Scientific Visibility Research Articles

The scientific periphery and new flows of knowledge: the case of regional preprint servers

PurposeIt is unclear whether regional rather than global or discipline-focussed preprint platforms as an innovation in the communication of science are removing any of the barriers faced by researchers in the scientific periphery or whether they are increasing access to and visibility of science from the periphery. In response, this paper focusses on the uptake, visibility and academic impact of regional preprint publishing platforms in two peripheral regions (Africa and Latin America) to gain insights into the use and possible impact of regional preprint servers.Design/methodology/approachComparative quantitative analysis using bibliometric and altmetric data to compare six preprint servers (two regional, one global and three discipline-specific).FindingsThere is evidence of the uptake of regional preprint servers, but the uptake is comparatively modest compared with global and discipline-focussed preprint servers. The academic and social visibility of preprints available on regional preprint servers is comparatively lower when compared to other preprint servers. The preprint server SciELO preprint in comparison to AfricArxiv shows signs of increasing growth and visibility, but more time is required to reach any definitive conclusions.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is limited by the short timeframe that the regional preprint servers have existed compared to some of the other preprint servers. The absence of reliable data on the research populations by region or globally by discipline places limits on the comparability of the raw data.Originality/valueThe article provides for the first time a detailed empirical analysis of the contribution of preprint servers targeted at researchers from the scientific periphery to global science.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-04-2023-0153

Relevancia de la innovación frugal en la transformación del sector manufacturero de las economías emergentes

In this paper, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify the contributions of frugal innovation in the manufacturing sector of emerging economies. This study aims to understand the contribution of frugal innovation, highlighting the relevance and its contribution to this sector within global emerging markets. To approach this research, three indexed databases of high quality and scientific visibility were considered: Scopus, Ebscohost and Science Direct, with a search equation defined by the keywords: "frugal innovation", "frugal", "emerging economies" and "frugal manufacturing" and the exclusion and inclusion criteria, which allowed to select in a first search 15079 articles. As a final result of the filtering process of those documents identified as repetitive, not relevant to the research topic, 52 documents were obtained, which facilitated the identification of the most outstanding frugal innovations, their classification, description, frugal, social and economic contribution in emerging communities. The selected documents show that the subsector with the greatest contribution of goods and services derived from the application of frugal innovation corresponds to the energy sector, with 37,5%, followed by the industrial sector, with 20%. The research provides a theoretical reference in which the importance of frugality is highlighted, offering a positive perspective for emerging regions facing shortages in access to fundamental services such as electricity, drinking water and essential goods necessary for a dignified life.

Measuring university size: A comparison of academic personnel versus scientific talent pool data

Abstract This paper compares two measures of the organizational size of higher education institutions (HEIs) widely used in the literature: the number of academic personnel (AP) measured according to definitions from international education statistics, and the scientific talent pool (STP) (i.e., the number of unique authors affiliated with the HEI as derived from the Scopus database). Based on their definitions and operationalizations, we derive expectations on the factors generating differences between these two measures, as related to the HEI’s research orientation and subject mix, as well as to the presence of a university hospital. We test these expectations on a sample of more than 1,500 HEIs in Europe by combining data from the European Tertiary Education Register and from the SCImago Institutions Ranking. Our results provide support for the expected relationships and also highlight cases where the institutional perimeter of HEIs is systematically different between the two sources. We conclude that these two indicators provide complementary measures of institutional size, one more focused on the organizational perimeter as defined by employment relationships, the other on the persons who contribute to the HEI’s scientific visibility. Comparing the two indicators is therefore likely to provide a more in-depth understanding of the HEI resources available.

The international scientific visibility’s means

Aim: Péter Sasvári and Anna Urbanovics present the importance, place and role of contemporary use of science metrics in this volume. The purpose of the presentation of science metrics is clearly the dissemination of knowledge that draws attention from young scientists to professors for everyone applying this knowledge system in a consciously planned manner.Methodology: The authors used a description and analysis of science metrics studies to achieve the set goals. This analysis has been prepared up-to-date and illustratively.Findings: The authors have clearly achieved their goal by presenting current publishing systems. Not only are formal requirements introduced but they also logically build the most important aspects of modern publishing in a step by step, logical way.Values: „Creating science metrical analysis to the individual from its own research area with its 21st century IT tools no longer requires a lot of time and is not too complicated. At the same time, like all other real useful competence, this knowledge becomes the researcher’s habit of measuring the performance of their own sciences, not only knowing how to cultivate publication, but makes it possible from time to time.” (Sasvári & Urbanovics, 2021).

Publication and scientific visibility in communication. The Latin America case

Scientific production on communication issues in the world is increasing and can be evidenced in the visibility records of authors and studies in journals of high scientific impact. However, in regions such as Latin America, this production is not as desired, and continues to suffer from satisfactory indicators of visibility of the efforts of institutions and researchers. This is revealed by the exploratory research and technological surveillance and strategic intelligence carried out from the Scopus database, in observance of the Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) classification in the period 2018-2022, and in comparison with the scientific production of the periods 2014-2019 and from 2000 to 2022. The visibility of scientific production in high-impact journals (quartiles: 1, 2, 3 and 4) reveals that Latin America increased not only research, but also scientific production in communication during the period 2018-2022. An unfinished formation and conformation of the field of communication deserves to listen to the heartbeat of all regions of the world (Torrico, 2011) and provoke reflection on the constitutive history of the field of knowledge, as well as communication research (Vidales, 2015), at times in which science has and can access greater possibilities for its strengthening.

Visibility of Scientific Production and Digital Identity of Researchers through Digital Technologies

The research process does not end with the publication of the results; on the contrary, it has to continue even further, when results are disseminated and scientific disclosure on the Web begins. The purpose of this article is to promote visibility of the scientific production and digital identity of the faculty and researchers at the Universidad Técnica del Norte (Ibarra-Ecuador). By implementing a quantitative documentary, descriptive, and quasi-experimental comparative approach, it was possible to determine the importance of scientific visibility, the most suitable digital platforms for this task (ORCID, Google Scholar, Academia, ResearchGate, ResearcherID (WoS), Author ID (Scopus), Sciprofiles, Mendeley, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Impactstory), and the level of knowledge that professors have of these platforms. With the results, a pilot training-course was planned and implemented for researchers and university professors of the Faculty of Education Science and Technology, with the purpose of registering their author profiles and incorporating their scientific production onto the platforms with the greatest impact and visibility. The results from the two stages (pre-test and post-test) of the pilot course show a significant difference regarding the creation and management of the research profiles; therefore, this strategy puts forward an alternative way to make research and digital/identity visible in the academic, scientific and social community.

The carbon footprint of scientific visibility

In the face of global warming, academics have started to consider and analyze the environmental and carbon footprint associated with their professional activity. Among the several sources of greenhouse gas emissions from research activities, air travel—one of the most visible and unequal fractions of this footprint—has received much attention. Of particular interest is the question of how air travel may be related to scientific success or visibility as defined by current academic evaluation norms, notably bibliometric indicators. Existing studies, conducted over a small sample of individuals or within specific disciplines, have demonstrated that the number of citations may be related to air-travel frequency, but have failed to identify a link between air travel and publication rate or h-index. Here, using a comprehensive dataset aggregating the answers from over 6000 respondents to a survey sent to randomly selected scientists and staff across all research disciplines in France, we show that higher individual air travel is associated with a stronger publication rate and h-index. This relationship is robust to the inclusion of the effects of gender, career stage, and disciplines. Our analysis suggests that flying is a means for early-career scientists to obtain scientific visibility, and for senior scientists to maintain this visibility.

Contribution of Award-Winning Research to the Visibility of Science on a University Campus

Contribution of Award-Winning Research to the Visibility of Science on a University Campus

International scientific visibility in institutions with police science profile

The paper investigates international scientific competitiveness in institutions having a primary research profile in police sciences. This ever-increasing competition between institutions fits into the processes of a change of scientific approach at the level of individual researchers, institutions, and countries. Its dominating process is the “marketization” of science, as it becomes the source of earning of researchers. Another important process is the increasing role and significance of the international university rankings as an effective tool of performance evaluation of institutions. Six institutions are involved in the empirical analysis, including the Central Police University, College of Policing, Israel Police, National Research Institute of Police Science, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Shandong Police College. Findings show that 79 percent of the total publications are published in journals, followed by conference proceedings and review articles. Social science research articles are in the 6th place with a total of 266 articles, while medicine is the leading discipline with 1,088 publications. By measuring the publication performance, the most popular topics can be identified as well. This list is dominated by the topic titled „Homicide; Serial Killer; Murderers”. Analyzing the co-author network, a very active and intensive network can be drawn between the institutions. Joining this network should be a hot priority for the Hungarian institutions as well, primarily for the Faculty of Law Enforcement of the University of Public Service.

FORENSE ENTOMOLOGY:

In the forensic entomological context, the study of arthropods and insects, linked to expert mechanisms ains to raise references and evidence that can be used or finalized by an inquiry investigation, demonstrating how proficient the association of Science with the legal environment can be. In recent years, with the advancement of Science and the enhancement of investigative means through television series, professional entomologists and Forensic Entomology have begun to again academic and scientific visibility. The insects known as scavengers feed on decomposing organic matter, this is because when the animal tissues enter into a state of putrefaction, it attracts an enormous number of species that seek such substrate as a food source or to guarantee the survival of their offspring, therefore, necrophagous insects are part of the cadaverous fauna, when there is no impediment to the natural process. Predisposed to the continued interest in line with this area of knowledge, through a bibliographic review, the advances and functionalities of Forensic Entomology in the scientific, legal and expert practice spheres will be addressed in the context, in search of producing instruments of criminal investigation, enabling the identification of corpses even in advanced states of decomposition, as well as estimating the individual’s after death interval, thus contributing to assist and sustain the judicial work in respect of life. According to the data collected, it is was possible to discover the factors that influence the identification of the corpse, as well as the location where the fact happened and the relevance of using insects as a basis elucidate abd support a criminal investigation. Thus, the study of the biological cicle, biology, ecology and taxonomy of cadaverous fauna is indispensable for de validation of the expert report and compliance with justice by the judiciary.

Development of an electronic educational resource for secondary vocational education programs

One of the most important problems of modern education is the use of information and communication technologies in educational activities and the educational process for all types and at all levels of education. Special requirements are currently imposed on the electronic information and educational environment of an educational institution. The Krasnoyarsk Institute of Railway Transport has created an electronic educational resource for secondary vocational education programs, operating on the basis of LMS Moodle. This electronic educational resource is based on general didactic principles: scientific nature, accessibility, visibility, systematicity and consistency of training, strength of knowledge assimilation, intellectual potential. It was accepted that each electronic course within the resource should have the following qualities: a developed hypertext structure in the conceptual part, as well as in a logical structure of presentation, a user-friendly navigation system, the ability to use multimedia technologies, accessibility, links to literary sources, electronic libraries and sources of information on the Internet, effective feedback.The organizational measures for building the structure of an electronic educational resource and the stages of its implementation in the educational process for secondary vocational education programs are considered: sequential training of the teaching staff in the development of courses in the Moodle system, the development and adoption of the structure of an electronic educational resource, the development of requirements for electronic courses placed in the resource.

Perspectives on disparities in scientific visibility

Scientific visibility is key to an academic career and rooted in the traditional academic cycle of training, (informal) connections, support, publications, citations, recognition and funding — a cycle from which under-represented groups are often excluded. In this Viewpoint, five scientists discuss experiences and thoughts about disparities in scientific visibility and provide action points.

The nature of rapid response to COVID-19 in Latin America: an examination of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

PurposeThe coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic mobilized the international scientific community in the search for its cure and containment. The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of the rapid response to the COVID-19 of the scientific community in selected Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) in the period running from January to August 2020. Rapid response is reconceptualized from its original meaning in health policy, as the swift mobilization of existing scientific resources to address an emergency (DeVita et al., 2017).Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores the rapid response of the Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican scientific communities from the perspective of bibliometric and altmetric data. The authors will examine scientific publications indexed to the Web of Science (WoS) dealing with COVID-19. Besides patterns of scientific output and impact as measured by citations, the authors complement the analysis with altmetric analysis. The aim is to verify whether or not factors that explain the extent of scientific impact can also be identified with respect to the wider impact made evident by altmetric indicators (Haustein, 2016).FindingsThe authors identified a somewhat limited response of the Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican scientific communities to COVID-19 in terms of quantity of publications. The authorship of publications in the topic of COVID-19 was associated with authorship of publications dealing with locally relevant diseases. Some factors appear to contribute to visibility of scientific outputs. Papers that involved wider international collaborations and authors with previous publications in arboviruses were associated with higher levels of citations. Previous work on arbovirus was also associated with higher altmetric attention. The country of origin of authors exerted a positive effect on altmetric indicators.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation in the analysis is that, due to the nature of the data source (WoS), the authors were unable to verify the career status and the productivity of the authors in the sample. Nonetheless, the results appear to suggest that there is some overlapping in authors conducting research in Arboviruses and COVID-19. Career status and productivity should be the focus of future research.Practical implicationsIn the context of countries with limited scientific resources, like the ones investigated in our Latin American sample, previous efforts in the study of locally relevant diseases may contribute to the creation of an expertise that can be applied when a health emergency brings about a novel disease.Originality/valueThe originality of the paper rests on the fact that the authors identified that previous work on arbovirus contributed to the scientific visibility of publications on COVID-19.

Article age- and field-normalized tools to evaluate scientific impact and momentum

The Field Weighted Citation Index (FWCI) is an article age- and field-normalized metric to evaluate scientific visibility and impact. The Topic Prominence Percentile (TPP) is another parameter that allegedly measures an article’s “momentum.” Both are available at SciVal and are thought-provoking but have been scarcely used by the community, partially because it is very time-consuming to collect these parameters, paper by paper. In this article, we created and tested a computer code that can efficiently harvest the FWCI and TPP of articles of any chosen researcher, research group, or institution from the Scopus database. After collecting the desired data, our algorithm computes the sum, mean and standard deviation, mode, and median. It also calculates an alternative metric, proposed here, i.e., a normalized parameter that divides each FWCI by the number of authors of that article and then produces similar metrics. We first used the new algorithm to collect an article dataset from a selected researcher, used as an example, who has published 226 articles since 2000. The automated data collection task took 35 min versus 4 h manually. To demonstrate the power of this approach, we present the most relevant results. For instance, 20% of this researcher’s papers have achieved very high visibility, an FWCI ≥ 2. Surprisingly, however, his articles of the highest FWCI are not the most cited. His 20 oldest papers have a similar FWCI to the 20 newest, showing that his scientific output reached a steady-state long ago. Moreover, we discovered that the papers of the highest FWCI have a higher share (65%) of international collaborators than the articles of the lowest FWCI (< 40%). These results corroborate the well-known trend that international collaboration increases scientific visibility. To generalize these findings, we also successfully compared the FWCI statistics of several senior researchers and young investigators who work in diverse fields, revealing significant differences. This way, we demonstrated that the proposed computer code and resulting metrics provide a new scientometric tool. However, a drawback is that a significant fraction of the “topics” defined by SciVal does not perfectly fit the article’s field, which leads to errors in the computation of the FWCI. Therefore, while the FWCI is a handy parameter to evaluate and compare the scientific visibility and impact of researchers of any age and science field, reliable analyses will only be possible using an improved choice of topics.

Scientific production on patient safety in the field of nursing in Latin America

Patient safety is a priority in health care centers, where the nursing professional's focus is on direct patient care without the intention of committing adverse events, committing to focused and safe care free of incidents, but these can be modified if there is no culture of quality care. A descriptive bibliometric study was carried out in the Scopus database, in publications between January 2000 and December 2020; with the aim of characterizing the scientific production on patient safety in the area of Nursing in Latin America. A total of 939 documents were recovered. The scientific production had a marked growth after 2007, 97.8 of the documents were citable documents, the language with the highest number of articles and citations per document was English with 872 documents and 16.3 citations per document respectively. A significant positive correlation was found between the indicators of collaboration and scientific visibility. It is concluded that Latin American scientific production on patient safety in the nursing area is characterized by a tendency towards growth in volume, with a marked decrease in scientific impact. High producers such as Brazil and Mexico stand out, however, there is a low Latin American scientific leadership, highlighting the need to strengthen research in this thematic area in the region, as a way of recognizing the importance of safe and quality care as a basis for nursing practice

Az Ipari Automatizálás és Kommunikáció Tudományos Műhely munkássága és eredményei

A Miskolci Egyetemen működő 5 Kiválósági Központ és a bennük működő Tudományos Műhelyek fő feladata, hogy tapasztalt szenior kutatók köré eredményes kutatói csapatok épüljenek fel. A Tudományos Műhelyeken belül új kutatók kapcsolódhatnak be növelve a kutatói motiváltságot és kihasználva az interdiszciplinaritásban rejlő előnyöket. A kijelölt stratégiai kutatási témák területén cél a kutató teamek tudományos láthatóságának növelése és pozícionálása az országos, európai és még szélesebb körű nemzetközi szakmai és tudományos közegben. Publikációm célja, hogy bemutassa az Ipari Automatizálás és Kommunikáció Tudományos Műhely munkásságát és eredményeit az EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00011 jelű „Fiatalodó és Megújuló Egyetem – Innovatív Tudásváros – a Miskolci Egyetem intelligens szakosodást szolgáló intézményi fejlesztése” projekt keretén belül.

Revistas peruanas indexadas en Scopus. Un estudio de caso

El objetivo de esta investigación es describir y analizar bibliométricamente las revistas peruanas indexadas en la plataforma Scopus, a luz del establecimiento de la entrada en vigencia del Reglamento del Registro Nacional Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica – RENACYT en al año 2016. Esta investigación corresponde a un trabajo descriptivo y analítico de orden bibliométrico. El estudio comprende la descripción bibliométrica de las revistas peruanas indexadas en la plataforma Scopus entre los años 2017-2018. Los resultados indican que la plataforma de indexación científica Scopus, cuenta 8 publicaciones peruanas consideradas de alto impacto distribuidas entre los quartiles Q3 y Q4. Estas publicaciones incluyen las disciplinas biomédicas, veterinarias, humanidades, letras, psicología, filosofía y comunicación. Concluye que la presencia de revistas peruanas dentro de la plataforma Scopus constituye un importante impulso para la visibilización científica nacional, no obstante, el número de revistas y la diversificación de las mismas continúa siendo insuficiente a la luz de las normativas RENACYT. El dominio de las áreas temáticas biomédicas y veterinarias, es indicador de la demanda local de revistas multidisciplinarias indexadas que visibilicen la investigación peruana en el seno de la comunidad científica nacional e internacional.

Research Competencies and its Relationship with the Scientific Production of University Teachers in Peru

Teaching research at a university becomes important because it reflects the quality of the academic institution, this quality is measured through scientific production, which is product of teaching and research experience. The objective of this investigation was to determinate the relationship of research competencies and scientific production university teachers in several institutions located in Peru. The methodology developed was of quantitative approach, correlational level, non-experimental design; two instruments were applied to 205 teachers who taught courses related to research competencies. The first variable, research competencies, had three dimensions: development of research projects, methodology of research projects, and use of APA style, constructed and validated previously by Ceballos and Tobón. The second variable, scientific production, whose authors were Rodríguez and Rivas it consisted of four dimensions: project training, training in scientific publication and dissemination, project implementation and scientific visibility. The questionnaire contained of 21 items, whose valuations were through the frequency Likert scale (1=never, 2=rarely, 3=occasionally, 4=frequently, and 5=very frequently). Spearman’s rho determinate a high ratio (r=0.788) correlation between the two variables (research competencies and scientific production). The dimensions of research competencies were also correlated with the main variable scientific production, finding that development of research projects, methodology of research projects, and use of APA style have a positive relation (r=0.702; 0.821 and 0.658). The main conclusion is that teachers who are in charge of research courses have greater possibilities of having scientific production, such as publishing scientific articles in indexed journals, but there is a flaw that predominates this group over the application of the APA Style Standards, suggesting the need to develop workshops for writing scientific articles.

Women's representation in French Internal Medicine meetings: gender distribution among speakers, moderators and organisers, 2013-2018.

Medical meetings are a time for increasing scientific visibility and leadership. We aimed to examine women's representation in French National Internal Medicine meetings (2013-2018). Women represented 25% of congress presidents, 22% of plenary session speakers, 19% of plenary session moderators and 25% oral session moderators, but 45% of anonymously selected oral communication speakers. Women are under-represented among invited speakers in French Internal Medicine meetings.

Excellence everywhere? Regional development of French scientific output and visibility

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the notion of scientific ‘excellence’ at the heart of public research policies by comparing it with the situation regarding the regional development of scientific activity in France. The case presented is based on bibliometric analysis of chemistry publications in French cities between 1985 and 2010, during which the policies of excellence were still not effective. It is asserted that the trend was towards an identical level of excellence across the country's different cities and that the dynamics of regional cities depends on them being ‘equipped’ with researchers, internationalized and specialized in emerging fields.