Unique identifiers (UID) are seen as an effective tool to create links between identical publications in databases or identify duplicates in a database. The purpose of the present study is to investigate how well UIDs work for citation linking. We have two objectives: Explore the coverage, precision, and characteristics of publications matched versus not matched with UIDs as the match key.Illus...

OBJECTIVE It was the aim of this bibliometric analysis to identify all publications dealing with so-called 'context effects/placebo effects' to bring some organisation into the publication landscape of the past 35 years. DESIGN An electronic database search was carried out in Pubmed from its inception to November 2011. PARTICIPANTS Already published articles and their participants were incl...

This article describes the results of our analysis of the data from the CiteSeer digital library. First, we examined the data from the point of view of source top-level Internet domains from which the data were collected. Second, we measured country shares in publications indexed by CiteSeer and compared them to those based on mainstream bibliographic data from the Web of Science and Scopus. An...

17 Philippines 52 Scopus 18 Australia 50 SCI 19 Spain 46 SCI 20 Netherlands 44 SCI Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), a severe and potentially lethal infection, has emerged as a global threat [1]. In light of the current epidemic, which has rapidly evolved since March 2014, most of the affected countries such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported over 21,000 cases with approximately 8300 re...

YouTube has become the object of scientific research in different subject areas. This study aims to provide an overview of the citation rate of YouTube since its launch in February 2005, based on the Scopus citation database. The total number of citations to YouTube in Scopus in the 12 year period was 36,486 of which the highest number of citations was 8,145 in 2016. It is also shown that YouTu...

Reference: Belter CW, Seidel DJ. 2013. A bibliometric analysis of climate engineering research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 4(5):417-427. doi:10.1002/wcc.229 Note: Opinions expressed in this poster are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of NOAA, the Department of Commerce, or the US Government. Use of products in this analysis do not constitute ...

On the basis of an example gained from the perspective of a person reading Intellectual Capital (IC) reports this paper explains the method of BibTechMon which is based on an analysis of the co-occurrence of different terms within databases and the algorithm to visualise the results [Kopcsa, A., Schiebel, E. (1998b)]. The application of this method for the IC report is currently a major step in...

BACKGROUND Nigeria is home to more people living with HIV than any other country in the world, except South Africa and India-where an estimated 2.9 million [1.7 million - 4.2 million] people were living with the virus in 2005. A systematic assessment of recent HIV/AIDS research output from Nigeria is not available. Without objective information about the current deficiencies and strengths in th...

Open-Access Mega-Journals (OAMJs) are a relatively new and increasingly important publishing phenomenon. The journal Medicine is in the unique position of having transitioned in 2014 from being a ‘traditional’ highly-selective journal to the OAMJ model. This study compares the bibliometric profile of the journal Medicine before and after its transition to the OAMJ model. Three standard modes of...

Abramo and D’Angelo (2014, 2016) have recently looked at the issue of measuring performance and productivity of research organizations and the role that size-independent citation indicators play in this. Recently, Savithri and Prathap (2015) compared the research performance of leading higher education institutions in India and China using an end-to-end bibliometric performance analysis procedu...