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Bibliometrics - Science topic
The use of statistical methods in the analysis of a body of literature to reveal the historical development of subject fields and patterns of authorship, publication, and use. Formerly called statistical bibliography. (from The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)
Questions related to Bibliometrics
I need this complete article "Accessible tourism: a bibliometric review (2008-2020)" because I need to analyze it for my master's degree. Thank you to all
Selecting Databases
Database selection is critical to ensure the inclusivity and quality of retrieved data. Leading databases for bibliometric analysis include Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed, which offer detailed citation metrics, bibliographic records, and co-authorship data.
Example:
For comprehensive bibliometric metadata, combining Scopus and Web of Science offers significant advantages:
- Scopus provides extensive coverage of scientific journals, including citation and keyword data.
- Web of Science includes detailed metrics for citation analysis, including h-index and journal impact factors.
For instance, articles on "Minimally Invasive Dentistry" retrieved from Scopus include:
- Authors: Banerjee A., Watson T. Title: Minimally invasive dentistry: Concepts and importance in conserving tooth structure. Journal: British Dental Journal, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/bdj.2018.396
By cross-referencing this data with PubMed, researchers can confirm citation patterns and publication quality.
I think that RG did a big mistake after substituting RG score with h index. This modification declined the interactions of members for responding and asking questions. What is your opinion?
Challenge that we faced and felt lost:
The choice of search terms plays a critical role in the quality of bibliometric analysis. Variability in terminology and the use of synonyms, abbreviations, or alternative spellings across different publications can lead to inconsistent results. We as team were often struggling with the trade-offs between broadening the search to include various keywords and narrowing it to ensure relevance to the research question. This included several back and forth work to simplify the same....
So how did we handle the same, as team lead, it was my responsible to brainstorm regarding this concern!!!
We picked it up this way: To mitigate this challenge, systematic development of search strategies is essential. Using controlled vocabularies like MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for health sciences or keywords from a standardized thesaurus can help ensure consistency in capturing relevant articles (This is very crucial to appraise the time trend and evolution of the vocabulary of the same disease , eg: decay versus dental caries presently. Additionally, combining various search terms and using Boolean operators can help refine search results while minimizing omissions.
Citation: Boulton, A., & Hughes, G. (2016). Bibliometric Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Research Evaluation, 25(1), 102-110.
NOW I REQUEST THE EXPERTS IN THIS DOMAIN TO ANSWER THIS BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE?
Hi friends
I am just wondering about the potential marketing journals that accept bibliometric literature reviews? I know most journals are keen to see more SLR or meta analysis papers. But any suggestions for high quality journals that may consider bibliometric analyses? Thanks for your time,
Cheers
what is the definition of quality standards, and how are low-quality studies dealt with ?
Data Cleaning
Data cleaning is essential for ensuring accuracy and removing duplicates or inconsistencies in bibliometric datasets. This process involves standardizing author names, consolidating variations (e.g., "J. Doe" and "John Doe"), and formatting data for compatibility with bibliometric tools like Excel, VOSviewer, or CiteSpace.
Example:
Using Excel, duplicates from PubMed-exported bibliographies can be filtered through functions like "Remove Duplicates." For instance:
- Articles authored by "John Doe" and "J. Doe" need to be reconciled into a single entity.
- Similarly, journals named both as "J Dent Res" and "Journal of Dental Research" can be standardized.
Software tools like EndNote or Zotero can further streamline this process by automating duplicate detection.
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Bibliometric analysis is a research method that uses quantitative analysis and statistics to assess and analyze scientific literature. It is often used to evaluate the impact and trends of research within a specific field by examining published articles, citation counts, and other metrics. Commonly used in fields like library and information science, bibliometric analysis helps in understanding research productivity, collaboration patterns, influential authors, and high-impact journals.
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I have a question about bibliometric articles about public health or nursing. If any of the researchers have experience or knowledge in this matter, please tell me. Thank You
Hello everyone,
I'm excited to introduce a prototype of a bibliometric analysis tool I've developed, inspired by VOSviewer but with a significant enhancement: AI-powered interpretation.
Why This Tool Stands Out:
- AI-Generated Insights: Our integrated AI automatically produces detailed analyses beneath each graph, uncovering trends and patterns that might be overlooked with traditional tools.
Main Features:
- Automatic Import and Transformation:Effortlessly convert your Scopus-exported CSV files into an organized table with columns like ID, Authors, Title, Year, Source, and Number of Citations.
- Interactive Graphical Analyses (Currently Available):
- Top 10 Publishers
- Papers Published per Year
- Keyword Usage Over Time
Future Vision:
I plan to expand this prototype into a comprehensive bibliometric platform with more advanced visualization options and collaborative features. Your feedback can help shape its development to better meet the needs of the research community.
Join Me as an Early Adopter:
I'm seeking input from professionals and researchers interested in bibliometric analysis to validate and improve this tool.
- Watch a 1-Minute Demo: I've prepared a short video showcasing the tool's functionalities. https://youtu.be/OKa9GG4XKyE
- Share Your Thoughts: Let me know what features you find useful and what you'd like to see in future versions.
If you're interested in exploring the tool or providing feedback, please leave a comment or get in touch with me.
Thank you in advance for your attention and collaboration.
Recently I read an article by 'Wagdy Sawahel' on 05 September 2024, in the University World News: African Addition titles "How Africa can help to tackle global bibliometric coloniality?"
As time passes and world conflicts are becoming more aggressive and as the politican arena worldwide is impacting any dimension one can imagen [sports, education, economics, safety & security, etc.], of concern here is the actual Global Bibliometric Bias that is saliant in the countries located mostly in the southern hemisphere of the earth. The call nowaday is to establish new indexes that provide a balance and fairness. What do you think? Are you as a researcher, expert, professional, etc. with such a move?
Note: Read along the rference articles.
I am seeking some clarification regarding bibliometric analysis. Could you please provide further explanation on the following points:
- What exactly is bibliometric analysis, and how is it typically used in research?
- Is it possible to conduct bibliometric analysis with a small sample size, such as 15-30 articles? If so, what are the limitations and considerations?
Best regards,
Habitu
I would like to use VOSviewer for bibliometric analysis and I have used both desktop as well as web versions. However during adding data or creating a map from 'Scopus' or 'Dimensions' on my PC all the options of 'Type of Analysis' remain disabled except 'Co-authorship'. The solution is highly solicited.
while writing a bibliometrics paper- should we include only articles or we should include review articles as well ? what is the justification of it ? I am particularly asking for the field of finance. if we include review articles also, then are we not duplicating the data ?
Urgent replies needed.
How to feed inputs (Keyword with 'and' 'or' 'not') in web of science and in Scopus to search all the available research papers on Microplastics presence in deep sea floor, for further bibliometric analysis in VOSviewer. During publication of this paper we would like to share authorship as well. This paper is going to represent in a conference.
Thanks in advance.
Hai...could anyone suggest for me a journal with rapid publication in the field of microalgal CO2 sequestration.(review work)... a journal indexed in WOS, Scopus, SCIE with no publication fees..
Thank you
I want download bibliometric data for research purposes.
I've been trying to export more than 50.000 document of articles for bibliometric study, but the limit is only up to 20.000 documents. I've tried to divide them to some range, but it didn't work (it said that download only allowed for first 20.000 only). What can i do to export all of those 50.000 documents at once? Thank you in advance.
Hi I tried this but it says you can only download first 20,000 documents. Are you aware of any other methods? Thanks
Hi. I had written a manuscript on Bibliometric Analysis related to oral cancer last year. Since then I had sent it to multiple journals only to get rejected. I request you all to please give me some insights on how to improve the manuscript. As one of the reviewer's comment mentioned that the study adds nothing new to the existing knowledge. The data was analyzed for year of publication, leading countries and their collaboration, source, number of citations, list of highly cited articles and keywords plus with Biblioshiny application.
Suppose a bibliometric analysis was conducted to uncover new research discoveries, but it was later discovered that similar research had already been carried out. In such a scenario, what would be the appropriate course of action to pursue?
- Shall we update the time intervals?
- Should we update and rewrite both the findings and the article?
Please help with this, thanks in advance.
To conduct a bibliometric analysis for a review paper in economic or social science, it is crucial to select the appropriate structure to address the research question. Among the available options, determining the more accurate research framework or conceptual framework is essential for achieving the desired results.
Hello, I conducted a bibliiometric analysis using Bibliometrix in R and the Biblioshiny app. I’m getting a query from a publisher if I have permission to use the images generated through my analysis. I did cite the developers of the r programs. Does anyone know if permissions are needed for the output of my own analysis? Thank you for any thoughts!
I have installed R-cran, then RStudio and all the related packages but I can't import raw dataset from web of science in biblioshiny package of RStudio. Please see the error mgs attached herewith and suggest solution if possible.
Hola, en la parte inferior del bibioshiny exporta el archivo a excel y vuelve abrir el archivo en formato Biblishiny y se soluciona
I submitted a manuscript of bibliometric anato a journal and got reviewers' comments. One reviewer indicated that PRISMA and SLR should be applied. I never do PRISMA in bibliometric studies because systematic review is different from bibliometrics, and I am thinking of a proper way to respond to this reviewer. Could any one give me advices? Thanks.
I have worked on a publication involving bibliometric analysis, which is stuck with a query.
The editor has asked to prepare the figures (author and country network maps) following English grammatical rules, i.e. to capitalize the initials of names of authors and countries.
However, since the figures are software generated, I have not been able to resolve the query.
I downloaded the data from the Web of Science Core Collection and used vosviewer for performing bibliometric analysis.
Can somebody help in resolving the query for capitalizing the initials of author and country names.
Thanking you in anticipation.
I initially received approval from a top-tier journal, but upon reviewing the gallery, the journal claimed it was re-sent to another reviewer who claimed my study didn't include Price's Law, Bradford's Law, Lokta's Law, and Zipf's Law. Hence, it shouldn't be considered a bibliometric study. I have seen bibliometric studies published in very reputable journals without these laws. Please, how relevant are these laws? Can anyone recommend any software that I can use for these laws?
When using non-publicly available data, some people argue the use of such information must recognise those who own/collected/designed it in the original country. This seems to happen with data from Low and Middle-Income countries.
Sometimes, local authors use an address from a High-Income country instead of their original country. All bibliometric information is based on authors affiliations and it is difficult to get information from the original country from abstract/title.
What are your views about it?
anyone who used VOS viewer in bibliometrics analysis
I conducted a bibliometric coupling analysis on firm growth using VOSviewer, which resulted in 80 papers grouped into 4 clusters.
It is important to note that I had a total of 668 papers initially. To select the top 80 papers, I set the minimum number of document citations to 1 and used the Total Strength Link in VOSviewer.
The largest cluster comprises 28 papers. However, after reading the full text of all these papers, I found no significant similarities among them. Some papers focus on the persistence of growth, while others explore the impacts of high-growth firms or measure high-growth firms' characteristics.
I should mention that, for instance, three papers in this cluster discuss the persistence of growth, whereas I have another cluster that is primarily dedicated to this topic. I believe these papers should be part of the cluster focused on persistence of growth due to their thematic similarity, rather than being included in this larger cluster.
Now, I am seeking guidance on how to address this issue where the papers within this cluster are heterogeneous, making it challenging to identify a single common theme.
can i ingnore some of papers in each cluster that are not relevant to main theme of that cluster?
or what are alternative solutions for this problem?
I would appreciate your insights and recommendations on how to approach this situation.
i have set minimum number of citations of a paper to 10 for bibliometric coupling of documents in vosviewer bibliometric software. but doing so, part of my newest papers that seems to be important but dont have any citation will exclude from my analysis.
what is your solution for this problem?
how prior researchers solve this problem? is there any reference?
thanks.
I need 2 international Authors who can review my article.
It is a social science article titled: "Bibliometric Analysis of Behavioural Strategy Research Mapping trends knowledge networks and emerging Paradigms in the pursuit of Competitive Advantage"
Kindly let me know
Mostly the Scopus and Web of Science database are used in Bibliometric Analysis. Is it possible to use bibliometric analysis without these two databases. If yes, what are those? Need your Opinion!
There is an increasing interest among scholars, especially the postgraduate students and early career researchers in publishing bibliometric analysis papers. Wherein many effective tools are available to do that, Biblioshiny and VOSviewer have received special attention due to their ease of use and powerful analysis. However, the basic question of how to do it step by step has been of prime interest for those who are new to it. A number of scholars have proposed the detailed methodology and phases involved. By adopting the standard science mapping workflow proposed by several scholars in their interesting work (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017; McCabe & Qiao, 2020; Secinaro et al., 2020; Xie et al., 2020; Zupic & ˇCater, 2015) that comprises of five comprehensive phases, this paper explain it in simple words;
This seems essential, especially in ecology, but does not appear to be one of the metrics indexed by Web of Science or Scopus in published papers. Am I missing something? If not, can we start a movement?
Greetings,
I am currently working on conducting Empirical research in the social sciences through the use of Bibliometric Analysis, so I have some technical questions related to this type of analysis, so please, I hope to contact with researchers who are familiar with this type of analysis in order to exchange opinions and experience.
We can contact: jordani_alrabadi@hotmail.com
All the Best,
Salam Al Rabadi.
PhD : Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science.
Author and Researcher in International Relations.
Dear researchers,
I am a doctoral student in Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I want to do bibliometric research related to computational thinking using the CiteSpace application. However, my campus has not subscribed to WOS so I cannot download the WOS document set as a data requirement to be managed and translated in CiteSpace.
Would any of the researchers here want to join me in carrying out research related to computational thinking bibliometrics in science education?
Thank You.
A very frequent question about the merger of two datasets (e.g. Scopus and Web of Science) is asked by those interested in the bibliometric studies. Wherein, the common logic behind doing so is the intention of scholars to have a broader and better coverage of studies published in any specific area of study.
A number of studies/scholars have proposed ways in which two datasets can be merged. Though it is possible to merge two datasets from different databases, a basic question that is rarely addressed is:
Should we merge two datasets from different databases for a bibliometric study?
The simple conclusion based on the very nature of these databases is: NO.
Why?
Because:
1. Differences in the coverage: Scopus have wider coverage than WOS. But WOS provides more in-depth insights.
2. Both use different matrices to measure the published literatures impact.
3. Citation scores of both Scopus and WOS for the same publications are different because of the differences in coverage.
4. The time range of the two databases in terms of two databases coverage is also different.
So, When merging two datasets, how would it be decided which data/duplicate to exclude for a specific publication that is in both databases?
What do you think? Looking forward to some interesting opinions and views.
For simple step by step bibliometric analysis do read our paper;
Dear Researchers and Scholars
I would like conduct a bibliometric analysis where the focus will be developing countries (10). While searching database (Web of Science), Do I need to use each country in the search term along with main research keywords? Or is there any alternative way to show analysis specifically for these countries. Or, Can I use country/regions filtering in the database to select the countries for analysing trends, country contribution.
Thank you. Your suggestions is highly appreciated.
Currently I don't have access to EBSCO and other sources normally available through an UNI. However I would like to write a paper based on a bibliometric research.
Any recognised and accepted sources available?
Thank you.in advance for your help and advice.
pleas give in a list of scopus journal for pubishing a paper in the domain of manangement
How to convert a style from a csl format to an endnote §§
or style zotero to endnote
Dear Researcher,
Please suggest the Scopus indexed/WOS (Q2/Q3) journals for publishing paper on Bibliometric analysis.
Thank you so much,
Dr. Rasmita
I need to publish a bibliometric paper.
Can someone guide me, on how to make maps in bibliometric analysis?
Good morning together,
Maybe a stupid question, but how do you handle it? I'm considering a keyword analysis in my literature review on family businesses. I put almost 20 years of research together and took the keywords from the papers to analyse it. After making my bibliometric analysis, I saw that, for example, a family firm and a family business are used. In my opinion, these two words are the same. Can I combine them by renaming the business to a firm or vice versa?
Best Christian
It would be grateful if anyone can guide me how to clean and merge 3600 docs web of science file for the bibliometric analysis
Hi everyone,
I am currently doing a bibliometric analysis of a specific academic niche, and I would like to find a way to measure or visualise self-citations within the set of documents I am using. I am using both VOSViewer and Biblioshiny (coding in R is not quite my thing).
Thanks for any tips of advice! And if you know for any tools to look up self-citations on a per author basis (even if it is outside the set of documents in questions), that would also be amazing!
I am conducting a bibliometric analysis and I am trying to understand which kind of analysis has greater impact in research field.
I have a Scopus Database result of a topic which contains identical names mostly from China and Hong Kong. When I run the bibliometric analysis both in R and VosViewer, it gives me a misleading result by considering all identical names as a single.
Is there any technique to disambiguate the author's name to get the result as same as Scopus Analyser?
Any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks
Dr Thayyib
Is there a systematic method that reviewers or editors can use for bibliometric publications? Is there a checklist with a solid methodology on this subject? In the feedback I received from the referees, I saw some were unfamiliar with bibliometric analysis and software. It is not possible to meet some demands and requests of the referees. For example, some reviewers find the images too colorful and asked why we don't use colorless graphics. They also criticize why text cannot be written inside a JPEG or PNG image. Have you encountered similar situations? What were the most extreme request and demands? What did you do to persuade the reviewers and the editor? I appreciate any help you can provide.
After reviewing the literature on bibliometrics analysis, the following has not yet been clear to me: In addition to articles and reviews, is it convenient to include letters, notes, editorials, short surveys, conference papers, book chapters, books and errata in the bibliometric analysis as an inclusion criteria? Or just include articles and reviews (only)?
Thanks in advance,
Jesús Cebrino
Can you share an example for each analysis, for better understanding?
I do recommend reading my presentation about "How to Use Bibliometric Study for Writing a Paper: A Starter Guide" available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17693486.v1 and then see the attached figure.
Bibliometrics has become an important discipline in the study of the production and evolution of science. If I would like to address its study what sources I should consult first?
Currently there are great challenges in managing quality information for research. There are many ways to obtain digital information, from free access digital tools, to other professional tools, and yet there are researchers who do not achieve a high degree of efficiency in information management. From our perspective, the question would be how to integrate infometric, bibliometric and altmetric information during the research processes?
Though I have institutional email, I don't have institutional access to WoS & Scopus, and can't download data for bibliometrics analysis. What can I do? or how can I get access into Web of Science/Scopus easily and extract data. Is there any other database that can also be used for the same purpose? Hope you all tell me how to solve this problem.
N.B: I can use Dimensions.
Thank you.
I am looking for collaborators who can fine tune the article and help finding a better open access avenue for this work.
I cannot get the .csv file to open on vosviewer ( Error while reading file..... IOException reading next record: java.io.IOexception: (line 182) invalid char between encapsulated token and delimiter" ). I have looked into the file at line 182 but can't see anything special about it. Any other options to consider, will removing this file manually from excel sheet affect my results?
I am doing Bibliometric analysis of one paper. I wanted to export data such as all charts, graphs from Scopus to word. How I will do this?
Please suggest me.. For reference I attached one picture of data.
Citespace or Vosviewer or Histcite or BibExcel, or CitNetExplorer.
which one of these you use / recommend?
and why?
Hi everyone.
When performing a bibliometric analysis, do you think it is more judicious, for a given theme, to list the works published in two bibliographic databases (WOS & Scopus)?
Could you suggest some references dealing with this?
Thank you in advance
It will be kind enough if anyone of you can provide a list of Journals best suited for Bibliometric research.
Phil Davis, a bibliometric expert wrote when Lancet took the 2021/2022 impact factor lead: "No discovery or invention in the history of science can come close to the effect COVID-19 papers had on the citation record in 2021. However, because the Impact Factor is so sensitive to highly cited papers, some journal scores will reach stratospheric heights this year, only to collapse next year. Unfortunately, this super-charged cycle of boom and bust is only going to fuel a greater sense of skepticism around the meaning and interpretation of the Impact Factor". My question: Will this come to pass, or be construed as an opinion that holds no water?
Scopus is the comprehensive citation database and widely use in Scientomterics and Bibliometrics. Scopus has categorized the subject into Four super groups and 334 sub fields. However, the subject groups is overlapping with more than one subjects. My question is that, If a researcher doing a research using Subject categories for instance (Physical Sciences:Material Science, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematics and Engineering, Environmental Science). How, to handle with overlapping subject. How to Exclusion and inclusion of data. Kindly suggest.
With regards,
Lambodara Parabhoi
I have Scopus data of articles. I want to do a citation network analysis s to detect the structure of the community of citation networks in the past literature. I have seen many tutorials. But could not do it in Gephi software. Can someone help me do it in Gephi or any other software?
I am performing a bibliometric analysis of 2200 papers ranging from the year 1741 to 2020 and I wish to separate the network analyses (of collaboration between authors and between institutions) by a few stages from productivity. So far, I am only familiar with the industrial life cycle analysis approach, but it does not seem so relevant to assess productivity from the publication of scientific articles. In this sense, I would like to ask you: What is the best way to separate by a few stages the scientific productivity (ranges of years for subsequent analyses) in a field of knowledge?
Thank you very much
I am wanting to perform a bibliometric analysis of some papers. However, I have generated a text file from the web of science and another one from ScienceDirect. But if I go only for the web of science file or only for the Sciencedirect file; the number of papers is not sufficient. Is there any way to combine them and generate a new file for use on Vosviewer
Hi
I have heard researchers mentioning the use of regression in bibliometrics. Could anyone kindly help answer this
Regards
Chithra
I'd like to studying knowledge production patterns in the field of Health Communication by using bibliometric approach. My first step is to collect information of literatures. Here I want to collect all the literatures of the two most important jouranls (Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication) in this field. Then I search the rest literatures of other jouranls from Web of SCI core collection by subject"health communication". Is my way of collecting data feasible? or any other suggestion?
My university does not have Scopus subscription. Is there any way that I can get the access to database?
There are many fastest journals, which published within min. 15 days and max. 45 days.
Many more scientists need to fast publications.
Kindly clarify my doubt and provide reasoning as I am unable to find proper reasoning for either. And I have seen review papers in both the format as included and not included without reasoning.
I am trying to run biblioshiny, but it shows me an error. I tried all the alternatives to fix it but it is not directing me to biblioshiny page. I reinstalled it. The commands I run are as follows:
install.packages("ggforce")
install.packages("bibliometrix")
biblioshiny()
Somebody suggested me to run "ggforce" command, its still shows me the error "Error in biblioshiny() : could not find function "biblioshiny" "
Please suggest a solution to fix it.
Thank you.
Hi all,
Hope that you're well.
Please help with the above question. This is specifically within the medical field, however, am sure it will apply irrespective of field.
Should a Bibliometric Analysis study only include original papers OR original papers PLUS all types of review papers OR any type of paper (excluding editorial, note, letter, erratum)?
Thanks
Kind Regards,
Zakia Salod
Only empirical studies can be included for conducting bibliometric analysis or review papers can also be added?
I have two files from WOS (eiter in bibtex, either in plaintext) and I want to analyse both as an unique database in Biblioshiny. The commands I applied are as follows:
P1<-c("C:/Users/Clara/Desktop/candidatura fct_Homosapiens/bibliometrics_Homo sapiens/pesquisa1.bib.bib")
P1C<-convert2df(P1, dbsource="wos", format="bibtex")
P2<-c("C:/Users/Clara/Desktop/candidatura fct_Homosapiens/bibliometrics_Homo sapiens/pesquisa2.bib.bib")
P2C<-convert2df(P2, dbsource="wos", format="bibtex")
#Merge two files in one
P=mergeDbSources(P1C, P2C, remove.duplicated=TRUE)
However, P does not come as a bibliometrix file (like P1C and P2C), but as a data.frame, and when I download the information, I cannot apply it in biblioshiny. I could use both raw files in biblioshiny, but the problem is the duplicated articles. How can I solve this issue?
I am not an expert in the topic. Thank you for your consideration.
