Citation Analysis as a Tool in Journal Evaluation

The price of quality: Scholarly publishing business is the primary predictor of citation-based indicators of journal performance in ecology and evolutionary biology

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Apr 2023

Adriana Ruggiero

Citation-based indicators of journals’ performance are often assumed to offer an objective, albeit indirect, way of measuring research quality. However, recent concerns about their applicability for research evaluation suggested these indicators could depend on historical and socioeconomic factors associated with scholarly publishing tradition and business, respectively. The present study addressed this issue quantitatively, using data on h-index and Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) for 566 journals within the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, and applying Partial Least Squared Structural Equation Modelling. The Tradition Model accounted for <50% of the variation in h-index and SJR, showing that journals’ performance increased with an increase in articles’ international collaboration, and decreased for journals published by non-profit organizations. The Business Model accounted for >60% of the variation in h-index and SJR, showing that journals’ performance increased in association with the global50 ranking of publishers and high article processing charges. Countries recognized as world science centres, the use of English, the journal’s, and publisher’s year of origin, and the increase in science investment and scientific production promoted by the richest economies worldwide had no impact on journal performance. Results suggest that the h-index for journals and the SJR reflect multi-dimensional aspects of scholarly publishing, potentially affected by marketing strategies boosted by the biggest commercial publishers. Given the limitations of poor scientific communities in terms of publication costs, uncritical application of these indexes for research evaluation worldwide may reinforce the idea that high quality research is produced only by rich scientific societies.

Debate on Production, Evaluation, Storage and DisseminationScientific Information in the Digital Age

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Jan 2023

World reality is evolving faster than scientific research capacity is able to systematize its understanding. At the heart of globalization is technological development. Today we are experiencing a profound technological revolution. In the last twenty years more technological and scientific knowledge has been accumulated than in the entire history of mankind. This has a positive side due to the significant advances in terms of increasing productivity that has been achieved, due to advances in health, information and so many others. Technological progress has not had a corresponding advance in institutional terms, especially at the civilizational level, which makes it explosive for society.The globalization of information promotes the integration of research, seeking to contribute at the same time to a significant improvement in the production, peer review, retrieval, dissemination, interpretation, and usefulness of scientific information. The dissemination of knowledge is done through events, conferences, and publications. To understand a scientific field, whatever it may be, this research considered the possibility of analyzing the elements involved, the established relationships, the processes of production, evaluation, storage and dissemination of knowledge. Based on the quantitative and qualitative results of Web Science, it is possible to recognize and applaud the researchers who contribute the most / contributed to the development of different sciences / disciplines / areas of the scientific field, by analyzing their citations.The research proposes a global hybrid conceptual model of production, peer review, storage and dissemination of scientific knowledge, based on scientific publications (books, articles, conferences), on specialized journals, their evaluation models and the main units of measures used, as well as indexing, for the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Hierarchical models are proposed to separate the initiates from those who contribute the most (the highly cited) to the development of knowledge, the respective scientific field and its characteristics of universality. It contemplates the theoretical and practical discussion of the global conceptual model, the units of measurement and their meaning, in their different approaches.

Faculty publication trends in a Japanese national university: a diachronic document analysis

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Nov 2023

Background We previously demonstrated that in a Japanese national university’s medical faculty, overall paper publication frequency increased between 1979–1980 and 2017–2018, while original paper publication did not increase. Further, publication language changed from predominantly Japanese to English. However, whether these trends are specific to medicine or representative of other faculties remains unclear. Methods We diachronically analyzed annual university library-produced publication reports for four pharmaceutical and three medical units between 1979–1980 and 2019–2020, elucidating how publication frequency, type, and language medium changed. Results All publication types increased for the pharmaceutical faculty, from 2.87 per faculty member per year to 10.77. Publication of original papers more than doubled, from 1.06 per faculty member per year to 2.37. This increase was exclusively in English publication, with no publication of Japanese original papers in 2019–2020. This contrasts with medicine, which, while it demonstrated similar increases in all publication types combined, from 4.92 papers per faculty member per year to 12.78, did not demonstrate as striking an increase in total original paper publication (English and Japanese), from 1.21 papers per faculty member per year to 1.30. However, these two faculties observed similar trends in that English largely replaced Japanese original paper publication. That both faculties’ Japanese original paper publication decreased suggests English language original paper publication comes at the expense of publishing in Japanese. Concerning both faculties together, the increase in publishing frequency for all publication types more than tripled from 4.01 to 12.38. This was largely driven by changes in conference paper publication for the pharmaceutical sciences faculty, where English publication increased 2,775% (0.06 to 1.7 papers per faculty member per year) and Japanese language publication 258% (1.33 to 4.77). While conference paper publication did increase for the medical sciences, its change in total publication frequency was largely driven by ‘other’ types of publication, which increased from 0.51 publications per faculty member per year in 1979–1980 to 5.41 in 2019–2020, largely driven by Japanese language publication. Conclusion In 2019–2020, pharmaceutical sciences faculty members largely published original papers in English, so postgraduate education should consider the future likelihood of graduates needing to publish in English.

Japanese national university faculty publication: A time trend analysis

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Sep 2023

The dominance of English in academic discourses is well established, with increased English publication used to evidence its increasing use at the expense of national language publication. However, while English publication frequency has increased over time, few studies have examined how university faculties outside higher education’s Anglophone center have changed their language of publication frequency. Thus, in this investigation, we analyzed a Japanese national university’s medical faculty’s overall frequency of publication along with publication frequency by language medium, expanding on an earlier diachronic analysis of university publication reports. We previously found English language publications largely replaced Japanese language publications for journal articles and that overall publication frequency dramatically increased. However, that initial diachronic analysis did not show when those changes manifested. The current investigation explores this through a decennial time trend historical document analysis of publication reports from 1979 to 2020. This analysis elucidates how publication frequency, type, and language medium have changed. Specifically, we find that the largest change in the overall frequency of publication is between 1989–1990 and 1999–2000. These changes are primarily driven by conference papers and other publications, publication types not typically examined in analyses of journal citation databases. Our findings establish a foundation to discuss potential causes of the trends we identify in this Japanese national university’s medical faculty’s publications.

The Reviewer Academy of the Society of Critical Care Medicine: Key Principles and Strategic Plan

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Jun 2023

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Reviewer Academy seeks to train and establish a community of trusted, reliable, and skilled peer reviewers with diverse backgrounds and interests to promote high-quality reviews for each of the SCCM journals. Goals of the Academy include building accessible resources to highlight qualities of excellent manuscript reviews; educating and mentoring a diverse group of healthcare professionals; and establishing and upholding standards for insightful and informative reviews. This manuscript will map the mission of the Reviewer Academy with a succinct summary of the importance of peer review, process of reviewing a manuscript, and the expected ethical standards of reviewers. We will equip readers to target concise, thoughtful feedback as peer reviewers, advance their understanding of the editorial process and inspire readers to integrate medical journalism into diverse professional careers.

Correlates of time to first citation in ecology and taxonomy

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Mar 2023

Several metrics exists to evaluate the impact of publications and researchers, but most are based on citation counts, which usually fail to capture the temporal aspect of citations. Time to first citation represents a useful metric for research evaluation, and informs the speed at which scientific knowledge is disseminated through the scientific community. Understanding which factors affect such metrics is important as they impact resource allocation and career progression, besides influencing knowledge promotion across disciplines. Many ecological works rely on species identity, which is the 'coin' of taxonomy. Despite its importance, taxonomy is a discipline in crisis lacking staff, funds and prestige, which ultimately may affect the evaluation and dissemination of taxonomic works. We used a time-to-event analysis to investigate whether taxonomic, socioeconomic, and scientometric factors influence first citation speed across hundreds of ecological and taxonomic articles. Time to first citation differed greatly between these areas. Ecological studies were first cited much faster than taxonomic studies. Multitaxa articles received first citations earlier than studies focused on single major taxonomic groups. Article length and h-index among authors were negatively correlated with time to first citation, while the number of authors, number of countries, and Gross Domestic Product was unimportant. Knowledge dissemination is faster for lengthy, multitaxa, and ecological articles relative to their respective counterparts, as well as for articles with highly prolific authors. We stress that using several unrelated metrics is desirable when evaluating research from different-and even related-disciplines, particularly in the context of professional progression and grant allocation.

Contemporary research trends on nanoparticles in endodontics: a bibliometric and scientometric analysis of the top 100 most-cited articles

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Jul 2023

Objectives: Advancements in nanotechnology have led to the widespread usage of nanoparticles in the endodontic field. This bibliometric study aimed to determine and analyze the top 100 most-cited articles about nanoparticles in endodontics from 2000 to 2022. Materials and methods: A detailed electronic search was conducted on the "Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, All Databases" to receive the most-cited articles related to the topic. Articles were ranked in descending order based on their citation counts, and the first 100 were selected for bibliometric analysis. Parameters such as citation density, publication year, journal, country, institution, author, study design, study field, evidence level, and keywords were analyzed. Results: The top 100 most-cited articles received 4,698 citations (16-271) with 970.21 (1.91-181) citation density in total. Among decades, citations were significantly higher in 2011-2022 (p < 0.001). Journal of Endodontics had the largest number of publications. Canada and the University of Toronto made the highest contribution as country and institution, respectively. Anil Kishen was the 1 who participated in the largest number of articles. The majority of the articles were designed in vitro. The main study field was "antibacterial effect." Among keywords, "nanoparticles" followed by "Enterococcus faecalis" were used more frequently. Conclusions: Developments in nanotechnology had an impact on the increasing number of studies in recent years. This bibliometric study provides a comprehensive view of nanoparticle advances and trends using citation analysis.

Citation analysis and the motives for citing

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Apr 2014

Primož Južnič

The need for an adequate citation theory is becoming an important theme in bibliometrics. It is important, when usingbibliometrical methods such as citation analysis, that librarians do not perform only routine searches, but also offer their users more useful data. The text, otherwise part of a broader study, is dealing with a special aspect of citation, namely motives. Understanding the motives, authors have by citing other people's work, is often the key for explaining the results of citation analysis.

From Methods to Monographs: Fostering a Culture of Research Quality

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Aug 2023

La neuroplasticidad en el contexto escolar. Una exploración de factores clave asociados al rendimiento cognitivo en escolares adolescentes en Chile mediante un análisis de redes. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/688568

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Anya Doherty

Esta tesis se sitúa en un área de conocimiento relativamente nueva, el campo híbrido de la neurociencia aplicada a la educación, o neuroeducación. Explora en adolescentes escolares chilenos la asociación entre el rendimiento cognitivo y otras nueve variables. Es el reconocimiento de la relevancia de la neuroplasticidad lo que motiva este estudio de las interrelaciones entre el rendimiento cognitivo y los factores de condición física (fitness), dieta saludable, obesidad, actividad física, vulnerabilidad escolar, estrés escolar, tipo de escuela, calidad de vida y calidad del sueño. La literatura indica que estos factores influyen en la salud del cerebro y en el rendimiento cognitivo, sin embargo, los estudios tienden a examinar esta relación de forma bilateral, o seleccionando unas pocas variables. Esta investigación propone explorar la interrelación de las diez variables simultáneamente, desde la perspectiva de la teoría de la complejidad, que considera al ser humano y al cerebro como sistemas complejos, dinámicos, interactivos y emergentes. De acuerdo con este enfoque, este estudio emplea la herramienta de análisis estadístico del análisis de redes para calcular y representar visualmente las complejas relaciones entre múltiples variables simultáneamente. Para lograr este objetivo, se creó un diseño de investigación cuantitativo basado en la selección de datos del estudio transversal de la base de datos del Proyecto Cogni-Acción de 1.296 adolescentes escolares en Chile (n = 1.296), 50% niñas. Los datos fueron imputados y el análisis de las variables se realizó mediante la aplicación del análisis de redes, utilizando tanto el programa R como la plataforma JASP, versión 0.16. De los resultados obtenidos sobre la naturaleza de la asociación entre estas diez variables, destacan algunas relaciones. La condición física destaca como la variable más fuerte de la red. Se asocia positivamente con el rendimiento cognitivo, y además es la variable intermedia entre el sobrepeso-obesidad y el rendimiento cognitivo, y entre la actividad física y el rendimiento cognitivo. Los factores sociodemográficos y socioeconómicos, como el tipo de escuela y el índice de vulnerabilidad, se asocian negativamente con el rendimiento cognitivo. El marcador de calidad de vida conecta con la cognición, y este marcador de calidad de vida recibe aportaciones del estrés escolar, la dieta saludable y la calidad del sueño. Las dos variables identificadas por el análisis como potenciales catalizadores para alterar la configuración de la red e impactar el rendimiento cognitivo son la actividad física y la dieta saludable. En base a estas evidencias, este estudio propone que las intervenciones de las autoridades o de las instituciones educativas dirigidas a estas dos variables conducirán a cambios en la red y podrán impactar positivamente en el rendimiento cognitivo de los escolares.

Bibliometric analysis of the highly cited publications in COVID-19 vaccine

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Jul 2023

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had widespread effects across the globe and continues to affect global public health. This study aims to select and feature highly cited publications on the COVID-19 vaccine. The Web of Science core database was used to extract relevant articles published in recent years. Progress of vaccine studies made in recent two years has mainly focused on the development of different vaccines and the evaluation of their safety and efficacy for population immunity. Clinical trials mainly focusing on the safety and efficacy of diverse vaccines have flourished. Lipid nanoparticle-formulated, nucleoside-modified RNA vaccine and recombinant adenovirus type-5 (26) vectored SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are most commonly studied. Vaccine application-associated challenges mainly include antibody resistance of new variants and unusual severe complications. The correlation between booster immunizations and reinfection is still in the explored state. Currently, antibody resistance of emerging variants is the main vaccine application-associated challenge and the primary reason for vaccine hesitancy. Effective strategies for reinfection prevention are also urgently needed.

An Optimization Ranking Approach Based on Weighted Citation Networks and P-Rank Algorithm

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Jun 2023
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Evaluating scientific articles has always been a challenging task, made even more difficult by the constantly evolving citation networks. Despite numerous attempts at solving this problem, most existing approaches fail to consider the link relationships within the citation network, which can often result in biased evaluation results. To overcome this limitation, we present an optimization ranking algorithm that leverages the P-Rank algorithm and weighted citation networks to provide a more accurate article ranking. The proposed approach employs two hyperbolic tangent functions to calculate the corresponding age of articles and the number of citations, while also updating the link relationships of each paper node in the citation network. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using three evaluation indicators and conduct experiments on three public datasets. The obtained experimental results demonstrate that the optimization article ranking method can achieve competitive performance when compared to other unweighted ranking algorithms. In addition, we note that the optimal Spearman’s rank correlation and robustness can all be achieved by using a combination of the following parameters: α=10, β=5, and γ=2.

Sentiment and intent classification of in-text citations using BERT

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Jul 2022

Methods such as the h-index and the journal impact factor are commonly used by the scientific community to quantify the quality or impact of research output. These methods rely primarily on citation frequency without taking the context of citations into consideration. Furthermore, these methods weigh each citation equally ignoring valuable citation characteristics, such as citation intent and sentiment. The correct classification of citation intents and sentiments can therefore be used to further improve scientometric impact metrics. In this paper we evaluate BERT for intent and sentiment classification of in-text citations of articles contained in the database of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) library. We analyse various BERT models which are fine-tuned with appropriately labelled datasets for citation sentiment classification and citation intent classification. Our results show that BERT can be used effectively to classify in-text citations. We also find that shorter citation context ranges can significantly improve their classification. Lastly, we also evaluate these models with a manually annotated test dataset for sentiment classification and find that BERT-cased and SciBERT-cased perform the best.

Top cited publications for treatment of keloid with radiotherapy: A Bibliometric analysis

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Jun 2023

The use of radiation to treat keloid scars has gained popularity during the last few decades. However, few bibliometric analyses have been performed on the published articles. This research aimed to demonstrate and evaluate the trends, top-cited articles, and frontier areas. In this cross-sectional study, Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus database literature was searched for all MESH terms related to "keloid" and "radiotherapy." The bibliometric analysis was carried out by VOSviewer 1.6.15. Articles with Web of Science-based citations of ≥20 were included. The citation per year index (CPYI) of articles was calculated for further inclusion of papers if they had CPYI higher than the mean value. There were 95 papers on keloid radiation that satisfied the inclusion criteria and were published between 1942 and 2019. The CPYI ranged from 0.38 to 11.3. Most studies were published in the "International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics" (9 papers). The United States has the most papers (14), followed by Japan (9), the Netherlands (7), and Germany (5). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first bibliometric analysis of top-cited papers on keloid radiotherapy. From 2014 to the present, it seems that this title has resurfaced as a popular topic, with radiotherapy within 24 h of surgery being the most commonly recommended treatment plan. Since around 2011, high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) has been used as an effective treatment for keloid control. Individualization of therapy and dose/technique based on the location is strongly suggested.

Uso de lenguas y uniformización de la escritura en revistas científicas argentinas

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Jan 2023

Pablo Von Stecher

Ante la situación de supremacía actual del inglés como lengua de la ciencia y de minorización lingüística del español, se estudian los documentos editoriales y los artículos publicados entre 2016 y 2020 de veinte revistas argentinas, vigentes e indexadas, del área de las ciencias agrarias y veterinarias. Por un lado, se observa que el proceso de minorización no se produce sistemática ni unívocamente, sino de modo paulatino y dispar. Se expone cómo ciertos criterios de evaluación del sistema científico pueden afectar la difusión de revistas locales y regionales en español y cómo el tópico "publicar o perecer" interpela a los autores, pero también a estas revistas. Por otro lado, se detecta que, en pos de regular la escritura, la sección "directrices para autores" combina rasgos prototípicos de la escritura científica (precisión, concisión, claridad) con criterios bibliométricos y requisitos de acceso veloz en buscadores digitales. El trabajo se inscribe en un enfoque glotopolítico.

Disruptive papers in science are losing impact

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May 2023

The impact and originality are two critical dimensions for evaluating scientific publications, measured by citation and disruption metrics respectively. Despite the extensive effort made to understand the statistical properties and evolution of each of these metrics, the relations between the two remain unclear. In this paper, we study the evolution during last 70 years of the correlation between scientific papers' citation and disruption, finding surprisingly a decreasing trend from positive to negative correlations over the years. Consequently, during the years, there are fewer and fewer disruptive works among the highly cited papers. These results suggest that highly disruptive studies nowadays attract less attention from the scientific community. The analysis on papers' references supports this trend, showing that papers citing older references, less popular references and diverse references become to have less citations. Possible explanations for the less attention phenomenon could be due to the increasing information overload in science, and citations become more and more prominent for impact. This is supported by the evidence that research fields with more papers have a more negative correlation between citation and disruption. Finally, we show the generality of our findings by analyzing and comparing six disciplines.

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Project Scheduling: A Systematic Review, Bibliometric Analysis, and Prospects for Future Research

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May 2023

The availability of digital infrastructures and the fast-paced development of accompanying revolutionary technologies have triggered an unprecedented reliance on Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques both in theory and practice. Within the AI domain, Machine Learning (ML) techniques stand out as essential facilitator largely enabling machines to possess human-like cognitive and decision making capabilities. This paper provides a focused review of the literature addressing applications of emerging ML tools to solve various Project Scheduling Problems (PSPs). In particular, it employs bibliometric and network analysis tools along with a systematic literature review to analyze a pool of 104 papers published between 1985 and August 2021. The conducted analysis unveiled the top contributing authors, the most influential papers as well as the existing research tendencies and thematic research topics within this field of study. A noticeable growth in the number of relevant studies is seen recently with a steady increase as of the year 2018. Most of the studies adopted Artificial Neural Networks, Bayesian Network and Reinforcement Learning techniques to tackle PSPs under a stochastic environment, where these techniques are frequently hybridized with classical metaheuristics. The majority of works (57%) addressed basic Resource Constrained PSPs and only 15% are devoted to the project portfolio management problem. Furthermore, this study clearly indicates that the application of AI techniques to efficiently handle PSPs is still in its infancy stage bringing out the need for further research in this area. This work also identifies current research gaps and highlights a multitude of promising avenues for future research.

Citation Analysis and Mapping of Iranian’s Stem Cell Research Output

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May 2023

Background: This study aims to map the research trends in the field of stem cell research in Iran by presenting a systematic and analytical bibliometrics approach based on data from the Web of Science database. Methods: In this study, we provide a visualization overview of the distribution of stem cell publications in Iran. The HistCite software was used to draw and analyze the historiographical maps, based on Global Citation Score (GSC) and Local Citation Score (LCS) in order to indicate the most frequent thematic trends. The accuracy of clustering and classification of scientific fields is enhanced by the incorporation of algorithms and main bibliometric analysis. Results: A total of 5123 records were collected from the Web of Science database in 2020. The most prolific author had a GCS of 5890 and the most productive university earned GCS of 13677. “Cell Journal,” with 186 records contributed the highest number of publications. The highest cited document based on GSC had a score of 646 and the highest cited article based on LCS had a score of 71. We documented regular growth in outputs. In addition, the scientific maps based on LCS and GCS have been drawn. The prominent, distinguished areas of study revolve around differentiation, generation, proliferation, and the therapeutic use of stem cells as well as “genotoxicity in stem cells”, “mesenchymal stem cells” and “embryonic stem cells”. Journal articles were the predominant document type. Conclusion: Research on stem cells is a biomedical venture with great scientific impact, and its development in Iran is undeniable. This study provides an overview and a framework for the weaknesses and strengths of Iranian research outputs on stem cells, representing the main clusters in scientific maps. We hope that our results help researchers to plan future studies and promote their research productions. 背景：本研究旨在通过系统性和系统性的研究来描绘伊朗干细胞研究领域的研究趋势。基于 Web of Science 数据库数据的分析文献计量方法。方法：在这项研究中，我们提供了伊朗干细胞出版物分布的可视化概述。历史名录软件用于根据全球引文评分（GSC）和本地引文评分（LCS）绘制和分析史学地图，以指示最常见的主题趋势。通过算法和主要文献计量分析的结合，提高了科学领域聚类和分类的准确性。结果：2020 年，Web of Science 数据库共收集了 5123 条记录。最多产的作者的 GCS 为 5890 条，生产力最高的大学获得了 13677 条 GCS。《细胞杂志》以 186 条记录贡献了最多的记录出版物。基于 GSC 的最高被引文献得分为 646，基于 LCS 的最高被引文章得分为 71。我们记录了产出的定期增长。此外，还绘制了基于LCS和GCS的科学地图。茶突出的研究领域围绕干细胞的分化、生成、增殖和治疗用途以及“干细胞的基因毒性”、“间充质干细胞”和“胚胎干细胞”。期刊文章是主要的文档类型。结论：干细胞研究是一项具有重大科学影响的生物医学事业，其在伊朗的发展是不可否认的。这项研究为伊朗干细胞研究成果的弱点和优势提供了概述和框架，代表了科学地图中的主要集群。我们希望我们的结果能够帮助研究人员规划未来的研究并促进他们的研究成果。

The 100 most cited papers on thymoma: a bibliometric analysis

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Apr 2023
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Objectives The aim of this bibliometric analysis was twofold: to identify the 100 most cited research articles on thymoma and to highlight future research opportunities in light of past and current research efforts. Methods The Web of Science database was queried to identify the 100 most cited articles on thymoma. Imformations relevant to scientific research were extracted and analyzed: first author, journal, impact factor, type of article, year of publication, country, organization and keywords. Results The publication year of the top 100 most cited articles ranged from 1981 to 2018, and the number of citations ranged from 97 to 1182. Most of the included articles are original (75/100) and are mainly retrospective studies (52/75). The United States has the most published articles and citations, and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery is the most sourced journal (n = 16). Through VOSviewer analysis, high-density keywords mainly come from thymic carcinoma/invasive thymoma management, immune-related diseases, and laboratory research. Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first bibliometric study on thymoma. We found most of the top 100 most cited articles are original and retrospective research. The United States has the published and cited works. Presently, the hot keywords for thymoma research has gradually tilted towards immune-related diseases and laboratory research.

A New Scientific Indexing Model: U-Index

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H-index has become more popular nowadays and is used for some scientific performance criteria in the world widely. This indexing method does not correctly measure any performance or carrier specifications because of the parameters that are used to form the measurement basis. H-index is located based on citation(C) and paper(N) parameters that involve no logical criterion on the counting process and so measurement on this basis can only give quantity results not any quality information. Therefore, we need a new indexing instrument to find out also the scientific quality unique to an individual author even if that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorships. Ipso facto, we create a new bibliometric indicator or academic performance indicator called the u-index.

Intellectual Core in Supply Chain Analytics: Bibliometric Analysis and Research Agenda

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Supply chain management has evolved from local and regional purchasing and supply activities prior to the industrial revolution to the current form of technology-led, data-driven, collaborative, and global supply network. Data-driven technologies and applications in supply chain management enable supply chain planning, performance, coordination, and decision-making. Although the literature on procurement, production, logistics, distribution, and other areas within the supply chain is rich in their respective areas, systematic analyses of supply chain analytics are relatively few. Our objective is to examine supply chain analytics research to discover its intellectual core through a detailed bibliometric analysis. Specifically, we adopt citation, cocitation, co-occurrence, and centrality analysis using data obtained from the Web of Science to identify key research themes constituting the intellectual core of supply chain analytics. We find that there has been increasing attention in research circles relating to the relevance of analytics in supply chain management and implementation. We attempt to discover the themes and sub-themes in this research area. We find that the intellectual core of SCA can be classified into three main themes (i) introduction of big data in the supply chain, (ii) adoption of analytics in different functions of operations management like logistics, pricing, location, etc., and (iii) application of analytics for improving performance and business value. The limitations of the current study and related future research directions are also presented.

Yunus Emre İle İlgili Araştırmaların Bibliyometrik Analizi

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Digital libraries and multi-disciplinary research skills

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Sep 2004

Mike Thelwall

Digital libraries and the Web have brought enormously powerful search mechanisms to the desktops of many researchers. With the use of insights from cultural studies and the history and philosophy of science, it is argued that one likely outcome is a change in the acceptable standards for literature reviews, leading to changes in article contents to reflect a broader academic basis. As a result, researchers should be trained to read and evaluate material from a much wider range of subjects than previously necessary. The broadening base may impact science and non-science subjects differently.

Defining, Measuring, and Rewarding Scholarly Impact: It’s the Level of Analysis, Stupid

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An Altmetric Analysis of Top 100 Cited Articles on Perinatal Infection

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Objective:Pregnant women and their fetuses are at increased risk of complications of viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections. For most infections, effective preventive strategies are available. Scientific studies on perinatal infections show advances in this field. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the social attention paid to highly cited articles on perinatal infection in the last decade. Factors of altmetrics performance, including twitter mentions and the correlation between altmetrics and traditional citation counts were analyzed.Methods:We created the 100 top-cited articles (T100) list from the Web of Science database and altmetric.com website among 4,240 perinatal infection articles.Results:The most cited article “Clinical analysis of 10 neonates born to mothers with 2019-nCoV pneumonia” by Zhu H. published in the Translational Pediatrics Journal. The T100 list included 75 original scientific research publications and 25 review articles. On Twitter, 80 of the T100 articles were shared. Of the ten most tweeted articles, five were about 2019-nCoV, four were about Hepatitis B virus, and one was about Zikavirus. The number of AAS, average citations, and the number of tweets (NT) increased statistically significantly as the years increased. A statistically significant and strong correlation was found between AAS and the number of tweets.Conclusion:This study reflects the most influential publications to identify the trends of current studies and provides some directions for future studies to help researchers. Also, it presents a view on the subject of the level of interest shown by the scientific world on social media platforms to the most cited articles on the subject of perinatal infection.

"Adli Tıp" Alanında Türkiye Adresli Yayınların 2011-2020 Dönemi İçin Bibliyometrik Analizi

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A Bibliometric Analysis on Tourism Sustainable Competitiveness Research

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The present bibliometric review of research intends to document and synthesize research trends in the domain of sustainable competitiveness over the past decade. Through bibliographical analysis of 1259 Scopus-indexed documents, the literature published from 2010 to 2020 has been identified. Publication output analysis, citation analysis, journal analysis, geographical distribution analysis, and co-occurrence keywords network analysis are utilised in this study to identify the trending research and future direction of this specific field of study using VOSviewer software and Harzing’s Publish and Perish software. Findings revealed that the literature on both sustainability and competitiveness solely is in its growth stage. The most productive countries in this domain are the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. In the retrieved documents, the sustainable competitiveness indeed plays a pivotal part in the evolution of the tourism field and laid a solid foundation for future research. As this paper provides an understanding on the possible mutual reinforcing relationship between two concepts, a stronger linkage on sustainable competitiveness that may catalyse tourism development can offer reference for future research through in-depth analysis.

Scientometric Portrait of the Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research based on Papers

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This study is carried out to understand dynamics of the journal using scientometric indicators. In this regard an analysis of 2,623 records published in Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research during 2001-2020 found that the share of articles published was highest (90%) followed by reviews (5%) and proceeding papers (1.9%). The chronological pattern of output indicates that the number of papers published declined after 2011. The total output was contributed by 47 countries located in different parts of the globe. Of these, India contributed about 38% papers followed by Turkey and China. Among all the prolific countries, Portugal had the highest value of Citation per Paper (CPP). The share of papers not cited (PnC) was highest for Saudi Arabia. Among the highly productive institutions, Anna University (Chennai) topped the list with 99 papers. Among the 26 highly productive institutions, CPP is highest (25.7) for CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (Chennai). Highest share of PnC was for Andhra University. Most of the highly productive authors were located at highly productive institutions. Among the prolific authors, highest value of CPP was for P Vasudevan of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Pattern of citation indicates that about 18% papers were not cited and 2% papers were cited more than 50 times. Of the 14 most cited papers, three papers were contributed by authors from Taiwan (2) and Portugal (1) and remaining 11 papers were contributed by Indian authors. Four highly cited papers were written in domestic collaboration and one in international collaboration. Highest share of papers published in the journal are multi-authored.

Carga horaria y lectura comprensiva en estudiantes de Psicología de San Luis. Inquietudes pre y post pandemia.

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En el marco de las acreditaciones de carreras de psicología en Argentina, y considerando entre otras cosas la diferencia de los tiempos reales de graduación contra los tiempos postulados en los planes de estudio, se decidió indagar sobre aspectos como la carga de lectura exigida al estudiantado y la cantidad de horas de cursada destinadas para cada curso. Para recopilar información al respecto, se administró una encuesta a estudiantes y docentes desde la Comisión de Carrera de la Facultad de Psicología y se realizaron estudios bibliométricos. El presente estudio es resultado de esa investigación.

Yeşil Mutabakat: Tarihçe ve akademik araştırmaların incelenmesiThe Green Deal: History and investigation of scholarly work

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Aralık 2019'da Avrupa Komisyonu tarafından yayınlanan Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı, 2050 yılı itibariyle Avrupa’yı net sıfır karbon salımı bölgesi haline getirmeyi hedeflemektedir. Türkiye'nin de dahil olduğu Mutabakat, yalnızca bir iklim eylem planı değil; temiz ve güvenli enerji temini, döngüsel ekonomi, akıllı şehirler, yeşil finansman, karbon vergisi ve yeni işler yaratmak gibi konuları içeren kapsamlı bir ekonomi planıdır. Mutabakat’a uyum sürecinde akademik çalışmaların önemli girdi sağlaması beklenmektir. Bu çalışma, Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı ile ilgili akademik çalışmaların bibliyometrik analizinden oluşmaktadır. Bu amaçla Web of Science veri tabanında Mutabakatla ilgili 432 akademik yayın analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular, Mutabakatın çokdisiplinli bir perspektiften incelendiğini göstermektedir. Yayınlar sadece çevre bilimleri dergilerinde değil, ayrıca enerji, kimya mühendisliği, iktisat, hukuk, işletme ve mühendislik dergilerinde de yer almaktadır. Anahtar kelime ağı da enerji, sürdürülebilirlik, yenilebilir enerji kaynakları, politika, atık yönetimi ve iklim değişikliği başlıklarına sahip altı kümeden oluşmaktadır. Yayınların büyük bir kısmı Avrupa ülkelerindeki araştırmacılar tarafından üretilmekle birlikte, ABD, Çin ve Kanada’dan araştırmacıların da konuya eğildiği gözlenmiştir. Çalışmanın sonuç bölümü, mültisektörel ve disiplinlerarası bir konu olduğu ortaya konulan Yeşil Mutabakat konusunda Türkiye’nin ivedilikle yapması gerekenleri içermektedir.

Defining the unscholarly publication: a bibliometric study of uncited and barely cited publications

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Bibliometric studies often exclude documents with little or no scientific content. Yet, identifying and classifying the unscholarly publication is a complex matter, and misclassifications often occur. Reference-based classifications are frequently proposed and implemented in bibliometric studies. Unfortunately, with little support for the actual classifications. In search of valid separation of scholarly/unscholarly publications, this study explores the correlation between number of references and citations received. Data was drawn from Scopus, and two separate analyses were conducted. The first analysis focus on journal articles published in the year 2000 from each of the four major subject areas in Scopus: Health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. The second analysis focus on all journal articles published in either 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 or 2020. None of the analyses identified a natural cutoff point between scholarly and unscholarly publications. There is no significant point in the distribution that could more clearly distinguish scholarly from unscholarly publications than prior suggestions. In addition, the results of this study demonstrate how bibliometric analyses are impacted by defining scholarly publications on the number of references across different subject areas.

Educational Research Review From Diverse Perspectives: A Bibliometric Analysis of Web of Science (2011–2020)

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This study aims to reveal the bibliometric characteristics of publications on educational research from diverse perspectives, including the level of national-international collaborations, the percentage change in open-access papers, and interactions with other disciplines. Through bibliometric analysis, the data were collected from Web of Science (WoS), “Education and Educational Research (E&ER),”“Psychology, Educational (PE),”“Education, Special (ES)” and “Education Scientific Disciplines (ESD)” categories, during 2011 to 2020. The findings suggest that the number of publications in each category and the percentage of open-access publications have increased regularly. However, it was observed that categories, especially the ES category, were partially falling behind, as compared to the growth in WoS; while the ES and the PE categories were the highest regarding national-international collaborations over time. Both collaboration levels were the highest in the E&ER category. It was concluded that the multi-authorship trend has rapidly increased, the number of references has regularly increased, and specifically, the PE category has been distinguished from others in terms of the references used. Meanwhile, the change over time in the aggregate impact factor, calculated for each category as a measure of the widespread impact of the studies, pointed to inflation. The results show that educational research is becoming more organized and international, while less fragmented. Moreover, the findings support that educational research is interdisciplinary in essence and diverse in content.

Population, Clinical, and Scientific Impact of National Cancer Institute's National Clinical Trials Network Treatment Studies

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PURPOSE In the United States, the National Cancer Institute National Cancer Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) groups have conducted publicly funded oncology research for 50 years. The combined impact of all adult network group trials has never been systematically examined. METHODS We identified randomized, phase III trials from the adult NCTN groups, reported from 1980 onward, with statistically significant findings for ≥ 1 clinical, time-dependent outcomes. In the subset of trials in which the experimental arm improved overall survival, gains in population life-years were estimated by deriving trial-specific hazard functions and hazard ratios to estimate the experimental treatment benefit and then mapping this trial-level benefit onto the US cancer population using registry and life-table data. Scientific impact was based on citation data from Google Scholar. Federal investment costs per life-year gained were estimated. The results were derived through December 31, 2020. RESULTS One hundred sixty-two trials comprised of 108,334 patients were analyzed, representing 29.8% (162/544) of trials conducted. The most common cancers included breast (34), gynecologic (28), and lung (14). The trials were cited 165,336 times (mean, 62.2 citations/trial/year); 87.7% of trials were cited in cancer care guidelines in favor of the recommended treatment. These studies were estimated to have generated 14.2 million (95% CI, 11.5 to 16.5 million) additional life-years to patients with cancer, with projected gains of 24.1 million (95% CI, 19.7 to 28.2 million) life-years by 2030. The federal investment cost per life-year gained through 2020 was $326 in US dollars. CONCLUSION NCTN randomized trials have been widely cited and are routinely included in clinical guidelines. Moreover, their conduct has predicted substantial improvements in overall survival in the United States for patients with oncologic disease, suggesting they have contributed meaningfully to this nation's health. These findings demonstrate the critical role of government-sponsored research in extending the lives of patients with cancer.

The decrease in uncited articles and its effect on the concentration of citations

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Empirical evidence demonstrates that citations received by scholarly publications follow a pattern of preferential attachment, resulting in a power‐law distribution. Such asymmetry has sparked significant debate regarding the use of citations for research evaluation. However, a consensus has yet to be established concerning the historical trends in citation concentration. Are citations becoming more concentrated in a small number of articles? Or have recent geopolitical and technical changes in science led to more decentralized distributions? This ongoing debate stems from a lack of technical clarity in measuring inequality. Given the variations in citation practices across disciplines and over time, it is crucial to account for multiple factors that can influence the findings. This article explores how reference‐based and citation‐based approaches, uncited articles, citation inflation, the expansion of bibliometric databases, disciplinary differences, and self‐citations affect the evolution of citation concentration. Our results indicate a decreasing trend in citation concentration, primarily driven by a decline in uncited articles, which, in turn, can be attributed to the growing significance of Asia and Europe. On the whole, our findings clarify current debates on citation concentration and show that, contrary to a widely‐held belief, citations are increasingly scattered.

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS ON CUSTOMER JOURNEY VIA VOSVIEWER MÜŞTERİ YOLCULUĞU ÜZERİNE VOSVİEWER ARACILIĞIYLA BİBLİOMETRİK BİR ANALİZ

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ABSTRACT Customer experiences play a key role in explaining complex customer behavior in dynamic market conditions. In recent years, one of the critical actors of customer experiences in this role is the customer journey. On the basis of the customer journey, the customer experience mission of “delivering unforgettable experiences to customers” is supplemented by the process-based mission of “perfecting customer experiences within processes (touchpoints)”. In this respect, the concept is described as a metaphorical journey and the importance of considering and perfecting the journey touchpoints while planning experiences is emphasized. In this study, a bibliometric evaluation of customer journey, which has gained importance in recent years, was made. In this respect, the study aims to examine the studies on customer journey in the historical process and to evaluate the most recent and interesting studies. The keyword “customer journey” was searched in the “Web of Science” database with the restriction of “all fields”. As a result of the research, 482 studies were reached. These research, which were conducted in many different fields, were limited to "business" and "management" and 242 studies were reviewed. As a result of the review, 234 studies were evaluated since 8 of 242 studies were outside the research purpose. In the data analysis phase, bibliometric analysis, a qualitative analysis method, was used and the data were analyzed through social network analysis technique. The research identifies the most important articles, authors, journals and countries related to the customer journey. As a result of the research, it was concluded that the most analyzed keywords along with customer journey are customer experiences, artificial intelligence, business-to-business, touch points, customer journey maps, customer satisfaction, customer engagement and social networking sites. It was also observed that the most cited author from this WOS database was Verhoef, Peter C. The most cited study from the WOS database is the study by Lemon and Verhoef (2016). When journal-based evaluation was made, it was concluded that the most cited journal was “journal of marketing”. In the country-based citation evaluation, studies published in the USA ranked first. In line with these data, the study is expected to support future studies by providing a perspective on customer journey literature based on the number of publications, authors, journals and citations. Keywords: Customer Experience, Customer Touchpoints, Service Design, Bibliometric Analysis. ÖZET Müşteri deneyimleri dinamik pazar koşullarında karmaşıklaşan müşteri davranışlarını açıklamada anahtar rol oynamaktadır. Son yıllarda müşteri deneyimilerinin bu roldeki kritik aktörlerinden biri ise müşteri yolculuğudur. Müşteri yolculuğu temelinde, müşteri deneyimlerinin “Müşterilere unutulmaz deneyimler sunma” misyonuna süreç temelli “müşteri deneyimlerini süreçler (temas noktaları) dahilinde mükemmelleştirme” misyonunu eklenmiştir. Bu açıdan kavram mecazi bir yolculuk olarak nitelendirilmiş ve deneyimler planlanırken bu yolculuğun temas noktalarının dikkate alınması ve kusursuz hale getirilmesinin önemi vurgulanmıştır. Çalışmada ise son yıllarda önem kazanan müşteri yolculuğuna ilişkin bibliometrik bir değerlendirme yapılmıştır. Bu açıdan çalışmada müşteri yolculuğu ile ilgili tarihsel süreçte yapılan çalışmaların incelenmesi; en yeni ve ilgi çeken çalışmaların değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. “Web of Science” veri tabanında “müşteri yolculuğu” anahtar kelimesi “all fields” kısıtlaması ile araştırılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda 482 çalışmaya ulaşılmıştır. Farklı birçok alanda yapılan bu çalışmalara “işletme” ve “yönetim” sınırlandırması getirilmiş ve 242 çalışma incelenmiştir. İnceleme sonucunda 242 çalışmadan 8 adedi araştırma amaçları dışında kaldığı için 234 çalışma değerlendirmeye tabi tutulmuştur. Verilerin analizi aşamasında ise nitel bir analiz yöntemi olan bibliometrik analizden faydalanılmış ve veriler sosyal ağ analizi tekniği aracılığıyla analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma, müşteri yolculuğu ile ilgili en önemli makaleleri, yazarları, dergileri ve ülkeleri tanımlamaktadır. Araştırma sonucunda müşteri yolculuğu ile birlikte en çok incelenen anahtar kelimelerin müşteri deneyimleri, yapay zeka, işletmeden işletmeye, temas noktaları, müşteri yolculuğu haritaları, müşteri memnuniyeti, müşteri katılımı ve sosyal ağ siteleri olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıca bu WOS veri tabanından en fazla atıf alan yazarın Verhoef,Peter C. olduğu gözlenmiştir. WOS veri tabanından en fazla atıf alan çalışmanın ise Lemon ve Verhoef (2016) tarafından yapılan çalışma olduğu görülmüştür. Dergi bazlı değerlendirme yapıldığında en fazla atıf alan derginin “journal of marketing” olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Ülke bazlı atıf değerlendirmesinde ise ilk sırada ABD’de yayınlanan çalışmaların olduğu görülmektedir. Bu veriler doğrultusunda çalışmanın müşteri yolculuğu literatürüne ilişkin yayın, yazar, dergi ve atıf sayılarına dayalı bir bakış açısı sunması yönüyle gelecek çalışmalara destek sunması beklenmektedir. Anahtar kelimeler: Müşteri Deneyimleri, Müşteri Temas Noktaları Hizmet Tasarımı, Bibliometrik Analiz,

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Bibliometric evaluation of Forensic Science International as a scholarly journal within the subject category legal medicine

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Alan Wayne Jones

This article presents a bibliometric evaluation of Forensic Science International (FSI) as a scholarly journal within the “legal medicine” subject category. Citation data were retrieved from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR), both of which are part of the Web-of-Science (WOS) database. The most cited articles in FSI were identified along with the most prolific authors. The current journal impact factor (JIF) of FSI is 2.2, which was in good agreement with the 5-year JIF of 2.3. FSI was ranked fourth among 17 journals within the legal medicine subject category. Since 1979, a total of 209 FSI articles were cited over 100 times and the H-index for times cited was 125. Although widely used in academia, bibliometric methods might also prove useful in jurisprudence, such as when evaluating the research and publications of people proposed as expert witnesses.

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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Top 100 Most Influential Studies on Robotic Arthroplasty

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Background: The use of robotics in arthroplasty surgery has increased substantially in recent years. The purpose of this study was to objectively identify the 100 most influential studies in the robotic arthroplasty literature and to conduct a bibliometric analysis of these studies to describe their key characteristics. Methods: The Clarivate Analytics Web of Knowledge database was used to gather data and metrics for robotic arthroplasty research using Boolean queries. The search list was sorted in descending order by the number of citations, and articles were included or excluded based on clinical relevance to robotic arthroplasty. Results: The top 100 studies were cited a total of 5770 times from 1997 to 2021, with rapid growth in both citation generation and the number of articles published occurring in the past 5 years. The top 100 robotic arthroplasty articles originated from 12 countries, with the United States being responsible for almost half of the top 100. The most common study types were comparative studies (36) followed by case series (20), and the most common levels of evidence were III (23) and IV (33). Conclusions: Research on robotic arthroplasty is rapidly growing and originates from a wide variety of countries, academic institutions, and with significant industry influence. This article serves as a reference to direct orthopaedic practitioners to the 100 most influential studies in robotic arthroplasty. We hope that these 100 studies and the analysis we provide aid healthcare professionals in efficiently assessing consensus, trends, and needs within the field.

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices about COVID-19 pandemic: a bibliometric analysis

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Background In order to avoid high rates of COVID-19 infection, one of the main tasks that must be performed is to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) about the virus. In this sense, Health Education is an essential tool for dealing with the virus. The aim of health education is to educate individuals through educational, motivational, skill development, and awareness techniques, and an understanding of the main needs of KAP is essential for this. Many KAP studies were published during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the aim of the present study was to analyze these publications through a bibliometric study. Methods A bibliometric analysis of the publications on KAP and COVID-19 was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection database. The RStudio Bibliometrix and VOSviewer packages were utilized to analyze the scientific production, authors, citations, countries, publishers, journals, research areas, and keywords. Results Of the 1,129 articles published, 777 were included in the study. The year with the most publications and citations was 2021. Three authors were underlined (all from Ethiopia), due to the number of articles published, the number of citations, and the collaboration networks established. As for the countries, most of the publications came from Saudi Arabia, while China obtained the most citations. PLOS One and Frontiers in Public Health published the most articles on the subject. The most frequent keywords were knowledge, attitudes, practices, and COVID-19. At the same time, others were identified based on the population group analyzed. Conclusion This is the first bibliometric study on KAP and COVID-19. The significant number of publications identified on KAP and its relationship to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the span of only 3 years, indicates the increased interest in this area. The study provides relevant information to researchers who are approaching this subject for the first time. It is a useful tool that can stimulate new studies and collaborations between researchers from different countries, areas and approaches. At the methodological level, a step-by-step guide is provided for future authors who wish to perform a bibliometric analysis.

Bibliometric‐enhanced legal information retrieval: Combining usage and citations as flavors of impact relevance

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Bibliometric‐enhanced information retrieval uses bibliometrics (e.g., citations) to improve ranking algorithms. Using a data‐driven approach, this article describes the development of a bibliometric‐enhanced ranking algorithm for legal information retrieval, and the evaluation thereof. We statistically analyze the correlation between usage of documents and citations over time, using data from a commercial legal search engine. We then propose a bibliometric boost function that combines usage of documents with citation counts. The core of this function is an impact variable based on usage and citations that increases in influence as citations and usage counts become more reliable over time. We evaluate our ranking function by comparing search sessions before and after the introduction of the new ranking in the search engine. Using a cost model applied to 129,571 sessions before and 143,864 sessions after the intervention, we show that our bibliometric‐enhanced ranking algorithm reduces the time of a search session of legal professionals by 2 to 3% on average for use cases other than known‐item retrieval or updating behavior. Given the high hourly tariff of legal professionals and the limited time they can spend on research, this is expected to lead to increased efficiency, especially for users with extremely long search sessions.

Single-Producer and Single-Retailer Integrated Inventory Model for Deteriorating Items Considering Three-Stage Deterioration

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May 2023

This paper presents a single-producer single-retailer integrated policy for deteriorating items considering three-stage deterioration. This study considers three-stage deterioration of products during each phase of the supply system, such as production, retail, and transportation. The objective of this research is to obtain an optimal number of deliveries, lot size, and replenishment period to minimize the total integrated cost of the supply chain. In this paper, demand rate and deterioration rate are assumed deterministic and constant. The output of this study shows that the integrated approach is much more effective to fulfill the purpose as compared to the independent approach. To conclude the results, a numerical experiment and sensitivity analysis are performed.KeywordsIntegrated inventory modelDeteriorationOptimal deliveryProduction model

Optimal Inventory Management Policies for Substitutable Products Considering Non-instantaneous Decay and Cost of Substitution

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May 2023

Substitution is an important key of real retail business market. Nowadays, most of retailers offer similar product to the customer in out-of-stock period. This study presents an inventory management approach for substitutable non-instantaneous decaying products under joint ordering policy. This study deals all the possible cases: when a product is completely depleted due to requirement/demand and decay, its demand is partially met by other products, and remain unsatisfied demand is lost. In this article, demand and deterioration rate are taken as deterministic type. The purpose of this article is to find the optimal ordering quantities to optimize the total cost. This article presents solution methodology and provides a numerical simulation to illustrate the model’s application. The numerical result shows a significant reduction in overall cost in the case of with substitution over without substitution case. Finally, the sensitivity of key parameters is examined and concludes this study with some future plans.KeywordsSubstitutable productJoint replenishmentInventory managementNon-instantaneous decay

Pricing Decisions in a Heterogeneous Dual-Channel Supply Chain Under Lead Time-Sensitive Customer Demand

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May 2023

Internet facilities helped retailers to sell through online channels, and as a result, e-tailers rose into prominence and started competing with retailers. But, the e-commerce industry always confronted the issue of lead delivery time, hindering the growth of many e-tailers. We observed scant literature that studies the impact of delivery lead time on a dual-channel supply chain consisting of retailer and e-tailer. This research paper uses game theory to verify the impact of delivery lead time on pricing decisions of a heterogeneous dual-channel supply chain consisting of the manufacturer, retailer, and e-tailer. We used the Stackelberg game to study the manufacturer’s and downstream partners’ interaction: retailers and e-tailers. A horizontal Nash game was used to model the interaction between the downstream partners. We had analytically modeled how the lead delivery time significantly affects the channel partner’s optimal pricing, sales volume, and profitability. We also did sensitivity analysis to check the influence of the customers’ channel preference coefficient toward a particular channel and its cross-effects on the pricing policies when the customer is also lead time-sensitive. The study revealed that irrespective of large delivery time or next day delivery time, customers’ preference toward a particular channel didn’t affect the manufacturer’s profit, whereas it affected the profit of the retailer and e-tailer. On the other hand, the increase in lead time-sensitivity coefficient severely affected the profit of all the supply chain partners. By analyzing the pricing decisions, we found that both the customer preference and lead time-sensitivity coefficients affected the pricing decisions, but customers’ channel preference coefficient failed to mitigate the effect of lead delivery time. The inputs from this study can be used by practicing managers to develop decision support systems and as an input in multi-agent systems for converting lead time-sensitive supply chains to robust and resilient ones.KeywordsDual-Channel supply chainDelivery timeGame theoryMulti-agent systemsResilient supply chaine-tailerDisruption

The Role and Potential of Information Communication Technology

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Abstract: This paper discusses the role of ICT in early childhood education in South Africa. It gives a reflection of the best practice alongside the current local status of ICT in Education. The study adopted a qualitative research method leaning more towards the interpretivist research paradigm. Desktop literature review was conducted in order to have a feel of the nature of ICT, looking at the Global, Continental (Africa) and local context. The research encompasses literature on both children and educator’s use of ICT in early childhood education and elaborates on the role of ICT with regards to teaching and learning and professional development. Key findings were that, through the adoption and proper usage of ICT, great value is added to the learning and teaching process. The study found that instead of being passive assimilators of information, learners become more engaged not only in recollection and understanding but also in application, evaluation and creation during the learning process. In order to optimise the impact of ICT in early childhood education in South Africa, the research recommended: the deployment of more ICT infrastructural resources in public primary schools, the need to train all role players on the usage of ICT, prioritisation of ICT in strategy formulation and budget allocations, introduction of learners to basic ICT skills in the lower classes, comprehensive repair and maintenance of the ICT equipment for optimal functioning, shifting focus from learner performance to capacity development, a phased approach comprised of appropriate interim targets, needs analysis have to be conducted and the measurement of progress to assess if objectives are met and taking corrective measures where deviations are experienced. . Keywords: Information Communication Technology; Early childhood development; Educational outcomes ICT; ICT Integration; Pedagogical value.

Modeling a successful citation trajectory structure for scholar's impact evaluation in Israeli academia

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One of the main concerns of researchers and institutions is how to assess the future performance of scholars and identify their potential to become successful scientists. In this study, we model scholarly success in terms of the probability of a scholar belonging to a group of highly impactful scholars as determined by their citation trajectory structures. To this end, we developed a new set of impact measures based on a scholar's citation trajectory structure (rather than on absolute citation or h-index rates), that show a stable trend and scale for highly impactful scholars, independent of their field of study, seniority and citation index. These measures were then incorporated as influence factors into the logistic regression models and used as features for probabilistic classifiers based on these models to identify the successful scholars in the heterogeneous corpus of 400 of most and least cited professors from two Israeli universities. From the practical point of view, the study may yield useful insights and serve as an aid in making promotion decisions by institutions, as well as a self-assessment tool for researchers who strive to increase their academic influence and become leaders in their field.

Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (SJFA): Mapping of Knowledge over the Last 25 Years

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Feb 2023

Abstract: The Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (SJFA) is a leading international journal in the field of accounting and finance, which was founded in 1972 with the aim of serving as a platform for dissemination at the service of academics, researchers and accounting and business professionals. The aim of this research is to examine the development of the SJFA journal from its creation to the present day, with the purpose of identifying the journal’s trend through published articles, authors, the most productive institutions and countries, and research topics, as well as citation patterns (most cited papers and typology of citing articles). The methodology used is bibliometric analysis and the data on which the bibliometric indicators are applied are taken from the Scopus database. This study also develops a graphical mapping of the bibliometric material by using the visualisation of similarities software. These graphs represent keyword co-occurrence, citation and co-citation analysis, and Journal Co-citation Analysis. The results show a significant growth of the journal over time, both in terms of the number and diversity of documents published and citations received, which has contributed to the positive evolution in terms of its impact and visibility. It is noteworthy that the journal is becoming more geographically diverse. The main topics covered in the journal are accounting and auditing management, and performance management. Papers dealing with topics related to management accounting, auditing, and management control, together with earnings management, accounting history and accounting regulation, stand out in terms of number of papers. Both topics are mediated by the subject of corporate governance. Keywords: finance; accounting; bibliometrics; citation analysis; Scopus; Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting

Optimization of Hybrid Truck-Drone Delivery Systems: A bibliometric analysis

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Publication Trends and Hot Spots in Cauda Equina Syndrome: A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Current Research

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Feb 2023

Background: Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) is a relatively uncommon and complex disorder. Recently, there has been a surge in research on CES. Although the research directions are multifarious, the overall research trends are unclear at present. Object: We aimed to identify the 100 most-cited articles on CES and analyze the hot spots trends regarding CES related research by bibliometric analysis. Methods: Articles were obtained by conducting an English language search of the Web of Science Core Collection Databases with the keywords "cauda equina syndrome." The initial 390 articles returned from the search were analyzed by VOSviewer. Next, the top 100 most-cited articles were further analyzed by title, authors, journal, year of publication, total citations, country of origin, institution, and keywords. Results: A total of 390 publications were identified. The top 100 most-cited articles were listed in descending order of total citations (range: 196 to 11). These articles originated from 24 countries; among these countries, the United Kingdom contributed the most publications (n=29). The most prolific journal was Spine (n=27), and the University of Edinburgh was the most productive institution (n=9). Conclusions: The number of publications on CES increased steadily, with a stable rise in recent years. Some publications have been cited more than 100 times, indicating that these findings are widely accepted by relevant clinicians and contribute significantly to the knowledge of CES. This study represents the first bibliometric analysis and visualization of hot spots analysis and research trends on CES. We believe that this will aid clinical researchers in targeting future areas of research.

A Scientometric Analysis Review on Agricultural Wastes Used as Building Materials

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The rapid urbanization of developed countries and the difficulty in disposing of agricultural wastes have created opportunities for the construction industry to use agricultural wastes. A wide variety of agricultural waste materials are already in use with concrete as substitutes for cement and aggregates, as well as reinforcing materials. This study reviews the available literature published from 1935 to 2022 on agricultural wastes being used as building materials. The research utilizes a bibliographic approach based on the Scopus database. This article retrieves data employing the Scopus database and incorporates 671 articles based on the keywords, agricultural wastes used as building materials. The scientometric analysis is the second step, wherein the patterns of the obtained articles are investigated with various factors such as countries with the most publications, sources that have the most publications, most frequently appearing keywords, and articles with more relevant research works. A summary of the results obtained at various stages of the research is depicted in each phase. Detailed quantitative and qualitative discussions are also conducted to achieve the three main objectives: the summarization of quantitative data, discussion of the existing application, and identification of future research directions. These findings serve the future endeavor of agricultural waste to-building materials’ incineration academic research. The scientometric review paves the way for academics from various nations to impart novel ideas and information and foster research collaboration.

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