Over the years, bibiometric study has been growing and gaining the found in libraries and informatics centers all over the world. Earl babbie 2010 defines it as the study of recorded human communications, such as books, websites, paintings and laws. This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis of the health and population. Measuring research output through bibliometrics uwspace. A number of studies have been done on bibliometric study of journals. Bibliometric studies has become an emergent and buoyant discipline, given the. The publications either lie within the information. A bibliometric analysis of two scientific networks.
This paper covers a total of 82 bibliometric studies on single journals 62 studies cover unique titles published between 1998 and 2008 grouped into the following fields. A bibliometric analysis of climate engineering research. So, combining bibliometrics with dynamic network analysis. Bibliometric methods are frequently used in the field of library and information science. Introduction to bibliometrics and tools for organizing references. Journals included in these studies are often labelled as. Articles on aromatherapy, published between 1995 and 2014, were retrieved from the science citation indexexpanded database from the web of science. Coword analysis and network analysis were applied in mapping the topics of s. Bibliometric analysis of the research performance of the jrc under. The study presents the bibliometric analysis of journal of taibah university of science.
Perspectives and issues journal, the aim being to offer a summary of research activity in public health and characterize its most important aspects. This work has been funded as part of the science of science for mental health research network sos for mental health, an initiative founded by the graham boeckh foundation in collaboration with rand europe. Coword analysis and network analysis were applied in mapping the. Pdf this paper presents a bibliometric study of the worlds research activity in. The following is a bibliometric study of direction from 1972 to 1991.
Bradfords law serves as a general guideline to librarians in. The subfield of bibliometrics which concerns itself with the analysis of scientific publications is called scientometrics. Research open access a bibliometric analysis of global. Bibliometric studies have been used to study various characteristics of subject literature, both literature cited and literature provided by the researchers. In these subject fields, we found 12 bibliometric studies on single journals with one study of a journal published in the united kingdom, eight from the united states, one from india and two from malaysia. Reuters report to supplement the general bibliometric analysis with a focus on. A bibliometric study of lis literature related to academic.
Bibliometric means application of statistical studies in library and information science. Check by hand for duplicate nodes and use the merge nodes function. The nih librarys bibliometric services program provides publication analysis services to nih staff. A bibliometric study of chinas science and technology. The search terms used included hydrogen energy, fuel cell, and fuel cells tsay, 2008, p. Data for bibliometric studies are to be invariably collected from publications. The analysis is based on bibliometric information, such as keywords, date of publication, references and other records, which were processed with scopus tools, vos viewer and microsoft excel. Bibliometrics uses mathematical and statistical methods to analyse. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. This article addresses the question of what quantitative and evaluative statements can be made about the journal which has been the principle medium of formal communications for mennonite brethren church and conference leaders, pastors, and educators over the last two decades. A bibliometric analysis based on authorship pattern, year wise distribution and subject wise distribution of the articles of jmr may provide sufficient indications about the importance and growth of this journal.
A bibliometric analysis on the journal of information science. According to pritchard 1969, bibliometrics is defined as the application of mathematics and statistical methods to books and other media of communication. Potter 1981 defines bibliometrics as the study and measurement of the. A longterm bibliometric analysis of journals influencing. The study population was selected because of growing evidence of activity. What they found in this bibliometric study of the ketogenic diet was fascinating. The question that remains unanswered is whether the mental health translation gap is due to funding policies or lack of scientific tractability. The analyses above are often improved by combining more than one aspect. Mar 14, 2019 global evolution of research in artificial intelligence in health and medicine. Full text analysis and traditional bibliometric methods are serially combined to improve the efficiency of the two individual methods. All of these techniques combine to give more detailed and more effective. A bibliometric analysis of climate engineering research christopher w. Danish centre for studies in research and research policy, department of. The assembly of data on publications complying with adopted criteria indexed in the selected database and creating a set of.
Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to study or measure texts and information. A bibliometric analysis of bitcoin scientific production. This study analyzes 937,923 keywords from 78,986 articles concerning forest ecology and conducts a serial analysis. Comparative bibliometric study of the scientific production.
This paper is a bibliometric study of the publication patterns of academic and research scientists of maghreb countries. For about half a century now single journal bibliometric studies have been carried out worldwide biswas, roy. Therefore, in this study the wos database has been used as a data source. The analysis scrutinizes mainly distribution of articles, length of articles, collaboration pattern, distribution of citations, and selfcitations etc. The comparative study of the scientific production in the countries of maghreb is made using scopus data during the period 19962009. This study evaluates bibliometric studies in tourism, depicts emerging themes, and offers critical discussions for theory development and future research. In the united kingdom mcelwee and atherton 2005 undertook a bibliometric study on. Aug 26, 2014 this paper uses a bibliometric analysis method to probe into the evolution of chinas science and technology policies from 1949 to 2010, and the roles of core government agencies in policymaking. The study is based on the data collected from cabi abstracts for the period of 20062010.
Pdf a bibliometric study of the worlds research activity in. The study provides an overview of welding research articles for the period 20012012. The paper analyzes a bibliometric study of 254 articles published during the period january 1, 2000 to december 31, 2010 in the health and population. Jul 28, 2015 the bibliometric literature in this study, which was extracted from web of science, is divided into two parts using a method comparable to the method of jonkers et al. Bibliometric study is quantitative method for analyzing various aspect of written document. Bibliometrics and research data management services. Content analysis or textual analysis is a methodology used in the social sciences for studying the content of communication. Abstract the present study focused on the articles published in library trends journal from the year 20082014. The bibliometric study does not include grey literature, conference proceedings, or booksbook chapters. The present study attempts to measure the pattern of publication of journal of marketing. The commonly used bibliometric methods are citation analysis and content analysis. Methodology applied in the present study is bibliometric analysis which is used to study in detail the bibliographic features of the articles and citation analysis of reference appended at the end of each article, published in library herald journal from 2006 to 2010.
Combining full text and bibliometric information in mapping. Pdf bibliometric study of literature on bibliometrics. A bibliometric analysis of global forest ecology research during 20022011 yajun song1,2 and tianzhong zhao1 abstract bibliometric is increasingly used for the analysis of discipline dynamics and management related decisionmaking. Citation analysis and content analysis are commonly used in bibliometrics methods. Global evolution of research in artificial intelligence in health and medicine. Combining fulltext analysis and bibliometric indicators.
Articles written in any languages other than english are excluded. The outcomes substantiate that such hybrid methodology can be applied to both research evaluation and information retrieval. Authorship trends and collaborative research in veterinary. The references cited in the articles have also been studied. Characteristics of bibliometrics articles in library and information sciences lis and other journals, pp.
Analysis of bibliographical data permit the description of the characteristics of the literature produced in the field while analysis of citation data enable one to. This study highlights the collaboration in research and authorship trend in the area of veterinary sciences all over the world with special reference to india. Bibliometric analysis of the health and population. Introduction to bibliometrics and tools for organizing.
A sufficient number of studies have been completed, and with the resulting. In the present study results of an earlier pilot study by glenisson, glanzel and persson are extended on the basis of larger sets of papers. New development and trends provides a comprehensible, readable and easy to read introduction to bibliometrics. A bibliometric analysis of two decades of aromatherapy. Data sources and software tools for bibliometric studies. This paper uses a bibliometric analysis method to probe into the evolution of chinas science and technology policies from 1949 to 2010, and the roles of core government agencies in policymaking. All intext references underlined in blue are added to the original document and are linked to publications on researchgate, letting you access and read them immediately. Methodology applied in the present study is bibliometric analysis which is used to study in detail the bibliographic features of the articles and citation analysis of reference appended at the end of each article. Tsay 2008 explored the characteristics of energy literature from a forty year time span, 1965 to 2005, based on articles indexed in the science citation index expanded database using various bibliometric techniques. Pandita 202 conducted a bibliometric study on the journal annals of library and information studies from 20022012. The subject is also very popular among the research scholar for research, because in ever field of knowledge the.
T policies from gdis, a chinese public policy database provided by tsinghua university. In the present study fulltext analysis and traditional bibliometric methods are combined to improve the efficiency of the individual methods in the mapping of science. R is highly extensible because it is an objectoriented and functional programming language, and therefore is pretty easy to automate analyses and create new functions. Yet, bibliometric tools make it possible to explore. This report presents the findings of a bibliometric study of mental health research papers published from 1980 to 2008. The methodology is applied to map research papers from a special issue of scientometrics.
Science ils category and the other documents have been merged in. Using measures that combine publication and citation outputs provides opportunities to. Bibliometric analysis or bibliometrics may be used, for example, to compare the prevalence of multiple fields of research. Bibliometrics is the use of statistical methods to analyse books, articles, and other publications. Quantitative data are lacking on the profile of published research in aromatherapy. Shipra awasthi assistant librarian, jawaharlal nehru university, newdelhi. Research open access a bibliometric analysis of global forest. Importantly, the book surveys the latest developments of bibliometrics such as altmetrics, etc. Bibliometric analyses usually take place in several stages sun et al. Eight years after lotkas article appeared, bradford 1934 published his study on the frequency distribution of papers over journals. Sciences and technology 30 items and library and information sciences 21 items.
However, subject analysis on the references cited had been seldom studied. Software tools for conducting bibliometric analysis in science. The probability of occurrence of a value of some variable. Search strategy there are two steps conducted in sequential order.
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