Evolution and effect of meeting abstracts in JCR journals

IF 3.5 2区管理学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Journal of Informetrics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.joi.2024.101631

David Melero-Fuentes , Remedios Aguilar-Moya , Juan-Carlos Valderrama-Zurián , Juan Gorraiz

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Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to analyse the presence and evolution in the last 13 years of the document type “Meeting Abstract” in the database where they are best represented, i.e. in the Web of Science Core Collection. We have also studied in which categories and in which type of journals they have a significant presence.

Frequency analyses of meeting abstracts (absolute and ratios) were performed on years, indexes, categories and topics variables, and the Impact Factor was calculated without the citations obtained by the meeting abstracts.

The results obtained show that in disciplines such as Clinical Medicine, Neuroscience & Behavior. and Biology & Biochemistry, they play a very important role due to both their number and the number of attracted citations, and that they are regularly published in top journals, including Q1 according to the Journal of Citation Reports. Our results also corroborate the hypothesis that they inflate the Impact Factor and therefore are one of the reasons for the high absolute values of this indicator in categories like Oncology and Hematology.

This study is of great relevance for researchers and policymakers, because it helps to identify in which disciplines Meeting Abstracts have relevance and they should be considered for the calculation of indicators in bibliometric practices, and opens the door to research into their relationship with other documentary typologies within the social processes of scientific communication in different sciences.

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JCR期刊会议摘要的演变与影响

本研究的目的是分析“会议摘要”这一文件类型在数据库（即Web of Science核心馆藏）中最具代表性的存在和演变。我们还研究了他们在哪些类别和哪种类型的期刊上有重要的存在。对会议摘要的年份、指标、类别和主题变量进行频率分析（绝对值和比率），计算影响因子（Impact Factor），不考虑会议摘要获得的引用。结果表明，在临床医学、神经科学等学科中；的行为。和生物&；它们在生物化学中扮演着非常重要的角色，因为它们的数量和吸引引用的数量，而且它们经常发表在顶级期刊上，根据《期刊引用报告》（Journal of Citation Reports），包括Q1。我们的研究结果也证实了一个假设，即它们夸大了影响因子，因此是该指标在肿瘤学和血液学等类别中绝对值高的原因之一。本研究对研究人员和政策制定者具有重要意义，因为它有助于确定哪些学科的会议摘要具有相关性，并且在文献计量实践中应该考虑这些指标的计算，并为研究不同科学科学传播社会过程中会议摘要与其他文献类型学的关系打开了大门。

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来源期刊

Journal of Informetrics Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

16.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Journal of Informetrics (JOI) publishes rigorous high-quality research on quantitative aspects of information science. The main focus of the journal is on topics in bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, patentometrics, altmetrics and research evaluation. Contributions studying informetric problems using methods from other quantitative fields, such as mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics and econometrics, and network science, are especially encouraged. JOI publishes both theoretical and empirical work. In general, case studies, for instance a bibliometric analysis focusing on a specific research field or a specific country, are not considered suitable for publication in JOI, unless they contain innovative methodological elements.