Traditional Bibliometric Analysis Research Articles

Analyzing hockey publications through scientometric and altmetric perspectives

Purpose This study aims to present scientometric mapping and altmetric analysis of publications related to “Hockey” in the past three decades. By using the advanced analytical techniques of mapping coupled with altmetric analysis, this paper aims to reveal the complex network of collaborations, the dispersion of expertise worldwide and prevailing thematic trends in the field of hockey. Design/methodology/approach The data was extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database and Altmetric Explorer for articles related to hockey over the past three decades. VOSviewer was used to conduct network analysis whereas MS-Excel was used for altmetric data analysis. The study focused on the articles retrieved using the key term “Hockey” in English language publications. The altmetric attention scores (AAS) were used to measure the level of online attention on different platforms, complementing traditional bibliometric analysis. Findings The study reveals a notable increase in the productivity of hockey research over the past 30 years, with a specific focus on major surges in publication output and altmetric attention in recent times. Coauthorship and country-wise mapping analysis highlight global research collaboration trends, while keyword analysis underscores thematic concentrations. Key journals such as British Journal of Sports Medicine and American Journal of Sports Medicine emerge as crucial dissemination platforms. The importance of X posts (Formerly Twitter) and Mendeley in the diffusion of hockey literature is highlighted by altmetric research. Originality/value The study provides a concise overview of research conducted on the game of hockey. This research will be advantageous for researchers and individuals involved in the hockey community, as it offers bibliographic insights and aids in identifying suitable media for disseminating their findings.

Does sustainability matter in the global beer industry? Bibliometrics trends in recycling and the circular economy

It is commonly known that the beer industry, like many other companies in the food sector, has been encouraged to improve their sustainability and waste management requirements. This study intends to fill the gap referring to the Brewery Industry’s impact on academics from 1972 to 2022 related to recycling and waste management issues. The above research utilizes bibliometric analysis via Biblioshiny and the Scopus publications database, as well as an online interface for Bibliometrix analysis. For studying the Global Brewery Industry literature, this method offers a viable alternative to traditional bibliometric analysis. Among the findings we can mention are that most Brewery Industry inquiries were distributed by the “Bioresource Technology” and the most globally cited document is the book titled “Brewing: Science and Practice” written by De Briggs in 2004. European countries such as Italy, Spain and Portugal hold a strong academic collaboration with the Americas (mainly Canada, United States and Brazil). Another interesting finding indicates that the circular economy and recycling are not very present topics in the scientific literature, maybe because sustainability is a subject of recent discussion and study in the brewing industry.

The Top-20 Studies About Anterior Shoulder Instability From an Altmetric Analysis Had Higher Levels of Evidence Than Those From a Traditional Bibliometric Analysis

To compare the characteristics of the top-20 studies about anterior shoulder instability according to the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) with total citation counts. Two separate searches were performed for articles related to anterior shoulder instability. The Altmetric search identified the top-20 articles according to AAS. A bibliometric search using Web of Science identified the top-20 most-cited articles. Altmetric criteria were applied to the bibliometric list and vice versa. The AAS from the Altmetric list ranged from 44 to 432. The highest AAS from the bibliometric search was 70. One study appeared in both lists. Most online mentions were from X (formerly Twitter). The geographical breakdown of X mentions saw 71 countries appearing in the Altmetric search versus 21 in the bibliometric search. The total citations in the bibliometric list ranged from 91 to 358 versus 0 to 121 for the Altmetric list. The Altmetric top-20 list contained 8 studies that were Level II or higher versus 3 in the bibliometric list. The top-20 studies according to AAS or citation count are not the same. The top-20 studies by AAS are composed of studies at higher levels of evidence versus the top-20 studies when listed by citation count. Electronic searches are an important way to access information in the modern world. Different search options generate results according to different parameters and may generate different results for the same query. It is important to understand these differences so that users have a better understanding of where the most clinically useful information can be found, especially regarding medical conditions.

Mapping Higher Education Internationalisation as a Research Space via Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques

The productivity of a specific research field hinges on the periodic examination of both the knowledge produced and the knowledge production activities. By harnessing the strength of traditional bibliometric analyses and a variety of Natural language processing (NLP) techniques, this study portrayed a holistic landscape of higher education internationalisation (HEI) research that incorporated time and region through a spatial lens. The findings reveal the field's evolution into establishment, significant regional variations in research focus, and the expansion of networks for disseminating knowledge. These factors collectively contribute to a diverse ‘lived’ space of HEI research. However, the dominance of Western-centric key concepts, theories, and discourses highlights a homogenous ‘conceived’ space, pointing to an underlying tension between these spaces. Despite these challenges, opportunities for breakthroughs exist. Additionally, the study underscores the immense potential of NLP techniques in facilitating the exploration of how research fields evolve, further enriching our understanding of HEI.

Research Progress in the Field of Peatlands in 1990–2022: A Systematic Analysis Based on Bibliometrics

Peatlands are major natural carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems globally and are essential to a variety of fields, including global ecology, hydrology, and ecosystem services. Under the context of climate change, the management and conservation of peatlands has become a topic of international concern. Nevertheless, few studies have yet systematized the overall international dynamics of existing peatland research. In this study, based on an approach integrating bibliometrics and a literature review, we systematically analyzed peatland research from a literature perspective. Alongside traditional bibliometric analyses (e.g., number of publications, research impact, and hot areas), recent top keywords in peatland research were found, including ‘oil palm’, ‘tropical peatland’, ‘permafrost’, and so on. Furthermore, six hot topics of peatland research were identified: (1) peatland development and the impacts and degradations, (2) the history of peatland development and factors of formation, (3) chemical element contaminants in peatlands, (4) tropical peatlands, (5) peat adsorption and its humic acids, and (6) the influence of peatland conservation on the ecosystem. In addition, this review found that the adverse consequences of peatland degradation in the context of climate change merit greater attention, that peatland-mapping techniques suitable for all regions are lacking, that a unified global assessment of carbon stocks in peatlands urgently needs to be established, spanning all countries, and that a reliable system for assessing peatland-ecosystem services needs to be implemented expeditiously. In this study, we argued that enhanced integration in research will bridge knowledge gaps and facilitate the systematic synthesis of peatlands as complex systems, which is an imperative need.

Dark citations to Federal resources and their contribution to the public health literature.

The term "dark citations," which has been previously used to refer to citations of information products outside of traditional peer-reviewed journal articles, is adapted here to refer to those that are not linked to a known indexed identifier and are effectively invisible to traditional bibliometric analysis. We investigate an unexplored source of citations in the biomedical and public health literature by surveying the extent of dark citations across the U.S. government. We systematically focus on public health, quantify their occurrences across the government, and provide a comprehensive dataset for all dark citations within PubMed.

Analysis of Publications in the Field of Accounting Auditing with Traditional Bibliometric Methods and CiteSpace Based Visual Mapping Techniques

The aim of this study is to analyze 1,655 publications published between 2017-2021 in the field of “Accounting Auditing” in the Web of Science Core Collection database, with two different analysis methods, CiteSpace analysis technique and traditional bibliometric analysis method, within the scope of modern visual mapping techniques. The study used the citation explosion model, overlay map model, timeline of the largest clusters, major clusters (major specializations) analysis techniques and carrot2 clustering model to analyze the accounting auditing subject based on bibliographic data using CiteSpace visual mapping techniques. It is aimed that the findings obtained within the scope of the study will guide future studies on accounting auditing.

A bibliometric analysis of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): global trends in developed and developing countries.

The growing concern about climate change necessitates the development of models for long-term measurements of the sustainability performance. The Global Reporting Initiative suggests a framework for sustainability reporting. This study intends to fill two gaps in the existing literature. On the one hand, it assesses the Global Reports Initiative's impact on academics. This article, on the other hand, will compare public policies aimed at a Global Reporting Initiative in rich and developing countries from 1999 to 2020. The above research utilizes bibliometric analysis via Biblioshiny and the Scopus publications database, as well as an online interface for Bibliometrix analysis. For studying the Global Reports Initiative literature, this method offers a viable alternative to traditional bibliometric analysis. This is one of the first studies to use a computer approach to examine the literary paths of the Global Reporting Initiative issue. Among the findings we can mention that, the most GRI inquiries were distributed by the "Journal of Cleaner Production." The most useful GRI creators are Clarkson PM., Azapagic A., and Milne MJ. The findings of this paper suggest that the composition of the GRI addresses one of the keys to global monetary advancement, particularly in developing countries, for the foreseeable future. Our paper indicates that the Global Reporting Initiative principles have a strong potential to handle these connected issues in managing and maintaining the environment by adapting developed-country experiences to developing-country challenges.

The Two Sides of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Socio-Semantic Analysis

Since the 1990s, the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis posits an inverted U-shaped relationship between pollutants and economic development. The hypothesis has attracted a lot of research. We provide here a review of more than 2000 articles that have been published on the EKC. We aim at mapping the development of this specialized research, both in term of actors and of content, and to trace the transformation it has undergone from its beginning to the present. To that end, we combine traditional bibliometric analysis and semantic analysis with a novel method, that enables us to recover the type of pollutants that are studied and the empirical claims made on EKC (whether the hypothesis is invalidated or not). We principally exhibit the existence of a few epistemic communities that are related to distinct time periods, topics and, to some extent, proportion of positive results on EKC.

A new approach to biochemistry: Bibliometric and altmetric analyses in the ketogenic diet

Recently, as doctors and researchers investigate into to the possible benefits of daily diets, ketogenic diets (KD) have started to gain popularity. As the growing up popularity of KD in social media, researchers had the chance to show their academic studies to the public more easily. Therefore, in this study, KD is discussed in terms of the recently popular “altmetric analysis” by scientists. The aim of study is to highlight the role of the ketogenic diet, figure out the mechanism of ketone bodies and the pivotal role of altmetric studies in health sciences. In order to investigate the novel aspects of the top 100 (T100) most cited scientific research paper in academia, 100 most discussed research paper was selected on social media platforms about KD from 1992 to 2019 and it was compared in terms of bibliometrics in web of science and in terms of social media impact in altmetric.com. While the total citations of the top 100 articles ranged from 143–109, altmetric values of T100 are 0–1269. According to the top social media platforms where the articles are mentioned, Twitter, Facebook, and Patent are the most popular social media platforms, respectively. It was not always coherent how altmetric data related to traditional bibliometric analysis. Thus, it might be suggested that bibliometric and altmetric assessments be viewed as complementary to one another. And by far the most important result of this study is that the articles with the highest citation may not receive much attention on social media due to their subject content.

Cross-border electronic commerce’s new path: from literature review to AI text generation

Digitization, informatization, and Internet penetration have led to a significant rise in cross-border e-commerce (CBEC), attracting considerable interest from academia, government, and industry. This study employed a novel method combining automatic text generation technology and traditional bibliometric analysis to summarize and categorize the research on CBEC evolution from 2000 to 2021. Articles were selected and examined with a focus on four dimensions: customer, risk, supply chain, and platform. Contradictions in these dimensions were found to result in two major obstacles to CBEC development, namely, dataset sharing and platform scalability. These obstacles prevent research on cross-border platforms from moving beyond theory-based studies. Further research needs to examine how soft computing can be used to accelerate and remodel the global trade ecosystem.

Health and the Urban Environment: A Bibliometric Mapping of Knowledge Structure and Trends

The literature on the urban environment and physical and psychological health has steadily increased over the last decade. This paper aims to offer a better understanding of the state of the literature on assessing the urban environment and mental health by mapping the field of research through a scoping review and illuminating emerging trends and future research using bibliometric analysis. Uniquely, this study drew 495 articles from four distinct journal databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest), whereas traditional bibliometric analyses draw from a single source. The results show trends of a consistent increase in research on the topic over the last decade. Research published on this topic is fragmented with a consistent but isolated focus on physical health, mental health, and environmental characteristics. Overall, most attention has been given to assessing the impacts of urban environments on physical activity and general health, while less research has focused on mental health assessments and urban environments. This study concludes by highlighting gaps and making recommendations for future research in the field. Prominent gaps are related to using interdisciplinary and scalable approaches to understanding the relationship between urban environments and mental health.

Digital artifacts reveal development and diffusion of climate research

Research for development organizations generate tremendous amount of accessible knowledge, but given their scale, time and resource constraints, the impact of outputs is not systematically analyzed. This is because traditional bibliometric analyses present limitations to synthesize accumulated knowledge and retrofitting indicators to historical outputs. To address these shortcomings, this study proposes an integrated, web-based approach to systematically analyze the production and diffusion of knowledge from large-scale research programs, using climate research of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) as a case study. Our analytical framework employs text mining, social network analysis and hyperlink analysis to an unstructured mass of publicly available digital artifacts such as institutional repositories, citation databases, and social media to uncover narratives, dynamics, and relationships. Findings show CIMMYT’s climate research is strongly incorporated into a holistic systems approach and that the institution is actively engaged in knowledge exchanges with key actors from the scientific, development and public policy communities. The proposed analytical framework establishes an effective approach for research for development organizations to leverage existing online data sources to assess the extent of their knowledge production, dissemination, and reach.

Analysis and categorization of studies of digital marketing in small and medium enterprises

Purpose: To analyze and categorize the scientific production in the field of digital marketing in small and medium enterprises.Design/methodology/approach: We retrieved the bibliographic information of 294 publications in this field indexed in Scopus and employed technology-mining techniques and cluster analysis of keywords to gain insight into the most relevant trends in this research area. We conducted a keyword cleaning process to remove ambiguity, synonyms, and obvious results and employed our own Python scripts and the Bibliometrix package in the R programming language for the calculations.Findings: Our results paint a broad picture of this research area, highlighting its most important journals, countries, researchers, and keywords, as well as their interactions. We also identified and explained five thematic clusters: electronic commerce, social media, specific social media, internationalization, and brand. We found that social media, big data, search engine optimization, advertisement, internationalization, websites, and Facebook are hot research topics in this field. Originality/value: This study offers updated information on the trends of the scientific production in said research field, covering a time window that goes up to the year 2021. This is beyond any traditional bibliometric analysis, and it reveals the structure of the knowledge in the field. This paper can be used as a reference point to define a future research agenda in this area.

Top 100 articles on vitamin D: Bibliometric versus altmetric analysis.

To analyse the main features of the top 100 (T100) most cited articles in academia and 100 most discussed articles on social media about vitamin D from 1975 to 2021 and compare bibliometric and altmetric analysis. 'Vitamin D' was searched from the Web of Science database and Altmetric.com website, and T100 citation and altmetric lists were created, respectively. Articles in both lists were analysed in terms of study type, topic, first author, publication year, citation number and altmetric attention score (AAS). Impact factor (IF) and quartile of journal, in which the articles were published was also examined. The article "Vitamin D Deficiency" by Holick MF, published in the New England Journal of Medicine was the most cited article (n=8492), original scientific paper was the most frequent study type in both lists. No correlation was found between AAS and citation number in both lists (r=0.176, p=0.081; r=0.157, p=0.119, respectively). The journals on the T100 citation list had a statistically significantly higher IF than the journals in the T100 altmetric list (p<0.001). Altmetric analysis of vitamin D is currently insufficient to replace traditional bibliometric analysis but can provide valuable information about the society's interest. As social media gains more importance every day in our lives, high altmetric score could affect future interests and direct studies (Tab. 6, Fig. 3, Ref. 21).

Conceptual evolution of the bioeconomy: a bibliometric analysis.

The growing concern over the change in climatic conditions and the management and conservation of biological resources makes it necessary to create models suitable for the sustainable management of these resources. The bioeconomy suggests a model based on the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources into value-added products. The main aim of this article is to assess the impact of the bioeconomy on the scholar. This manuscript also aims to continue and update this discussion of public policies oriented toward a bioeconomy. This research follows a computed analysis based on the R package using Biblioshiny, a web interface for Bibliometrix analysis; this approach offers a positive alternative for studying bioeconomic literature in the traditional bibliometric analysis. This is one of the first research which analyzes the literature pathways of the bioeconomy issue using a computational analysis. Our article concludes that the principles of the bioeconomy have a strong potential to address these related challenges to manage and maintain the environment.

Mapping Social Impact: A Bibliometric Analysis

Social dimension is a fundamental element in the evaluation of initiatives and policies that are demanded and promoted by public and private organizations as well as society as a whole. Thus, there is a thriving interest in social impact research, especially from the point of view of its measurement and valuation. In this work, we explored the rising attention on the concept of social impact to identify salient agents in the field and categorize the conceptual structure of research. To achieve this, we used evaluative and relational techniques combining traditional bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and a text mining analysis based on natural processing language (NLP) to search for documents with the term “social impact” in the title. The documents were extracted from the database Web of Science (WoS) for the period of 1938–2020. As a result, we mapped the concept of social impact from up to 1677 documents, providing an overview of the topics in which the concept was used (e.g., health, finance, environment and development, etc.) and the trends of research. This work seeks to serve as a roadmap that reflects not only the evolution of social impact but also future lines of research that require attention.

Municipal solid waste management in a circular economy: A data-driven bibliometric analysis

This study aims to present a systematic data-driven bibliometric analysis on municipal solid waste management as a foundation in a circular economy. The current literature has yet to be fully developed given the complexity of the corresponding concept and knowledge. Traditional bibliometric analysis lacks the ability to screen out important keywords for future directions, and the keyword frequencies are described numerically. This study applies the entropy weight method to convert the frequencies to weights and performs regional comparisons based on a database; hence, this study contributes to the literature by providing potential future directions. The database includes 413 published articles, and 41 indicators are listed. The results are used to identify valid indicators for improvement and provide a regional state-of-the-art comparison. The top 5 indicators for future study are incineration, life cycle assessment, plastic waste, sorting solid waste, and sustainability. A bibliographic coupling analysis provides a comparison of 5 regions and reveals that Africa and North America have less studies than other regions.

Can citation metrics predict the true impact of scientific papers?

Bibliometric quantification is frequently used as metrics for the evaluation of the scientific performance of researchers and institutions. The researchers' merit is usually assessed by the analysis of quantitative parameters such as the number of publications, the impact factor of journals, the total number of citations, or the h-index, although the limitations in translating these indicators into the impact of the outcome of scientific production are a matter of harsh criticism. To assess, based on factual evidences, the validity of traditional bibliometric analyses to conclude on the impact of papers to advance the state of the art, we carried out an innovative methodology on selected publications (test set). This methodology is based on identifying those citations of the test set papers that truly embed the methods, concepts, or hypotheses to build new knowledge and formulate conclusions. The results show that the percentage of citations that reflect the real impact of the papers of the test set has an average value of 12.4% of total citations and is not related to the impact factor of the journal where the test set papers were published. In conclusion, our analysis demonstrates factually, using experimental data, the total failure of using quantitative bulk citation analyses to conclude on the scientific impact of publications. Only a careful analysis of how the work described in papers was embedded on the subsequent work and/or conclusions of others can tell about the real contribution of a published work to the development of new knowledge and advancement of science.

THEMES AND METHODS IN SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH

O objetivo do estudo foi identificar temas emergentes e métodos empregados na pesquisa em sustentabilidade. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo bibliométrico com análises de co-citação e de pareamento bibliográfico. Amostra é composta de 1,292 artigos publicados entre 1999 e 2018 em todos os periódicos peer-review de business da Scopus. O estudo se diferencia de análises bibliométricas tradicionais ao se debruçar não só sobre os temas teóricos, mas também sobre os métodos empregados. Como principais resultados se destaca que a análise de co-citação evidencia três grandes temas que norteiam a pesquisa em sustentabilidade: (1) Gestão da Cadeia de Suprimentos Sustentável; (2) Responsabilidade Social Corporativa; e (3) Turismo Sustentável. A análise de pareamento bibliográfico mostra cinco grandes temas de pesquisa vigentes: (a) Estruturas Clássicas Sustentáveis da Cadeia de Suprimentos; (b) Economias Globais e Emergentes nas Cadeias de Suprimentos Sustentáveis; (c) Seleção de fornecedores e técnicas fuzzy; (d) Novas Estruturas de Cadeia de Suprimentos Sustentáveis; e (e) Responsabilidade Ambiental. A pesquisa em sustentabilidade possui estudos em diversas áreas do conhecimento e apresenta variedade de métodos nas publicações sem evidenciar uma tendência na abordagem qualitativa ou quantitativa, sendo que temas mais uníssonos e sedimentados são majoritariamente constituídos por estudos quantitativos; e temas mais diversos, emergentes ou que tratam de fenômenos de difícil mensuração são abordados qualitativamente. Conclui-se que a temática sobre gestão de sustentabilidade está em ascensão, o que gera uma expectativa positiva sobre o aprofundamento das pesquisas ao longo dos próximos anos. Entretanto, identificamos a ausência de temas importantes relacionados às tecnologias verdes, inovações sustentáveis e políticas públicas.