Total Research Output Research Articles

A Bibliometric Analysis of Contributions in Scientometrics Journal

This paper presents an analysis of the contributions in the international journal entitled ‘Scientometrics’ published during the period 1991- 2014 as reflected in the Web of Science database. A total of 156 papers are found to be Indian contribution and that are refined from the global output (3016 papers). Analysis is based on the traditional bibliometric indicators by means of number of publications and citations. USA with more number of papers, and also received the highest number of citations. The study also observed that the total scientometrics research output of India constituted about 5% of the total world output. Multiple authorship pattern is dominant during the study period and is about 68.59% of the total Indian output. CSIR, Karnatak University and BARC are the major contributors of scientometric research from India.

Scientometric Assessment of Publications on Electronic Resource Management and Electronic Resource Management System during 2000-2019

Electronic Resource Management is an eminent research area, and Electronic Resource Management System has become now an inevitable part of any academic library system. As such, considerable literature has been published on ERM and ERMS. Therefore, this article attempts to analyze the growth of scholar’s research output in the areas of electronic resource management, electronic resource management system during the period 2000 to 2019. This article examines 347 publications across the globe on the topic of “ERM” and “ERMS”. The analysis on these topics has been done, taking into account the total research output of these main areas as reflected in the SCOPUS database. The present study analyses the year-wise cumulative growth of research publications, list of top highly cited articles, list of core journals, the pattern of authorship, most prolific authors, types of publications preferred by the authors in the field of electronic resource management and electronic resource management system.

Mapping of climate change research in the Arab world: a bibliometric analysis.

The attendant threats of climate change in the Arab world are accelerating at a high pace. The realization of these risks has promoted scientific research activities in climate change (i.e., modeling of climate change effects and development of mitigation and adaptation measures). A bibliometric analysis was desired to trace the status and trends of these research activities with an origin from the Arab world. The aim was to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific knowledge of climate change and its impacts and survey its evolution. Moreover, it is aimed at enabling recommendations for future research activities in this field. The data of this analysis were retrieved from the Scopus database using the most common terms of climate change to search titles, abstracts, and keywords. The collected data, in the form of documents referring to climate change, enabled to extract and further assess different quantitative and qualitative bibliometric indicators. Productivity of countries, sources, and institutions; collaboration figures; impact of published research; and citation rates were being among the assessed indicators. Subsequently, the data were analyzed using visualization maps and clustering techniques to characterize the hot spots and vital topics of research. A total of 2074 documents (1.2% of the total global research output) were retrieved from the Arab world. Saudi Arabia took the leading positions in terms of the number of publications (473 documents; 22.8%), impact of research (Hirsch index (h-index), 48), collected citations (10,573 citations), and number of documents from collaboration (389 documents). The USA was the most collaborated country with the Arab world (344 documents; 17.0%), followed by France (311 documents; 15.0%). The most productive journal was Plos One (42 documents; 2.0%), followed by the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (38 documents; 1.8%). Three institutions from Saudi Arabia were in the forefront in terms of research productivity (King Abdulaziz University, 124 documents; King Saud University, 117 documents; and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 102 documents). The vital climate change-related topics which will continue to be active in the future are climate modeling, physiology, genetics, and animals. The present data indicate a committed scientific research progress. Increasing the fund, capacity building, and development of regional experience with climate change-related disasters are key factors to promote the scientific research in this field.

How Much Research Output from India Gets Social Media Attention?

Scholarly articles are now increasingly being mentioned and discussed in social media platforms, sometimes even as pre- or post-print version uploads. Measures of social media mentions and coverage are now emerging as an alternative indicator of impact of scholarly articles. This article aims to explore how much scholarly research output from India is covered in different social media platforms, and how similar or different it is from the world average. It also analyses the disciplinewise variations in coverage and altmetric attention for Indian research output, including a comparison with the world average. Results obtained show interesting patterns. Only 28.5% of the total research output from India is covered in social media platforms, which is about 18% less than the world average. ResearchGate and Mendeley are the most popular social media platforms in India for scholarly article coverage. In terms of discipline-wise variation, medical sciences and biological sciences have relatively higher coverage across different platforms compared to disciplines like information science and engineering.

Authorship Trends in Telemedicine Research

Telemedicine is the remote delivery of healthcare services, such as health assessments or consultations, over the telecommunications infrastructure. The aim of the study is to analyze the research output on telemedicine. The publications indexed in Scopus database have been used for this study for a period of twenty five years. Retrieved data has been analyzed with various bibliometric tools such as Co-Authorship Index, Multi Authorship Index, Citations per Paper, Relative Citation Index and Relative Uncitedness Index. Highly cited publications and frequently used words in titles are discussed. Analysis reveals that 36949 publications were published in the area of telemedicine with maximum number of publications in the year 2015. Nearly 80% of the total research output has been published with co-authors. Nearly one third of the publications (32.28%) have yet to receive citations.

Parasitological research in the molecular age.

New technological methods, such as rapidly developing molecular approaches, often provide new tools for scientific advances. However, these new tools are often not utilized equally across different research areas, possibly leading to disparities in progress between these areas. Here, we use empirical evidence from the scientific literature to test for potential discrepancies in the use of genetic tools to study parasitic vs non-parasitic organisms across three distinguishable molecular periods, the allozyme, nucleotide and genomics periods. Publications on parasites constitute only a fraction (<5%) of the total research output across all molecular periods and are dominated by medically relevant parasites (especially protists), particularly during the early phase of each period. Our analysis suggests an increasing complexity of topics and research questions being addressed with the development of more sophisticated molecular tools, with the research focus between the periods shifting from predominantly species discovery to broader theory-focused questions. We conclude that both new and older molecular methods offer powerful tools for research on parasites, including their diverse roles in ecosystems and their relevance as human pathogens. While older methods, such as barcoding approaches, will continue to feature in the molecular toolbox of parasitologists for years to come, we encourage parasitologists to be more responsive to new approaches that provide the tools to address broader questions.

Arab world\u2019s growing contribution to global leishmaniasis research (1998\u20132017): a bibliometric study

BackgroundLeishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by a protozoan of the Leishmania genus, and is considered a neglected tropical disease. It still remains a main public health concern at global level and in Arab world mainly in low-income countries. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate the Arab world’s growing contribution to global leishmaniasis research.MethodsThis study describes a bibliometric review of all leishmaniasis research publications published between January 1998 and December 2017 indexed on the Scopus database.ResultsThe total number of publications published at global level was 17,570 papers, which achieves an average annual productivity of 878.50 papers publications. Brazil was responsible for the greatest output with the total number of publications of 3865 followed by the Unites States (n = 2729), India (n = 2119), the United Kingdom (n = 1363), and Spain (n = 1274). By limiting the analysis to the publications that have been published by Arab world, the research productivity was 993 papers, which represents 5.65% of total research output at global level in research regarding leishmaniasis. Tunisia was responsible for the greatest output from Arab world with the total number of publications of 297 followed by Sudan (n = 192), Saudi Arabia (n = 131), Morocco (n = 119) and Egypt (n = 67). Since 1998, the growth of publications on leishmaniasis fluctuates, overall showing a rising trend in both global and Arab world. There is a highly significant correlation between publication productivity related to leishmaniasis at global level and the Arab world (r = 0.936; p-value< 0.001). Leishmaniasis treatment, intracellular mechanism of infection, and lifecycle of leishmania are the major current hot topics for the research in this subject at global level and the Arab world.ConclusionsThe current study presents a novel review of the current Arab leishmaniasis-related research, and how these results are related to worldwide output. In comparison to the global research output, the Arab world produced less leishmaniasis research. The data presented in the current study by this innovative approach may serve relevant researchers to direct the global leishmaniasis research to Arab counties in which leishmaniasis is endemic.

Mixed Reality Research: A Quantitative Analysis of Global Research Publications and Citations Output during 1994–17

This paper examined mixed reality research published during 1994-17, on a series of bibliometric measures including growth rate, global share, citation impact, top countries, organizations and authors, preferred media of research communication and bibliographic characteristics of high cited papers. The study finds that mixed reality research registered faster (35.49%) growth, low citation impact averaged to (6.93) citations per paper, contributed too low share (0.03%) of its total research output in 24 years as highly cited papers. The USA, Japan, and Germany are seen as the world leaders in the subject, each had contributed at least 11% global publications share in 24 years. The mixed reality research is widely scattered across 68 countries with top most productive organizations and authors accounting for modest (23.35% and 16.56%) global publications share and modest (29.53% and 24.37%) global citation share respectively during the period.

Scientific Publications of Goa University as reflected in Web of Science Database during 2008–2017

Web of Science is a major citation database which provides access to the world’s leading scholarly literature. The University of Goa is the only premier higher education institutes which cater to the educational needs of the Goa. The present study evaluates the research productivity of the University of Goa based on the data collected from Web of Science over a period of ten years from 2008 to 2017. This article studied the publication pattern, trend, collaboration with different organisations, institutions, R&D Centres and different nations. Top funding agencies in Science and Technology field research performance of faculty members of Goa University in the last ten years. 1218 articles including 497 international collaborated articles with an increasing growth rate during the study period. The analysis revealed that the Current Science journal is the most preferred journal among Goa University faculty members. It has been found that 315 (25.86%) publications belong to Chemistry subject. It is clear that the relative growth rate of total research output is decreased gradually. The growth rate is 0.84 in 2009 and which decreased up to 0.15 in the year 2017. It is observed that the SJR and h-Index are the highest for the journal ‘Fungal Diversity’. It is suggested to get more international funding by collaborating with more and more authors, universities and R&D centres.

An update on trends in the types and quality of childhood immunization research outputs from Africa 2011–2017: Mapping the evidence base

BackgroundStrengthening immunisation programmes in Africa remains a key strategy of improving vaccine coverage. Research plays a vital role in the design and implementation of strategic immunisation plans for improving vaccination coverage, in turn providing context specific evidence to inform policy and practice. We therefore updated an evidence map describing the types and quality of available literature on childhood immunisation in Africa from 2011 to 2017. MethodsPubMed and Africa Wide databases were searched for English studies on childhood immunisation in Africa published from January 2011 to September 2017. Studies had to be conducted in humans and the reported information needed to be on either: vaccines; immunisation programmes; immunisation policies; or epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases targeted by Expanded Programme on Immunisation vaccines. ResultsOut of 5567 studies retrieved, 797 studies from 165 journals met the inclusion criteria. During 2011–2017, 42 African countries contributed to research on childhood immunisation. Most studies were carried out in multiple countries (15.1%). Five countries contributed 41% of the total research output. Nigeria and South Africa contributed the highest proportion of studies at 12% and 11.4% respectively. The quantity of research output increased progressively from 2011 to 2015 after which there was a significant decline. ConclusionThere was a remarkable increase in childhood immunisation research in the period 2011 to 2017 when compared to the initial assessment. However, the reason for decline in research output from 2015 requires further investigation. Most childhood immunisation research was still generated by five countries as previously observed, highlighting the critical need for strategic investment in research capacities and improved collaboration between countries in Africa.

The Prestige of Social Scientists in Spain and France: An Examination of Their h-Index Values Using Scopus and Google Scholar

We analyze the prestige of 1,500 scholars in economics, sociology, and management who have Spanish and French institutional affiliations operationalized by their h-index in Scopus and Google Scholar. We use a negative binomial count model to examine how some individual factors affect the h-index from both databases. The results show a non-monotonic relationship between the researchers’ career length and their h-index. There is a positive and statistically significant relationship between total research output and the h-index. The share of publications in English over total publications has also a positive and statistically significant effect on the h-index, except in a single case, while the share of publications in other foreign languages does not have such effect. Finally, we found that the effects of the number of citations received by documents in English (international impact) and by those in the vernacular language (local or regional impact) on the h-index vary according to the database, the country, and the discipline in question.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Contributions in Scientometrics Journal

This paper presents an analysis of the contributions in the international journal entitled 'Scientometrics' published during the period 1991-2014 as reflected in the Web of Science database. A total of 156 papers are found to be Indian contribution and that are refined from the global output (3016 papers). Analysis is based on the traditional bibliometric indicators by means of number of publications and citations. USA with more number of papers, and also received the highest number of citations. The study also observed that the total scientometrics research output of India constituted about 5% of the total world output. Multiple authorship pattern is dominant during the study period and is about 68.59% of the total Indian output. CSIR, Karnatak University and BARC are the major contributors of scientometric research from India.

Perception, barriers, and practice of research among teaching staff at five Sudanese medical faculties

Background: Research is one of the best measures of scientific progress at both individual and institutional levels. The objective of this study was to assess perception, barriers, and practice of research among teaching staff at five Sudanese medical faculties. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study included 153 faculty members in three public and two private medical faculties. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to them. Data obtained had been analyzed using statistical package for social studies (SPSS) version 24. Results: One hundred (65.4%) of respondents were males, and the mean age of them was 41.25 (±9.92) years, almost half of them were assistant professors (49%) and 90 (59%) of them work for public medical schools. Staff at medical faculties conducted more cross-sectional studies (30.6% of total research output), while literature review was the least type of research output (7.9%). Importantly, more research publication was associated with male participation (P=0.039) and research training (P=0.016). The perception of Sudanese doctors for research was strongly favorable (98.6%). Factors that significantly influence this positive perception for research were male gender (P=0.043), working for universities in Khartoum state (P=0.042), receiving undergraduate research education (P=0.010), research training after graduation (P=0.016) and years of research experience (P=0.042). The most important research barriers were lack of funding (79.6%), lack of financial incentives (66.4%), and work-related stress (57.2%). Conclusions: Despite the high perceptions of Sudanese doctors for research, funding remained the most important barrier to research.

Bibliometric Analysis of Palliative Care-Related Publication Trends During 2001 to 2016.

The scientific contributions (publications) and international influence (citations) from authors providing the palliative care (PC)-related literature has a limited number of bibliometric reports. We aimed to analyze PC-related literature using the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science (WoS) database. WoS database was used to retrieve publications with the following key words with title: "palliative care" OR "End of Life care" OR "terminal care.". The statistical analysis of the documents published during 2001 to 2016 was performed. The quantity and quality of research were assessed by the number of total publications and citation analysis. In addition, we also analyzed whether there were possible correlations between publication and socioeconomic factors. The total research output was 6273 articles for PC. There was a 3-fold increase in the number of publications during the period and strong correlation between the year and number of PC-related publications ( R2 = .96). The United States took a leading position in PC research (2448, 39.0%). The highest average citations was reported for the Norway (21.8). Australia had gained the highest productive ability in PC research (24.9 of articles per million populations). The annual impact factor rose progressively with time and increased 1.13 to 2.24 from 2003 to 2016. The number of publications correlated with gross domestic product ( r = .74; P < .001). The United States and United Kingdom contributed most of the publications, but some East Asian countries also had a great performance. According to the socioeconomic factors, the publication capacity of top 20 countries is correlated with their economic scale.

Bilateral and Multilateral Coauthorship and Citation Impact: Patterns in UK and US International Collaboration

International collaboration makes up an increasing, high citation-impact share of research output, but the UK’s collaboration with key partners is threatened by its decision to leave the EU. Data show that about 85% of US and UK international collaboration is with only one or two partners, usually among other ‘leading’ research economies. Although highly multi-national research (10 or more authors) is growing more rapidly than total research output, it actually remains scarce (about 1% of all collaboration) among the established research economies. Analysis also shows that the ‘citation bonus’ contributed by international collaboration is in fact both specific and limited; it should therefore be interpreted with some care. For example, citation impact trends look different for two-country and multi-country collaborations involving the same countries. Impact also increases but then plateaus with increasing numbers of partners. Further, we find that massively multi-national papers are of such a different kind that we suggest they should be excluded from standard citation analysis.

Thin films research in india: A scientometric analysis of research output during 2000–15

The study examines thin films research output from India during 2000 to 2015 on different parameters including the growth, document type-wise distribution of publications, productivity and impact of most productive institutions and authors, preferred sources of publications in which Indian thin films researchers publish their works, and contribution of major collaborative partner countries. Scopus database has been used to retrieve the data for 16 years (2000-2015). It was found that India contributes 5.26% to the global research output on thin films. The highest i.e. 98.22% contributions appear in journals and conference proceedings. The top 15 most productive institutions and top 10 productive authors contributed 49.67% and 11.79% share to India’s publication output and 53.56% and 17.41% share to India’s citation output during 2000 to 2015. The top 31 publication sources together contributed 44.55% share to total thin films research output of India.

Global Research on Tinospora cordifolia (Medicinal Plant) with Special Reference to India: A Scientometric Assessment Publications Output during 2001-2016

The paper examines 865 global and 747 Indian publications on Tinospora cordifolia research, as indexed in international Scopus database during 2001-2016. Indian research output experienced an annual average growth rate of 11.85%, global publication share of 86.36%, international collaborative publication share of 7.50% and qualitative citation impact averaged to 15.15 citations per paper. Pharmacology, toxicology &amp; pharmaceutics, among subjects, accounted for the highest publications share (57.30%) in Indian output, followed by medicine (33.60%), biochemistry, genetics &amp; molecular biology (23.83%), agricultural &amp; biological sciences (16.06%), chemistry (5.62%), immunology &amp; microbiology (4.55%), environmental science (4.28%) and veterinary science (2.95%) during 2001-2016.The top 15 most productive Indian research organizations and the authors collectively contributed 24.23% and 14.73% respectively as their Indian publication share and 42.70% and 16.59% respectively as their Indian citation share during 2001-2016. Among the total Indian journal output with 98.39% Indian share, the top 20 journals contributed 31.32% share to the Indian journal output during 2001-2016. Of the total Tinospora cordifolia Indian research output, the top 18 highly cited publications registered citations from 104 to 1014 and they together received 4110 citations, with 228.33 citations per paper. These 18highly cited papers involved the participation of 72 authors and 33 organizations and were published in 9 journals.

Measuring Quality and Quantity of Indian Library and Information Science Research Output

This paper is based on a bibliometric analysis of Library and Information Science (LIS) research publications in India. The data for the period 1951-2010 was extracted from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and grouped into six blocks each covering a period of ten years. Apart from papers, the present study also touched upon production of Ph.Ds in library and information science in India. The average annual growth of Ph.Ds is 31.05% in the total span of sixty years, whereas average annual growth was found to be 26.07% in the same period. Information centres contributed 6% of total LIS research output whereas highest contribution (34%) was made by LIS professionals working in technical institutions. Over 50% papers were of single authorship. The low productivity and quality of research output in library and information science is also discussed.

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The KRESCENT Program (2005-2015): An Evaluation of the State of Kidney Research Training in Canada.

Background:The Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training (KRESCENT) Program was launched in 2005 to enhance kidney research capacity in Canada and foster knowledge translation across the 4 themes of health research.Objective:To evaluate the impact of KRESCENT on its major objectives and on the careers of trainees after its first 10 years.Methods:An online survey of trainees (n = 53) who had completed or were enrolled in KRESCENT was conducted in 2015. Information was also obtained from curriculum vitae (CVs). A bibliometric analysis assessed scientific productivity, collaboration, and impact in comparison with unsuccessful applicants to KRESCENT over the same period. The analysis included a comparison of Canadian with international kidney research metrics from 2000 to 2014.Results:Thirty-nine KRESCENT trainees completed the survey (74%), and 44 trainees (83%) submitted CVs. KRESCENT trainees had a high success rate at obtaining grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR; 79%), and 76% of Post-Doctoral Fellows received academic appointments at the Assistant Professor level within 8 months of completing training. The majority of trainees reported that KRESCENT had contributed significantly to their success in securing CIHR funding (90%), and to the creation of knowledge (93%) and development of new methodologies (50%). Bibliometric analysis revealed a small but steady decline in total international kidney research output from 2000 to 2014, as a percentage of all health research, although overall impact of kidney research in Canada increased from 2000-2005 to 2009-2014 compared with other countries. KRESCENT trainees demonstrated increased productivity, multiauthored papers, impact, and international collaborations after their training, compared with nonfunded applicants.Conclusions:The KRESCENT Program has fostered kidney research career development and contributed to increased capacity, productivity, and collaboration. To further enhance knowledge creation and translation in kidney research in Canada, programs such as KRESCENT should be sustained via long-term funding partnerships.