This study provides an historical analysis of the discipline of information retrieval for three time periods: 1980-1984, 1990-1994, and 2000-2004. This analysis is done through the use of a novel bibliometric technique called tri-occurrence analysis, in which the descriptor “information retrieval” is used as a filter term within the traditional technique of cooccurrence analysis. The resulting ...

Aims: Research on second-generation antipsychotic drugs (SGAs) has experienced great development in last decades. We did a bibliometric study on the scientific publications on SGAs in Japan. Methods: With the EMBASE and MEDLINE databases, we chose papers published from Japan with SGA descriptors. Price’s law and Bradford’s law has been used as bibliometric indicators for quantitating production...

Omitted citations – i.e., missing links between a cited paper and the corresponding citing papers – are the main consequence of several bibliometric-database errors. To reduce these errors, databases may undertake two actions: (i) improving the control of the (new) papers to be indexed, i.e., limiting the introduction of “new” dirty data, and (ii) detecting and correcting errors in the papers a...

Journal classification systems play an important role in bibliometric analyses. The two most important bibliographic databases, Web of Science and Scopus, each provide a journal classification system. However, no study has systematically investigated the accuracy of these classification systems. To examine and compare the accuracy of journal classification systems, we BLOCKIN

BACKGROUND Bibliometric analysis is an approach to evaluate the circumstances and trends in specific research field over time and to provide inspiration in future research and policy. Researches have a tremendous increase focus on the role of the microbiota in the development of diabetes in recent years; however, there is no published literature conducting a bibliometric analysis to explore the...

P rofessor Stephen Holgate comments on our statement that “the new UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) puts more emphasis on bibliometric data and less on peer review than did its predecessor” [1]. As the Chair of Main Panel A of REF 2014, he describes the informed peer review process in his domain. In our opinion, peer review can indeed be considered as an ideal way of evaluating research. ...

Dean Hendrix is Coordinator of Education Services in the Health Sciences Library at The State University of New York at Buffalo. ©Dean Hendrix This study analyzed 2005–2006 Web of Science bibliometric data from institutions belonging to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and corresponding ARL statistics to find any associations between indicators from the two data sets. Principal compo...

Bibliographic databases (including databases based on open access) are routinely used for bibliometric research. The value of a specific database depends to a large extent on the coverage of the discipline(s) under study. A number of studies have determined the coverage of databases in specific disciplines focusing on inter-disciplinary differences. However, little is known about the potential ...

We present the results of the Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers project (also known as BiPublishers). This project represents the first attempt to systematically develop bibliometric publisher rankings. The data for this project was derived from the Book Citation Index, and the study time period was 2009-2013. We have developed 42 rankings: 4 for by fields and 38 by disciplines. We display...

To facilitate the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, the Federal Drug Agency (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has identified research priorities under the umbrella of tobacco regulatory science (TRS). As a newly introduced field, the current landscape of TRS research is unclear. In this work, we conducted a bibliometric study of TRS research ...