia em Ciência da Informação é tematicamente diversa e aplicada, notando uma aproximação do campo epistemológico aos estudos de Organização do Conhecimento.

Information Sources in Environmental Science: A Citation Analysis of Master’s Theses at Florida Gulf Coast University

ABSTRACT An analysis of the 6,570 citations in 78 master’s theses completed in environmental science at Florida Gulf Coast University from 2006 to 2016 was completed. Format types, ages of resources relative to thesis publication year, publishers, Library of Congress classifications, and library ownership or access of materials were investigated. Percentages of format types cited during each thesis publication year were investigated to determine changes over time. Journals, books, and reports were the most commonly cited format types. Journal article age, number of journal titles, and subject classifications of cited resources showed wide dispersion. The results demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of the field.

Pot, kettle: Nonliteral titles aren’t (natural) science

Researchers may be tempted to attract attention through poetic titles for their publications, but would this be mistaken in some fields? Although poetic titles are known to be common in medicine, it is not clear whether the practice is widespread elsewhere. This article investigates the prevalence of poetic expressions in journal article titles from 1996–2019 in 3.3 million articles from all 27 Scopus broad fields. Expressions were identified by manually checking all phrases with at least five words that occurred at least 25 times, finding 149 stock phrases, idioms, sayings, literary allusions, film names, and song titles or lyrics. The expressions found are most common in the social sciences and the humanities. They are also relatively common in medicine, but almost absent from engineering and the natural and formal sciences. The differences may reflect the less hierarchical and more varied nature of the social sciences and humanities, where interesting titles may attract an audience. In engineering, natural science, and formal science fields, authors should take extra care with poetic expressions in case their choice is judged inappropriate. This includes interdisciplinary research overlapping these areas. Conversely, reviewers of interdisciplinary research involving the social sciences should be more tolerant of poetic license.

Big in the Big Ten: Highly Cited Works and Their Characteristics

ABSTRACT For this study, the 100 most highly cited items from Scopus were examined for each Big Ten Academic Alliance school (plus University of Chicago) to determine format use, subjects covered, citation counts, publisher trends, and other details. In all, 1,223 unique items were examined. Journals and commercial publishers dominated, but were not exclusive. Similarly, expected titles Science and Nature appeared, but did not overwhelmingly dominate the citation counts nor the number of appearances in the results. The publication title list included 479 unique titles, with many journal titles appeared only once. Science titles dominated, with some social sciences (especially psychology) titles showing up in the highly cited list. Total citation counts varied widely across institutions. The schools examined had a good degree of inter-institution collaboration.

PENGUKURAN KINERJA JURNAL ILMIAH TERAKREDITASI DI BATAN (ANALISIS BIBLIOMETRIK)

Measurement of the performance of scientific journals needs to be done to evaluate and improve the quality, quantity and scientific impact of R&amp;D practitioners. This study aims to evaluate the performance of accredited scientific journals in BATAN to improve the quality of journal management more optimally. The method used is bibliometric analysis. Data sources were obtained from the journal portal at http://jurnal.batan.go.id. Data processing and analysis using Microsoft Excel, Publish or Perish Software (PoP) and VOSviewer. The results of the study show that all journals have a good degree of scale. There are 4 journal titles that have not been indexed in DOAJ. The most productive writer is Wisnu Ari Adi, and the most cited are S. Hartanto and Ratnawati. Journal metric analysis results show the scientific impact measured by the number of articles cited included in the high category. The most productive and cited journal is J. Sains Materi Indonesia, but the journal that has the highest ratio of the number of cytities is Urania at 1,44. Visualization of collaboration shows the collaboration between authors obtained from eight accredited journals.

PENGUKURAN KINERJA JURNAL ILMIAH TERAKREDITASI DI BATAN (ANALISIS BIBLIOMETRIK)

Measurement of the performance of scientific journals needs to be done to evaluate and improve the quality, quantity and scientific impact of R&D practitioners. This study aims to evaluate the performance of accredited scientific journals in BATAN to improve the quality of journal management more optimally. The method used is bibliometric analysis. Data sources were obtained from the journal portal at http://jurnal.batan.go.id. Data processing and analysis using Microsoft Excel, Publish or Perish Software (PoP) and VOSviewer. The results of the study show that all journals have a good degree of scale. There are 4 journal titles that have not been indexed in DOAJ. The most productive writer is Wisnu Ari Adi, and the most cited are S. Hartanto and Ratnawati. Journal metric analysis results show the scientific impact measured by the number of articles cited included in the high category. The most productive and cited journal is J. Sains Materi Indonesia, but the journal that has the highest ratio of the number of cytities is Urania at 1,44. Visualization of collaboration shows the collaboration between authors obtained from eight accredited journals.

Goltz against cerebral localization: Methodology and experimental practices

In the late 19th century, physiologists such as David Ferrier, Eduard Hitzig, and Hermann Munk argued that cerebral brain functions are localized in discrete structures. By the early 20th century, this became the dominant position. However, another prominent physiologist, Friedrich Goltz, rejected theories of cerebral localization and argued against these physiologists until his death in 1902. I argue in this paper that previous historical accounts have failed to comprehend why Goltz rejected cerebral localization. I show that Goltz adhered to a falsificationist methodology, and I reconstruct how he designed his experiments and weighted different kinds of evidence. I then draw on the exploratory experimentation literature from recent philosophy of science to trace one root of the debate to differences in how the German localizers designed their experiments and reasoned about evidence. While Goltz designed his experiments to test hypotheses about the functions of predetermined cerebral structures, the localizers explored new functions and structures in the process of constructing new theories. I argue that the localizers relied on untested background conjectures to justify their inferences about functional organization. These background conjectures collapsed a distinction between phenomena they produced direct evidence for (localized symptoms) and what they reached conclusions about (localized functions). When citing this paper, please use the full journal title Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

Bibliometric Analysis of Moxibustion Research Trends over the Past 20 Years.

Objectives: A bibliometric approach using network analysis was applied to identify the development and research trends for moxibustion. This study also examined the network hub of moxibustion research by investigating the collaborative work of organizations and authors. Methods: Academic articles on moxibustion research published from 2000 to 2019 were retrieved from the Web of Science database. Extracted records were analyzed according to publication year, research area, journal title, country, organization, and authors. The VOSviewer program was utilized to visualize the trends in moxibustion research and to explore the influential organizations and authors. Results: Analyses of 1146 original and review articles written in English demonstrated that the number of publications related to moxibustion research has increased consistently over the last 20 years. China issued the most articles in this field, and the most represented research area was integrative complementary medicine. A network analysis based on the co-occurrence and publication year of keywords identified the relevant characteristics and trends of moxibustion research. By assessing the total link strength of organizations and authors, influential organizations and authors who have contributed to moxibustion research were identified. Conclusions: The current study examined research on moxibustion using bibliometric analysis and identified a time-based development of moxibustion research and a global network hub of moxibustion research.

International Journal of Science for Global Sustainability (IJSGS): A Bibliometric Analysis: 2015-2019

Bibliometric analysis method was used in this study. Observation and physical counting method was adopted to examine the bibliographic characteristics and development of the assembled issues/volumes which were available in the Federal University Gusau (FUGUS) library and confirmed by the past and present Editors-in-Chief of the Journal. The study covered 8 volumes of the IJSGS from the period 2015 to 2019. The bibliometric characteristics examined in this study are (i) Number of issues published per year, (ii) Distribution of articles published per volume, (iii) Authorship pattern (single &amp; multiple), (iv) Authorship affiliation (Universities, Research/special organizations-NAFDAC, Private, MDAs etc, Polytechnics, and Colleges), (v) FUGUS authorship; (vi) Most cited source of information which for convenience sake were divided into six, namely; books (including chapter contributions), journals, proceedings (conferences, workshops, seminars, symposiums and technical/scientific reports), Thesis/Dissertations/Projects, (Internet resources and Others (Bulletin, Newsletter, Guides, newspapers, magazines, maps/atlases, unidentifiable sources etc). (vii) Most cited journal title and ranking of the journal titles. A benchmark of 5 reference listing was set to select a Journal title as most cited/referenced/listed. Findings include the journal’s inconsistency in the number of issues published per year from 2015-2019; FUGUS staff authorship pattern shows that the department of Chemistry contributed more papers to the journal than other departments. It was also revealed that African Journal of Biotechnology was the most cited journal title and as such ranked first. The study recommended that urgent efforts should be made to make the journal more visible by hosting it on the FUGUS website as well getting it indexed.

A Novel Automatic Journal Recommender System

Recommender Systems (RS) have developed into an important application in several user domains. RS may aid users to discover appropriate items in vast data. The selection of journal publication is generally based on the research domain or topics of document. The traditional method for journal recommendation is carried out by analyzing the document and matching its topics with relavent journal utilizing content-based examination. Though, this approach might create errors because of disparities in manuscript comparisons. In this paper, a novel Jaccard based Journal Finder Neural Network is proposed with pearson correlation coefficient (JJFNN-PC) for journal recommendation. The proposed recommender system allows the researchers to automatically find appropriate publication with journal title and abstract. Similarity coefficient is computed among the journal database and journal title and abstract of user distinctly through Jaccard similarity. The obtained outcome is used for training the novel JFNN that automatically find appropriate publication for user research article. The pearson correlation coefficient is established to validate the correlation between title and abstract of the recommended journal. The experimental result of automatic journal selection process provides the exact journal list and obtained better performance with accuracy of 98.41%.

Publication rate of 309 MMed dissertations submitted between 1996 and 2017: Can registrars fulfil HPCSA Form 57 MED amendments?

The recent amendment to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) Form 57 MED allows specialist registration on publication of the compulsory MMed research assignment in an accredited journal. No data exist on the conversion rate of MMed dissertations to publication. To establish conversion rates of MMed dissertations to accredited publications. Associated variables arising from the publishing exercise were also investigated. A total of 309 MMed dissertations, submitted between 1996 and 2017, were downloaded from the public domain. Each dissertation was recorded as to format, submission year, awarding university and clinical discipline. Electronic searches determined publication outcomes. Journal title, accreditation status, year of publication, registrar position on author ranking and publication type were extracted for each output. Descriptive analysis was undertaken and, where appropriate, Fisher's exact test at p&gt;0.05 was used to establish statistical significance. A total of 116 dissertations were published at an overall conversion rate of 37.5%, culminating in 136 outputs. Publication-ready dissertations had a significantly higher conversion rate (60.3%) than monographs (30.5%) (p&gt;0.0001). All but 6 of the 80 publishing journals were accredited. SAMJ was the journal of choice for 13% of papers. The registrar was the first author in the majority of publications. In the case of monographs, 66% were published after dissertation submission compared with 50% of publication-ready formats. Conversion of the South African MMed dissertation into a journal-accredited scientific article was achieved in 60.3% of publication-ready-format submissions, suggesting that the HPCSA amendment facilitating specialist registration is attainable. Retrospective reviews of dissertations provide valuable insights to improve understanding of the contentious issue of the registrar research requirement that permits specialist registration.

Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Business Research, Vol. 13, No. 4

Reviewer acknowledgements for Journal Title, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2020.