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343 Scientific Publications in Emergency Medicine Journals From Chinese Authors: A Significant Rising Trend

Study Objective: The development of emergency medicine originated from North America and the contributions from other area have increased in the past decade. Taiwan and China were the first and 6th contributors outside the United States that submitting manuscripts to the leading emergency medicine journals in 2010. The official journal of the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine was enrolled in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports. This study aims to evaluate the academic contribution from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong to emergency medicine field according to the scientific publication in emergency medicine journals. Methods: Design: This study was an observational study and it qualified for a waiver from our institutional review board because no human subjects were involved. Setting: All of the data were collected from the Journal Citation Reports and SciVerse Scopus database. Type of participants: All journals included in the category of emergency medicine in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports were enrolled as source journals. All of the articles published in these journals between 1992 and 2011 were included. For journals included in the Journal Citation Reports after 1992, articles published 3 years before the inclusion year of Journal Citation Reports were excluded. The in press or E-published articles were excluded. Data Collection: A computerized literature search was conducted in the SciVerse Scopus database on 17 March 2012. The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) was used to perform search of articles published in emergency medicine journals between 1992 and 2011. The search terms used were “ISSN (xxxx-xxxx) AND PUBYEAR AFT 1991 AND PUBYEAR BEF 2012.” The articles originated from Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong were retrieved by added the limitations of “AND AFFILCOUNTRY (Taiwan),” “AND AFFILCOUNTRY (China),” “AND AFFILCOUNTRY (Hong Kong).” We collected data on articles including publication journal, publication year, cited times, and document type for further analyze. Data Analysis: Linear regression was used to evaluate the trends of article number from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and the ratio to all emergency medicine articles. The slope (β) of the linear regression was adopted as representative of trends. The 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of β were calculated. The total cited times, average cited times, and document type were analyzed using descriptive statistics. ANOVA was used for detecting the difference among the average cited times of these 3 regions. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The publication numbers of Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and all emergency medicine journals between 1992 and 2011 increased from 2 to 86, 1 to 59, 2 to 58, and 1008 to 42199, respectively. The trends of the numbers of publication from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and the trends of the ratio to all emergency medicine publications from 1992 to 2011 were 6.195, 1.882, 2.835, 1.529×10-3, 4.576×10-4, and 6.798×10-4 respectively. All p-value were <0.001. The trends from 2002 to 2011 were 9.673, 5.952, 7.158, 1.113×10-3, 1.482×10-3, and 1.529×10-3, respectively. All p-value were significant except that of the ratio of Taiwan to all emergency medicine publications. The average cited times of publications from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong were 4.55, 2.66, 3.78 respectively (p = 0.01). The ratios of review and article to all document types of Taiwan, China and Hong Kong publications were 80.3%, 87.4%, and 77.8%. Conclusion: In the past 20 years, the contribution from Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong authors to emergency medicine journals has a substantial increase. The quantity and quality of articles from Taiwan is better than China and Hong Kong. The gap between Taiwan and both China and Hong Kong was diminishing in the past 10 years.

Bibliometric analysis of Chinese ophthalmological papers indexed in SCI database from 2007 to 2011

[Objective] To learn the bibliometric characteristics of Chinese ophthalmological papers indexed in SCI database from 2007 to 2011.[Methods] All the ophthalmological papers published in the source journals indexed in the SCI database from 2007 to 2011 were retrieved.The papers of first authors were manually selected for bibliometric analysis.[Results] The ophthalmological papers published by Chinese scholars as the first author were 478,482,698,791,and 1049 from 2007 to 2011 (total 3498).The five institutions that published papers in the most were Sun Yat-sen University,Capital University of Medical Sciences,Fudan University,Hong Kong Chinese University and Shanghai Jiaotong University.The papers were distributed in 625 journals.The top five journals the papers were published in were Molecular Vision (332),International Journal of Ophthalmology (268),Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (206),Chinese Medical Journal (109),and Graefe′s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (104).The 3498 papers were cited 12 030 times,3.44 times per paper.The rate of non-cited articles for 5-year,3-year and 2-year periods were 12.55％,24.21％ and 38.43％ respectively.[Conclusion]s Chinese ophthalmological papers indexed in SCI database have gradually increased.Chinese ophthalmological papers mainly originate in the affiliated hospital of universities and colleges.There are four ophthalmologic professional periodicals included in the top five in the quantity of articles. Key words: Journal article; Bibliometrics; Databases, bibliographic

Fifty most cited articles in orthopedic shoulder surgery

The number of times an article has been cited has been used as a marker of its influence in a medical specialty. The purpose of this study was to determine the 50 most cited articles in shoulder surgery and their characteristics. Science Citation Index Expanded was searched for citations of articles published in any of the 61 journals in the category "Orthopedics." Each of the journals was searched to determine the 50 most often cited articles specific to shoulder surgery. The following characteristics were determined for each article: authors, year of publication, source journal, geographic origin, article type, and level of evidence for clinical articles. Citation density (total number of citations/years since publication) was also determined. The number of citations ranged from 1211 to 192. The 50 most often cited articles were published in 8 journals. The majority of the articles (42) were clinical, with the remaining representing some type of basic science research. The most common level of evidence was IV (23). The mean number of citations for methodologic articles (437 citations per article) was greater than that for non-methodologic articles (301 citations per article) (P = .034). Articles that introduced instruments for outcome evaluation or that introduced classification systems (methodologic) were highly cited regardless of the date of publication. The top 50 list presented provides residency and fellowship directors with a group of "classic" articles in the subspecialty of orthopedic shoulder surgery that can be included in reading curriculums for their trainees.

A deductive approach to select or rank journals in multifaceted subject, Oceanography

Whether singleton approach (citation analysis of identified source journals) used by Gross and Gross (Science 66(1713):385–389, 1927) or differential approach (citation analysis of articles in specific subject field) applied by Bradford (Engineering 137:85–86, 1934) suitable to select or rank journals in multifaceted subject—‘Oceanography’ is presented. This study discusses both the approaches analyzing citations of published literature in oceanography from 30 countries. The ranking correlation of journals showed better positive correlation (lowest ρ = 0.662 for 2005–2009 to highest ρ = 0.817 for 1995–1999) when top ranked journals from the list generated complying Gross and Gross approach (GA) were correlated with same journal titles of the list generated complying Bradford approach than the other way (lowest ρ = 0.588 for 2005–2009 to highest ρ = 0.726 for 1990–1994). Both the approaches matched similar number of journals to country-wise lists and give unbiased choice in preferring a ranking list. The journals distribution graphs showed typical Bradford–Leimkuhler curves in both the approaches for all the datasets. But the groos droop appears comparatively early with shorter straight line in GA. The high clustering of literature to limited number of journals is a disadvantage in multifaceted subject. So the differential approach used by Bradford is being considered suitable for multifaceted subject like, ‘Oceanography’.

A systematic review and thematic analysis of cinema in medical education

The use of cinema in medical education has the potential to teach students about a variety of subjects, for instance by illustrating a lecture on communication skills with a clip...

Evaluation of academic influence of medical statistics source journals in Heilongjiang province during 2005 - 2009

Objective To evaluate the academic influence of medical statistics source journals in Heilongjiang province during 2005 - 2009. Methods evaluation data of Chinese Science and Technology Citation Reports(2006 - 2010 periodicals) as a statistical source, the 7 indexes(literature sources, total cites, impact factor, immediacy index, he cited rate, ratio of overseas papers, ratio of funded papers) of medical statistics source journals in Heilongjiang province during 2005 - 2009 were analyzed. Dynamic evaluation model was used to evaluate the academic influence of journals and compute impact assessment score(Ⅰ), relative impact assessment score(Ir), and rate of growth. Results There were 5 kinds of medical statistics source journals in Heilongjiang province during 2005 - 2009, they were Journal of Harbin Medical University, Chinese of Endemiology, Chinese of Critical Care Medicine, Chinese of Preventive Veterinary Medicine,Chinese of Traditional Medical Science and Technology, respectively. Year by year, the total cites,impact factor and ratio of funded papers of above mentioned journals showed increase trend, literature sources, he cited rate and ratio of overseas papers showed stable trend, immediacy index showed greater fluctuations. Ⅰ values of above periodicals were 32 279.79, 379 379.20, 251 240.26, 117 576.00, and 83 156.65, respectively. Ir value of above periodicals were 0.19, 2.20, 1.45, 0.68, and 0.48, respectively. The rates of growth of above periodicals were 0.41, - 0.07, 0.24, 1.04, and 0.87, respectively. Conclusions The development of medical statistics source journals in Heilongjiang province is in good condition, the academic influence is an overall upward trend. Key words: Journal; Academic influence; Outcome assessment

Mapping the core journals of the physical therapy literature

The purpose of this study was to identify (1) core journals in the literature of physical therapy, (2) currency of references cited in that literature, and (3) online databases providing the highest coverage rate of core journals. Data for each cited reference in each article of four source journals for three years were recorded, including type of literature, year of publication, and journal title. The journal titles were ranked in descending order according to the frequency of citations and divided into three zones using Bradford's Law of Scattering. Four databases were analyzed for coverage rates of articles published in the Zone 1 and Zone 2 journals in 2007. Journal articles were the most frequently cited type of literature, with sixteen journals supplying one-third of the cited journal references. Physical Therapy was the most commonly cited title. There were more cited articles published from 2000 to 2007 than in any previous full decade. Of the databases analyzed, CINAHL provided the highest coverage rate for Zone 1 2007 publications. Results were similar to a previous study, except for changes in the order of Zone 1 journals. Results can help physical therapists and librarians determine important journals in this discipline.

Determining the impact factors of secondary journals: A retrospective cohort study

AbstractSecondary journals such as Evidence‐Based Medicine, ACP Journal Club, and Evidence‐Based Nursing summarize, from over 150 clinical journals, articles that pass criteria for scientific merit, clinical relevance, and interest to practicing clinicians. We performed a retrospective cohort study to validate the selection process used to produce the secondary journals by calculating the 2007 impact factors for these journals using articles that were abstracted and originally published in 2005–2006. The ‘impact factors’ for the secondary journals were calculated using 2007 citations to included articles. These were compared to the published impact factors and mean citations of the source journals. 2005/2006 articles in the secondary journals were originally published in 82 journals with ISI impact factors (median 4.1, range 0.85–52.9). The calculated impact factors for the secondary journals were 39.5 for ACP Journal Club, 30.2 for Evidence‐Based Medicine, and 9.3 for Evidence‐Based Nursing. Limitations include articles coming from only 150 journal titles and the inclusion of these articles may in fact stimulate citations. We conclude that evidence‐based secondary journals include articles at the time of publication that go on to garner more citations on average than other articles in the source publications.

SOURCE CREDIBILITY AND JOURNALISM

The extent to which information sources, that stand behind virtually all the news, are perceived by journalists as credible is a key determinant of the likelihood of their obtaining news access and public voice. The nature of source credibility judgment in journalism, however, is disputed between two major schools: while the “visceral” camp contends that it is highly subjective, intuitive and biased, the “discretional” camp perceives it as a far more reasonable and legitimate journalistic tool. The present study attempts to uncover evidence of both “visceral” and “discretional” judgment by studying the conceptual credibility (trustworthiness ratings) and practical credibility (practices indicating trust or skepticism, such as cross-checking and attribution) and the congruence between the two in a sample of 840 news items based on 1870 news sources. Findings were gleaned in face-to-face reconstruction interviews with reporters from nine leading Israeli news organizations, who reconstructed, source by source, the processes behind their items, shortly after their publication. Pro-discretional evidence shows that while journalists perceive their own experience as more credible than that of any other human agent, they do tend to stick with sources they perceive as more credible, the majority of which were relied on in the past, granting them more ready acceptance. Pro-visceral evidence, in turn, demonstrates that even the least credible sources receive substantial news space, some without any cross-checking. Furthermore, reporters ranked their sources' credibility even when they had no former record of trustworthiness. The paper suggests interpreting the composite of these findings as discretional logic with islands of visceral judgment.

100 Most Cited Articles in Orthopaedic Surgery

Citation analysis reflects the recognition a work has received in the scientific community by its peers, and is a common method to determine 'classic' works in medical specialties. We determined which published articles in orthopaedic journals have been most cited by other authors by ranking the 100 top-cited works. By analyzing characteristics of these articles, we intended to determine what qualities make an orthopaedic article important to the specialty. Finally, we determined if there was a change in level of evidence of studies on this list with time. Science Citation Index Expanded was searched for citations to articles published in any of the 49 journals in the subject category "ORTHOPEDICS." Each of the 49 journals was searched separately using the "cited reference search" to determine the 100 most often cited articles. Each article was reviewed for basic information including year of publication, country of origin, source journal of the article, article type, and level of evidence. We categorized the journal article by field of research where possible. The number of citations ranged from 1748 to 353. The 100 most often cited articles in orthopaedic surgery were published in 11 of the 49 journals, spanning from general to more specific subspecialty journals. The majority of the papers (76) were clinical, with the remaining representing some type of basic science research. The most common level of evidence was IV (42 of the 76 studies). Of the 76 clinical articles, 27 introduced or tested classification systems or outcome measurement tools. Authors aiming to write a highly cited article in an orthopaedic surgery journal will be favored by language of publication, source journal, country of origin, and introduction of a classification scheme or outcome tool.

Mapping the literature of health education: 2006-2008.

The study updates Schloman's 1997 study, "Mapping the Literature of Health Education." The authors identify an updated list of core health education journals and determine the coverage of these journals by electronic indexes. Citations from four source journals for the years 2006 to 2008 were analyzed using the established methodology of the "Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project." The cited journals were divided into three zones of productivity by using Bradford's Law of Scattering. There were 19,907 citations in 602 source articles. Journal articles were the most commonly cited format type. Of the 1,896 journal titles cited, 20 (1.1%) made up the core journals. Together, the fields of medicine, health education, and psychology accounted for 85.0% of the journals in the core. Self-citation was found to be a common practice in the source journals. Scopus had the broadest journal coverage of the indexes examined. The results of this study provide a new picture of the health education literature: The volume has grown significantly, cites older materials, and relies less on sexual health journals and more on psychology journals.

Comparison of journal impact rankings in the SCImago Journal &amp; Country Rank and the Journal Citation Reports databases

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare the journal impact rankings of the open access SCImago Journal &amp; Country Rank (SJR) database and the subscription‐based Journal Citation Reports (JCR).Design/methodology/approachThe paper looks at the SJR database which offers essential scientometric information for more than 17,000 scholarly and professional journals based on data licensed from Elsevier's Scopus database and compares this with the JCR database.FindingsThe open access SJR database offers very informative new insights to complement those that have been provided by the JCR for more than three decades by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and its successor, the Thomson (later Thomson‐Reuters) company. Especially valuable are its features of weighting the citations received based on the prestige of the citing journals, the (partial) exclusion of journal self‐citations, and the broader base of source journals. They provide new opportunities to analyse and understand their effects on the ranking of journals.Originality/valueThe paper provides useful information on the open access SJR and JCR databases and their effects on the ranking of journals.

Mapping the literature of occupational therapy: an update

This study updated Reed's 1999 "Mapping the Literature of Occupational Therapy." An analysis of citation patterns and indexing coverage was undertaken to identify the core literature of occupational therapy and to determine access to that literature. Citations from three source journals for the years 2006 through 2008 were studied following the common methodology of the "Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project." Bradford's Law of Scattering was applied to analyze the productivity of cited journals. A comparative analysis of indexing was conducted across three bibliographic databases. A total of 364 articles cited 10,425 references. Journals were the most frequently cited format, accounting for 65.3% of the references, an increase of 4.1% over the 1999 study. Approximately one-third of the journal references cited a cluster of 9 journals, with the American Journal of Occupational Therapy dominating the field. An additional 120 journals were identified as moderately important based on times cited. CINAHL provided the most comprehensive indexing of core journals, while MEDLINE provided the best overall coverage. Occupational therapy is a multidisciplinary field with a strong core identity and an increasingly diverse literature. Indexing has improved overall since 1999, but gaps in the coverage are still evident.

Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias

Objective To examine whether the prestige of a journal, measured by its impact factor, influences the numbers of citations obtained by published articles, independently of their scientific merit. Study Design and Setting In this cohort study, citation counts were retrieved for articles describing consensus statements that were published in multiple journals and were correlated with the impact factors of the source journals. Results Four consensus statements were published in multiple copies: QUOROM (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) was published in three journals, CONSORT (CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials) in eight journals, STARD (STAndards for Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy) in 14 journals, and STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology) in eight journals. For each consensus statement, the impact factor of the source journal and the number of citations were highly correlated (Spearman correlation coefficients: QUOROM, 1.00; CONSORT, 0.88; STARD, 0.65; and STROBE, 0.81—all P < 0.02). When adjusted for time since publication, each logarithm unit of impact factor predicted an increase of 1.0 logarithm unit of citations (95% confidence interval: 0.7–1.3, P < 0.001), and the variance explained was 66% (adjusted r 2 = 0.66). Conclusions The prominence of the journal where an article is published, measured by its impact factor, influences the number of citations that the article will gather over time. Citation counts are not purely a reflection of scientific merit.

If knowledge is power why keep it secret?

Anadolu University, in Turkey and Athabasca University, in Canada, and are two universities publishing the open source journals Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education (TOJDE) and Internal Review of Research of Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) respectively. They are both open source journals which have been published since 2000. Moreover, a high percentage of the full-text articles searched on the internet with the keyword “Distance Education” is found to be from TOJDE and IRRODL. Up-to-date information about the distance education keywords, distance education authors and document types is presented, as well as the settings in which research has been conducted by reviewing articles from January 2000 to February 2009 in these two distance education journals. Significant results were obtained as a result of careful investigation of 813 documents of these journals. Researchers have interesting conclusions such as: In 2002 the number of documents published in IRRODL was about seven times more than the number of documents published in TOJDE. Terry Anderson is the first-ranked author in IRRODL and the first ranked author in TOJDE is Aytekin İşman. The first ranked keyword is “Distance Education” which has a frequency four times more in TOJDE, than in IRRODL. This research study claims to be the first and a unique study reviewing two open source journals over a period of 10 years. There should be more open source journals published like TOJDE and IRRODL to give researchers the power they need to conduct more qualified researches in distance education: If knowledge is a power why keep it secret?

Disappearing act: decay of uniform resource locators in health care management journals

This study examines the problem of decay of uniform resource locators (URLs) in health care management journals and seeks to determine whether continued availability at a given URL relates to the date of publication, the type of resource, or the top-level URL domain. The authors determined the availability of web-based resources cited in articles published in five source journals from 2002 to 2004. The data were analyzed using correlation, chi-square, and descriptive statistics. Attempts were made to locate the unavailable resources. After checking twice, 49.3% of the original 2,011 cited resources could not be located at the cited URL. The older the article, the more likely that URLs in the reference list of that article were inactive (r = -0.62, P<0.001, n = 1,968). There was no difference in availability across resource types (chi(2) = 5.28, df = 2, P = 0.07, n = 1,786). Whether an URL was active varied by top-level domain (chi(2) = 14.92, df = 4, P = 0.00, n = 1,786). URL decay is a serious problem in health care management journals. In addition to using website archiving tools like WebCite, publishers should require authors to both keep copies of Internet-based information they used and deposit copies of data with the publishers.

Analysis of the influence of the two types of the journal articles; theoretical and empirical on the impact factor of a journal

The study discusses the necessity to analyze the influence of theoretical and empirical types of journal articles on the citation impact of Spanish psychology journals. Three of the most representative Spanish psychology journals were selected for the purposes of this study: Papeles del Psicologo, Analisis y Modificacion de Conducta and Psicothema. Twenty-three psychology journals in Spanish were used as source journals. Altogether, there were sixty-seven issues reviewed for the references and ninety-three issues for the articles. The bibliometricanalysis was conducted by six highly trained psychologists. The results demonstrated differences regarding the percentages of empirical and theoretical articles published in the three examined journals and the number of citations received by them based on the article type. When normalizing the results according to the number of theoretical and empirical articles that were published, it becomes evident that the theoretical articles receive on average twice as many references as the empirical ones. We discuss the importance of this effect on the comparison of journals based on their citation impact and show the evidence that it is only valid to compare journals which publish a similar percentage of theoretical and empirical articles.

Library and Information Science Literature on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Bibliographic Analysis

ABSTRACT This article presents a bibliometric analysis of 282 LIS publications, retrieved from LISA and Library Literature, on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The purpose was to study the periodic growth, topical emphasis, author patterns, and source journals and their origin. This literature started growing during the 1970s and reached its peak during the 1990s. Most of the literature is descriptive, with a research component reasonable but growing. Subject emphasis is on IT applications, electronic information resources, LIS education, academic libraries, and information seeking and use. Author collaboration is limited and single-authored publications dominate the literature. Most of the publications are contributed by the expatriates. American and British journals produce most of the literature. It makes several recommendations to improve the quality of literature.

Citation analysis of the most influential authors and ophthalmology journals in the field of cataract and corneal refractive surgery 2000–2004

To identify the most published authors on the topics of 'cataract' and 'LASIK', the journals in which they publish, and the citation patterns of the most-cited articles by these authors over a 5-year publication period. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) was used to identify the 30 most-published authors in 'cataract' and 'laser in situ keratomileusis' (LASIK) (2000-2004 inclusive). SCI was subsequently used to analyse the recorded articles for each author in terms of source journal, the most commonly cited articles and citation source. Of the 30 most-published authors in the fields of cataract and LASIK, the USA was the most well-represented source country, accounting for 33%; 20% were from Australia, and 17% from Austria. Germany and Japan each contributed 7%. Eighty per cent of the publications produced by these 30 authors (2000-2004) were in 10 journals, of which the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (JCRS) published more than one-third. Of the three most-cited articles for each author, the greatest number were published in JCRS (35.6%). The citation count of the articles had a weak correlation to the journal impact factor of the source journal; however, the self-citation rate of these articles did not. The USA and Australia together were the source of more than half of the most-published authors on cataract and LASIK and the majority of articles published by the 30 most prolific authors were published in only 10 journals. The impact factors of the publication journals preferred by these authors are influenced by the article citation counts, not vice versa.

Policy impact of bibliometric rankings of research performance of departments and individuals in economics

This paper examines policy-relevant effects of a yearly public ranking of individual researchers and their institutes in economics by means of their publication output in international top journals. In 1980, a grassroots ranking (‘Top 40’) of researchers in the Netherlands by means of their publications in international top journals started a competition among economists. The objective was to improve economics research in the Netherlands to an internationally competitive level. The ranking lists did stimulate output in prestigious international journals. Netherlands universities tended to perform well compared to universities elsewhere in the EU concerning volume of output in ISI source journals, but their citation impact was average. Limitations of ranking studies and of bibliometric monitoring in the field of economics are discussed.