Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Kaile Gong, Ying Cheng
Summary: This study quantitatively analyzes the patterns and impact of collaboration at author and country levels in China's social sciences from 1998 to 2017. Results show significant differences in collaboration patterns and impact between China's national and international publications in social sciences, while also identifying some similarities.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Daria Maltseva, Vladimir Batagelj
Summary: This study analyzed the publication dynamics of social network analysis (SNA) articles, identifying the most prominent SNA journals and their relationships. The field is shown to be growing, with an average of approximately 3 SNA papers published per journal annually. Journals in social and natural sciences dominate the field, with sociology and management journals representing the social sciences group, while physics and computer science journals also contribute significantly.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Kai Nishikawa
Summary: This study uses citation context analysis to explore the characteristics of citation behavior between natural sciences (NS) and social sciences and humanities (SSH). The findings suggest that the purpose and patterns of citation differ between disciplines, and that SSH contributes methodologically to NS.
Article
Water Resources
Zhe Cheng, Shuo Yan, Tao Song, Le Cheng, Huanming Wang
Summary: Adaptive water governance is a critical and emerging topic in the water governance response to global climate change. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the research situation and development trend of adaptive water management through systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis. The results show an overall growth trend of published articles on adaptive water governance, focusing mainly on environmental science and environmental studies. While developed countries dominate water governance research, China ranks sixth in terms of the number of articles worldwide. The research on adaptive water governance has formed a preliminary global collaborative network, but the authors' collaboration needs to be strengthened. Key topics in adaptive water governance research include South Africa, adaptive management, groundwater, principal component analysis, scenario planning, etc. These findings highlight the critical role of adaptive water governance in sustainable urban development and suggest it as a critical direction for future research in water governance.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Emanuel Kulczycki, Marek Holowiecki, Zehra Taskin, Franciszek Krawczyk
Summary: The study aims to investigate the impact of legitimate journals recognized by authorities on the visibility of questionable journals, and found that the impact factor of citing journals and the size of cited journals are not good predictors of the number of citations to the questionable journals.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Siluo Yang, Mengxue Zheng, Yonghao Yu, Dietmar Wolfram
Summary: Altmetric.com is a leading and widely used commercial provider of altmetrics, but it lacks transparency and fairness. The study found that Altmetric.com scores can help reflect different impacts of SSH research, but currently they are not sufficiently effective for evaluating the impact of SSH research.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Jin-Lei Wang, Yu-Jie Ma, Li Ma, Na Ma, Diao-Mei Guo, Lian-Sheng Ma
Summary: After rigorous evaluation, Baishideng Publishing Group's Reference Citation Analysis (RCA) editorial team has released the list of core journals in gastroenterology and hepatology for 2022, along with their Journal Article Influence Index (JAII). This list is a valuable tool for authors, readers, and editors in selecting and tracking journals.
WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yuxin Ma, Alex McBratney, Budiman Minasny
Summary: Self-citation is a common practice in soil science publications, with a median rate of around 10% across nine leading soil science journals. The distribution of self-referencing values is generally similar among these journals, typically not exceeding 25% for papers with less than 10 authors and 60 references. Researchers established outlier thresholds for self-referencing between 35% and 53%, indicating high values in a small percentage of papers. Further analysis was conducted based on the number of authors and references to establish acceptable ranges and interpret citation behavior.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Zehra Taskin, Guleda Dogan, Emanuel Kulczycki, Alesia Ann Zuccala
Summary: The research found that the rankings of high-impact factor journals are not affected by self-citation rates, but for other journals, even the removal of a single self-citation can lead to significant rank changes. Self-citation patterns are common in local language journals and journals from upper-middle-income European countries. It is important to use impact factors more carefully in research performance evaluations, especially when variables such as journal size, publication language, publisher country, and subject area are correlated with self-citation rates.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2021)
Review
Polymer Science
Enoch Akinbiyi Akinpelu, Felix Nchu
Summary: The rapid growth of plastic production and application globally has led to environmental pollution, particularly in the marine ecosystem. One solution to the problem of plastic waste management is the biodegradation of plastic waste. This study aimed to map the research on the biodegradation of plastic from 2000 to 2021. The results showed an increase in the quantity of research on plastic biodegradation in the past decade, with an annual growth rate of 11.84%. The findings of this study can guide future research and improve plastic waste management.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Syed Jaffar Abbas Zaidi, Muhammad Taqi
Summary: Citation cartels are groups of researchers who excessively cite each other's work to artificially inflate their citation counts and enhance their reputation. The practice of citation cartels involves journals agreeing to cite each other's publications to boost their own impact factors. This practice has been criticized for distorting impact factors and undermining the integrity of the scientific process. To combat citation cartels, journals should use software tools to identify suspicious citing behavior and implement policies that promote transparency and discourage self-citation. Journals should also be held accountable for unethical citation practices, and researchers should carefully evaluate their own submission practices.
JCPSP-JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS PAKISTAN
(2023)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Jason R. Crossley, Mohamad Almasri, Nadia Samaha, Timothy R. Deklotz, Earl H. Harley, Bruce J. Davidson, Sonya Malekzadeh, H. Jeffrey Kim
Summary: This study describes the academic impact and author characteristics of open-access journals in otolaryngology. The findings indicate that articles published in open-access journals in this field have significantly fewer citations and lower academic impact compared to subscription-based journals.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Ting Cong, Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas
Summary: The study investigates the adoption of WeChat by Chinese scholarly journals and its impact on citation. The results indicate that 65.3% of indexed journals have created WeChat accounts and posted over 193 thousand articles. There is a weak correlation between bibliometric indicators and WeChat indicators, highlighting the differentiated dimensions of indicators between bibliometrics and social media metrics. Journals with WeChat accounts tend to have a slightly higher citation impact.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
William E. Savage, Anthony J. Olejniczak
Summary: The number of scholarly journal articles published each year is increasing, and this study explores the relationship between journal article growth and other forms of scholarly dissemination. Social scientists publish both books and articles, and the findings show that as the number of journal articles increase, the number of books published in the social sciences decreases. The study also reveals that scholars of all age cohorts have increased their article authorship over time, with early career scholars publishing more articles per person in certain disciplines. The article-dominated literature in the social sciences is becoming more similar to STEM disciplines.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Rabishankar Giri, Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri
Summary: The study highlights that the impact of research publications, measured through citations, might not accurately reflect their actual reach among users. The use of authors as units instead of raw citations in a new ranking method for journals can help mitigate the influence of common citation optimizing factors and favor journals with lower self-citations and recitations.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Michal Petr, Tim C. E. Engels, Emanuel Kulczycki, Marta Duskova, Raf Guns, Monika Sieberova, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: This study compares publication patterns in social sciences and humanities in Central and Eastern European countries with those in Western and Nordic countries, finding that the former are becoming more similar to the latter, particularly in terms of journal selection for publishing articles.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mubashrah Saddiqa, Rikke Magnussen, Birger Larsen, Jens Myrup Pedersen
Summary: This study investigates how open data can be used to develop digital and data literacy skills among secondary school students, with the results suggesting that open data has the potential to enhance skills for future generations.
COMPUTERS & EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lin Zhang, Yuanyuan Shang, Ying Huang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: The study found that male reviewers dominate in almost all countries, regions, and research fields. Male reviewers generally contribute to review work more frequently than females, but female reviewers write longer reviews. The correlations between reviewing activity and research activity are generally weak, indicating that active reviewers are not necessarily the most productive researchers in their fields.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lin Zhang, Yahui Wei, Ying Huang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: Open Access (OA) has emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing over the past two decades. However, the current trend suggests that this transition increasingly relies on article processing charges (APC), creating a new paywall for researchers. This study analyzes the global trends towards paying to perform research by examining publishing trends from 2015 to 2020 and an APC price list. The findings show a sharp increase in APC expenses among six countries with different OA policies, with major publishers now generating over 2 billion US dollars annually from APC. This indicates a shift towards an APC-based OA model as a more profitable business model.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Lin Zhang, Yahui Wei, Gunnar Sivertsen, Ying Huang
Summary: This study aims to understand the motivations and criteria behind the list of questionable journals released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, through analyzing Chinese policy documents, public debates, and conducting quantitative analysis to determine the relative importance of the selection criteria.
LEARNED PUBLISHING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yuanyuan Shang, Gunnar Sivertsen, Zhe Cao, Lin Zhang
Summary: This study explores gender balance and differences among first authors within SDG5 oriented research during the first 5 years after the implementation of SDG5 in 2016. The findings show that compared to other SDGs, the field of SDG5 produces fewer scientific publications, but with a higher proportion of female first authors. Male and female first authors focus on partly different topics, and potential readers show more interest in publications by female first authors. This investigation highlights the importance of increasing gender diversity in SDG5-related studies for achieving sustainable development.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Emanuel Kulczycki, Ying Huang, Alesia A. Zuccala, Tim C. E. Engels, Antonio Ferrara, Raf Guns, Janne Polonen, Gunnar Sivertsen, Zehra Taskin, Lin Zhang
Summary: This paper investigates the use of Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in national journal rankings and discusses the importance of expert assessment in supplementing metrics. The study finds that countries like China, Flanders, Poland, and Turkey consider journals with JIF as top-tier, while Denmark, Finland, and Norway take into account other quality dimensions in their expert assessment of journal rankings.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Ronald Rousseau, Lin Zhang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: This article aims to contribute to the study of collaboration in science by proposing a new indicator, BIC, to measure balance in collaboration. The BIC is based on the Gini evenness index for a weighted Lorenz curve and builds upon the previously introduced indicator of relative intensity of collaboration, RIC. Examples based on the collaboration network between the top twenty countries contributing to science during 2000-2020 are presented.
Correction
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Ronald Rousseau, Lin Zhang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Lin Zhang, Zhenyu Gou, Zhichao Fang, Gunnar Sivertsen, Ying Huang
Summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of tweets about scientific publications as an indicator of societal impact. The study introduces methods that allow for a larger and broader data set than previous validation studies. The findings indicate that tweeting scientific publications is not a valid indicator of research impact, but publications that continue to be tweeted after a few days can represent recent scientific achievements that catch attention in society.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Dag W. Aksnes, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: The purpose of this study is to analyze the evolution of international research collaboration from 1980 to 2021. It examines global patterns as well as those specific to individual countries, country groups, and different areas of research. The study analyzes over 50 million publications using co-authorship data from the Web of Science Core collection database. The findings show that the share of publications representing international collaboration has increased from 4.7% in 1980 to 25.7% in 2021, with notable disparities in temporal trends among countries.
JOURNAL OF DATA AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lin Zhang, Yahui Wei, Ying Huang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: Compared to China, the USA has a higher percentage of OA publications, with American OA articles more frequently falling into the Green and Bronze types. American researchers' hybrid OA publications have the highest impact in terms of citations, while Chinese researchers' Green OA publications have the highest impact. These differences can be explained by national research evaluation and OA policies.
18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS (ISSI2021)
(2021)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Ying Huang, Ruinan Li, Lin Zhang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: This paper provides an overview of the history and background of journal evaluation in China, as well as a comparison of the most influential journal lists and indexing services. Through these systems, it offers comprehensive coverage of the tradition, landscape, methods, and practices of journal evaluation in China, with some comparisons to other countries' approaches to assessing and ranking journals.
QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Lin Zhang, Yuanyuan Shang, Ying Huang, Gunnar Sivertsen
Summary: Over the past forty years, Mainland China's social science research has significantly internationalized, with an increase in articles published in international journals, expanding collaboration networks among researchers, and a steady rise in appearances in high impact journals. Different social science disciplines show varying degrees of internationalization.
QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Peter Ingwersen, Soeren Holm, Birger Larsen, Thomas Ploug
Summary: The study analyzes the scientific disagreement regarding the use of statin-related drugs in preventing cardiovascular events, revealing key journals and sponsors in the field. Researchers with different stances publish in distinct core journals and receive funding from various multinational pharmaceutical companies.
