ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05146-5
Russyl Gilling, Marissa Scandlyn, Blair Hesp
{"title":"Prevalence and characteristics of graphical abstracts in a specialist pharmacology journal","authors":"Russyl Gilling, Marissa Scandlyn, Blair Hesp","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05146-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05146-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Graphical abstracts (GAs) are publication extenders used to visually communicate scientific concepts and data alongside their parent manuscript. This study investigated the prevalence and characteristics of GAs published in a clinical pharmacology journal that facilitates GA use through free publication and providing templates to authors. The characteristics of clinical publications in the <i>British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology</i> in issues dated 2021–2023 were collated and accompanying GAs reviewed and compared with the associated written abstracts. In total, 64/1019 (6.3%) publications were accompanied by a GA. There was no association between the presence of a GA and the geographical location of the principal investigator, year of publication or open access status. Industry-funded studies were significantly more likely to include a GA compared with non-industry funded studies (19/179 [10.6%] vs. 25/458 [5.5%]; Fisher’s exact test, <i>p</i> = 0.0246). Professional medical writing support was also associated with a numerically higher prevalence of GAs (16.7% [11/66] vs. 7.6% [7/92] with no medical writing support; Fisher’s exact test, <i>p</i> = 0.1257). While GAs generally included study results (94%), only approximately half presented methodology (58%) and conclusions (50%). Few GAs (27%) included the title of the publication. In conclusion, uptake of GAs by authors was low. Industry and professional medical writing support was associated with increased GA uptake, but the prevalence remained below 20%. GAs are also heterogenous in nature, often inconsistent with the written abstract and are generally unable to stand alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05140-x
Jianlin Zhou, Jinshan Wu
{"title":"Measuring hotness transfer of individual papers based on citation relationship","authors":"Jianlin Zhou, Jinshan Wu","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05140-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05140-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is a common phenomenon for scientists to follow hot topics in research and this phenomenon can generally be quantified by measuring the preference attachment of new papers. A similar phenomenon also exists when a paper chooses its references. However, the abovementioned method does not apply to measure the preference for hot papers. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose to convert measuring a paper’s preference for hot papers into calculating the hotness obtained from a paper’s references. We propose a PageRank-like algorithm that considers the hotness propagation based on citation relationships between papers to measure the hotness transfer of individual papers. We apply this method to the American Physical Society journals and explore the hotness transfer performance of individual papers in physics. It is found that highly innovative papers, such as Nobel Prize-winning papers in physics, have a weaker hotness transfer degree than papers with the same number of citations. We explore the factors associated with the performance of hotness transfer indicators. We find that the larger the size or citation counts of the field are, the stronger the hotness transfer degree of the field is likely to be. The team size and the number of references can also affect the hotness transfer degree of individual papers. Finally, we find that the hotness transfer scores of papers show an increasing trend over time. Relevant empirical discoveries may be valuable for evaluating paper impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05150-9
Zhaoping Yan, Kaiyu Fan
{"title":"An integrated indicator for evaluating scientific papers: considering academic impact and novelty","authors":"Zhaoping Yan, Kaiyu Fan","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05150-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05150-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The assessment of scientific papers has long been a challenging issue. Although numerous studies have proposed quantitative indicators for assessing scientific papers, these studies overlooked the citation characteristics and the novelty of scientific knowledge implied in the textual information of papers. Therefore, this paper constructs an integrated indicator to evaluate scientific papers from both citation and semantic perspectives. Firstly, we propose weighted citations to measure the academic impact of scientific papers, which takes time heterogeneity and citation sentiment factors into consideration. Secondly, we capture the novelty of scientific papers from a semantic perspective, utilizing FastText to represent papers as text embeddings and applying the local outlier factor to calculate it. To validate the performance of our approach, the bullwhip effect domain and the ACL Anthology corpus are used for case studies. The results demonstrate that our indicator can effectively identify outstanding papers, thus providing a more comprehensive evaluation method for evaluating academic research.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05134-9
Ziyan Zhang, Junyan Zhang, Pushi Wang
{"title":"Measurement of disruptive innovation and its validity based on improved disruption index","authors":"Ziyan Zhang, Junyan Zhang, Pushi Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05134-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05134-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Measuring disruptive innovation is a critical and still-developing topic. Although the disruption (<b><i>D</i></b>) Index has been widely utilized, it ignores the structural differences between <i>i</i>- and <i>j</i>-type nodes and suffers from inconsistencies, biases related to reference lists, and little comparability across different clusters. To address these possible biases, we propose the improved disruptive Index (<b><i>ID</i></b> Index), using a dataset of 114,202 patents from Chinese listed firms to test its validity. The results show that the <b><i>ID</i></b> Index (i) provides a more precise measurement of disruptiveness, resolves inconsistencies, reduces biases related to reference lists, and enhances comparability across clusters; (ii) demonstrates better convergent validity, correlating more closely with expert evaluations and more effectively identifying determinants such as knowledge search, recombination, and coordination; (iii) shows better validity in predicting stock market reactions, renewal durations, firms’ short- and long-term performance. Finally, we separate the <b><i>ID</i></b> index to independently measure the extent of disrupting and consolidating existing knowledge, and the convergent and predictive validity are demonstrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05136-7
Giovanni Abramo, Francesca Apponi, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo
{"title":"Do research universities specialize in disciplines where they hold a competitive advantage?","authors":"Giovanni Abramo, Francesca Apponi, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05136-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05136-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of national research systems is a top priority on the policy agendas of many countries. This study focuses on one aspect of the macroeconomic efficiency of research systems: whether research institutions specialize in scientific domains where they have a competitive advantage. To evaluate this, we developed a novel methodology. This methodology measures the scientific specialization indices of each organization in various research fields and assesses their relative research productivity. It then examines the correlation between these scores and between the resulting rankings. We applied this methodology to Italian universities. We found that a significant rank correlation between universities’ field specialization and their performance appears only in a few areas, and overall, the rankings are completely unrelated. Providing such data to research managers and policymakers can help inform strategies to enhance both micro- and macro-level efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05104-1
Lutz Bornmann, Julian N. Marewski
{"title":"Opium in science and society: numbers and other quantifications","authors":"Lutz Bornmann, Julian N. Marewski","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05104-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05104-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In science and beyond, quantifications are omnipresent when it comes to justifying judgments. Which scientific author, hiring committee-member, or advisory board panelist has not been confronted with page-long publication manuals, assessment reports, evaluation guidelines, calling for <i>p</i>-values, citation rates, <i>h</i>-indices, or other numbers to judge about the ‘quality’ of findings, applicants, or institutions? Yet, many of those of us relying on and calling for quantifications may not understand what information numbers can convey, and what not. Focusing on the uninformed usage of bibliometrics as worrisome outgrowth of the increasing quantification of science, in this opinion essay we place the abuse of quantifications into historical contexts and trends. These are characterized by mistrust in human intuitive judgment, obsessions with control and accountability, and a bureaucratization of science. We call for bringing common sense back into scientific (bibliometric-based) judgment exercises. Despite all number crunching, many judgments—be it about empirical findings or research institutions—will neither be straightforward, clear, and unequivocal, nor can they be ‘validated’ and be ‘objectified’ by external standards. We conclude that assessments in science ought to be understood as and be made as judgments under uncertainty.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05135-8
Ekaterina Dyachenko, Iurii Agafonov, Katerina Guba, Alexander Gelvikh
{"title":"Independent Russian medical science: is there any?","authors":"Ekaterina Dyachenko, Iurii Agafonov, Katerina Guba, Alexander Gelvikh","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05135-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05135-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, medical research in Russia remains poorly integrated into global science. In this study, we analyze the evolution of Russian medical research presence in international journals in recent years and examine the role of international collaboration in driving this change. We collected data from various sources, including Web of Science, Scopus, and Medline. While articles in international journals still constitute a smaller proportion of all Russian medical publications, their representation has significantly increased in recent years. Articles in high-impact journals now comprise approximately one-third of the total output. International cooperation emerges as a key factor behind top-level Russian medical publications, with international coauthorship playing a particularly significant role in high-impact journals, where 70% of Russian-authored publications include foreign co-authors. It is noteworthy that Russian authors are rarely designated as corresponding authors, suggesting a limited leadership role in project teams, especially, regarding research published in the most prestigious publications. Additionally, Russian scientists produce a notably low number of non-collaborative papers that later achieve high citation rates. Given that 81% of the most productive authors participate in international projects and the recent suspension of many ties and collaborations with foreign scientists, we expect a significant decline in Russia’s presence in core medical journals in the near future.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The multifaceted factors affecting the publication times of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus articles: what has changed in two decades","authors":"Einav Baharav Shlezinger, Rasha Mosleh, Gil Ben-David, Eedy Mezer, Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05122-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05122-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Expeditious publication is an important factor when considering publishing ophthalmic research. We investigated the factors associated with shorter publication times in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus (POS). We analyzed 2487 POS articles from 8 ophthalmology journals publishing POS articles. Time from submission to acceptance, from acceptance to publication, and from submission to publication were calculated for each article. We compared trends over time of factors affecting the publication times from 2002 to 2007 and those from 2014 to 2018. Median peer review durations were 156 days from submission to acceptance; 79 days from acceptance to publication, and 244 days from submission to publication. The <i>American Journal of Ophthalmology</i>, <i>JAMA Ophthalmology</i>, and <i>Strabismus</i> had the shortest submission to publication time. Authors from Africa, East Europe, Central and South America received the fastest processing time in all time categories, although most authors were based in North America and UK. All-time intervals decreased annually, significantly more during the first decade. In the study's second period, more co-authors and affiliated departments correlated with shorter review times. Manuscripts in higher Impact Factor (IF) journals had faster publication times in the first decade. Female senior authors faced longer submission-to-acceptance times in the first decade. This gender gap disappeared in the second period. A general improvement occurred with most journals, specifically those journals with a higher number of co-authors and affiliated departments, indicating an efficient collaborative authorship. Low-income regions benefited from comparatively shorter time intervals. The gender gap in senior authorship diminished over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05098-w
Robert Tomaszewski
{"title":"Time-tracking substances: harnessing the power of article counts over time with SciFindern","authors":"Robert Tomaszewski","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05098-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05098-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study presents an innovative method for tracking the evolution and repurposing of drugs, leveraging controlled vocabulary systems, specifically CA (<i>Chemical Abstracts</i>) Concept Headings within the SciFinder<sup>n</sup> database. Using thalidomide as a case study, the research demonstrates how tracking article counts over time can uncover information about the substance’s history, properties, uses, and future potential. The analysis involves comparing yearly publication counts of research articles and patents through databases, journal sources, and CA Concept Headings. The findings suggest that monitoring the number of articles by CA Concept Headings published over time can serve as a valuable indicator of the substance’s importance. Such knowledge empowers researchers to develop applications, enhance existing processes, and contribute to advancing science and medicine. The study’s insights have significant implications for the broader field of scientometrics, offering a methodological approach to understanding substance development and impact through bibliometric analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ScientometricsPub Date : 2024-08-24DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-05133-w
Gheorghe-Gavrilă Hognogi, Ana-Maria Pop
{"title":"Something old, new, and borrowed. Rise of the systematic reviews","authors":"Gheorghe-Gavrilă Hognogi, Ana-Maria Pop","doi":"10.1007/s11192-024-05133-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05133-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Systematic reviews and other types of literature reviews are more prevalent in clinical medicine than in other fields. The recurring need for improvement and updates in these disciplines has led to the Living Systematic Review (LSR) concept to enhance the effectiveness of scientific synthesis efforts. While LSR was introduced in 2014, its adoption outside clinical medicine has been limited, with one exception. However, it is anticipated that this will change in the future, prompting a detailed exploration of four key dimensions for LSR development, regardless of the scientific domain. These dimensions include (a) compliance with FAIR principles, (b) interactivity to facilitate easier access to scientific knowledge, (c) public participation for a more comprehensive review, and (d) extending the scope beyond mere updates to living systematic reviews. Each field needs to establish clear guidelines for drafting literature reviews as independent studies, with discussions centring around the central theme of the Living Systematic Review.</p>","PeriodicalId":21755,"journal":{"name":"Scientometrics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142176284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}