Scientometric Indicators Research Articles

Scientometric Analysis of Kazakhstani Universities’ Publication Activity

The article analyzes the publication activity of Kazakhstani universities. The aim of the study is to identify the main trends and factors influencing the increase in scientific productivity in universities. The study was carried out using the method of scientometric analysis of universities' data in the Scopus and Web of Science databases and InCites and SciVal electronic analytical tools. At the same time, both quantitative and qualitative indicators were “measured”, to the latter the authors attributed the citation of publications and journal quartiles. The level of international collaboration and the share of publications as the first author or corresponding author is also considered. Based on the data obtained, the ranking of organizations was carried out, the features of the publication activity of each of the groups, as well as the factors influencing the publication strategy of universities’ teaching staff, were identified. The positive results of the policy of increasing publication activity at universities, including participation in world academic rankings, include an increase in the number of publications, including in journals, of the first two quartiles (that is, the improvement of the quality), a high level of international collaboration, and an increase in the recognition of scientists and their contribution to research (citation and position of the author). At the same time, the problem of manipulating scientometric indicators to improve individual indicators and universities’ performance remains relevant. Higher education institutions can use the results of this study to develop publication strategies and adjust approaches to hiring faculty in terms of analyzing their publication activity. Key words: Publication activity, university, scientometric analysis, scientific productivity

Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children's Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication.

New-born infants communicate from the first minute they come to life. This non-linguistic and non-verbal capacity to interact from the first day they come to life enables them to express their needs and evidence their typical development. This capacity to interact develops to include linguistic and non-linguistic use of verbal and non-verbal interaction, that is, pragmatics. Because pragmatics is heterogeneously structured of semiotic, cognitive, motor and sensory elements so it is vital to ensure successful human interaction. The other language elements (i.e., phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic) are essential inputs for this human interaction outcome (i.e., pragmatics). Accordingly, this study sought to map evidence that pragmatics can enhance children’s use of linguistic and non-linguistic capacities for interactive communication. This was addressed by conducting bibliometric and scientometric analyses of 6554 documents from Scopus, 1167 from WOS and 11,230 from Lens between 1939 and 2022. We analysed the past, present and future developments of the field of pragmatics using bibliometric and scientometric indicators. The scientometric analysis was conducted using CiteSpace 5.8.R3 and VOSviewer 1.6.18 software, which enabled the tabulation, visualisation and measurement of the impact of central influencers in the field of pragmatics. In the light of our results, pragmatics continues to expand in order to understand human interaction in a deeper way and to enhance children’s typical interactions with the environment around them. The group should also include adults or elderly people whose pragmatic language skills have been impaired due to any acquired or developmental disorder, such as a brain injury.

Biolinguistics: A Scientometric Analysis of Research on (Children's) Molecular Genetics of Speech and Language (Disorders).

There are numerous children and adolescents throughout the world who are either diagnosed with speech and language disorders or manifest any of them as a result of another disorder. Meanwhile, since the emergence of language as an innate capability, the question of whether it constitutes a behaviour or an innate ability has been debated for decades. There have been several theories developed that support and demonstrate the biological foundations of human language. Molecular evidence of the biological basis of language came from the FOXP2 gene, also known as the language gene. Taking a closer look at both human language and biology, biolinguistics is at the core of these inquiries—attempting to understand the aetiologies of the genetics of speech and language disorders in children and adolescents. This paper presents empirical evidence based on both scientometrics and bibliometrics. We collected data between 1935 and 2022 from Scopus, WOS, and Lens. A total of 1570 documents were analysed from Scopus, 1440 from the WOS, and 5275 from Lens. Bibliometric analysis was performed using Excel based on generated reports from these three databases. CiteSpace 5.8.R3 and VOSviewer 1.6.18 were used to conduct the scientometric analysis. Eight bibliometric and eight scientometric indicators were used to measure the development of the field of biolinguistics, including but not limited to the production size of knowledge, the most examined topics, and the most frequent concepts and variables. A major finding of our study is identifying the most examined topics in the genetics of speech and language disorders. These included: gestural communication, structural design, cultural evolution, neural network, language tools, human language faculty, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, and theoretical perspective on language evolution.

The potential of private universities in promotion of national science: Current status and trends

In the presented material the potential and capabilities of private universities in development and promotion of Russian science is analyzed based on information from the Web of Science Core Collection and RSCI databases. A definition of the concept of “private university”, used at the international and national levels, is given, as well as statistics on the number of private universities in Russia and the share of academic staff working in them. A comparative analysis of quantitative and qualitative scientometric indicators of authors affiliated with private and public universities is carried out. The dynamics of the indicators of scientific journals affiliated with private universities during 2017–2020 is studied. The conclusion is drawn that private universities not only possess scientific potential, but also have real tools to promote scientific results of national science.

Indian Medicinal Plant Research during the Last Decade (2012-2021): A Scientometric Analysis

Many published materials demonstrate the growing interest in medicinal plant research within the research community. This scientometric analysis examined Indian scientists’ medicinal plant research output from 2012 to 2021. To analyse and provide findings based on scientometric indicators, such as annual research trends, relevant sources, most productive authors and affiliations, nation’s collaboration, and funding bodies. 12,281 Scopus publications were assessed with Excel, Bibliometrix, and VOSviewer. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is the primary contributing source, while 2012 was the most productive year. Among Indian authors, Bhatt I. D. was found the most prolific. The majority of the scientists published their documents as articles, the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants was the most active contributor, and the University Grants Commission was the major funding organisation for medicinal plant research. This kind of scientometric analysis provides insight to academicians to understand the knowledge structures in a domain.

Clinical Linguistics: Analysis of Mapping Knowledge Domains in Past, Present and Future.

Across the world, many infants, children, adults, and elderly people are reported with many types of disorders and disabilities that damage, delay, or impede typical language development and/or use. Speech–language pathologists and other relevant clinicians are responsible for diagnosing, assessing, and rehabilitating these conditions. In nearly all types of disorders or disabilities that affect language, clinical linguistics plays a significant role in their study, diagnosis, and evaluation. This study provides a thorough analysis of the field of clinical linguistics. Data from Scopus, WOS, and Lens were used between 1981 and 2022. The documents included in the analysis were 1685, 1628, and 2677 articles published between 1981 and 2022 in clinical linguistics in Scopus, WOS, and Lens, respectively. For the purpose of assessing the development and impacts of the field of clinical linguistics, we used eight bibliometric and eight scientometric indicators. As part of the study, the results summarized the top contributors to clinical linguistics in terms of production size by year, country, university/research centre, journal, publisher, and author. The impact of the examined evidence on clinical linguistics was visualized and tabulated in the form of visual networks, citation counts, burst, cooccurrence, centrality, and sigma factors that are helpful in identifying the main influencers in clinical linguistics. A few examples of clinical linguistics patterns that are being explored extensively by researchers include cleft palate speech with model theories, visual feedback, motor speech disorders with instrumental analysis, acoustic analysis to understand conversational breakdown, nonlinear phonological theory, aphasic conversation in atypical interaction, and diagnostic markers in functional segments. There are also phonological disorders, William Syndrome, and the use of ultrasound, which may be considered potential clusters of clinical linguistics. A key contribution of this paper is highlighting the importance of clinical linguistics as well as its integration with linguistics, speech–language pathology, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, and psychometrics.

Indonesia’s Place in the Research Landscape of Southeast Asia

This article presents a scientometric analysis of 330,729 journal articles indexed in the prestigious Science Citation Index Expanded of the Web of Science database authored by researchers affiliated with institutions from five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) and published in the first two decades of the 21st century (2001-2020). With a focus on Indonesia, we examined the scientific production of those five nations as well as the citedness of their research publications from both the static and dynamic perspectives and compared various indicators of countries in absolute and relative terms, including the socio-economic aspects of population size, gross domestic product, and research and development expenditures. The key findings are: a) the overall research production of all five countries has been growing, b) Indonesia is the weakest nation in all relative scientometric indicators except the average number of citations per paper, where it is ranked second, c) Malaysia is generally the leading nation, but Vietnam has the most remarkably positive development in both production and citedness, and d) the Philippines is extremely efficient in the mean number of citations per paper as well as per expenditure on research and development.

Analysis of Scientometric Indicators in Publications Associated with Healthy Aging in the World, Period 2011-2020.

Today, the world population is aging at a fast rate. This scenario of the accelerated aging of human populations entails increased concern for healthy aging that is associated with a rise in scientific production related to the topic. In this study, the Scopus database from Elsevier was used, with a final search carried out on 5 January 2022, and various bibliometric indicators were obtained from SciVal. The study was fundamentally intended to characterize, determine trends, and understand the evolution and current state of research on the concept of “healthy aging” in the last decade. We found that there has been proportionally greater and more accelerated growth in the subject with respect to the general productivity of the world and that countries with high life expectancies tend to have made more effort to investigate this topic. The “hottest” research areas were found to be related to the cognitive aspect and the biological mechanisms involved in aging.

A Glance at the Activity of Iranian Researchers and Reviewers in Publons


 Publons is a portal that gives information on scientific products, review activities, and the scientometric standing of researchers. In this line, the present study attempted to evaluate the review actions of researchers of Iranian universities in Publons. In this applied research, the 10 best institutions of Iran were picked as the comprehensive research based on the number of researchers in Publons. Demographic data, verified reviews, and scientometric indicators were extracted. Microsoft Office and R applications were used to examine the data. The findings suggested that the University of Tehran has top rank in terms of verified reviews compared to other institutions. Researchers from Iran University of Science and Technology in Publons did better with high H-index and citations. The data also demonstrated that there was a statistically significant association between scholars’ review activities with research products and scholars’ H-index, according to which the editors-in-chief of journals pick academics who have a lot of reputation and research products for review. Publons is an excellent instrument for researchers to exhibit their scientific strength in evaluating the editors-in-chief of journals in the worldwide community and also raise the quality of publishing research outputs by developing the talent of criticism and review.

Assessment of collaboration patterns in the field of biology in Armenia during 2007-2020: a bibliometric overview

Bibliometric analysis is widely used for the assessment of collaboration both at the domestic and international levels, which has been known as one of the essential parts of academic performance and enhancement of scientific productivity and visibility. Evaluation of national and international cooperation in the framework of jointly published papers in biology underlies the core of present study. This research provides insight into the nature of scientific productivity and international scientific cooperation. The study aims to give a bibliometric overview via scientometric indicators based on a bibliometric database of published articles in the Biological Journal of Armenia during 2007-2020. The main indicators used for the evaluation of co-authorship patterns include the degree of collaboration, collaboration index, and the collaboration coefficient. The visualization of landscapes for both institution-wise and country-wise distributions within the international cooperation has also been performed.

Progress in Analgesic Development: How to Assess its Real Merits?

Assessing analgesic drugs developed over preceding 50 years demonstrated that very intensive efforts directed at diverse molecular pain targets produced thousands of PubMed articles and the introduction of more than 50 new analgesics. Nevertheless, these analgesics did not have a sufficiently broad spectrum of action and level of effectiveness to demonstrably affect the use of opioids or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of pain. Analgesics in current are only modestly effective in chronic pain (at least with respect to neuropathic pain), and the widespread application of mu-opioid receptor agonists for this purpose culminated in the global "opioid crisis". The introduction of every new drug is regarded as an important success, at least initially. Assessing the merit of a new analgesic is extremely complicated. The aim of this article is to describe an approach that combines very different categories of drug evaluation - multifactorial approach for the assessment of new analgesics. It is based on conclusiveness of clinical trials, novelty of a drug's molecular target, a drug's commercial appeal, and the interest in a drug reflected by scientometric indices. This approach was applied to analgesics developed in 1982-2016. It shows that although several new agents have completely novel mechanisms of action, all newly approved drugs, and drug candidates, demonstrated the same persistent problems: relatively low therapeutic advantage over previous treatment and narrow spectrum of use in different types of pain, compared to opioids or NSAIDs. The use of the suggested multifactorial approach to drug assessment may provide a better view of the whole spectrum of analgesics advantages and disadvantages.

The Russian demography in 2010–2020: scientometric analysis according Elsevier data

The actuality of demographic research is permanently at high level both in Russia and in the world. The purpose of the study is to establish placement of studies and researchers in Russia on the world map of demographic science. The scientometric analysis was applied to the base of international quoting Scopus (Elsevier). The analysis of universe of discourse "Demography" was implemented using SciVal (Elsevier) on the basis of number of publications, number of viewing abstracts or full texts of publications, number of quoting, weighted-average impact-factor of journals. To compare trends according number of publications and quoting in the universe of discourse eLibrary data was used. The results of analysis demonstrated significant lagging of Russian publication activity on demography from countries-leaders on scientometric indices. At that, increased interest to Russian scientific results was established at the level of publications viewing. The most notable place in research of prominent topics in demography the Russian researchers assign to problematics of natality and inner migration. The number of directions targeting to ameliorate considered situation and to place the results of Russian demographic studies on world map of demographic science was proposed.

Scientometric portrait of Professor Wolfgang Glänzel, an expert in the field of scientometrics

Professor Wolfgang Glänzel, an outstanding and leading professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium, received the international Derek John de Solla Price Award for remarkable contributions to the quantitative studies of science in 1999. During his 37yearsof scientific career, 276articles have been individually or collaboratively indexed with his name in Web of Science. Thirty five out of 276 papers were single authored by Glänzel, and the other 241 ones were collaborative works. Glänzel’s highest level of scientific productivity with 122 documents was during the years 2008 to 2017, when he was 53 to 62 years old. Scientometrics was his preferred journal. Glänzel has mainly collaborated with researchers from Hungary and Belgium, specifically some of the KU Leuven and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. For instance, outstanding researchers including Schubert, Thijs, Braun and Zhang are part his authorship teams. Professor Glänzel has done considerable work in areas such as hybrid clustering, text mining, citation analysis, bibliometric analysis, scientometric indicators, altmetrics, and others.

Bibliometric analysis of Belarusian publications on agrarian topics for 1991-2021 presented in scientometric databases

Scientometric indicators are nowadays an almost mandatory element in assessing the scientific activity of a scientist or an academic organization, and scientometric methods are actively used in various studies in the field of science studies, including bibliometric studies. The article analyses the three largest citation systems. The Belarusian publications on agriculture selected from Web of Science, Scopus and RSCI scientometric databases for the period 1991-2021 have been studied in detail. Articles were analyzed by subject, publishing organizations, authors, year of publication, types of publications, and other parameters. Based on the results obtained, it was concluded that the number of publications and the number of their citations is growing every year. This indicates the growing publication activity of the authors. However, Belarusian authors prefer to publish in Russian-language editions that are not included articlein foreign information resources. This indicates the need for their further promotion in the world information systems. At the same time, the reflection of publications with the participation of Belarusian authors in international information resources undoubtedly has a positive effect on the status of national science in the system of global scientific communications.

Scientometric analysis of the chess scietific direction

The article is devoted to the scientometric analysis of chess as a scientific direction in Russia and abroad. As part of the study, an assumption made about the lack of due attention to the presented scientific topics in our country and the outstripping growth in the countries of Europe and North America. An assessment is made of a pool of publications on the subject in the Scopus and RSCI databases, highlighting the structure and research fronts, a critical assessment of the relevance and particularly affected organizations dealing with a given problem. The expertise of scientific publications has been implemented, which are concentrated in publications on the subject and their scientometric indicators. The conclusion is formulated about the increased interest in the thematic block from various aspects of special knowledge, while the most promising advantage is the study of chess by mathematicians and specialists in the field of artificial intelligence, which is extremely important for the journal. The study conducted in the sectoral appropriation of scientometrics (computer sciences) will be interesting to consider, not only with digital competencies, but also for specialists in the field of scientific data analysis.

Impact of Open Access on Journal Indices of Geology Journals

The aim of the present study is to analyze the open access status of geology journals and the impact of open access status on journal indices. This paper intends to measure journal indices for open access journals in geology, and compare them with the indices of non-open access journals in geology. The question of whether publishing in the open access mode is beneficial to authors is examined. The data was collected from Scopus Source List on 10thFebruary 2022. Geology journals were filtered from this. Open Access journals covered by Scopus are recognized as Open Access if the journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and/or the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD). For each journal, we extracted different scientometric indicators and then compared these scientometric indicators with respect to the journals’ status as Open Access or Non-Open Access. Upon analyzing the difference between 50 OA and 184 non-OA journals with sufficient metric values in Scopus Source List, no significant differences were found between Geology OA and non-OA journals in the indices like citescore, citation count, scholarly output, percent cited, SNIP, SJR and percentile. Publishing in Open Access and non-Open Access journals in Geology will yield citations.

Thematic Search Algorithms for Experts, Journals and Conferences

The paper discusses methods for thematic search of experts, journals and conferences, provides a brief overview of existing systems with an indication of their main shortcomings, and describes the algorithms for the thematic search of experts developed by the authors, as well as algorithms for thematic search of journals and conferences. A brief description of the software implementation of the developed algorithms is given. User interfaces for searching for conferences are presented. The results of testing software implementations of algorithms based on the data of the scientometric system "ISTINA" are presented. The algorithms developed by the authors use data from scientometric systems, including graphs of mutual relations between objects, are able to filter data by narrowly focused thematic queries and rank search results by authority. The approach used makes it possible to perform a thematic search for conferences in different languages with the determination of their authority and the determination of their thematic proximity. Such thematic analysis makes it possible to normalize scientometric indicators depending on the subject of scientific research, to identify and analyze the main thematic directions in the development of science, to carry out a thematic search for objects (journals and conferences) in order to expand scientific contacts and create new research teams.

Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Scientific Library in the System of Publications’ Scientometric Assessment

The aim of the article is to investigate ways to assess the effectiveness of scientific research, conduct a comprehensive analysis and characterise the publications of research and teaching staff of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. The research methodology is based on the application of a systematic approach and a number of methods: analytical, observation, comparison, and the method of theoretical generalisation. The classification method is to organise data by volume and quantity. The authors have revealed the transformation of the structure of scientific research through the dialectical method taking into account the development of scientometric indicators. The scientific novelty consists in processing and covering the results of publication activity of research and teaching staff of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts in international scientometric databases. The article describes the work of the Scientific Library to provide access to full-text databases, user training, monitor publication activity, and identify scientific papers in international databases. Conclusions. The significance of publications as a scientometric indicator is that this indicator assesses the effectiveness of both individual scientists and research teams and facilities. Publications in academic journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science contribute to the growth of the rating in the scientific community, guarantee the successful defence of scientific work, increase the chance of receiving grants, and contribute to an excellent start to publishing activities in world-class scientific journals, and so on. The creation and active work of the bibliometric and scientometric sector of the Scientific Library, which provides information and analytical support for the publication activity of higher education institutions, contributed to the increase in the level of publication activity, scientometric and bibliometric indicators of research and teaching staff of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

Publication activity of future pediatricians: analysis of current practice

Stimulating scientific activity in students of higher medical educational institutions is one of the important tasks of the current healthcare system. However, should this be limited to student journals and conferences only? Can students apply for publication in major scientific journals on an equal basis with renowned scientists? In our work, we determined how often medical students publish articles in peer-reviewed pediatric journals and whether the scientometric indicators of their work differ from the general array of articles. We manually selected 2,618 publications of the journals «Practical Pediatric Problems» and «Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics» using the information analysis system of the Scientific Electronic Library, of which 74 articles (2,8%) were written with the participation of students. They do not differ significantly from the total number of publications based on to the main scientometric indicators, such as the total number of citations of publications, the average number of citations per article, and the number of articles cited at least once. This indirectly suggests that these materials comply with the accepted standards of publishing practice typical for peer-reviewed scientific journals. We believe that, under the guidance of experienced teachers, future pediatricians can not only contribute to the collection of materials for research and their statistical processing, but also, possibly, offer new ideas based on advanced medical knowledge.

Comparative study of science evaluation practices

PurposeGiven the magnitude of the literature, a researcher must be selective of research papers and publications in general. In other words, only papers that meet strict standards of academic integrity and adhere to reliable and credible sources should be referenced. The purpose of this paper is to approach this issue from the prism of scientometrics according to the following research questions: Is it necessary to judge the quality of scientific production? How do we evaluate scientific production? What are the tools to be used in evaluation?Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a comparative study of scientometric evaluation practices and tools. A systematic literature review is conducted based on articles published in the field of scientometrics between 1951 and 2022. To analyze data, the authors performed three different aspects of analysis: usage analysis based on classification and comparison between the different scientific evaluation practices, type and level analysis based on classifying different scientometric indicators according to their types and application levels and similarity analysis based on studying the correlation between different quantitative metrics to identify similarity between them.FindingsThis comparative study leads to classify different scientific evaluation practices into externalist and internalist approaches. The authors categorized the different quantitative metrics according to their types (impact, production and composite indicators), their levels of application (micro, meso and macro) and their use (internalist and externalist). Moreover, the similarity analysis has revealed a high correlation between several scientometric indicators such as author h-index, author publications, citations and journal citations.Originality/valueThe interest in this study lies deeply in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of research groups and guides their actions. This evaluation contributes to the advancement of scientific research and to the motivation of researchers. Moreover, this paper can be applied as a complete in-depth guide to help new researchers select appropriate measurements to evaluate scientific production. The selection of evaluation measures is made according to their types, usage and levels of application. Furthermore, our analysis shows the similarity between the different indicators which can limit the overuse of similar measures.