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Mapping Of Research Output On Medical Waste Management: A Bibliometric Study, Sk Sofik, Ziaur Rahman Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to analyze a bibliometric study mapping of research output on Medical Waste Management (MWM). All articles relevant to MWM research have been retrieved using the Web of Science (WOS) database. Bibliometric analysis for co-citation, linking, scientific collaboration analysis, co-word analysis and visualizing bibliometric networks were used by many important bibliometric tools, such as Biblioshiny, ScientoPy and VOSviewer. The study’s key results were that 944 research paper published in 2001-2020. The results show publications of medical waste management gradually increased but the average number of citation is not increased. The USA is top of the list among the …

Research Trends Of E-Learning: A Bibliometric And Visualisation Analysis, Suman Das Project Assistant

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study presents a general bibliometric outline of the major logical advancements that have been published in “e-learning”, since 1970. The bibliometric data were retrieved from the Scopus database. The review identifies the most cited, productive authors, and the leading institutions and countries of the journal, based on bibliometric indicators. The research hot spots in the period from 1970 to 2020 were identified by using the visualization of similarities software (Vosviewer), and the graphical mapping of the authors was developed to visualize networks between authors. A sum of 27979 publications was analyzed and the most compelling subjects covered by the …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Pakistan Journal Of Pharmaceutical Sciences From 2005 To 2020, Waseem Hassan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Background:

The major aim of this study is to evaluate the research productivity of Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PJPS) from 2005 to 2020. For the purpose, bibliometric analysis was performed.

Methodology:

From March to April 2021, the data was retrieved from Scopus, one of the largest databases in the world. journal. Later it was analyzed by MS Excel. Based on the Scopus database, this is the 1^st bibliometric report about PJPS.

Results:

From 2005 to 2020, PJPS published 3301 articles. The per year publication and citation details are provided. In all publications (n=3301), 8066 authors, 6018 institutes or …

Bibliometric Analysis And Research Trends Of A Journal: Magazine Of Civil Engineering, Daniel Aristizabal, Angy Juliet Lara, Valentina Payares, Alejandro Alzate

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Magazine of Civil Engineering (MCE) is an open access scientific journal in the field of civil engineering and construction. Motivated by its more than a thousand articles published since 2008, this study aims to develop a bibliometric analysis based on the historical consolidation of publications and subject areas to identify research trends, authors, countries, and institutions with more publications. For this purpose, the Scopus database and the journal's homepage were consulted to identify the number of published issues and articles and other bibliometric indicators of interest, using open-source tools such as Bibliometrix and VOSviewer. The mapping of the scientific production …

Biblioshiny R Application On Islamic Microfinance Research, Popon Srisusilawati, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Yulizar Djamaluddin Sanrego, Naelati Tubastuvi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to determine the development of Islamic microfinance research trends published by leading journals on Islamic economics and finance. The data analyzed consisted of 441 indexed research publications. The data is then processed and analyzed using the R Bibliometric application to find out the bibliometric map of the development of Islamic economics and finance on Islamic microfinance. The results showed that the number of publications on the development of Islamic economic and financial research had increased significantly. Then, most types of documents that analyze Islamic microfinance are journaled articles. The most popular author is Kassim S, and the …

Research Productivity Of Journal Of Documentation: A Bibliometric Analysis, Dinesh Kumari Kundu, Nirmal Kumar Swain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study reflects the bibliometric analysis of 211 articles appeared in ‘JDoc’ from 2007 to 2011. Different parameters of bibliometrics such as the yearly distribution of publications; exponential growth rate, relative growth rate; doubling time of publications; authorship pattern; the degree of collaboration among authors; pagination pattern of publications; top ten keywords, countries, institutions & top ten most cited papers. The study reveals that the majorities of publications published in the ‘JDoc’ were research papers (87.05%) and rest were review papers (12.95%). The exponential growth rate remained between 0.97 to 1.04 with average relative growth rate (0.32) and with doubling …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Papers Published During 2016-2020 In ‘Tulsi Prajna’ Research Journal, Sunil Tyagi, Satya Narain Bharadwaj Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study aims to present a bibliometric analysis of the research journal titled “Tulsi Prajna” to provide a summary of research activity in the journal and to characterize its most important aspects.

Methodology: The present study is based on the bibliometrics analysis of the papers published in Tulsi Prajna for the period 2016–2020. The analysis was done in two parts viz analysis of articles and analysis of citations. The analysis mainly covers the year-wise distribution, category-wise classification, authorship patterns, degree of collaboration, geographical distribution of articles and the citation analysis.

Findings: The present analysis displays a trend of growth …

Research Trends Of Chennai Mathematical Institute (Cmi) During 2005-2019: A Study Reflected On Web Of Science Data Base, N Senthilkumar, Radhakrishnan Natarajan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study examines the publication pattern of Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) during 2005 - 2019 using Web of Science (WOS) database from Clarivate Analytics. 632 articles were published during the study period, more number of articles published in 2019 with 94 (14.87%) and highest number of papers published in physical review letters journal which havs more h-index (567), average annual growth rate of CMI publications was 18.48. Researchers are interested with joint authorship rather than solo authorship pattern. Arun K G is the most prolific author with 94 records and USA is the top collaborative country for CMI with …

Prostate Cancer Research: A Bibliometric Study Of India And Iran, Rabiya Mushtaq, Fayaz Ahmad Loan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims to provide an insight into the global research productivity in prostate cancer with an in-depth analysis of the growth & development of India and Iran. The study focuses on the authorship collaborative patterns among Indian and Iranian medical scientists as well. The study was commenced with the selection of terms on “Prostate cancer”. Three terms- Prostate Cancer, Prostate Neoplasm, and Prostatic Neoplasm were selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to retrieve the data from the Web of Science (WoS). The Boolean Operator “OR” was executed to retrieve the records. The data related to prostate cancer research …

Research Contributions Of Nobel Laureate Francis H Arnold: A Study Of Bibliometric Analysis, Prakash Kumbar, Mallinath Kumbar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study on ‘Single Author’ research analysis highlights the qualitative and quantitative aspects of research contributions made by Nobel Laureate Arnold FH in the field of chemical sciences for the directed evolution of enzymes. During her productive career 1980-2021, she has produced a count of 355 (273 journal articles) publications with 30644 citations were retrieved from Scopus database. The present study includes the analysis of research contributions made by Arnold FH with the bibliometric techniques and her role in the advancement of chemical science in the world. Her publications were distributed over 135 source titles which are having a good …

Bibliographic Coupling And Co-Citation Networking Analysis Determining Research Contributions Of Business School Between 1965-June, 2020: With Special Reference To Indian Institute Of Management, India., Mahendra Kumar Sahu Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The literature on business management recognizes the amalgamation of both the formal and informal dimensions that researchers perceived, could provide useful information to modern companies and business managers. As a result of this advancement, the paper tries to mapping the field of business management research contributed by IIMs. These research works consummated by applying bibliometric analysis. Total 7751 scientific articles published in different journals indexed in the Scopus from 1965 to 2020 retrieved from Scopus Database. Further, the data were analyzed, applying Bibliographic coupling & Co-citation analysis through VOSviewer software. The conclusions of the study facilitate to explore the most …

Annals Of Microbiology: A Bibliometric Analysis, Victoria P, Gomathi P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to measure the number of contributions made by the researchers in the field of Journal “Annals of Microbiology” and published on the Web of Science database during 2010-2020 using Bibliometric analysis. Data were analyzed using software such as Histcite, Bibexcel, Vos viewer and tabulated using MS Excel. Annals of Microbiology is operates a single-blind peer-review system. Currently published on England by BMC. It publishes four issues in a year. The years (2017, 2018, 2019) publishes 12 issues, and 2020 has publishes only one issue. This paper aimed to assess growth pattern of research output, …

The Journal Of Information Science Theory And Practice (Jistap): A Bibliometric Analysis (2013-2017), Dr. Bindu Sharma, Ms Anuradha Sharma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present ‘Bibliometric’ study was undertaken in the Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP). 102 articles published in the journal during the period (2013-2017) were studied. The study analyses various bibliometric patterns and found that the maximum 41 (40.20%) articles were submitted by two authors, followed by a single author with 36, in total 35.29% publications. Author’s productivity was recorded 0.48 average publication per author and the overall degree of collaboration was 0.65. In the Lotka’s law of scientific productivity, it is analysed that the expected authors are different from observed authors. After the analysis, it was found …

Indonesian Journal Of Applied Linguistics: A Bibliometric Portrait Of Ten Publication Years, Abdul Syahid

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bibliometric portraits of a single journal appear to be rarely taken in the field of applied linguistics. Viewed from the angles of publication, citation, and indexation, one of the journals worth a bibliometric portrait is the Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Casting local and regional concerns on the global applied linguistics, the journal has ranked among the big five Open Access Journals in the Asiatic region since its foundation in 2011. Capturing a corpus of 426 documents by 824 authors from 144 organizations through two free bibliometric tools, i.e. Publish or Perish and VOSviewer, this study portrays the journal …

Evaluating The Publications Output Of Pakistan Journal Of Information Management And Libraries Based On The Scopus Database, Ikram Ul Haq, Rabiya Ali Faridi, Muhammad Tanveer

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Aim: This study is aimed to evaluate the bibliometric parameters of the literature published in the Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries (PJIM&L) for the period of 2010 to 2019 and indexed in the Scopus database.

Methods: The retrospective method has been applied to the dataset that was downloaded from the Scopus-Elsevier database on 5^th January 2021. Two source titles PJIM&L, and its earlier version “Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science”, were selected and all the available bibliographic records of publications were downloaded in Comma Separated Value (CSV) file for analysis. The …

Self-Citation And Authorship Pattern In Desidoc Journal Of Library And Information Technology, Anil Kumar Siwach, Vinod Kumar Thakur

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Researchers support their research work by citing previous studies. Citations are considered important indicator of research performance and many research based indicators are based on these. Self-citation, i.e., citing own previous studies, is a common practice but excessive and unsolicited self-citations are unethical and not considered good. The present paper intends to study the self-citations of “DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology” in terms of author-self citation, journal self-citation and author-journal self-citation during the ten year period from 2010 to 2019. The study also covers authorship pattern, collaboration and prolific authors in the journal under study.

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Journal Of Advances In Library And Information Science (Jalis) From 2016-2020: An International Online Journal, Vellaichamy Alagarsamy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study analyses papers published in Journal of Advances in Library and Information Science (JALIS) using bibliometric techniques for the period of 2016 to 2020 (5 years). The study examines that, publication growth, degree of collaboration, authorship pattern of the articles and reference distribution. The study has analysed that the highest number of articles was published during the year of 2017 followed by 2016. The degree of collaboration ranges from 0.70 to 0.78 and its mean value is 0.74. The findings indicate that a total of 431 authors produced 243 articles with an average of 0.53 percentage of per author …

Nephrology Publications Of Bibliographic Coupling And Co-Authorship Network Using Vos Viewer: A Scientometric Profile, Chandran Velmurugan Dr, Ramasamy G Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study has made an attempt to explore the co-authorship network and bibliographic coupling with institutions, authors, and countries based on the research output of Nephrology. Using the Web of Science core collection citation database from the Clarivate Analytics, a total number of 2626 literature found by the researcher and the total citations in global level was 11, 993 and the total cited references were 84, 129 and the total authors was 10, 846, a total number of core journals was 595 and institutions (3494), Institution with subdivision (6630), and 108 total countries have participated in the study. The scientometric …

Unspoken Rules Associated With Publication Success, Jamie Saragossi

University Libraries Research Data

Large publications, such as the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), wield significant influence over clinical practice across all medical specialties. To identify the initial NEJM publications’ characteristics that were associated with a future “significant author” NEJM publication. For this purpose, first, second, and senior author ranks were defined as “significant author” roles.

METHODS: From 2002 – 2019, Medline NEJM original research articles containing a structured abstract were extracted; baseline study characteristics were evaluated as potential predictors of subsequent NEJM successful publication as significant author; the variables evaluated included the index publications’ co-author count, study design (e.g., clinical trial), grant …

Metadata Research Development: A Bibliometric Study On Science Direct, Seno Yudhanto, Taufik Asmiyanto

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to identify (1) the number of publications by year; (2) number of publications by type of document; (3) the top ten publications that publish metadata; (4) the distribution of metadata research topics based on subjects and keywords; and (5) mapping research trends in the discussion of metadata. The method uses a bibliometric study sourced from the Science Direct database (www.sciencedirect.com). Data is collected through published searches with the keyword "metadata" in the title, abstract or author-specified keywords area and limited to the last 10 years (2011-2020) and it is managed and analyzed using Ms. Excel. Meanwhile, metadata …

Research Productivity And Performance Of Journals Of Informetrics, Kunwar Singh Dr., Akhilesh Kumar Varma Dr., Madan Singh

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This study explores the research productivity and performance of journals of informetrics (JOI) for selected 13 years between 2007-2019. The research productivity was evaluated based on a methodology followed and used in this study: Annual growth rate (AGR), relative growth rate (RGR) and doubling time (Dt); authorship pattern and Authors productivity, degree of collaboration (DC), collaborative index (CI), most productive Institutes, and countries, year-wise distribution of the publications. The Scopus database was consulted for collecting of required data for this study. A total of 978 publications were found during the study period. The study shows that the highest numbers of …

Covid-19 Pandemic And Its Impact On Cancer Patients: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Recent Studies, Gyanajeet Yumnam, Ibohal Singh Ch

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cancer is one of the dreaded diseases for which no drugs have been invented so far for its complete cure. While the world is advancing so fast with the advancement of science and technology, at the same time, new dreaded diseases continue to emerge around the world. One such global pandemic disease currently witnessing is COVID-19. No exact medicine has been developed to control and cure this new pandemic which has a serious impact on aged persons; patients of diabetics, asthma, cancer, pneumonia, etc. Some recent and current studies conducted around the world have shown us many facts about this. …

Lung Cancer Research In India And Iran: A Scientometric Study, Rabiya Mushtaq, Fayaz Ahmad Loan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aims to provide global research productivity on lung cancer with an in-depth analysis of the growth & development of India and Iran. The study focuses on the authorship collaborative patterns among Indian and Iranian medical scientists as well. The research started with the selection of terms on “Lung cancer”. Three terms- Lung Cancer, Lung Neoplasm, and Pulmonary Neoplasm were selected from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to retrieve the data from the Web of Science (WoS). The Boolean Operator “OR” was executed to retrieve the records. The data related to Lung cancer research from 1989-2017 was retrieved and …

Diabetes Prediction Using Machine Learning : A Bibliometric Analysis, Vijayshri Nitin Khedkar, Sina Patel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease which can be deadly if undetected for longer time. Artificial intelligence is helping in healthcare industry to a great extent by helping professionals to derive useful information and patterns from data available in various formats: Survey data, electronic health records, laboratory data.. Diabetes, if predicted at an early stage can help many people to save lives and cost for healthcare. Decision-making, diagnosing and predicting diabetes have become an increasing trend in recent years. There are numerous publications in diabetes prediction and yet it’s an ongoing research topic with availability of new data and methods. …

Exploring Data Mining Research In West Africa: A Bibliometric Analysis, Oladosu O. Oladimeji, Olayanju O. Oladimeji

SLIS Connecting

This research paper's main objective is to quantify and analyze the research output of data mining in West Africa, including (1) growth in publications as measured by the Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and Doubling Time (Dt), (2) productivity and quantification of research output for different institutions of the region (West Africa).

Correlation Of Authorship Pattern, Lotka's Law And Collaborative Measures On Research Publications Of Anna University: A Bibliometric Study, M. Thamaraiselvi, S. Lakshmi Dr, M Manthiramoorthi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper presents the analysis of authorship pattern and collaborative measures of 5318 research publications of Anna University and indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database during the period of 2014. 2018. The analysis indicates that multi authored papers are dominated in the dataset and the average author per paper is 4.01. The collaborative measures consist of collaborative index, degree of collaboration, collaborative coefficient and moderate coefficient. Overall value of collaborative index (4.06), degree of collaboration (0.99), collaborative coefficient (0.67) and there is no change in the value of moderate coefficient. The distribution of author productivity of the research publications …

Rural Library And Its Benefit On Socio-Economic Development: Bibliometrics And Systematic Literature Review Analysis Based On Scopus Database, Husnul Mirzal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Rural library has a very important role in improving rural community literacy so that it will have an impact on social-economic development. This study aims to look at research trends related to rural libraries in Scopus database in the last ten years, and their benefits on socio-economic community development. The research was conducted using a bibliometrics analysis method to see research trend related to rural libraries and using Systematic Literature Review method to analyze the benefits of Rural Library on socio-economic, health and education. The results show that research related to rural libraries in Scopus Database is increasingly in demand, …

Mapping The Research Output Of Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities (Jssh): A Bibliometric Study, Muhammad Jawwad, Muhammad Shahid Soroya Dr, Pervaiz Ahmad Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The aim of this study is to map the trends of research published in the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH), currently a six-monthly research journal of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU, Islamabad, Pakistan) being published since 1995. AIOU is a federally chartered university publishing 22 research journals. Most of AIOU’s research journals are recognized by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan including JSSH.

All the bibliographic data of 378 research articles from 27 volumes and 48 issues retrieved from print copies and journal website were filtered and analyzed employing bibliometrics with MS Excel. Data analysis and …

Reference Analysis In Biotika Journals As The Scientific Literature In The Biology Field, Mohamad Nurzaman, Hanny Hafiar, Risa Nurisani, Nurul Asiah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The quality of a scientific journal is determined by several standards. In Indonesia, one of the assessments of the quality of national journals uses the SINTA (Science and Technology Index) rating system. To obtain SINTA ranking results, it is necessary to match the contents of the journal with the assessment points contained in ARJUNA (National Journal Accreditation). Several points of assessment include primary and secondary reference ratios, the ratio of the reference source year, and the suitability of the article content with the focus and scope determined by each journal. Biotika is a Biology journal that is currently submitting for …

Bibliometric Analysis Of The Health Information And Libraries Journal (2005-2021): With Special Reference To Web Of Science Core Collection Database, Jignesh Amin Dr., Yogesh Parekh Dr., Pragnesh Parekh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present bibliometric study of the Health Information and Libraries Journal was conducted using Web of Science SCIE. Total 727 documents retrieved including 481 articles, 7 early access articles, 3 proceedings papers, 25 bibliography and related items, 10 book reviews, 8 article corrections, 130 editorial materials, and 63 reviews. The outcome parameters were the number of publications, citations, top countries, authors, organizations/institutions, and citation analysis, impact factor, most frequent author keywords were presented as visualization map, etc.