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Research Collaboration in Saudi Arabia 1980–2014: Bibliometric Patterns and National Policy to Foster Research Quantity and Quality
Abstract
Using bibliometric indicators from InCites
... In this study, the highest level of collaboration occurred among Saudi Arabia and the United States (11 instances). This finding is consistent with a previous study's findings that found that the highest numbers of collaborative publications in the field of Physical Sciences (1980-2014) were produced through partnerships in Saudi Arabia and the United States (23.31%) and Saudi Arabia and Egypt (22.95%) 25 . Similarly, the highest numbers of collaborative publications related to Health Sciences in Saudi Arabia were produced through partnerships between Egypt (16.5%) and the United States (16.3%) 26 . ...
... Among the most prevalent publication journals for RTI research in the GCC region, Accident Analysis and Prevention had the highest number of publications (25), number of citations (533), and citation impact (21.32). Of the 20 most commonly cited RTI research publications originating in the GCC region, eight appeared in Accident Analysis and Prevention. ...
... In addition, we performed a three-factor analysis using GCC nation, publication journal, and keyword parameters to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of RTI research in the GCC region. Among the most prevalent publication journals for RTI research in the GCC region, Accident Analysis and Prevention had the highest number of publications (25), number of citations (533), and citation impact (21.32). Of the 20 most cited RTI research publications originating in the GCC region, four publications have been cited more than 50 times. ...
Background: Despite governmental interventions, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region continues to experience higher road traffic crash and fatality rates relative to Western nations. This trend suggests a potential disconnect between Road Traffic Injuries (RTI) research and the mitigation measures put in place.
Method: Here, we present an in-depth bibliometric analysis to obtain a comprehensive understanding of RTI research in the GCC region. The Web of Science database was used to search and retrieve the relevant articles during the period of 1981-2019.
Results: The volume of RTI research increased from 2015–2019, suggesting an increased focus on traffic safety in the GCC region. Saudi Arabia had the highest RTI research productivity level (126 publications); Bahrain had the lowest (7 publications). Inconsistent with its low publication volume, Hammad Medical Corps of Qatar had the highest citation impact score of 16.33. Global collaboration for RTI research was highest between Saudi Arabia and the United States. The most prevalent publication journal for the region was Accident Analysis and Prevention. The most common keywords were “road traffic accidents” and “road traffic injuries”; terms such as “mobile phones”, “pedestrian safety”, “pedestrians”, and “distracted driving” were least common. In the five most productive GCC nations with respect to RTI research (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman), researchers tended to publish works related to road traffic safety in traffic safety-oriented journals.
Conclusions: The quantity and quality of RTI publications in GCC is insufficient to meet the increasing related public health and economic burden in the region. The trends among publication volumes, citations, and impact were inconsistent. There is a lack of research collaboration among the institutions. Most of the research related to RTI is being conducted by researchers with a medical background. Research focusing on pedestrians, cyclists and road user behavior is also inadequate.
... Bibliometric analysis involves a combination of statistics and mathematics in the assessment of scholarly published research. 6 It is frequently used to measure the research output of an institution, 7 a country, 8,9 or a region. 10 It can also be used to evaluate different parameters of research published in a specific journal. ...
... 11 This kind of analysis presents a quantitative portrait of research performance and local and international collaboration, highlights the prevailing trends, indicates strong and weak areas of research, and provides new guidelines for researchers and policy makers. 8,9 Many studies in this area have yielded valuable insights. One such study on biomedical research in Saudi Arabia covered the period of 19 A study on pharmaceutical research in Saudi Arabia reported that 1386 papers were published during the ten years from 2001-2010 with an average annual growth rate of 14.21%. ...
... 16 The data used in bibliometric studies of all healthrelated disciplines have come from PubMed 4,5,12 and the Web of Science database. 6,8 All of the studies from the Scopus database were limited to a single medical specialty 13 or institution. 17,18 KSU was the most productive institution in the studies retrieved from the Scopus database. ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the published research on health sciences carried out by researchers in Saudi Arabia in the last decade by assessing bibliometric output. Data for 2008 to 2017 was retrieved from Scopus. During this period, there was significant growth, from 1332 publications in 2008 to 5529 in 2017, with an average annual growth rate of 14.1%. King Saud University was the most productive institution. Most of the published research was done in collaboration with Egypt. The subject area of medicine was predominant with the main publication source being the Saudi Medical Journal, Life Science Journal, the Acta Zhengzhou University Oversea Version, and the Annals of Saudi Medicine, primarily in the form of original research articles. The growing trend in publications is a sign of the increasing quality of education and more research and development activities, which are made possible by a sufficient budget allocation to these activities during the last decade.
... 13,14 This may indicate that females were busier with their workplace duties than male 11,17 There is a need for collaboration between educational institutions and the Jazan Regional MOH in terms of conducting dental research, which is supported by work conducted by Shehatta and Mahmood. 18 As a cross-sectional study, one of the strengths of the study is that it allowed the researchers to capture a snapshot of the target population's participation in dental research activities in Jazan at a specific time, when movement was restricted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study helps to pinpoint appropriate measures to improve their participation in dental research and, consequently, improve dental health care in general. ...
... Although the response rate was low, it is similar to the response rate of three earlier studies. [17][18][19][20][21] Lastly, the cross-sectional data collection can only be interpreted as an association rather than a cause-effect relationship. ...
Aims and objectives:
This study aimed at quantifying participation in dental research-related activities reported by the Saudi Ministry of Health-associated oral healthcare providers in Jazan and to investigate its association with sociodemographic and professional characteristics, as well as practitioners' perceptions of the Research and Development (R&D) index.
Materials and methods:
An online cross-sectional questionnaire was sent to oral health providers in Jazan using a convenience sampling technique. The questionnaire collected data on demographic characteristics and the 16 items of the R&D index. One-way ANOVA and t-tests were used to establish factors associated with R&D index scores. Multiple regression analyses with adjusted effects were conducted to identify the significant predictors for the factors associated with participation in dental research.
Results:
In total, 113 study participants completed the questionnaire with a response rate of 56.5%. Just over half (53.1%) of the participants were working in primary healthcare centers, and 46.9% were working in hospitals. Most of the study samples were dentists (92.0%), while a small percentage were dental hygienists (4.4%) and assistants (3.4%). The sample's participation in dental research was low with a mean of 3.57 (standard deviation = 3.69). The R&D support (p<0.001) and intentions (p = 0.050) significantly predicted the providers' participation in dental research.
Conclusion:
The current study found that R&D support and intention significantly predicted the providers' participation in dental research. Hence, it is recommended that comprehensive educational and training programs on dental research be developed that focus on the increase and implement it in their practice.
Clinical significance:
This study provides insights into factors and obstacles that influence dental research, which may be useful for future investigations.
... International collaboration indices showed that Nigeria co-authorship ratio is 67% but much lower than co-authorship of Saudi's publications (81.1%) and Egyptian publications (88.0%) (Shehatta and Mahmood, 2016;Shehatta and Mahmood, 2017). The first evidence of international collaboration was 1951 -1960 period, as low as 3.1% collaborated publications were recorded. ...
... The outstanding two countries with topmost collaboration were the United States and the United Kingdom which contributed a little above one-tenth of the total publications. Other top ranked collaborators were Germany, Malaysia, China and India which conforms with previous studies that the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, China and India are prominent features in bilateral research publications especially the United States and the United Kingdom which are the top collaborators (Chinchilla-Rodríguez, López-Illescas and Moya-Anegón, 2012; Fiala and Ho, 2015;Shehatta and Mahmood, 2016). Further analysis shows that Malaysia, China, India and South Africa are emerging top research partners with Nigeria. ...
A bibliometric analysis of Nigerian publications indexed in Scopus database over a 115-year period, 1901 to 2016 was carried out. The study elucidated Nigerian research performance, publication trends, publications patterns and collaboration patterns at national and international levels. A total of 95,304 publications were analysed with underlying bibliometric indicators and statistics. Results show a steady increase in Nigerian publications after independence; predominant article publications compared to conference papers and reviews as well as frequent collaboration within the country when compared to outside the country; and that most research publications in Nigeria emanate from universities. It is therefore suggested that there is need for more research activities and collaboration within and especially outside the country to enhance effective research productivity.
... 2019) , ( El Rassi et al., 2018) and (Meo et al., 2016) . This can also be used as case study to assess the publications output of any country (Shehatta, Mahmood, 2016), number of universities (Javed, Ahmad, and Khahro, 2020) or one university (Haq and Alfouzan, 2017), on one specific subject area (Nasir, and Ahmed, 2018), on group of scientists (Anwar, 2018) or on the work of single researcher as bio-bibliometric study (Haq and Ahmad, 2019), (Pavan, 2016).and on specific journal (Corrales, Reyes, and Fornaris, 2016). ...
... As far as Saudi journals are concerned, three notable bibliometric studies were found, one study on Journal of Taibah University of Science, (Shueb, and Mushtaq, 2015), second on Journal of Infection and Public Health, (Krauskopf, 2018) and third study presents the comparative analysis of three Saudi medical journals (Alanazi, Baladi, Haq. 2018 This study also confirmed that SMJ has been the top preference with 2,024 documents by Saudi affiliated authors, (Shehatta, and Mahmood, 2016). ...
Results: A total of 7,700 documents were found in the Scopus database published in SMJ from 1979 to 2019 with an average of 187.80 papers per year. A majority of documents was consisted in the type of original research articles. King Saud University found a most productive organization with 1,006 documents. More than half of the documents (n=3879; 50.37%) were contributed by international researchers, Turkey has been on the top with 806 documents. A paper published in 2004 entitled "Diabetes mellitus in Saudi Arabia" was found to be the most-cited paper. Conclusion: SMJ is a well-reputed and internationally recognized medical journal. There was gradual growth of publication in first 21 years but remarkable increase during first decade of 21 st century but in the last decade, the editorial team of SMJ has been more focusing on quality than quantity.
... The promising growth of scholarly publications in medical and allied health sciences at Saudi Arabia has been reported by Zaher et al. (2018), Shehatta and Mahmood (2016), Meo (2015) and Latif (2015). All these studies are mostly focused on the quantitative aspect and numerical growth of publications. ...
... This paper also highlighted the citation impact of publications that King Saud University found the most productive with 9954 publications with 9.84 average citations per article but the publications produced by King Fahad Medical City got highest citation impact with an average of 15.12 citations per article. Shehatta and Mahmood (2016) indicated that research conducted in the collaboration of developed countries by the Saudi authors got highest number of citations. Meo (2015) examined the Scopus based database SCImago Journal and Country Rank and revealed that Saudi Arabia produced 1,61,717 publications, almost 44% of citable documents received an average of 8.09 citations per paper. ...
Aim: The study aims to assess the Saudi Arabian publications on dentistry and their citation impact as reflected in the Web of Science (WoS). Methods: WoS database categorized dental research under "Dentistry Oral Surgery Medicine". Dental sciences publications with citation impact by Saudi Arabian affiliated authors produced during 2009-2018 have been searched by using suitable searching strategy and dental research of 10 randomly selected countries has been carried out for comparison. The downloaded data was transferred into Microsoft Excel format to measure the bibliometric indicators and citation impact of publications. Results: A total of 1,771 documents on dentistry were published by Saudi Arabia from the time span of 2009 to 2018. These publications received a total of 10,320 citations with an average of 5.83 citations per paper. The subcategory of "Engineering biomedical" in dentistry got maximum citation impact. Review articles received higher citations as compared to original research articles. Dataset by organizations showed that the research carried out in the hospital sector have a higher number of citations as compared to teaching institutions. The research collaboration by Saudi Arabian authors with the researchers of the University of Michigan, USA got maximum citations while by country analysis shows that research collaboration with Italy, Germany and Japan have more citations as compared to the US, Egypt and England. Conclusion: Although there is promising growth in dental research in Saudi Arabia, even then researchers need to write on the novel and innovative ideas to get global attention and citations. Articles published in Q1 impact factor journals and research collaboration with talent-rich countries got higher citations.
... The promising growth of scholarly publications in medical and allied health sciences at Saudi Arabia has been reported by Zaher et al. (2018), Shehatta and Mahmood (2016), Meo (2015) and Latif (2015). All these studies are mostly focused on the quantitative aspect and numerical growth of publications. ...
... This paper also highlighted the citation impact of publications that King Saud University found the most productive with 9954 publications with 9.84 average citations per article but the publications produced by King Fahad Medical City got highest citation impact with an average of 15.12 citations per article. Shehatta and Mahmood (2016) indicated that research conducted in the collaboration of developed countries by the Saudi authors got highest number of citations. Meo (2015) examined the Scopus based database SCImago Journal and Country Rank and revealed that Saudi Arabia produced 1,61,717 publications, almost 44% of citable documents received an average of 8.09 citations per paper. ...
Aim: The study aims to assess the Saudi Arabian publications on dentistry and their citation impact as reflected in the Web of Science (WoS). Methods: WoS database categorized dental research under “Dentistry Oral Surgery Medicine”. Dental sciences publications with citation impact by Saudi Arabian affiliated authors produced during 2009-2018 have been searched by using suitable searching strategy and dental research of 10 randomly selected countries has been carried out for comparison. The downloaded data was transferred into Microsoft Excel format to measure the bibliometric indicators and citation impact of publications. Results: A total of 1,771 documents on dentistry were published by Saudi Arabia from the time span of 2009 to 2018. These publications received a total of 10,320 citations with an average of 5.83 citations per paper. The subcategory of “Engineering biomedical” in dentistry got maximum citation impact. Review articles received higher citations as compared to original research articles. Dataset by organizations showed that the research carried out in the hospital sector have a higher number of citations as compared to teaching institutions. The research collaboration by Saudi Arabian authors with the researchers of the University of Michigan, USA got maximum citations while by country analysis shows that research collaboration with Italy, Germany and Japan have more citations as compared to the US, Egypt and England. Conclusion: Although there is promising growth in dental research in Saudi Arabia, even then researchers need to write on the novel and innovative ideas to get global attention and citations. Articles published in Q1 impact factor journals and research collaboration with talent-rich countries got higher citations.
... A bibliometric analysis of research papers that were published between 1980 and 2014, demonstrated that (33%) of research articles published during this period were focused in area of clinical and health research (8). A review of health research published between 1996 and 2012 found 27,246 papers of which only 151 belonged to high-impact factor journals (9). ...
Background
The identification of current gaps in high-impact medical research in Saudi Arabia has international significance due to the trend of collaborative research in the field of health and medicine and the focus on knowledge-sharing. The purpose of this study is to assess the current focus, gaps, and priorities in health research in Saudi Arabia.
Methods
We employed a mixed-method research approach to achieve research objectives. (1) a systematic review of scientific research studies that are published between January 2020 to January 2022 in the top fifty Q1 medical science journals (2) a cross-sectional survey collected data from professionals employed in various organizations including the Ministry of Health (MoH), Ministry of Education (MoE), health organizations and universities, and the health industry. The close-ended survey questions inquired about the broad and specific areas of ongoing health research projects by these researchers and organizations in Saudi Arabia.
Results
The literature search on databases identified Science Direct ( n = 741), Pub Med ( n = 244) and Google Scholar ( n = 15,600). After screening, ( n = 26) original studies were selected for detailed evaluation and synthesis. Among these ( n = 7) studied infectious diseases, ( n = 7) cancer, and cardiac disease ( n = 5). These studies focused on the etiology, treatment management and therapy outcomes of these health conditions. The survey was completed by ( n = 384) respondents from these organizations. Most of the ongoing research projects focus on clinical sciences (27%) followed by basic sciences (24%) and public health research (24%) and a limited number of researchers were involved in healthcare management (2%) and informatics (2%). Most research focused on kidney and liver disorders (80%), obesity (74%), diabetes (74%), hormonal diseases (64%), and infectious disease (66%); it is equally important to design and fund research in some of the neglected areas including reproductive health (3%), physical and mental disabilities (1%).
Conclusion
Findings suggest that current gaps in original research from Saudi Arabia are in healthcare service quality, reproductive health, physical and mental disabilities and health informatics. Researchers and funding agencies and international collaborative projects should prioritize these areas.
... Institutions may also lack a sufficiently sized, trained and skilled research workforce [48] and some have only teaching career streams, with limited research job opportunities, research career pathways or allocated dedicated research time [49,50]. Limited multidisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations and limited multi-institutional collaborations across the same country or inter-regionally [51,52], can also prohibit GS leadership development. Limited leadership training opportunities are reported [17]. ...
Background
Strong Global South (GS) health research leadership, itself both dependent on and a requisite for strong health research systems, is essential to generate locally relevant research and ensure that evidence is translated into policy and practice. Strong GS health research systems and leadership are important for health development and in turn for strong health systems. However, many GS countries struggle to produce research and to improve performance on widely used research metrics measuring productivity and reflecting leadership. Drawing on literature from a rapid review, this viewpoint paper considers the barriers to GS health research leadership and proposes strategies to address these challenges.
Findings
GS researchers and institutions face numerous barriers that undermine health research leadership potential. Barriers internal to the GS include researcher-level barriers such as insufficient mentorship, limited financial incentives and time constraints. Institutional barriers include limited availability of resources, restrictive and poorly developed research infrastructures, weak collaboration and obstructive policies and procedures. Structural barriers include political will, politicization of research and political instability. External barriers relate to the nature and extent of Global North (GN) activities and systems and include allocation and distribution of funding and resources, characteristics and focus of GN-GS research collaborations, and publication and information dissemination challenges.
Conclusions
Strengthening GS health research leadership requires acknowledgement of the many barriers, and adoption of mitigating measures by a range of actors at the institutional, national, regional and global levels. Particularly important are leadership capacity development integrating researcher, institutional and systems initiatives; new GN–GS partnership models emphasizing capacity exchange and shared leadership; supporting GS research communities to set, own and drive their research agendas; addressing biases against GS researchers; ensuring that GS institutions address their internal challenges; enhancing South–South collaborations; diversifying research funding flow to the GS; and learning from models that work. The time has come for a firm commitment to improving localization of research leadership, supported by adequate funding flow, to ensure strong and sustainable research systems and leadership in and from the GS. Just as the humanitarian donor and aid community adopted the Grand Bargain commitment to improve funding flow through local and national responders in times of crisis, we strongly urge the global health research community to adopt a Grand Bargain for research leadership.
... Research publications in the field of library and information science in France need to be periodically evaluated to highlight the various attributes of scientific publications. Bibliometric techniques, methods and indicators are used to identify prolific authors, institutions, and subject trends to make subsequent decisions for allocation of research grants and on other types of funding (Hirsch, 2005;Shehatta & Mahmood, 2016). ...
Objective: The purpose of this study was to measure the number of contributions and highlight quantitatively the contributions made by French researchers in the field of Information Science indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) during 1990-2021 from altmetric and bibliometric perspectives.
Materials and Methods: The bibliometric data were collected from WoS and three indexes of SCI-Expanded, SSCI, and A&HCI in the period 1990-2021. Scientometric data analysis was done using the HistCite, VOSviewer, CiteSpace softwares, and altmetric data analysis was performed using the Altmetrics.com and social sites such as ResearchGate, Academia, and Mendeley.
Results: The analysis showed that 1959 documents were published by French researchers in the field of Information Science. The highest number of publications was 114 documents contributed in 2020. The number of cited publications of French researchers in this field was more than the number of uncited publications, and this trend in cited publications was an upward trend. Michel Zitt and the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) were the most prolific researcher and institute in the field of Information Science in France. The two journals, Social Science Information (Information sur les sciences sociales) and Scientometrics, published the most publications in this field. Moreover, the findings showed that topics such as information retrieval, and information systems were hotspots for research, as well as issues such as social media and big data, emerging topics in the field of Information Science in France.
Conclusion: The publishing trend in the field of Information Science in France is an upward trend, and the United States and the UK were the main French collaborators in this field. The results of this study can serve as a roadmap for French researchers and research institutes to understand the current and future research trends in the field of Information Science in France.
... [14] A country-level bibliometric study on Saudi Arabia revealed the promising growth in research publications through these efforts. [15] Some bibliometric studies have been conducted to assess the research productivity of Saudi Arabia in medical sciences. [2,4,[16][17][18] The bibliometric analysis of a specific journal is important as it provides insight far beyond the journal's scope. ...
The Journal of Family and Community Medicine (JFCM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Saudi Society of Family and Community Medicine. This review is aimed to analyze the scientometric attributes of manuscripts published over 27 years from 1994 to 2020 using scientometric technique. The bibliographic records of manuscripts published from 1994 to 2020 were retrieved from the Web of Science and Medline-PubMed databases. The data were analyzed by using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and Biblioshiny software. A total of 648 manuscripts were included; these were written by 1442 authors, with an average of 2.22 authors per manuscript and 24 manuscripts per year. All manuscripts gained 2,693 citations with a mean ratio of 4.15 citations per manuscript. All the top-20 contributing authors belonged to Saudi Arabia, and 48% of the manuscripts were in the single-author pattern; the multiauthored manuscripts received a higher ratio of citations. The review highlighted the most contributing institutions and countries. Bibliographic coupling of countries, institutions, keywords co-occurrence, and co-citation of journals were also presented. The JFCM is an important journal of Saudi Arabia that has provided a platform to family medicine researchers to share their scholarly and scientific communication for the past 27 years. Over the years, the frequency and number of publications in the journal have improved. Although the journal has received manuscripts from all over the world, most contributions were from Saudi Arabia.
... Based on that, subsequent decisions can be made such as review of existing policies including but not limited to changes in the criteria for allocation of research grants. [5,6] The scientists of University of Granada, Spain, are maintaining the research portal, Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR), based on the Scopus database. SJR provides the publications' record of 240 countries of the world. ...
Introduction: Bibliometric evaluation of the scientific literature quantifies the growth of individual articles and assesses their impact on subsequent publications within that field. This study investigated the bibliometric attributes of articles published in Saudi Endodontic Journal (SEJ) from 2011 to 2020.
Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was carried out on the datasets which were retrieved manually from the SEJ website in September 2020. The chronological growth of the journal was assessed based on the annual growth rate. Type and field of study for each article were categorized. The most prolific author, institution, and country were identified as well as citation and authorship patterns. Descriptive analysis of the data was performed.
Results: A total of 280 articles met the selection criteria for inclusion in the study. The total number of citations received was 1061 with 3.8 cites/document, with an average annual growth rate of 36.7%. The most frequent types of study were laboratorial (37.9%), case report (33.2%), and survey (11.1%). The most commonly occurring fields of study were root canal anatomy (25.7%), irrigation (14.6%), and canal instrumentation (12.9%). Literature reviews (9.6%) and articles on endodontic microbiology (8.3%) were associated with more citations compared to other study types and field of study, respectively. Saad Al-Nazhan has emerged as the most prolific author (n = 16; 5.7%), King Saud University as the most contributing institution (n = 40; 14.3%), and Saudi Arabia as the most contributing country (n = 112; 40%).
Conclusion: SEJ has contributed significantly to the growth of endodontic literature as evident by the diversity of subjects covered in the past 10 years. The increased growth in international audience reflects the sturdy confidence of the scientific community on SEJ.
... Earlier, Shehatta and Mahmood (2016) measured the research growth of Saudi Arabia over the period of 1980-2014. The study used the InCite feature of the Web of Science database to extract the dataset of 74,767 publications, one-third of the total publications (n=24,937; 33.4%) belonged to the subject category of 'Clinical, Pre-Clinical, and Health'. ...
The research analysis output is one of the leading indicators to assess the quality of clinical care, education, and research in healthcare organizations. This study aims to evaluate the scholarly publication growth of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard – Health Affairs (MNG-HA), indexed in the Elsevier’s Scopus database since 2002.
The study was performed using different bibliometric and visualization techniques. While the highest number of publications indicate King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences as an affiliated address, however, the publications from King Abdulaziz Medical City have the maximum citation impact. The ‘Saudi Medical Journal’ has been the most preferred journal at national level, while ‘Studies in Health Technology and Informatics’ from the Netherlands at the international level. Our results show that most collaborations are among the authors of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom at the international level. The growing numbers of publications, sound citation-impact, and international collaboration reflect the practical approach of MNG-HA management’s leadership, and aspiring contribution of MNG-HA researchers.
... The research activities are imperious for the development of knowledge and sharing the findings with rest of the world is an integral part of the research cycle (Haq & Al Fouzan, 2017;Shehatta & Mahmood, 2016). Continuous research in radiological sciences has enhanced the current knowledge, to provide solutions to the problems and improve the process of medical practice (Aklhawtani, Kwee & Kwee, 2020;Mattar, Tilson & Sayed, 2013). ...
Aim: The aim of this study is to present the bibliometric analysis of papers published in Radiologic Clinic of North America (RCNA) from 2000 to 2019. Design/Methodology: The Elsevier's Scopus database was used as a source to retrieve the bibliographic records published from 2000 to 2019. The data was evaluated on the following parameters, growth of publications and their citation impact by year, most contributing institutions and countries, productive authors, authorship patterns, most-cited papers, frequently used keywords and flow of knowledge. Only original and review articles were used for analysis, other types of documents were excluded. Microsoft Excel, SPSS and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis. Results: A fluctuation was detected in the number of publications. A total of 1,401 papers were selected, of whom 1,241 (88.57%) were review articles and 160 (11.42%) were research articles. The mean and standard deviation (SD) scores of papers were 70 and 6.15 respectively. All selected papers received 34,145 citations with a mean score of 24.37 citations per paper (SD 1019.55). The study found that all top-10 contributing institutions belonged to the USA and the USA was also found most productive country. Out of the ten-most productive authors, nine were affiliated with USA and two-author pattern found a most preferred pattern. Conclusion: The finding of this study exposed that the USA is the most productive country in terms of authors, institutions and even in citing the literature of RCNA.
... The research activities are imperious for the development of knowledge and sharing the findings with rest of the world is an integral part of the research cycle (Haq & Al Fouzan, 2017;Shehatta & Mahmood, 2016). Continuous research in radiological sciences has enhanced the current knowledge, to provide solutions to the problems and improve the process of medical practice (Aklhawtani, Kwee & Kwee, 2020;Mattar, Tilson & Sayed, 2013). ...
Aim: The aim of this study is to present the bibliometric analysis of papers published in Radiologic Clinic of North America (RCNA) from 2000 to 2019. Design/Methodology: The Elsevier’s Scopus database was used as a source to retrieve the bibliographic records published from 2000 to 2019. The data was evaluated on the following parameters, growth of publications and their citation impact by year, most contributing institutions and countries, productive authors, authorship patterns, most-cited papers, frequently used keywords and flow of knowledge. Only original and review articles were used for analysis, other types of documents were excluded. Microsoft Excel, SPSS and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis. Results: A fluctuation was detected in the number of publications. A total of 1,401 papers were selected, of whom 1,241 (88.57%) were review articles and 160 (11.42%) were research articles. The mean and standard deviation (SD) scores of papers were 70 and 6.15 respectively. All selected papers received 34,145 citations with a mean score of 24.37 citations per paper (SD 1019.55). The study found that all top-10 contributing institutions belonged to the USA and the USA was also found most productive country. Out of the ten-most productive authors, nine were affiliated with USA and two-author pattern found a most preferred pattern. Conclusion: The finding of this study exposed that the USA is the most productive country in terms of authors, institutions and even in citing the literature of RCNA.
... The United States has been on the top in research collaboration followed by Germany, Saudi Arabia and England (Nasir, Ahmed, Asrar & Gilani, 2015). Shehatta and Mahmood (2016) assessed the quantity and quality of Saudi Arabian research published during 1980 to 2014. A total of 88,506 papers were published in WoS indexed sources, 84.48% of the documents were created by 24 organizations. ...
The publications of scholarly communication have been considered as the driving force and the backbone for international development. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the scholarly research productivity by authors affiliated to Pakistan in all areas of knowledge. The Web of Science (WoS) database has been used to extract the records of publications produced by the authors affiliated to Pakistan and published during the 21st century from 2000 to 2019. The analysis of the retrieved documents has been conducted on the following parameters; distribution of publications by year, percentage, and annual growth rate; the top-20 most productive institutions, subject categories, collaborative countries, and preferred source publications. Findings have shown that 148,678 publications were produced by Pakistan with an average of 7,434 documents per year and 42% documents were produced during the last three years from 2017-19. COMSATS University Islamabad and Quaid-e-Azam University were found to be the most productive institutions while medicine general internal and engineering electrical electronic were found as the preferred areas of research. The examination of research showed that China is on the top, followed by United States and Saudi Arabia, but the highest citation impact in documents produced in collaboration with the authors are of Switzerland. Pakistan Journal of Botany has emerged as the most favorite source of publication. The state-of-the-art systematic research plays a significant role in the development of the country and is compulsory for sustainable developments. This study would help to re-examine the research strategies, support in the decision-making process, and further fund allocation. The result also highlights the strong and least preferred areas of research.
... Dr. Eugene Garfield introduced the science of citation counting to assess the worth of publications and Alan Prichard presented the term bibliometrics to evaluate the different characteristics of publications (Haq & Al Fouzan, 2019a). Bibliometric studies cover the global, regional, national, institutional, and individual research productivity of any area of knowledge, further the single journal, group of journals, as well as the comparison of databases are also merged in bibliometric landscape (Shehatta & Mahmood, 2016). The results of the bibliometrics assessments are very convenient for the managerial group to formulate and revisit the research policy and also provide a solid standing for the revision of funding criteria (Haq, Alfouzan, 2017). ...
The parent study was conducted with an aim to determine the various bibliometric characteristics of the documents published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) for 2014 to 2019. A retrospective study method was used and the data of JASIST were retrieved from Web of Science-Clarivate Analytics database. A total of 1,196 documents were found, contributed by the authors of 62 countries with average of 199 documents per annum. These documents received 11,941 citations with an average of 9.98 citations per documents. More than half of research were contributed by two countries, and amongst the top-10 most contributing organizations, six belonged to one country. The share of Asian countries has been recorded very low. JASIST has been providing excellent platform for dissemination of innovative ideas in the field of library and information Science since 1950.
... In this study, the highest level of collaboration occurred among Saudi Arabia and the United States (11 instances). This finding is consistent with a previous study's findings that found that the highest numbers of collaborative publications in the field of Physical Sciences (1980-2014) were produced through partnerships in Saudi Arabia and the United States (23.31%) and Saudi Arabia and Egypt (22.95%) 25 . Similarly, the highest numbers of collaborative publications related to Health Sciences in Saudi Arabia were produced through partnerships between Egypt (16.5%) and the United States (16.3%) 26 . ...
Background: Despite governmental interventions, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region continues to experience higher road traffic crash and fatality rates relative to Western nations. This trend suggests a potential disconnect between Road Traffic Injuries (RTI) research and the mitigation measures put in place.
Method: Here, we present an in-depth bibliometric analysis to obtain a comprehensive understanding of RTI research in the GCC region. The Web of Science database was used to search and retrieve the relevant articles during the period of 1981-2019.
Results: The volume of RTI research increased from 2015–2019, suggesting an increased focus on traffic safety in the GCC region. Saudi Arabia had the highest RTI research productivity level (126 publications); Bahrain had the lowest (7 publications). Inconsistent with its low publication volume, Hammad Medical Corps of Qatar had the highest citation impact score of 16.33. Global collaboration for RTI research was highest between Saudi Arabia and the United States. The most prevalent publication journal for the region was Accident Analysis and Prevention . The most common keywords were “ road traffic accidents ” and “ road traffic injuries ”; terms such as “ mobile phones ”, “ pedestrian safety ”, “ pedestrians ”, and “ distracted driving ” were least common. In the five most productive GCC nations with respect to RTI research (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman), researchers tended to publish works related to road traffic safety in traffic safety-oriented journals.
Conclusions: The quantity and quality of RTI publications in GCC is insufficient to meet the increasing related public health and economic burden in the region. The trends among publication volumes, citations, and impact were inconsistent. There is a lack of research collaboration among the institutions. Most of the research related to RTI is being conducted by researchers with a medical background. Research focusing on pedestrians, cyclists and road user behavior is also inadequate.
... Recent studies applied several bibliometric analyses to comprehensively review scientific collaborations in GIScience theory and practices, including Geography and GIS (Fish & Piekielek, 2016;Gorraiz et al., 2016;Hu et al., 2019;F Liu et al., 2016;Mohamad et al., 2013;Wei et al., 2015), global geo-ontology research (Li et al., 2017), remote sensing and GIS (L Wang et al., 2019), geographic open data (Y Zhang et al., 2018), energy research (Farooq et al., 2018), GI and pollution research (Jiang, Huo, et al., 2019;Yang et al., 2017), geophysical modeling (X Li & Lei, 2019), artificial intelligence (Niu et al., 2016), and economic geography (ZZhu et al., 2019). These studies examined the research trends in GIS both at the national or regional levels (Chatterjee & Sahasranamam, 2018;Shehatta & Mahmood, 2016) and at the global scale (F Liu et al., 2016). However, evaluating the overall global trends in GI research is challenging due to its wide spectrum of applications. ...
Identifying scientific collaborations helps in establishing new
research policies and linkages among academic institutions.
Geographical information system (GIS) research is relatively new
in higher education in developing countries. Investigating scholarly
communication is challenging for GIS research due to its broad
application. Therefore, the main objective is to evaluate the current
trends of GIS research in higher education in Pakistan. For this, we
analyzed patterns of published literature using data from the Web
of Science databases for 2000-2019. We used interactive visual
exploration of the scientific literature organized in a fine-grained
manner to mining research patterns in the field. Results show that
international collaborations are highest with China, followed by the
USA. We identified 29 academic institutes in Pakistan who made
intensive research collaborations with the Chinese Academy of
Science. GIS techniques were mostly studied to solve problems in
the domains of water, atmospheric, and environmental sciences.
GIS research output increased remarkably during the last decade,
which we attribute to the availability of scholarships from the
Higher Education Commission, the Chinese Government, and US
Fulbright initiatives. The research output will help to strengthen the
academic exchange on GIS research between higher education
institutes
... It offers features such as a smart tool to trail, examine and envisage research output and easy for the user to deploy the retrieved data to make any decision. (Shehatta& Mahmood 2016). This paper presented the difference of citation impact of collaborated and single-authored documents produced by KSA authors, as the higher ratio of citations recorded by collaborated research papers (3.59-8.38) ...
Purpose: This study is aimedtoexamine the citations received by the documents
published in the Saudi Medical Journal (SMJ) from 1979 to 2018as reflected in the
Scopus database.
Methodology:This retrospective study was carried out at King Saud bin Abdulaziz
University for Health Sciences from October to November 2019. All the
documentspublished in SMJ and indexed in the Scopus database from 1979 to 2018, were
retrieved from the Scopus database on October 25
th
, 2019. The bibliographic records of
all retrieved documents were downloaded in Comma Separated Value (CSV) fileand
converted into Microsoft Excel for analysis. The bibliometric parameters of growth of
documents with citations (Mean ± SEM); citations counting with document types; the
range of citations in proportion with documents and ten most cited papers have been
presented in a tabular pattern.
Findings:A total of 7,483documents were published from 1979-2018 (Mean
187.07±25.64) and these documents received 37,988 citations (Mean=949.7 ± 189.72).
A total of 5,257 (70.25%) documents have received citations varying from 1 to 316 while
2,226 (29.75%) documents didn’t receive any citations. Most of the documents (n=2,828;
37.79%) received between 1-4 citations per document. Writing research articles (n=5901;
78.85%) were found most preferred area of research followed by letters to editor (n=690;
9.22%) and review articles (n=474; 6.33%). Review articles received a slightly higher
ratio of citations (6.12) as compared to original research articles (5.82). The ten most
cited articles have been identified and an article entitled, “Diabetes mellitus in Saudi
Arabia” published in 2004 got the maximum of 316 citations.
Conclusion:The study highlights that there is a remarkable growth in the number of
documents published in SMJ over the years and the number of citations also increased
dramatically after year the 2000. The citation count would be more escalated by
publishing papers on novel and innovative themes with international research
collaboration.
Keywords: Citation Analysis, Saudi Medical Journal, Bibliometric
... Moreover, the quantity and quality of publications produced within a country or institution are the main factors that reflect quality of health care education and practices. The estimation of the scholarly communication output of any country and institute also shows its progress that is critical to the policy-making process as well as the justification to budget allocation (Meo, Hassan, & Usmani, 2013;Shehatta, & Mahmood, 2016;Haq & Al Fouzan 2017). The academics must play a twofold role in educational set-up, firstly the teaching and the other is the research. ...
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to carry-out bibliometric analysis of publications by authors associated with Army Medical College, Pakistan using Scopus database. Methodology: All publications, published from 1977 to 2018, by the authors affiliated with Army Medical College, Pakistan were retrieved from Scopus database. The bibliographic records of all retrieved publications were downloaded in the Microsoft Excel. The data regarding phase-wise growth of publications; citations; subject distribution; the most prolific authors and journals; and research collaboration within Pakistan and abroad were analyzed and presented in tabular form. Findings: A total of 417 publications were found with an average of 9.92 papers per year. However, these publications were cited 2,524 times with a citation impact of 6.05 citation per year. Out of 417, 352 (68%) publications were published on Medicine. The most prolific author was Abdul Khaliq Naveed and Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan and Journal of Pakistan Medical Association were the most preferred journal with 84 and 82 publications respectively. The authors mostly collaborated with National University of Sciences and Technology within Pakistan and two Saudi universities outside Pakistan. Conclusion: Escalation in scientific productivity at Army Medical College was observed during the last decade. However, there is an urgent need to amplify research activities and collaboration with international organizations manifold to respectably stand with the world.
... Some of the papers published from the critical care unit were also included in international guidelines. [5,6] A number of publications have discussed the quality of biomedical research and productivity in the country and most of these reported a similar trend, these include trials and original research papers, [7][8][9][10][11][12] as well as reviews. [13][14][15][16] A high number of randomized control trials were also published. ...
Introduction:
The volume and quality of biomedical research publications from an institution are considered adequate indicators of the quality of medical care in that institute. King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is one of the oldest and most distinguished medical centers in the country.
Methods:
In this study, we analyzed the number of publications from the Critical Care Unit of the hospital in the past two decades, from 1996 to 2016. The research publications were evaluated on various parameters. Moreover, the impact of their study on global medicine was determined.
Results:
Our results indicate a steady progression in the number of publications from the institute in the past two decades. An average of 17.3 papers was published each year during this time. Out of the 283 publications from KAMC included in this study, the majority of the publications were original articles, 61 were review articles, 66 were multicenter trial studies and 28 were randomized control trials. The citation profile of the publications was good indicating global impact of the studies.
Conclusion:
The global impact of research as evaluated through published manuscripts in KAMC is overall good. This was deduced from both the increase in the number of publications each year and also the quality of papers as evidenced by the citation index of the papers published between 1996 and 2016.
... Their efficiency is subject to ameliorate in the next few years (Pohl and Lane 2018). Moreover, the important rise of Saudi research productivity and impact is mainly due to the governmental efforts since the late 2000s to convert the major universities of the kingdom (mainly King Saud University and King Abdelaziz University) into world-class universities (Schmoch et al. 2016;Shin et al. 2011) through the establishment of high-level research collaborations and partnership with leading institutions from developed countries such as the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom and France (Shin et al. 2011;Shehatta and Mahmood 2016), through the creation of Riyadh Techno Valley Park, a local industry-based environment for high-scale technological R&D (Alshumaimri et al. 2010) as well as through the massive recruitment of highly cited scientists for part-time and full-time research positions in these institutions (Bhattacharjee 2011). 2 Furthermore, although the negative effect of Arab spring on the citation count of several Arab countries such as Tunisia, Lebanon and Algeria can be explained by the effect of political instability after 2011 on the work process of home research facilities (Hassan 2001) and on the immigration of local highly-qualified scientists for seeking better life and research conditions (Franzoni et al. 2012), this citation loss is probably due to the higher interest of these nations in increasing their research productivity rather than in boosting and promoting world-class research outputs. 3 When trying to assess the number of research publications of Tunisia, Algeria and Lebanon in journals having received an impact factor of 5 or more in 2018 (Clarivate Analytics 2019a), we found that these three countries respectively ameliorated their number of publications in the concerned journals between 2006-2010 and 2011-2015 by 35.9%, 43.8% and 16.5% only (Clarivate Analytics 2019b). ...
This research letter discusses whether Arab Spring explains the changes in research productivity and impact of Arab countries by identifying non-sociopolitical factors that can be behind the variations of the research performance of several Arab nations such as Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon and Algeria.
... Paper suggested that there is dire need to develop national research policy to foster and support collaborations among researchers, universities, and countries. [9] Latif, R. carried out the study of medical research productivity affiliated to KSA during 2008-2012 based on peer-reviewed journals indexed in PubMed only. There was 1562 articles published in a targeted period, more than half (54.3%) of the citations created from Riyadh. ...
Bibliometric studies have been carried out to assess the research productivity in the different field of knowledge. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in the field of medical research in all Arab States. There are 64 universities and degree awarding institutions in KSA, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) established in 2005. The aim of this study to assess the oncology research outcome having an authorship affiliated with KSAU-HS, its teaching hospitals, and King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre (KAIMRC) published during the inception of the university to Dec 2015. Data retrieved from Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) web of science, InCiteTM Database of Thomson Reuters, which produced the list of 775 research documents published in 346 different journals, out of these 45 articles are written on the subject of oncology in 19 different journals. Majority of articles (91.11%) are written in collaborative efforts. In 33 (73.33%) publications, the principal author belongs to KSAU-HS, its associated hospital and research center. Almost half of the research papers (55.55%) are written in collaboration with researchers at other universities/hospitals and organizations. This study is only based on the bibliography produced by ISI's Web of Science database. The articles produced by KSAU-HS may be more than this number. The data was analyzed by using MS-Excel 2010.
... UK (9.54%) and Canada (7.42%). 10 In our research, USA had been the major partner in research productivity. This research described that 81.1% of KSA research had been produced in collaborative efforts, whereas in our study this ratio was 95%. ...
Background: To examine the research outcome having an authorship affiliated with KSAU-HS, its teaching hospital and King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre (KAIMRC) since the inception of the university to December 2015. Method: Data retrieved from Institute of Scientific Information (ISI)Web of Science, InCiteTM Database of Thomson Reuters, which produced the list of 775 research documents published in 346 different journals. Some bibliometric indicators such as annual growth, subject segregation, authorship pattern, collaboration etc. had been used to illustrate the research performance of researchers. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 20. Results :Majority of articles (15.35%) were written on the subject of medicine, bulk (94%) of the research work had been carried out by collaborative efforts. In 475(61.29%) publications, the principal author belonged to KSAU-HS. Majority of the research work (64.65%) had been produced by the collaboration of other organizations.Research cooperation with the universities of United States was highest, followed by Canada and Pakistan.
Conclusion: There is promising growth in biomedical publication and collaborating research trends are increasing.
Key words: Biomedical publications, Saudi Arabia, Research productivity
... EU research framework program offers incentive for EU states' institutions to conduct research with collaboration across countries. This EU-funded research network secures a research funding only for researchers that collaborate from various nations (Shehatta and Mahmood 2016). ...
The discrepancies among various global university rankings derive us to compare and correlate their results. Thus, the 2015 results of six major global rankings are collected, compared and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using both ranking orders and scores of the top 100 universities. The selected six global rankings include: Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking (QS), Times Higher Education World University Ranking (THE), US News & World Report Best Global University Rankings (USNWR), National Taiwan University Ranking (NTU), and University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP). Two indexes are used for comparison namely, the number of overlapping universities and Pearson’s/Spearman’s correlation coefficients between each pair of the studied six global rankings. The study is extended to investigate the intra-correlation of ARWU results of the top 100 universities over a 5-year period (2011–2015) as well as investigation of the correlation of ARWU overall score with its single indicators. The ranking results limited to 49 universities appeared in the top 100 in all six rankings are compared and discussed. With a careful analysis of the key performance indicators of these 49 universities one can easily define the common features for a world-class university. The findings indicate that although each ranking system applies a different methodology, there are from a moderate to high correlations among the studied six rankings. To see how the correlation behaves at different levels, the correlations are also conducted for the top 50 and the top 200 universities. The comparison indicates that the degree of correlation and the overlapping universities increase with an increase in the list length. The results of URAP and NTU show the strongest correlation among the studied rankings. Shortly, careful understanding of various ranking methodologies are of utmost importance before analysis, interpretation and usage of ranking results. The findings of the present study could inform policy makers at various levels to develop policies aiming to improve performance and thereby enhance the ranking position.
Being cited by policy documents is an important indicator for assessing the policy impact of research. The purpose of this paper was to examine the associations between an article's scientific collaborations and its citations received from policy documents. Research articles published between 2000 and 2018 in 86 journals under the category of “Information Science & Library Science” (LIS) in Journal Citation Reports 2020 were selected as the data sample (n = 40,137). The metadata of the articles was extracted from the Web of Science. The outcome variable of this study, policy citations of each article, were obtained from Overton (one of the largest policy citation databases). Standard negative binomial regression models and zero-inflated negative binomial regression models were conducted to examine the dataset. Linear regression models and six selected LIS journals were used to check the robustness of the results. The results revealed that the number of countries had significant and positive associations with policy citations (p < 0.001), the number of authors and the number of affiliations had no significant associations with policy citations, while controlling the other variables.
The governments of most ‘emerging market’ (EM) countries (e.g., India, Mexico, and Brazil) have invested significantly in scientific research over the past decades. These investments are reflected in the countries’ research volume, impact, and international collaboration activities. The EMs’ research support justification delivers the need to evaluate their research performance at multi-levels (country, institution, and scholar), e.g., by using indicators of research application inclinations. Bibliometric studies are increasingly requested by research and development (R&D) policymakers, funding agencies, and other relevant actors in these countries. The results of the studies are used to develop research directions, set research policies, and satisfy management needs (at universities). In this paper, we review the contributions of previous (bibliometric) studies to measuring research performance in EM countries. We identified 132 indicators used in the studies and classified them into three categories: productivity, impact, and collaboration. Some indicators have been more frequently used than others for measuring the performance of EM countries. These indicators might be the most important ones. For example, research leadership indicators (focusing on corresponding authors of publications) might be more important than other indicators measuring the research productivity of EM countries since they highlight the ‘actual’ contribution of national scientists. Collaboration indicators measuring national/international collaborative publications are also especially relevant for EM countries; their results can be used to sharpen expertise and exchange of professional knowledge. The overview presented in this paper can be used for the planning and realization of future studies on research in EM countries.
The study aimed to evaluate the bibliometric research of Library and Information Science (LIS) research contributed by the authors affiliated with the University of Karachi (UoK), Pakistan. The dataset was limited to 22 years from January 2000 to December 2021 and a list of evaluated papers has been proved from various online and print sources. Google Scholar has been employed to access the record of citation(s). Ninety-two papers were identified with at least one author affiliated with the UoK on the subject category of LIS and these papers were cited 707 times. Two-author collaboration was found to be the preferred authorship pattern and the papers written in this pattern got a better citation result. A number of research articles' contributions have been found that female authors are more than male authors. Syed Jalaluddin Haider, Munira Nasreen Ansari and Farhat Hussain emerged as the most prolific authors with 26, 25 and 15 papers, respectively. The papers published in international journals got higher citations and about three-fourth of the papers were published in the top 11 sources which in found from these research. The subject dispersion revealed that LIS Education and Library Management were the favorite areas. The characteristics of the ten most cited papers revealed that 60% citations were gained by these papers. The findings of this paper support understanding the research trends in LIS at UoK. There is a need to accelerate the research activities, revisit the research policies and promote the research culture in the UoK.
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the research output and publications trends of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Pakistan for the last 42 years as observed in the Scopus database. IUB is the premier degree-awarding institution of the Southern Punjab, Pakistan and considerably subsidized their valuable share in national research growth. A quantitative bibliometric research technique was employed to enumerate the documents and their parameters. The publications record of IUB from 1980 to 2021 was retrieved on 2nd January 2022. The Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software were used to appraise the dataset and presented the findings in tabular/graphic formats. The authors affiliated to IUB contributed the share of 2.52% in the national research growth of Pakistan with 6,209 documents and 62% of the documents were published in the last five years (2017-2021). The review papers and subscription-based documents gained more citations as compared to articles and open-accessed documents. The highest numbers of the documents were published on the subject area of "Agricultural and Biological Sciences" and about 15% of the documents were published in top-10 journals. Bahauddin Zakariya University was found on the top among the research collaborative institutions and China emerged as the top preference in the international research collaboration. The findings confirmed that a promising research growth has been explicit in the JIMP Vol.1 No.2 Haq, I. U (2021) 52 last decade. The outcomes of this study are significant for the IUB authorities and they can review their efforts to promote research culture. The findings of this paper would also serve as a benchmark for the future studies on IUB as well as the other universities of Pakistan.
Interests and concerns on environmental issues have attracted much attention over the past few decades. This is in harmony with the growing understanding of environmental impacts associated with human activities and their role in degrading ecosystems. In line with these concerns, considerable advances in science and technology to assess, mitigate, or lessen these adverse impacts have emerged (i.e., environmental impact assessment (EIA) methodologies). The involvement of EIA in sustainable development has become a prevalent topic in research in either developed and developing countries. The present work investigated the research status, development trends, and hotspots of EIA in a region with massive environmental challenges; the Arab world. Bibliometric analysis and visualization mapping were utilized with an objective of revealing and evaluating the developments in knowledge on EIA from the Arab world. A sum of 595 documents was the productivity of the Arab world on EIA (2.1% of total global productivity). Most of the studies were performed by scholars in Egypt (143 documents; 24.0%), followed by Saudi Arabia (96 documents; 16.1%), and Tunisia (68 documents; 11.4%). France, the USA, and the UK were, respectively, the most collaborated countries with the Arab world on EIA. Most of the publications on EIA were in prestigious journals in relation to environmental sciences. King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia and University of Kuwait were the most productive institutions (24 documents/institution). Topics in relation to assessing different environmental impacts on the quality and quantity of water will continue to be vital themes of research. While, the utilization of remote sensing, geographic information systems, risk assessment, life cycle assessment, bioaccumulation, and biomarkers techniques in assessing environmental impacts will continue to be dominant as efficient tools in conducting EIA related research. The outcomes displayed, in general, a rapidly and steadily rising interests on EIA. However, the development of regional experience, increasing of funds and advancing of competencies will further promote research activities on EIA.
This paper analysis the research output of the faculty, staff and researchers affiliated to the Aga Khan University (AKU) Medical College, Pakistan from 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2019. The paper maps AKU research by analyzing publications by authors with Aga Khan University institutional affiliation that are indexed in Scopus, a citation database of the peer-reviewed literature. Researchers rely on data from Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar to assess scholarly communication. However, this study choose Scopus as it is one of largest multidisciplinary databases covering over 23000 journal titles in comparison to Web of Science which covers approximately 9,000 journals. This paper is unique as it provides a holistic view of the Aga Khan University Medical College research by using scientometrics methods to demonstrate trends in high-impact publications along with citation analyses of articles, h-index, journal rank, and impact factor.
Collaboration has been widely investigated as a prevalent research activity. However, no consensus has been reached about the relationship between scientific collaboration and citation count. Therefore, this study aimed to comprehensively examine the strength and consistency of this relationship, using meta-analytic methods and measuring scientific collaboration by co-authorship. After the literature search and initial selection, 361 relevant papers were found. Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 92 papers involving 340 effect sizes were included. A random-effect meta-analysis showed a significant positive and weak correlation between scientific collaboration and citation count (r = 0.146). Tests of publication bias and heterogeneity revealed that the result was reliable. In addition, disciplines, countries, document types and citation sources were found to influence the correlation as moderators significantly. Practical recommendations for research administrators and researchers were provided, including encouraging collaboration and maintaining a cost-benefit balance in collaboration.
Background: University of Peshawar (UoP) is the first university established after the creation of Pakistan. The aim of this study is to present the bibliometric attributes of documents produced by the researchers of the University of Peshawar as reflected in the Elsevier's Scopus database. organizations and countries. Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet has been used for the calculation of frequency and graphic presentations of findings. Microsoft Excel correlation formula has been used to determine the correlation between authorship patterns and the number of citations. Results: A total of 4,820 documents were retrieved from 1957 to 2019. These documents received 57,212 citations with an average of 11.87 citations per document. The maximum research has been produced on the subject of chemistry, and the Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan found a most preferred journal. The bulk of papers have been written by four-author pattern and the highest number of citations were received by the publications having more than nine authors. The majority of research collaboration was done with the researchers of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan. The analysis of research collaboration by country showed that China has been a top preference for the authors of UoP, followed by United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Conclusion: The success of university education is to cultivate the ability among the students to transform the conceptual knowledge into sustainable technology for the betterment of the society. The faculty and students of the UoP have been striving hard to get excellence through innovative research and actively involved in research collaboration, nationally and internationally. The remarkable research growth has been recorded during the last decade.
Aim. The study aimed to explore the progress of social science research carried out by Pakistan for the duration of 59 years. Method: This retrospective study was carried out on the data retrieved from the Scopus database to determine the research output in the area of social science by Pakistani authors from 1961 to December 2019. The word "Pakistan" has been written in the main search box and "Affiliation" has been selected in the subsequent box. The targeted time duration was selected, further, the social sciences documents were selected and downloaded for data-analysis. Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and SPSS were used to calculate and analyze the data. Result: Pakistani author wrote 9,292 papers on social sciences with an average of 157.49 papers per year, three-fourth of the papers were published in the last ten years of study. These publications received 56,252 citations with an average of 6.05 citations per paper. One-fourth of the total documents were published in the ten most preferred journals and Pakistan Development Review has been on the top with 1067 documents. The Scopus further divided these documents into 24 sub-categories, computer sciences found a most favorite area followed by art and humanities. Pakistani authors collaborated with 134 countries of the world, the United States has a topmost choice for international research collaboration. In the analysis of the authorship pattern, the single author pattern dominated. Conclusion: The establishment of new universities and up-gradation of the social sciences departments, provision of national digital library and starting of doctorate programs are the key factors of promising growth of publications was found during the last ten years of study. Still, we need to do more innovative research with the corporate sector for the betterment of the society.
Se analizaron 6.973 artículos de la base de datos WoS pertenecientes a las ciencias agrarias chilenas entre los años 1989 y 2016. Se realizaron análisis enfocados a las redes de investigación, colaboración científica y comunidades de investigación. El estudio constató una estructura predominantemente colaborativa de los investigadores vinculados a este campo científico, con predominio de las universidades y con grupos de investigación con bajo nivel de densidad, concentración de vínculos y alto número de grupos de investigación, pero con bajo nivel de relación entre sí.
Objective:
Oral cancer and precancers are a major public health challenge in developing countries. Researchers in Saudi Arabia have constantly been directing their efforts on oral cancer research and have their results published. Systematic analysis of such papers is the need of the hour as it will not only acknowledge the current status but will also help in framing future policies on oral cancer research in Saudi Arabia.
Method:
The search string "oral cancer" OR "Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma" OR "oral premalignant lesion" OR "oral precancer" OR "Oral Potentially malignant disorder" AND AFFIL (Saudi AND Arabia ) was used for retrieval of articles from Scopus database. Various tools available in Scopus database were used for analyzing the bibliometric related parameters.
Results:
The search revealed a total of 663 publications based on the above query. Maximum affiliations were from King Saud University (163) followed by Jazan University (109) and then King Abdulaziz University (106). A large number of international collaborations were observed, the maximum with India (176) and the USA (127). The maximum number of articles were published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (34) followed by the Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice (33) and Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine (19).
Conclusion:
Saudi researchers are directing their efforts towards the public health menace of oral cancer. However, it was also observed that some institutions have emerged as front runners in research, whereas others are contributing significantly less. The health department should encourage and take necessary steps to increase the involvement of other institutions.
The aim of the present work is to determine the share of country self-citations and to analyze its impact on total citations, average citation per paper, % cited publications and ranking of top ten most research productive countries over the period 1996–2015 using Scopus database. It was found that the mean and median of the country self-citation rates of these countries were 28.0 ± 3.8% and 22.9 ± 12.1% respectively and ranged from 17.8% (Canada) to 54.9% (China) over the studied period. United States (45.6%) ranked second country with % self-citation after China (54.9%). Country self-citations and/or its percentage were highly and positively correlated with total publications, total citations, cited publications and international collaboration. On the other hand, a strong negative correlation was observed between country self-citations with both average net-citation per paper and per capita publication. Also, significant impact of self-citation on total citations, average citation per paper and % cited publications was observed. China in total citations and United States in average citation per paper and % cited publications, were the most affected nations in rankings among all the studied nations. Among top 10 countries, China contains the highest share of self-citations in both average citation per paper (55.1%) and % cited publications (37.9%). Thus, self-citation has a strong impact on the top country’s scholarly performance. Some implications/recommendations were suggested to deal with country self-citation phenomenon. Shortly, excluding self-citation from calculating various citation-based bibliometric indicators will not remove the entire effect, but at least, it will produce a more reliable and real impact of each publication.
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare the progress of research outcomes specifically of three old and new established Saudi medical research journals: Results: The findings of the study revealed that 827 articles were contributed by 3808 authors with an average of 4.6 authors per article, and 12.9% articles were published in 64 issues of SJMMS (n=600, 15.7%) , JSHA (n=951, 24.9%), and JIPH (n=2257, 59.2%) during 2013-2017. The majority of articles (n=746, 90.2%) included more than one author, leaving only 81 articles (9.7%) were prepared by single (or solo) authors. The authors have been collaborated with national and international authors for their scholarly work. Conclusions: The comparison of bibliometric indicators of the three medical journals showed the rising tendency of research publications and the high rate of collaborative research output. These journals contributed a massive number of research papers during the period of five years. Collaboration among researchers facilitates sharing knowledge and techniques and brings a mixture of positive scientific thoughts. The unified bylaws for faculty in Saudi universities should give more weight to multi-authored papers.
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare the progress of research outcomes specifically of three old and new established Saudi medical research journals: Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (SJMMS), Journal of Saudi Heart Association (JSHA), and Journal of Infection and Public Health (JIPH) for the period of 2013 to 2017.
Materials and Methods: Scientific papers under the titles of original and review articles, short communications, case and short reports were downloaded from the websites of these journals. The data was analyzed according to three parameters: the growth of publication, the types of publication, and the authorship pattern.
Results: The findings of the study revealed that 827 articles were contributed by 3808 authors with an average of 4.6 authors per article, and 12.9% articles were published in 64 issues of SJMMS (n=600, 15.7%) , JSHA (n=951, 24.9%), and JIPH (n=2257, 59.2%) during 2013–2017. The majority of articles (n=746, 90.2%) included more than one author, leaving only 81 articles (9.7%) were prepared by single (or solo) authors. The authors have been collaborated with national and international authors for their scholarly work.
Conclusions: The comparison of bibliometric indicators of the three medical journals showed the rising tendency of research publications and the high rate of collaborative research output. These journals contributed a massive number of research papers during the period of five years. Collaboration among researchers facilitates sharing knowledge and techniques and brings a mixture of positive scientific thoughts. The unified bylaws for faculty in Saudi universities should give more weight to multi-authored papers.
Keywords: Bibliometric; Collaboration; Medical Sciences; Research Productivity; Saudi Arabia.
This present paper examines the bibliometric assessment of research performance on
dental science literature by researchers affiliated to King Saud bin Abdulaziz University
for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), its teaching hospitals and Research Centre, to
determine the statistical scenario and highlight the emerging trends in dental research. It
is a retrospective observational study that had been carried out in of College of Dentistry
library, KSAU-HS during January 2018. Published research on dentistry in authorship
affiliated to KSAU-HS was collected from different online sources; Web of Science,
PubMed, Google Scholar, ResearchGate and the archival record of King Abdullah
International Research Centre from inception of KSAU-HS to December 2017. Year-wise
distribution of articles, subject-wise segregation, collaboration pattern, authorship,
and most productive authors have been calculated. The data is analyzed by using
Microsoft Excel 2010.The finding of the study exposed that 144 research items published
in 84 different journals contributed by 586 authors with an average of 4.06 authors per
article. The rising tendency in publication and collaborative research was observed, 68%
articles published during 2015-2017. Original research article (72.22%) being favorite
design and Public Health Dentistry (30.55%) found to be the most preferred area of
research. Dr. Khalid Al Fouzan emerged as most productive author. Authorship and
citations pattern had also been calculated. Assessment of dental research revealed that
there has been a growing emerging trend in publications. It’s the first bibliometric study
on dental research in KSA, highlighted the collaboration style and pointed out the strong
and weak areas of research.
Keywords: Bibliometrics; Dentistry; Saudi Arabia
The study was carried out to examine articles published in Bayero Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (BJIS). The study was carried out quantitatively, 61 articles published in the Bayero Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies from 2008- 2013 were surveyed to carry out the study and descriptive statistics was used to make analysis. The collaboration of authors discovered in BJIS has very little implication for the national integration of Nigeria, 65.6% of articles published in BJIS were single authored and 75.4% of authors in BJIS come from the north-west region of Nigeria. 4 geographical regions of Nigeria were covered, while 2 were not covered at all in the journal. Data shows that knowledge transfer occur when authors from other regions publish in the north-west region where BJIS is published. It is recommended that publishers should carry out frequent assessment of where the articles they publish emanate from and use such assessment to achieve balance in the spread, visibility and patronage of their journal.
Purpose: To carry out the bibliometric assessment of research output on 'Therapeutics' by authors affiliated with King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), its teaching hospital and research centre.
The world’s concentration on engineering science brings evolution in global knowledge arena. TELKOMNIKA that accommodate the engineering science is the journal of Indonesia Scopus indexed and affect the progress of knowledge, so this study aims to analyze it. To examine its indicators during 2007-2016, a bibliometric method was used to identify the growth rates of articles and contributors, article producers according institution and geographical zone, as well as authorship patterns and collaborations. The results show the articles, institutions and contributing countries are growing progressively. Even since indexed Scopus has never experienced negative growth. The involvement of national affiliations amounted to 28.23% of 372 essential institutions, and all published articles were contributed by 29 countries. Indonesia itself has not shown sovereignty over its autonomous journals despite achieving the highest achievement of 44.46% (437 articles). Then all the authors came from a regional geographic region of 13 located on 5 continents. Therefore, national competence needs to be demonstrated, especially to foster collaboration. TELKOMNIKA not only succeeded in integrating multi interes, but also asserted that collaboration is a way to raise the international engineering science populations.
We investigated the effect of international collaboration (in the form of international co-authorship) on the impact of publications of young universities (<50 years old), and compared to that of renowned old universities (>100 years old). The following impact indicators are used in this study, they are: (1) the 5-year citations per paper (CPP) data, (2) the international co-authorship rate, (3) the CPP differential between publications with and without international co-authorships, and (4) the difference between the percentage of international co-authored publications falling in the global top 10 % highly cited publications and the percentage of overall publications falling in the global top 10 % highly cited publications (Δ%Top10%). The increment of 5-year (2010–2014) field weighted citation impact (FWCI) of internationally co-authored papers over the 5-year overall FWCI of the institutions in SciVal® is used as another indicator to eliminate the effect of discipline difference in citation rate. The results show that, for most top institutions, the difference between the citations per paper (CPP) for their publications with and without international co-authorship is positive, with increase of up to 5.0 citations per paper over the period 1996–2003. Yet, for some Asian institutions, by attracting a lot of researchers with international background and making these collaborating “external” authors as internal researchers, these institutions have created a special kind of international collaboration that are not expressed in co-authorship, and the CPP gaps between publications with and without international co-authorship are relatively small (around 0–1 citations per paper increment) for these institutions. The top old institutions have higher CPP than young institutions, and higher annual research expenditures; while young universities have a higher relative CPP increment for the current 5-year period over the previous 5-year period. The Δ%Top10% for international co-authored publications is generally higher than that for all journal publications of the same institution. With the increase of international co-authorship ratio, the mean geographical collaboration distance (MGCD, an indication of increased international co-authorship) of one institution based on the Leiden Ranking data also increases, and young institutions have relatively higher CPP increment over MGCD increment. International co-authorship has a positive contribution to the FWCI of the institution, yet there are untapped potential to enhance the collaboration among young institutions.
Based on publications indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) of Thomson Reuters, we explored China–Germany collaboration in physics from perspectives including publication profiles, collaboration effect, as well as active institutions and active fields. We found that German researchers are more capable of publishing higher-quality papers than Chinese counterparts. Both China and Germany get benefit from collaboration in raising publication productivity. The collaboration helps improve Chinese researchers’ citation impact and capability of publishing in higher-quality journals. Research capacities of German institutions are more evenly distributed than Chinese counterparts. Chinese institutions that are most active in collaborating with German counterparts are mainly those in leading positions in China, whereas those in disadvantageous situation are still isolated from the international community.
Global landscape of scientific activity is changing and becoming more diverse with emerging economies particularly China redrawing the contours of scientific research in the twenty-first century. Research publications, the most cherished output of science, provides robust evidence of this changing landscape. The global publication share of advanced scientific countries is decreasing with significant rise in publication share of China and also of other emerging economies such as India, South Korea, and Brazil. Their publications though are still lagging in global reception as measured through citations. However, with increasing international collaboration and publishing in promising areas and high impact journals, the citation reception of their papers is increasing. Indian publication growth is much behind China whose growth has been dramatic! However, India’s emergence is interesting as from a leading country among developing economies in scientific publications till early 1980s, her publication growth exhibited sharp decline in the late 1980s. Only from 1995 onwards India started making an assertion in the global publication race and in some promising areas of high relevance such as nanotechnology her publication growth has been impressive. India to a large extent epitomises the scientific activity of emerging economies. Thus through the lens of India’s publication trend, the paper underscores the changing global landscape of science. To place India’s publishing activity in proper context, the paper broadly examines the publication activity of some advanced OECD countries and BRICKS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea and South Africa) countries. Implications of this study are discussed.
Introduction
InCites™ uses data from seven editions of the Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ Core Collection for its publication counts and indicators. InCites™ is currently the only available tool that allows to aggregate data concerning citations that would be divided into areas, journals and scientific institutions, using multi-criteria search. Contrary to such database as Scopus® or Google Schoolar, InCites™ offers a much broader range of analytical possibilities and creating bibliometric statements.
Aim of study
Bibliometric evaluation of scientific literature in the field of research in education.
Materials and Methods
InCites™ bibliometric database was used for analysis; it collects data concerning citations that come from, e.g. Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index®, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index®. Educational Research (ER), Educational Psychology (EP), and Education - Scientific disciplines (ES), these are categories for which InCites™ database sees the possibility of reporting the citation index. Citations from the years of 2004-2014 for three above mentioned categories were evaluated. In total, there were 237 692 documents and 680 279 citations were included in the source data.
Impact factor values for the most renowned journals and publications, and the number of citations for the best research centres (universities and other institutions that focus on a combination of education and research) that operate in the field of research in education worldwide were compared.
Results
From among the analysed journals, the ones of most great impact factor were: Child Development (35 385, category of EP), Academic Medicine (29 704, category of ES) and Computers & Education (20 416, category of ER). From among the scientific institutions that have the strongest position in the field of research in education, the following could be listed: University of California System and Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (citations was 33 488 and 20 134 respectively). Among publications that were of the highest impact factor in individual categories, the following drew attention: Preacher KJ et al. (Journal Of Educational And Behavioral Statistics 2006; 31(4):437-448); Frazier PA et al. (Journal Of Counseling Psychology 2004; 51(1): 115-134); Issenberg S Bet al. (Medical Teacher 2005; 27(1): 10-28) with citations 789 (category of ER), 1015 (category of EP) and 636 (category of ES) respectively. Moreover, a detailed analysis of individual publications, shows that participation of American research centres dominates considering the overall number of citations in this discipline of science. Most broadly disputed issues include methodology of research in psychology and education, and publications concerning educational diagnostics and evaluation of various methods of teaching.
Conclusions
Results of bibliometric analysis allow to determine the direction of research development in the field of education, point out the most important tendencies and interests of the scientific circles in this area. Such analyses may also be helpful when planning future research strategies, they may also become a valuable source of information for scientists seeking co-partners. Organising network research group may be based on data concerning interests and scientific achievements of certain groups or institutions coming from different countries or continents.
Background: Some bibliometric research has been carried out in sport sciences, but compared with other disciplines
there is still no intensive study at macro level, especially on international collaboration.
Aim: This study attempts to observe the status and trend of international collaboration in sport sciences at macro
level, and to look at its relationship with academic impact.
Methods: 20804 publications from 63 consistently issued journals belonging to the Sport Sciences category in
Web of Science database in 2000–2001 & 2010–2011 were analyzed. The main objects include co-authorship
links of country pairs, the share of international co-authored publications, tendency and “affinity” in
collaboration, and citation impact of international publications. Differences between countries and periods were
observed.
Results: There is a rapid increase of the share of international collaboration in sport sciences. In some countries
the share is even above 2/3; Co-authorship networks imply some cultural, political or geographical factors for
collaboration, and their changes exhibit some new trends; Selected countries have strong tendency in
collaboration; International collaborated publications have a higher performance than domestic ones in citation
impact. But gaps between countries are narrowing.
Conclusions: International collaboration really intensified in this field. European, especially Nordic countries are
very fond of collaboration and have gained outstanding performance as a partner. It is meaningful to further
explore the underlying motivation behind international collaboration in sport science research.
The number of scientific papers published by researchers in Africa has been rising faster than the total world scientific output in recent years. This trend is relevant, as for a long period up until 1996, Africa’s share of the world scientific output remained below 1.5 %. The propensity to publish in the continent has risen particularly fast since 2004, suggesting that a possible take-off of African science is taking place. This paper highlights that, in parallel with this most recent growth in output, the apparent productivity of African science, as measured by publications to gross domestic product, has risen in recent years to a level above the world average, although, when one looks at the equivalent ratio after it has been normalized by population, there is still a huge gap to overcome. Further it is shown that publications from those few African countries whose scientific communities demonstrate higher levels of specialization and integration in international networks, have a higher impact than the world average. Additionally, the paper discusses the potential applications of the new knowledge that has been produced by African researchers, highlighting that so far, South Africa seems to be the only African country where a reasonable part of that new knowledge seems to be connecting with innovation.
A positive influence of international collaboration on the impact of research has been extensively described. This paper delves further into this issue and studies to what extent the type of collaborating country—high, medium or low R&D intensive country—and which country is the leader in the research may influence the impact of the final scientific output. Among 9,961 papers co-authored by scientists from Spain and from another country (bilateral collaboration) during 2008–2009, papers with high R&D intensive countries predominated (60 %) and received the highest number of citations. This holds true in eight out of nine fields, being Social Sciences the one which benefited the most from partnerships with high R&D intensive countries. Mathematics emerges as a special case where other factors such as the partner’s specialisation in the field may have a greater influence on research impact than the level of investment in R&D of the collaborating country. No significant influence of the type of country leading the research on the impact of the final papers is observed in most fields. Research policy implications are finally discussed.
In the past 30 years, publications from either China or Germany have increased exponentially with China growing much faster especially in the natural sciences, engineering and technology. In medical and health sciences, however, China still lags behind Germany in terms of publication production. Germany performs better in producing high-quality papers (measured by citations). Collaboration between the two countries has increased significantly, especially in the natural sciences and engineering and technology, but less so in medical and health sciences. Collaboration between China and Germany may help to raise quality of Chinese research in terms of highly cited papers.
Around the world, governments and the higher education sector are being asked to become more accountable for the money they spend on research funding. Research quality measurement exercises, such as the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, use a number of agreed indicators to measure, analyse and report on various institution and discipline-based research outputs. This emphasis on the outputs of research as opposed to its longer term outcomes is having an effect on internal university policy and processes which can often operate negatively on individual staff career development and promotion. This article reports on a project aimed at more clearly articulating and defining the idea of research impact for academics by preparing a promotion application. Phase one of the project was an extensive international literature review and this article sets out the findings from this review, considers the difficulties for articulating and evidences impact at the individual level and makes some suggestions for how academic staff and units might begin to deal with the idea of research impact.
Research collaboration is the way forward in order to improve quality and impact of its research findings. International research collaboration has resulted in international co-authorship in scientific communications and publications. This study highlights the collaborating research and authorship trend in clinical medicine in Malaysia from 2001 to 2010. Malaysian-based author affiliation in the Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded) and clinical medicine journals (n = 999) and articles (n = 3951) as of 30th Oct 2011 were downloaded. Types of document analyzed were articles and reviews, and impact factors (IF) in the 2010 Journal Citation Report Science Edition were taken to access the quality of the articles. The number of publications in clinical medicine increased from 4.5 % (n = 178) in 2001 to 23.9 % (n = 944) in 2010. The top three contributors in the subject categories are Pharmacology and Pharmacy (13.9 %), General and Internal Medicine (13.6 %) and Tropical Medicine (7.3 %). By journal tier system: Tier 1 (18.7 %, n = 738), Tier 2 (22.5 %, n = 888), Tier 3 (29.6 %, n = 1170), Tier 4 (27.2 %, n = 1074), and journals without IF (2.1 %, n = 81). University of Malaya was the most productive. Local collaborators accounted for 60.3 % and international collaborations 39.7 %. Articles with international collaborations appeared in journals with higher journal IFs than those without international collaboration. They were also cited more significantly than articles without international collaborations. Citations, impact factor and journal tiers were significantly associated with international collaboration in Malaysia's clinical medicine publications. Malaysia has achieved a significant number of ISI publications in clinical medicine participation in international collaboration.
Did the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 influence the scientific
performance of the researchers in Eastern European countries? Did this
historical event affect international collaboration by researchers from the
Eastern European countries with those of Western countries? Did it also change
international collaboration among researchers from the Eastern European
countries? Trying to answer these questions, this study aims to shed light on
international collaboration by researchers from the Eastern European countries
(Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary,
Poland, Romania and Slovakia). The number of publications and normalized
citation impact values are compared for these countries based on InCites
(Thomson Reuters), from 1981 up to 2011. The international collaboration by
researchers affiliated to institutions in Eastern European countries at the
time points of 1990, 2000 and 2011 was studied with the help of Pajek and
VOSviewer software, based on data from the Science Citation Index (Thomson
Reuters). Our results show that the breakdown of the communist regime did not
lead, on average, to a huge improvement in the publication performance of the
Eastern European countries and that the increase in international co-authorship
relations by the researchers affiliated to institutions in these countries was
smaller than expected. Most of the Eastern European countries are still subject
to changes and are still awaiting their boost in scientific development.
Ever more frequently, governments have decided to implement policy measures intended to foster and reward excellence in scientific research. This is in fact the intended purpose of national research assessment exercises. These are typically based on the analysis of the quality of the best research products; however, a different approach to analysis and intervention is based on the measure of productivity of the individual scientists, meaning the overall impact of their entire scientific production over the period under observation. This work analyzes the convergence of the two approaches, asking if and to what measure the most productive scientists achieve highly cited articles; or vice versa, what share of highly cited articles is achieved by scientists that are “non-top” for productivity. To do this we use bibliometric indicators, applied to the 2004–2008 publications authored by academics of Italian universities and indexed in the Web of Science.
Within the field of bibliometrics, there is sustained interest in how nations “compete” in terms of academic disciplines, and what determinants explain why countries may have a specific advantage in one discipline over another. However, this literature has not, to date, presented a comprehensive structured model that could be used in the interpretation of a country’s research profile and academic output. In this paper, we use frameworks from international business and economics to present such a model.
Our study makes four major contributions. First, we include a very wide range of countries and disciplines, explicitly including the Social Sciences, which unfortunately are excluded in most bibliometrics studies. Second, we apply theories of revealed comparative advantage and the competitive advantage of nations to academic disciplines. Third, we cluster our 34 countries into five different groups that have distinct combinations of revealed comparative advantage in five major disciplines. Finally, based on our empirical work and prior literature, we present an academic diamond that details factors likely to explain a country’s research profile and competitiveness in certain disciplines.
Taking articles written by mainland China scholars from management related 258 journals indexed by Web of Science database as the data sets, this paper analyses the output of scientific research of Chinese scholars. It studies the structure, characteristics and development trend of collaboration network of Chinese scholars in management research area through scientometrics and social network analysis approaches. We found that the accumulated number of Chinese authors and the accumulated number of articles published by Chinese authors in the 258 journals increases by exponential form, most of which focus on Operations research & Management science. About half of the articles come up through international collaboration and the accumulated number of articles written through collaboration between Chinese and overseas scholars display an exponential increase. The evolution studies of the collaboration network indicate that the collaboration of Chinese scholars in the field of management is on a sharp rise. However, the collaboration network has not yet stepped into a mature and steady stage. Nonetheless, a tendency towards the stable stage is unveiled.
This paper introduces a model, which is enabling a comparison between universities regarding research, educational and environmental performances; the mission of university fits the sustainability idea. The purpose of the paper is to improve the methodology and indicators of the existing ranking tables. The three dimensional index, which provides simplified information about the quality of universities, has been developed. It enables quick detection of the weaknesses, strengths and opportunities for universities. Weights of indicators were determined using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Results of the AHP have shown that the most important are research oriented indicators, followed by social and environmental ones.The proposed model has been tested on a sample of 35 top universities from the ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) and Times ranking tables and a new ranking table – the Three dimensional University Ranking (TUR) has been developed. In addition, correlations between indicators and ranking tables have been carried out. There is only a medium correlation between the ARWU and TUR. Regarding the indicators, a high correlation with Hirsch indices and Highly Cited Researchers exists, while there is an insignificant correlation between the low student to staff ratio and the graduation rate.
Summary A chronically weak area in research papers, reports, and reviews is the complete identification of background documents that formed the building blocks for these papers. A method for systematically determining these seminal references is presented. Citation-Assisted Background (CAB) is based on the assumption that seminal documents tend to be highly cited. CAB is being applied presently to three applications studies, and the results so far are much superior to those used by the first author for background development in any other study. An example of the application of CAB to the field of Nonlinear Dynamics is outlined. While CAB is a highly systematic approach for identifying seminal references, it is not a substitute for the judgement of the researchers, and serves as a supplement.
This paper examines co-authorship of research articles in Thomson Reuters citation indexes in order to assess knowledge co-production
in selected sub-Saharan African countries. Two indicators, namely publications and citations, were analysed to establish the
patterns of knowledge co-production and its scientific impact, respectively. The study found that knowledge production through
collaborative research among sub-Saharan African countries is minimal and contributes only a small percentage when compared
to collaboration between sub-Saharan African countries and their foreign counterparts. Similarly, the scientific impact of
international collaboration was higher than that of continental collaboration. Countries belonging to the same geographic
region contributed to each other’s knowledge production more frequently than they did to the countries outside their region.
It is recommended that, for knowledge co-production in sub-Saharan Africa to improve, various measures such as encouraging
student and staff exchange, hosting more regional conferences and encouraging research networks need to be put in place.
This study analyzed the research productivity of Saudi academics using the triple-helix model. In the analysis, we combined domestic and international collaboration by three sectors—university, industry, and government—according to the model of the triple-helix. This approach produces better results than by simply including international collaboration as fourth sector. According to the analysis, research collaboration in Saudi Arabia which is measured by the triple-helix, was “-” uncertainty (negative T-value) while scientific productivity has been dramatically increasing since the late 2000s. The triple-helix collaboration does not quite differ between domestic collaboration and “domestic and international” collaborations. In our further analysis, we found that technological development was not based on scientific research in Saudi Arabia; rather, the technological development relies on prior technology (patent references). From that point, Saudi Arabia’s current long-term strategic plan to develop a scientific base for a knowledge-based industry is well aligned to the current contexts of Saudi Arabia.
Fractional counting of citations can improve on ranking of multi-disciplinary research units (such as universities) by normalizing the differences among fields of science in terms of differences in citation behavior. Furthermore, normalization in terms of citing papers abolishes the unsolved questions in scientometrics about the delineation of fields of science in terms of journals and normalization when comparing among different journals. Using publication and citation data of seven Korean research universities, we demonstrate the advantages and the differences in the rankings, explain the possible statistics, and suggest ways to visualize the differences in (citing) audiences in terms of a network.
This chapter explores the research systems used by Saudi universities, with a particular emphasis on the link between university research and knowledge production systems. It analyses the quantity, quality and impact of consultancies and research publications and explores the extent to which research is driving national industry productivity and competitiveness.
This chapter explores the issues confronting higher education in Saudi Arabia as it moves towards globalisation of learning and research and the integration of its universities into national economic and social policy frameworks. A particular emphasis is placed on the processes necessary for university engagement with multinational corporations, both inside and outside the Kingdom. The authors stress, however, that international collaboration carries risks as well as rewards. Determining an appropriate development strategy for the higher education sector that balances those risks and rewards is critical to the Kingdom’s future.
The present study aimed to identify the scientific research obstacles facing faculty members in the College of Education at Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) and to determine the differences in the obstacles according to age, academic rank, scientific specialty, marital status, number of completed studies, and time since the last academic rank was received. An initial data form and questionnaire were prepared to identify the obstacles to scientific research. The questionnaire assessed personal and family obstacles, social factors, technical skills, organizational and professional obstacles, and societal obstacles. The researcher assessed the validity and reliability of the survey instrument by testing it on a sample of 23 faculty members at the university. The results demonstrated a high degree of validity (i.e., high internal consistency) and reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient: .97). The study instrument was administered to a final sample of 69 faculty members (out of 111) at the university. The results demonstrated a decrease in the averages of the obstacles. The arithmetic averages for the obstacles were organizational and professional obstacles (2.76), societal obstacles (2.64), personal and family obstacles (1.87), and skills-related obstacles (1.70). The results demonstrated no significant differences for any obstacles with respect to age, academic rank or scientific specialization. There were significant differences in skills-related obstacles according to the number of completed studies; researchers with no completed projects faced greater obstacles. The results also demonstrated significant differences in societal obstacles associated with the length of time since the last academic rank was received.
This case study analyzes scientific research landscape of the Islamic World in order to access the research productivity, scholarly impact and international collaborations across all Science and Technology (S&T) areas over the time period of 2000–2011, using the Scopus database. While Turkey is clearly leading among the Islamic countries, Iran takes 2nd rank in terms of publication output. All S&T subject areas show annual increase in publications by more than 10 %. The highest percentage of publications of the Islamic World falls into the area of Veterinary with respect to the world. Dentistry is the top area with 7 % share of the world’s top 25 % publications with respect to citation count. This undoubtedly shows that the impact of the scientific research of the Islamic World is very less as compared to the other developed nations. We also find that top collaborators of the Islamic World are mainly within Islamic countries. The findings of this case study provide an insight to the research landscape of the Islamic World and useful information to the scientific community as well as to the technology and innovation policy makers.
Generally, multicountry papers receive more citations than single-country ones. In this contribution, we examine if this rule also applies to American scientists publishing in highly visible interdisciplinary journals. Concretely, we compare the citations received by American scientists in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). It is shown that, statistically, American scientists publishing in Nature and Science do not benefit from international collaboration. This statement also holds for communicated submissions, but not for direct and for contributed submissions, to PNAS.
Domestic and foreign bibliometric studies of trends in national and international scientific collaboration are discussed. Special attention is given to differences in various fields of knowledge and to the effect of distance on scientific collaboration. Globalization of science is demonstrated based on representative data on the increasing distance in scientific collaboration in all fields of knowledge, including social sciences and humanities.
This article is motivated by two related research questions about research activity in the Operations Research/Management Science/Operations Management (OR/MS/OM) and Finance disciplines. First, we investigate the influence of co-authorship on article impact in OR/MS/OM. Second, we develop a number of citation metrics to explore the nature of scholarly exchange between top OR/MS/OM and Finance journals. We work with a large sample of articles published across 2001-2008 for twenty OR/MS/OM journals and nineteen Finance journals, with corresponding citations up to and including year 2012. Key findings from the first research question indicate a higher impact for articles with multiple authors, but with the marginal gain brought by an additional author being insignificant for articles with three or more authors. For the second research question, we find that the Finance discipline borrows less from OR/MS/OM than vice versa, which highlights the potential for wider collaboration among researchers—particularly for Finance academics in exploring how various OR/MS/OM techniques can be adopted or adapted into their research. Finally, we discover that the ranking of OR/MS/OM journals is determined more by the extent that they are cited in other disciplines, but observe a gradual rise in self-perpetuating behavior in the OR/MS/OM discipline.
The measurement of the research output of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is problematic, due to the multi-product nature of their teaching and research activities. This study analyses the difficulties related to the measurement of the research output of the HEI and proposes a simple overall indicator which incorporates quantitative and qualitative aspects to permit the decomposition of the influence of the two factors. On the basis of this indicator homogeneous comparisons are made of the relative research output of the countries of the European Union and its evolution during the period 1996–2010.
The five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are among the most important developing countries. They are joined in an association to foster mutual development. In their meetings officials have made statements on the importance of scientific collaboration. The present article analyses scientific collaborations between the five countries using co-authorships of scientific products. Gross counts, Salton’s indexes and Jaccard coefficients, as well as probabilistic affinity indexes (PAI) are calculated to highlight the different dimensions of inter-BRIC collaborations, as well as their evolution. Collaboration with external actors, and in different scientific sub-areas, is also measured. Bilateral collaborations are heterogeneous. PAIs, which are size independent, show that the trends of inter-BRICS collaborations are stable with time. Heterogeneity across different scientific areas is also present. At the end of the article results are discussed, and policy suggestions are offered.
This article calls into question the use of the h-index as an aid to decision-making in the higher education sector. The h-index is increasingly employed by institutions, funding bodies and even governments as a guide to the allocation of resources. This practice is contrary to the evidence that the h-index is intrinsically meaningless, a point which this article seeks to document in detail. Greater user of the h-index as a management tool can only lead to further inefficiencies in resource allocation within the higher education sector.
This study seeks to bridge the gap between scientometrics literature on scientific collaboration and science and technology management literature on partner selection by linking scientists’ collaborator preferences to the marginal advantage in citation impact. The 1981–2010 South Korea NCR (National Citation Report), a subset of the Web of Science that includes 297,658 scholarly articles, was used for this research. We found that, during this period, multi-author scientific articles increasingly dominated single-author articles: multi-university collaboration grew significantly; and the numbers of research publications produced by teams working within a single institution or by a single author diminished. This study also demonstrated that multi-university collaboration produces higher-impact articles when it includes “Research Universities,” that is, top-tier university schools. We also found that elite universities experienced impact degradation of their scientific results when they collaborated with lower-tier institutions, whereas their lower-tier partners gained impact benefits from the collaboration. Finally, our research revealed that Korean universities are unlikely to work with other universities in the same tier. This propensity for cross-tier collaboration can be interpreted as strategic partner selection by lower-tier schools seeking marginal advantage in citation impact.
We survey tenure-track faculty members employed in three fields in colleges of agriculture at land-grant universities—agricultural economics, agronomy, and food science—to evaluate the effects of different employment structures and incentives on research productivity. These evaluations include conducting statistical tests to assess any effects of different academic appointments and developing a regression model to measure the effects of these and other attributes on individual research productivity, as defined by the number of publications in the Thomson ISI Web of Science. We find faculty who hold larger teaching and extension appointments produce fewer publications; we also find positive effects on the number of publications for grants and university funding, multi-institutional research collaboration, and number of graduate students advised.
This is the first article using bibliometrics to study the field of contingent valuation research. The purpose of this study
was to evaluate the contingent valuation research performance based on all the related articles in SCI and SSCI databases
from 1991 to 2005. An indicator named citation per publication (CPP) was presented in this study to assess the impact of article
output per year, different countries, institutes, and authors from the worldwide. Publication per institute (PPI) in a country
was used to be an indicator to compare institute’s research performance by country. Citation analysis was made to select the
most frequently cited articles since publication to 2005 of each year. A citation model was applied to describe the relationship
between the cumulative number of citations and article life. The results indicate that with the increase article output per
year, the CPP decreased slightly since 1997. The USA produced 55% of all pertinent articles. Institutes from the UK had a
higher PPI. The most prolific institutes and authors, and the most frequently cited articles per year were all listed. In
addition, a citation model was successfully applied to evaluate performance of each year, and the most frequently cited articles
of each year were also compared by the model.
Jonathan Adams analyses papers from the past three decades and finds
that the best science comes from international collaboration.
International collaboration is being heralded as the hallmark of contemporary scientific production. Yet little quantitative evidence has portrayed the landscape and trends of such collaboration. To this end, 14,000,000 documents indexed in Thomson Reuters's Web of Science (WoS) were studied to provide a state-of-the-art description of scientific collaborations across the world. The results indicate that the number of authors in the largest research teams have not significantly grown during the past decade; however, the number of smaller research teams has seen significant increases in growth. In terms of composition, the largest teams have become more diverse than the latter teams and tend more toward interinstitutional and international collaboration. Investigating the size of teams showed large variation between fields. Mapping scientific cooperation at the country level reveals that Western countries situated at the core of the map are extensively cooperating with each other. High-impact institutions are significantly more collaborative than others. This work should inform policy makers, administrators, and those interested in the progression of scientific collaboration.
Over the last two decades the scientific community has witnessed unprecedented growth of nanotechnology research in Canada. Although recent studies have shown that Canada consistently maintains a position in the first tier of productive countries in terms of its share of the world’s nano-publications, a number of key questions remain unanswered. Using a unique nano-related publication dataset, this paper combines bibliometric analysis and science overlay mapping to visualize the ‘invisible college’ of Canadian nano research. The present analysis finds that the rapid growth of nanotechnology research in Canada is, for the most part, externally driven. In recent years, research content has shifted toward nanobiotechnology fields. The geographical distribution of Canadian domestic nanotechnology research is characterized by regional imbalance: most research hubs are located near US–Canadian borders. Canadian nanotechnology scientists have collaborated with a variety of countries, but Chinese scholars in particular play a leading role in Canada’s research exchange across national borders.
This paper analyzes the relationship among research collaboration, number of documents and number of citations of computer science research activity. It analyzes the number of documents and citations and how they vary by number of authors. They are also analyzed (according to author set cardinality) under different circumstances, that is, when documents are written in different types of collaboration, when documents are published in different document types, when documents are published in different computer science subdisciplines, and, finally, when documents are published by journals with different impact factor quartiles. To investigate the above relationships, this paper analyzes the publications listed in the Web of Science and produced by active Spanish university professors between 2000 and 2009, working in the computer science field. Analyzing all documents, we show that the highest percentage of documents are published by three authors, whereas single-authored documents account for the lowest percentage. By number of citations, there is no positive association between the author cardinality and citation impact. Statistical tests show that documents written by two authors receive more citations per document and year than documents published by more authors. In contrast, results do not show statistically significant differences between documents published by two authors and one author. The research findings suggest that international collaboration results on average in publications with higher citation rates than national and institutional collaborations. We also find differences regarding citation rates between journals and conferences, across different computer science subdisciplines and journal quartiles as expected. Finally, our impression is that the collaborative level (number of authors per document) will increase in the coming years, and documents published by three or four authors will be the trend in computer science literature.
A literature review of the publishing behaviours of scientists in developing countries indicated that they preferred to publish in English in foreign journals. In Saudi Arabia, also, English is used as the main language of scientific communication. Not much scientific research is reported in the Arabic language. A study based on a computerized database of journal articles derived from the Science Citation Index (1980-1984) was conducted to investigate the publishing patterns of scientists working in Saudi Arabia. Publication productivity of the Saudi scientists was found quite strong with teaching institutions contributing most of the publications. While biological and medical sciences dominate the research activities, chemists seem to be the single most productive group. Publication outlets in the USA and the UK are preferred by scientists working in Saudi Arabia. The ranking of journals by declining frequency of contribution show wide scattering of journals where Saudi scientists publish their research. It was found that most of these journals, which may be considered core titles, are available in academic and specialist libraries. Ranking by productivity was also in line with the impact factor and in-house use data confirming the selection and deselection criteria for journal subscriptions.
New collaboration patterns are changing the global balance of science.
Established superpowers need to keep up or be left behind, says Jonathan
Adams.
Collaborative research has been increasingly celebrated by the science community, but the hypothesized positive relationship between research collaboration and research output is more assumed than rigorously tested. In this paper, we identify three methodological gaps in the literature: (a) hierarchical coding based on the ISI Web of Science database causes severe loss of information on local collaboration, (b) the relationship between research collaboration and research output is likely to be confounded by a common latent variable such as a scientist's ability, and (c) the lack of longitudinal analysis prevents causal inferences from being made. To address these methodological concerns, we constructed a longitudinal dataset of 65 biomedical scientists at a New Zealand university and coded collaboration variables by hand checking each of their publications in a period of 14 years. We found that at article level, both within-university collaboration and international collaboration are positively related to an article's quality and that, at scientist-year level, only international collaboration is positively related to a scientist's future research output.
Multi-university collaborations draw on diverse resources and expertise, but they impose coordination costs for bridging institutional differences and geographic distance. We report a study of the coordination activities and project outcomes of 491 research collaborations funded by the US National Science Foundation. Coordination activities, especially division of responsibility for tasks and knowledge transfer among investigators, predicted project outcomes (e.g., producing new knowledge, creating new tools, and training students). However, more universities involved in a collaboration predicted fewer coordination activities and fewer project outcomes. A statistical mediation analysis showed that insufficient coordination explained the negative relationship between multi-university collaboration and project outcomes.
Several bibliometric studies have shown that international or multicountry papers are generally more cited than domestic or
single country papers. Does this also hold for the most cited papers? In this study, the citation impact of domestic versus
international papers is analyzed by comparing the share of international papers among the hundred most cited papers in four
research specialities, from three universities, four cities and two countries. It is concluded that international papers are
not well represented among high impact papers in research specialities, but dominate highly cited papers from small countries,
and from cities and institutions within them. The share of international papers among highly cited papers is considerably
higher during 2001–2008 compared to earlier years for institutions, cities and countries, but somewhat less for two of the
research fields and slightly higher for the other two. Above all, domestic papers from the USA comprise about half of the
highly cited papers in the research specialities.
This study aims to investigate the influence of different patterns of collaboration on the citation impact of Harvard University’s
publications. Those documents published by researchers affiliated with Harvard University in WoS from 2000–2009, constituted
the population of the research which was counted for 124,937 records. Based on the results, only 12% of Harvard publications
were single author publications. Different patterns of collaboration were investigated in different subject fields. In all
22 examined fields, the number of co-authored publications is much higher than single author publications. In fact, more than
60% of all publications in each field are multi-author publications. Also, the normalized citation per paper for co-authored
publications is higher than that of single author publications in all fields. In addition, the largest number of publications
in all 22 fields were also published through inter-institutional collaboration and were as a result of collaboration among
domestic researchers and not international ones. In general, the results of the study showed that there was a significant
positive correlation between the number of authors and the number of citations in Harvard publications. In addition, publications
with more number of institutions have received more number of citations, whereas publications with more number of foreign
collaborators were not much highly cited.