bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2022‒01‒30
forty-one papers selected by
Thomas Krichel
Open Library Society
  1. Bibliometric analysis of schistosomiasis research in Southeast Asia (1908-2020).
  2. Bibliometric analysis of research on thyroid ultrasonography.
  3. Trends in Research on Traditional Chinese Health Exercises for Improving Cognitive Function: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature From 2001 to 2020.
  4. Research Trends and Hotspots of Q Fever Research: A Bibliometric Analysis 1990-2019.
  5. The most-cited articles in geriatric oncology: a bibliometric analysis.
  6. The Top 100 Most-Cited Papers in Erosive Tooth Wear: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  7. Global Characteristics and Trends in Research on Ferroptosis: A Data-Driven Bibliometric Study.
  8. Global publication trends and research hotspots of revision hip and knee arthroplasty: A 21-year bibliometric approach.
  9. Fifty Years of Cervical Myelopathy Research: Results from a Bibliometric Analysis.
  10. Determining global trends in syngas fermentation research through a bibliometric analysis.
  11. Study of virtual reality for mild cognitive impairment: A bibliometric analysis using CiteSpace.
  12. Diversity in Plastic Surgery Authorship: A 14-Year Analysis of 2688 Articles Published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
  13. Investigating of Association between Altmetrics Activity Indicators and Citation Quality Indicators in Iranian Medical Journals.
  14. Global Trends and Hotspots in Research on Rehabilitation Robots: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2010 to 2020.
  15. Erratum and corrigendum in Neurosurgical publications: an in-depth analysis and inference.
  16. Analysis of E-mental health research: mapping the relationship between information technology and mental healthcare.
  17. A scientometric analysis of agricultural pollution by using bibliometric software VoSViewer and Histcite™.
  18. Analysis of the Research Hotspot of Drug Treatment of Tuberculosis: A Bibliometric Based on the Top 50 Cited Literatures.
  19. Neuromonitoring in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  20. Frontier and hot topics in electrochemiluminescence sensing technology based on CiteSpace bibliometric analysis.
  21. Global research Trends in Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Co-Word and Visualized Study.
  22. Publication trends in South Korean research on particulate matter and health effects during two decades (2000-2019).
  23. Representation of Women as Editors in Anesthesiology Journals.
  24. Updating the landmark literature for the practice of geriatrics: Notable articles from 2012-2019.
  25. Publication trends in telemedicine research originating from Canada.
  26. Discovering temporal scientometric knowledge in COVID-19 scholarly production.
  27. An analysis of publication trends of orthopedic surgery residency graduates in relation to academic achievement.
  28. Translatability Analysis of National Institutes of Health-Funded Biomedical Research That Applies Artificial Intelligence.
  29. Bibliometric survey and network analysis of biomimetics and nature inspiration in engineering science.
  30. The Development History and Research Tendency of Medical Informatics: Topic Evolution Analysis.
  31. Fifty Years of Motor Unit Number Estimation.
  32. Publication Pressure versus Ethics, in Research and Publication.
  33. Where are female editors from low-income and middle-income countries? A comprehensive assessment of gender, geographical distribution and country's income group of editorial boards of top-ranked rehabilitation and sports science journals.
  34. Patient-driven innovations reported in peer-reviewed journals: a scoping review.
  35. Twenty-Year Trends of Female First Authorship in a Selection of Primary Healthcare Journals.
  36. Beyond the Impact Factor in Peer-Reviewed Literature: What Really Matters.
  37. Trends in remote work: A science mapping study.
  38. The speed of information propagation in the scientific network distorts biomedical research.
  39. [Data analysis of application and funding of ophthalmology projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2010 to 2021].
  40. Allium cepa test vs. insecticides: a scientometric and meta-analytical review.
  41. COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship.
  1. Acta Trop. 2022 Jan 20. pii: S0001-706X(22)00021-3. [Epub ahead of print]228 106322
    Bibliometric analysis of schistosomiasis research in Southeast Asia (1908-2020).
    Ourlad Alzeus G Tantengco, Raniv D Rojo.
      OBJECTIVES: This study determined the characteristics and trends of published articles regarding schistosomiasis in Southeast Asian countries through a bibliometric analysis.METHODS: Using the Scopus database, we identified all original research articles on schistosomiasis from 1908 to 2020 from SEA countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Bibliographic and citation information was obtained, and visualization of collaboration networks of countries and keywords related to schistosomiasis was conducted using VOSviewer software.
    RESULTS: We obtained 528 schistosomiasis articles published between 1908 and 2020 from SEA countries. The number of publications continued to increase and peaked from 2000 until 2020. The Philippines had the highest number of publications (n = 231), followed by Thailand (n = 153), and Malaysia (n = 64). The leading journals with the highest number of publications in this field include the Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health (n = 96), Acta Tropica (n = 27), and Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases (n = 24). The most common keywords related to schistosomiasis research in SEA were "schistosomiasis", "Schistosoma japonicum", "Schistosoma mekongi", "Schistosoma mansoni", and "praziquantel". International collaboration was significantly correlated with scientific productivity for schistosomiasis research.
    CONCLUSION: Our study showed the research landscape, trends and development, and collaboration among researchers in schistosomiasis in SEA. Our results also revealed the limited schistosomiasis research in several SEA countries. There is a need for more research to improve our understanding of the epidemiology of schistosomiasis in SEA, which can help in improving the control and prevention of this disease.
    Keywords:  ASEAN; Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Neglected tropical disease; Parasitology; Schistosoma
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106322
  2. Gland Surg. 2021 Dec;10(12): 3283-3293
    Bibliometric analysis of research on thyroid ultrasonography.
    Juan Su, Guanghui Gao, Hongxia Xu.
      Background: The incidence of thyroid diseases has increased, which may be partly related to the widespread use of thyroid ultrasound resulting in a large number of asymptomatic thyroid nodules to be found. Research has found that many thyroid ultrasound examinations are completely avoidable. However, the purpose of the present study was to use bibliometrics to analyze the relevant research literature of thyroid ultrasound and understand the overall status of the current research in this field.Methods: We searched the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) database in the Web of Science Core Collection. Search terms were "ultrasonography" and "thyroid gland". The date range for the document search was from 1900 to May 10, 2021. Export the full record of the search results and the references in txt. format, and use the CiteSpace software to analyze the annual publication of literatures, the distribution of countries and institutions where the literatures came from, the distribution of journals and authors. The keywords used in the literature were also analyzed.
    Results: A total of 1,241 publications were included in the results, and the frequency of citations was 27,149. The top 5 countries for the number of publications published were the USA, Turkey, Italy, South Korea, and China; the top 5 countries by centrality were the USA, Germany, Italy, Canada, and China. The number of institution-published papers was generally low, and the centrality score was low. Research in this field was relatively scattered among institutions and cooperation between institutions was few. There was little collaboration between authors from different institutions. The most cited authors were mainly from European and North American countries. Journals, such as Thyroid, Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, and Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, had great influence in this field. Keyword analysis results showed that research is mainly focused on the differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules.
    Conclusions: There was an increase in thyroid ultrasound research, but there was few cooperation exist between institutions. The main research direction was the differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules.
    Keywords:  Thyroid; bibliometrics; thyroid cancer; thyroid nodules; ultrasonography
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.21037/gs-21-799
  3. Front Public Health. 2021 ;9 794836
    Trends in Research on Traditional Chinese Health Exercises for Improving Cognitive Function: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature From 2001 to 2020.
    Wenlong Li, Linman Weng, Qiuping Xiang, Tonggang Fan.
      Although previous studies have investigated the ability of traditional Chinese health exercises (TCHEs) to improve cognitive function, few have utilized bibliometric analyses to address this topic. We aimed to investigate the current status of and developmental trends in this field from 2001 to 2020. We searched the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) for all research publications on cognitive function in relation to TCHEs. CiteSpace V was used to analyze the number of papers, countries, institutions, journals, authors, and citations. We identified hotspots and trends in the field by drawing co-citation reference and co-occurrence keyword maps. From 2001 to 2020, 406 relevant articles were published in the WoSCC, with a gradual increase in the annual number of publications. The three countries/regions with the most publications were the Chinese mainland, the United States, and Canada. Six universities from China and four from the United States were identified as the top 10 institutions. Most research was conducted at universities. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine was identified as the most productive journal. Together, these findings indicate that TCHEs have received increasing attention as a method for improving cognition.
    Keywords:  Tai Chi; bibliometric analysis; cognitive function; research trends; traditional Chinese health exercises
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.794836
  4. Biomed Res Int. 2022 ;2022 9324471
    Research Trends and Hotspots of Q Fever Research: A Bibliometric Analysis 1990-2019.
    Muhammad Farooq, Aman Ullah Khan, Hosny El-Adawy, Katja Mertens-Scholz, Iahtasham Khan, Heinrich Neubauer, Yuh-Shan Ho.
      Q fever is a worldwide distributed zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, a Gram-negative bacterium. Despite existence of large amount of research data on the developments related to Q fever, no bibliometric analysis of this subject is available to our knowledge. Bibliometric studies are an essential resource to track scholarly trends and research output in a subject. This study is aimed at reporting a bibliometric analysis of publications related to Q fever (2,840 articles published in the period 1990-2019) retrieved from Science Citation Index Expanded, an online database of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection. Data was retrieved using keywords "Q fever" or "Coxiella burnetii" in title, abstract, and author keywords to describe important research indicators such as the kind and language of articles, the most important publications, research journals and categories, authors, institutions, and the countries having the most significant contribution to this subject. Finally, the emerging areas in field of diagnosis, host range, and clinical presentation were identified. Word cluster analysis of research related to Q fever revealed that major focus of research has been on zoonosis, seroprevalence, laboratory diagnosis (mainly using ELISA and PCR), clinical manifestations (abortion and endocarditis), vectors (ticks), and hosts (sheep, goat, and cattle). This bibliometric study is intended to visualize the existing research landscape and future trends in Q fever to assist in future knowledge exchange and research collaborations.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9324471
  5. Contemp Oncol (Pozn). 2021 ;25(4): 232-240
    The most-cited articles in geriatric oncology: a bibliometric analysis.
    Okan Avci, Erdoğan Selçuk Şeber.
      Introduction: We conducted a bibliometric analysis to determine the most impactful articles in the oncologic management of elderly cancer patients.Material and methods: We searched Web of Science papers with six keywords: "geriat*" OR "older patient*" OR "older adult*" OR "elderly" and "*cancer" OR "oncolog*". We identified and analyzed the top 100 most-cited articles and abstracted information on topic, journal, first author, year, institution, level of evidence, and the adjusted citation index.
    Results: Of the 100 most-cited papers, 62 had at least one author from the United States of America. Of the 62 United States papers, 18 had at least one author from Harvard University and 14 had authors from the National Institutes of Health. Among the 50 authors who contributed to the most-cited papers, Hurria is the most prolific author, with nine papers. Lung, breast, and colorectal cancers are the most studied cancer types, and the Geriatric 8 scale is the most studied scale.
    Conclusions: Our study is the first to analyze the top 100 most-cited studies in geriatric oncology. By comprehensively identifying the authors, institutes, journals, and the levels of evidence of these studies, we have created an easily accessible resource for practicing physicians to reference within this important area of oncology.
    Keywords:  aged; bibliometrics; geriatrics; neoplasms
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5114/wo.2021.111278
  6. Caries Res. 2022 Jan 27.
    The Top 100 Most-Cited Papers in Erosive Tooth Wear: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Aurélio de Oliveira Rocha, Pablo Silveira Santos, Bárbara Azevedo Machado, Michele Bolan, Mariane Cardoso, Paulo Antônio Martins-Júnior, Carla Miranda Santana.
      Citation rates can be used as an indicator of the influence and relevance of scientific papers. The present study analyzed the 100 most-cited articles related to erosive tooth wear (ETW). The top 100 most-cited papers focusing on ETW topics were collected from the Web of Science database on November 11th, 2020. The following bibliometric data were extracted from papers: title, authorship, institutions, countries, number of citations, year of publication, journal title, study design, topic, and keywords. Scopus and Google Scholar were searched to compare the number of citations. The VOSviewer software was used to generate collaborative network maps for the authors and keywords. The number of citations of the 100 most-cited papers ranged from 71 to 330 (average: 97.44). The papers were published between 1949 and 2015. Caries Research (28%) and The Journal of Dentistry (16%) presented the majority of papers. Laboratorial (44%) and observational studies (33%) were the most common study designs. The most studied topics were epidemiology (31%) and the erosive potential of substances [drinks, foods, or medicines] (22%). The countries with the highest number of most-cited papers were England (32%), Germany (18%), and Switzerland (10%). The University of Bern was the institution with the most papers (10%). Lussi A was the author with the highest number of papers in the top 100 (14%). The most common keyword was "dental erosion" with 64 occurrences. The top 100 most-cited papers related to ETW were composed mainly of laboratorial and observational studies focusing on epidemiology and the erosive potential of substances.  .
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1159/000521877
  7. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2022 ;2022 8661864
    Global Characteristics and Trends in Research on Ferroptosis: A Data-Driven Bibliometric Study.
    Xueting Dong, Yaochong Tan, Donglin Zhuang, Tingting Hu, Mingyi Zhao.
      Ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death, has drawn an increasing amount of attention since it was first mentioned in 2012 and is found to play a significant role in the treatment of certain diseases. Our study is aimed at analysing the scientific output of ferroptosis research and at driving future research into novel publications. Publications focused on ferroptosis were retrieved from the SCI-EXPANDED database of the Web of Science Core Collection and were screened according to inclusion criteria. CiteSpace V and Microsoft Excel 2016 were used to evaluate and visualize the results, including generating network maps and analysing annual publications, country, category, references and cocited references, and keywords. As of October 1, 2021, a total of 1690 original articles related to ferroptosis were included, and the overall trend of the number of publications rapidly increased. Among the common categories in the field of ferroptosis, the most common category was biochemistry and molecular biology. Worldwide, China and the United States were the leading countries for research production. The retrieved 1690 publications received 44,650 citations, with an average of 26.42 citations per paper (October 1, 2021). By citation analysis, Scott J Dixon's article in 2012 was the most symbolic reference and the earliest publication in the field of ferroptosis, with the highest citation rate (2709 times). Among the most common keywords, most were related to the mechanisms and regulatory networks of ferroptosis. Furthermore, with accumulating evidence demonstrating the role of ferroptosis in cancers and other diseases, inducing ferroptosis in clinical treatment is becoming a new research focus that should be closely monitored.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8661864
  8. J Arthroplasty. 2022 Jan 19. pii: S0883-5403(22)00023-7. [Epub ahead of print]
    Global publication trends and research hotspots of revision hip and knee arthroplasty: A 21-year bibliometric approach.
    Cheng Li, Haiyang Wu, Zhiming Sun, Zihao Chen, Andrej Trampuz.
      BACKGROUND: As the number of primary hip and knee arthroplasties increases, revision cases correspondingly demonstrate high relative growth, gaining increasing attention. The present research aimed to investigate subject characteristics in revision hip and knee arthroplasty (RHKA) research using a bibliometric approach.METHODS: Publications related to RHKA from 2000 to 2020 were searched in the Web of Science database. WPS Office, CiteSpace, VOS Viewer, and Bibliometrix were used to analyze the results.
    RESULTS: Bibliometric analysis revealed 3290 records. Fifty-nine countries published manuscripts on RHKA. The United States (US) contributed most and also had the highest number of international collaborations. The most relevant institution was the Mayo clinic. Berry DJ and Parvizi J were the most productive and academic influential authors in RHKA, respectively. The most productive journal was the Journal of Arthroplasty. Co-occurrence analysis demonstrated "infection" to be the trend in RHKA. Thematic analysis displayed 16 keywords in hip arthroplasty and 14 keywords in knee arthroplasty.
    CONCLUSION: The present study observed an increasing trend of research papers in RHKA. Institutions and scholars from the USA were found to dominate the field. Periprosthetic joint infection was likely a potential development trend and hot spot of RHKA.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; data Visualization; hip arthroplasty; knee arthroplasty; revision surgery
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2022.01.022
  9. Asian Spine J. 2022 Jan 25.
    Fifty Years of Cervical Myelopathy Research: Results from a Bibliometric Analysis.
    Vishal Kumar, Sandeep Patel, Siddhartha Sharma, Ritesh Kumar, Rishemjit Kaur.
      We performed bibliometric analysis of the research papers published on clinical cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) in the last 50 years. We extracted bibliometric data from Scopus and PubMed from 1970 to 2020 pertaining to clinical studies of CSM. The predominant journals, top cited articles, authors, and countries were identified using performance analysis. Science mapping was also performed to reveal the emerging trends, and conceptual and social structures of the authors and countries. Bibliometrix R-package was deployed for the study. The total numbers of clinical studies available in PubMed and Scopus were 1,302 and 3,470, respectively. The most cited article was published by Hilibrand AS, as observed in Scopus. Regarding the conceptual structure of the research, two main research themes were identified, one involving symptomatology, scientific-scale-based objective evaluation of symptoms, and surgical removal of the offending culprit, while the other was based on patho-etiology, relevant diagnostic modalities, and the surgery commonly performed for CSM. In terms of emerging trends, in recent times there is an increasing trend of scale-based objective evaluations, along with investigations of advanced nonoperative management. The United States is the most productive country, whereas Canada tops the list for inter-country collaboration. The trend of research showed a shift toward noninvasive procedures.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Cervical spondylotic myelopathy; Conceptual structure; Performance mapping; Science mapping
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2021.0239
  10. J Environ Manage. 2022 Jan 20. pii: S0301-4797(22)00095-0. [Epub ahead of print]307 114522
    Determining global trends in syngas fermentation research through a bibliometric analysis.
    Diana C Calvo, Hector J Luna, Jineth A Arango, Cesar I Torres, Bruce E Rittmann.
      Syngas fermentation, in which microorganisms convert H2, CO, and CO2 to acids and alcohols, is a promising alternative for carbon cycling and valorization. The intellectual landscape of the topic was characterized through a bibliometric analysis using a search query (SQ) that included all relevant documents on syngas fermentation available through the Web of Science database up to December 31st, 2021. The SQ was validated with a preliminary analysis in bibliometrix and a review of titles and abstracts of all sources. Although syngas fermentation began in the early 1980s, it grew rapidly beginning in 2008, with 92.5% of total publications and 87.3% of total citations from 2008 to 2021. The field has been steadily moving from fundamentals towards applications, suggesting that the field is maturing scientifically. The greatest number of publications and citations are from the USA, and researchers in China, Germany, and Spain also are highly active. Although collaborations have increased in the past few years, author-cluster analysis shows specialized research domains with little collaboration between groups. Based on topic trends, the main challenges to be address are related to mass-transfer limitations, and researchers are starting to explore mixed cultures, genetic engineering, microbial chain elongation, and biorefineries.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Carboxylate platform; Network analysis; Syngas fermentation; Synthesis gas
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114522
  11. Int J Nurs Sci. 2022 Jan;9(1): 129-136
    Study of virtual reality for mild cognitive impairment: A bibliometric analysis using CiteSpace.
    Kaiyan Zhu, Rong Lin, Hong Li.
      Objectives: Non-invasive and low-cost virtual reality (VR) technology is important for early evaluation and intervention in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). This study aimed to demonstrate the current status of overseas and domestic research as well as the focus and frontier of VR technology among individuals with MCI through a bibliometric analysis.Methods: Studies from the core collection of Web of Science™ between 1995 and 2020 were used; furthermore, CiteSpace 5.7 R3 was utilized to analyse information on authors/cited authors, keywords, burst words, and cited references.
    Results: In total, 230 publications were identified. Most studies were published in the USA (45 publications) and Italy (41 publications), where Guiseppe Riva ranks first (14 publications), and Tarnanas I is the author with the highest centrality (0.44). The hot topics in VR applications in the MCI population are 'physical activity,' 'people,' 'single-blind,' 'disease,' 'walking,' 'technology,' 'working memory,' and 'risk' in recent years. The keyword 'mild cognitive impairment' has attracted extensive attention since 2012, showing the strongest citation outbreak (8.28). The clustering results of the literature show the research types and emerging trends, including 'exergame,' 'serious games,' 'spatial navigation,' 'activities of daily living,' 'exercise,' 'enriched environment' and 'wayfinding.'
    Conclusions: Cognitive assessment and nonpharmacological intervention research on patients with MCI have become the focus of dementia prevention in recent years. Virtual technology, combined with traditional methods such as exercise therapy, provides new ideas for innovative cognitive evaluation and cognitive intervention.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Cognitive dysfunction; Dementia prevention; Exercise therapy; Mild cognitive impairment; Virtual reality
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2021.12.007
  12. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022 Feb 01. 149(2): 313e-322e
    Diversity in Plastic Surgery Authorship: A 14-Year Analysis of 2688 Articles Published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
    Kirsten A Gunderson, Armin Edalatpour, Kasey Leigh Wood, Zeeda H Nkana, Michael L Bentz, Ahmed M Afifi.
      BACKGROUND: Publication in peer-reviewed journals is a duty and privilege. It is essential to the advancement of evidence-based medicine and often used as a proxy for academic achievement, contributing to decisions around promotion in academia. Within plastic surgery, authors have historically been male surgeons affiliated with academic institutions, lacking representation of women, private practice, medical students, and international collaboration. This study analyzes differences in authors' gender, practice affiliation, degree of education, and international collaboration in articles published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, which was chosen as the representative journal given its high impact factor (3.946) and consistent ranking as the number one journal in plastic surgery worldwide.METHODS: A list of Breast, Cosmetic, and Hand/Peripheral Nerve articles published between 2006 and 2019 was compiled from the online archive of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Demographic author characteristics were recorded, and statistical analyses were performed to identify trends over time.
    RESULTS: A total of 2688 articles were analyzed. The proportion of articles written by female authors in the Breast category, authors in private practice with academic affiliation in the Cosmetic section, and U.S. collaboration with other countries increased over time (p = 0.038, p = 0.029, p < 0.001, respectively). First authors with bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees have also been contributing increasingly.
    CONCLUSIONS: This analysis revealed increasing demographic heterogeneity of authors in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery over time, with increasing contributions from women, surgeons in private practice with academic affiliation, medical students, and international collaborations. The Journal is capturing contributions from an increasingly diverse authorship, consistent with the changing demographics of plastic surgeons.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000008789
  13. Int J Prev Med. 2021 ;12 156
    Investigating of Association between Altmetrics Activity Indicators and Citation Quality Indicators in Iranian Medical Journals.
    Mansoureh Serati Shirazi, Ali Valinejadi.
      Background: Given the limitations of traditional citation indicators, more indicators are needed to examine the effectiveness and improvement of existing indicators. The present study aimed to investigate the association between Altmetrics activity and quality citation indicators in Iranian journals based on Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, and Medline.Methods: The research was carried out using Altmetrics method through scientometric approach. The population of the present study was Iranian medical journals, which were available at three databases of Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, and Medline. In order to obtain quality information, we've used the indicators of CiteScore, SJR, and SNIP at Scopus database as well as the impact factor at JCR database; besides, to find Altmetrics indicators and Altmetrics scores of articles, the Altmetrics explorer database was used.
    Results: About 16% of the articles in the reviewed journals were cited at least once in the social media and had Altmetrics scores. Among the reviewed journals, the highest rate of social media coverage was related to the Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, and the highest Altmetrics score obtained from the mean Altmetrics score of the papers was related to Cell Journal (Yakhteh). A review of quality indicators of journals with Altmetrics coverage and Altmetrics score of journals showed that there was a significant and positive correlation between the Altmetrics score and impact factor. However, any significant association was neither found between the journal's coverage and SiteScore, SNIP, SJR, nor between the journal's Altmetrics score and quality indicators.
    Conclusions: According to the results of this study, policy makers of scientific journals should adopt strategies that bring about social media presence; thus, we will find further Iranian articles in the social media.
    Keywords:  Altmetrics; bibliometrics; clarivate analytics; journal impact factor; medline; scopus; social media
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_59_20
  14. Front Public Health. 2021 ;9 806723
    Global Trends and Hotspots in Research on Rehabilitation Robots: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2010 to 2020.
    Xiali Xue, Xinwei Yang, Zhongyi Deng, Huan Tu, Dezhi Kong, Ning Li, Fan Xu.
      Background: In recent years, with the development of medical science and artificial intelligence, research on rehabilitation robots has gained more and more attention, for nearly 10 years in the Web of Science database by journal of rehabilitation robot-related research literature analysis, to parse and track rehabilitation robot research hotspot and front, and provide some guidance for future research. Methods: This study employed computer retrieval of rehabilitation robot-related research published in the core data collection of the Web of Science database from 2010 to 2020, using CiteSpace 5.7 visualization software. The hotspots and frontiers of rehabilitation robot research are analyzed from the aspects of high-influence countries or regions, institutions, authors, high-frequency keywords, and emergent words. Results: A total of 3,194 articles were included. In recent years, the research on rehabilitation robots has been continuously hot, and the annual publication of relevant literature has shown a trend of steady growth. The United States ranked first with 819 papers, and China ranked second with 603 papers. Northwestern University ranked first with 161 publications. R. Riener, a professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, ranked as the first author with 48 articles. The Journal of Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation has the most published research, with 211 publications. In the past 10 years, research has focused on intelligent control, task analysis, and the learning, performance, and reliability of rehabilitation robots to realize the natural and precise interaction between humans and machines. Research on neural rehabilitation robots, brain-computer interface, virtual reality, flexible wearables, task analysis, and exoskeletons has attracted more and more attention. Conclusions: At present, the brain-computer interface, virtual reality, flexible wearables, task analysis, and exoskeleton rehabilitation robots are the research trends and hotspots. Future research should focus on the application of machine learning (ML), dimensionality reduction, and feature engineering technologies in the research and development of rehabilitation robots to improve the speed and accuracy of algorithms. To achieve wide application and commercialization, future rehabilitation robots should also develop toward mass production and low cost. We should pay attention to the functional needs of patients, strengthen multidisciplinary communication and cooperation, and promote rehabilitation robots to better serve the rehabilitation medical field.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; artificial intelligence; bibliometric analysis; machine learning; rehabilitation robot; trend
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.806723
  15. World Neurosurg. 2022 Jan 24. pii: S1878-8750(22)00083-3. [Epub ahead of print]
    Erratum and corrigendum in Neurosurgical publications: an in-depth analysis and inference.
    Jiaming Liu, Chandrasekaran Kaliaperumal.
      OBJECTIVES: There has been an increasing number of reported errors in neurosurgical publications. Subsequent published correction details in the form of errata and corrigenda has not been analysed previously. Our study aims to review the published errata and corrigenda in neurosurgical literature, and we discuss the characteristics and future implications of post-publication errors.METHODS: PUBMED and EMBASE databases were screened using a designed search strategy for errata and corrigenda in neurosurgical articles published between 1990 to March 2021. Data including journal impact factor, number of authors and citations, country of origin, study design, level of evidence, category, severity and timing of correction of errors were extracted for summary and analysis.
    RESULTS: 768 included articles contributed to 918 error corrections in total. 563(73.31%) articles acknowledged the correction in the original record. Median journal impact factor was 3.114(IQR 2.139). Median correction time was 3(IQR 5) month, with no statistically significant difference in timing of correction across different error severities (Kruskal-Wallis test p=0.058). 398(51.82%) studies were level 3 evidence. Errors with minimal severity most commonly occurred in author list 197(82.43%) with typographical mistake being the predominant cause. Errors with high severity most commonly occurred in the results section. 8(0.87%) errors prompted modification of study conclusions.
    CONCLUSION: Observations of post-publication corrections across a wide range of studies prompted more awareness of errors in neurosurgical literature regardless of impact factors and level of evidence. More standardisation in the recognition and acknowledgement of errors, with active engagements from authors, readers, editors and publishers is recommended.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2022.01.070
  16. BMC Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 25. 22(1): 57
    Analysis of E-mental health research: mapping the relationship between information technology and mental healthcare.
    Tatsawan Timakum, Qing Xie, Min Song.
      BACKGROUND: E-mental healthcare is the convergence of digital technologies with mental health services. It has been developed to fill a gap in healthcare for people who need mental wellbeing support that may not otherwise receive psychological treatment. With an increasing number of e-mental healthcare and research, this study aimed to investigate the trends of an e-mental health research field that integrates interdisciplinary fields and to examine the information technologies is being used in mental healthcare. To achieve the research objectives, bibliometric analysis, information extraction, and network analysis were applied to analyze e-mental health research data.METHODS: E-mental health research data were obtained from 3663 bibliographic records from the Web of Science (WoS) and 3172 full-text articles from PubMed Central (PMC). The text mining techniques used for this study included bibliometric analysis, information extraction, and visualization.
    RESULTS: The e-mental health research topic trends primarily involved e-health care services and medical informatics research. The clusters of research comprised 16 clusters, which refer to mental sickness, e-health, diseases, information technology (IT), and self-management. The information extraction analysis revealed a triple relation with IT and biomedical domains. Betweenness centrality was used as a measure of network graph centrality, based on the shortest path to rank the important entities and triple relation; nodes with higher betweenness centrality had greater control over the network because more information passes through that node. The IT entity-relations of "mobile" had the highest score at 0.043466. The top pairs were related to depression, mobile health, and text message.
    CONCLUSIONS: E-mental related publications were associated with various research fields, such as nursing, psychology, medical informatics, computer science, telecommunication, and healthcare innovation. We found that trends in e-mental health research are continually rising. These trends were related to the internet of things (IoT) and mobile applications (Apps), which were applied for mental healthcare services. Moreover, producing AI and machine learning for e-mental healthcare were being studied. This work supports the appropriate approaches and methods of e-mental health research that can help the researcher to identify important themes and choose the best fit with their own survey work.
    Keywords:  E-health; E-mental health; E-therapies; Mental health; Research trends; Text mining
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03713-9
  17. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jan 24.
    A scientometric analysis of agricultural pollution by using bibliometric software VoSViewer and Histcite™.
    Bin Li, Kai Hu, Vladimir Lysenko, Kiran Yasmin Khan, Yingkuan Wang, Yongnian Jiang, Ya Guo.
      While modern agriculture brings more food to people, it causes environmental pollution as well. Agricultural pollution has attracted extensive public attention. A lot of reviews on agricultural research were conducted from different research aspects, but there is a lack of work on analyzing the research trend from large volumes of publications in the field of agricultural pollution. In the present work, a scientometric analysis of agricultural pollution was conducted to fill the gap by using the software of VoSviewer and HistCite™. The datasets are collected from the core database of Web of Science from 1991 to 2019, totally 1338 records on the topic of agricultural pollutions. In most years (1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2013), the total local citation score (TLCS) and total global citation score (TGCS) have coincident peaks. Zhang, Ju, and Zhu have the highest TLCS and TGCS. In terms of institutes, Chinese Acad Sci and China Agr Univ are the leading institutes in this field. The Univ Calif Davis, INRA, and USDA ARS have very high global impacts. From the research hot topics, the representative words include "soil," "agriculture," "contamination," "environment," "lead," and "balance." Representative words like "heavy-metals," "groundwater," "land-use," and "water" are emerging in the latter time period. Five leading research co-cited reference clusters are identified, including environment management, underground water, monitoring and alarming for the agriculture-environment standards, intrinsic mechanism to the circulatory system, and ecology system and land use. The recent trend is revealed from the bibliographical-coupling network, focusing on classical and old-fashion research, like pollution chemicals including N management, pesticides, and heavy metal. This work provides a holistic picture on the research in the field of agriculture pollution.
    Keywords:  Agricultural pollution; Environmental pollution; Network analysis; Scientometric analysis; Soil pollution; Water pollution
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18491-w
  18. Biomed Res Int. 2022 ;2022 9542756
    Analysis of the Research Hotspot of Drug Treatment of Tuberculosis: A Bibliometric Based on the Top 50 Cited Literatures.
    Ying Xiong, Jingwen Wei, Yujia Cai, Yang Zhang, Li Feng, Yonggang Zhang.
      Objective: The objective of the current study was to analyze the research hotspot of drug treatment for tuberculosis via top literatures.Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on June 7th, 2021. Literatures were searched on the Web of Science Core Collection to identify the top 50 cited literatures related to drug treatment of tuberculosis. The characteristics of the literatures were identified. The outcomes included authorship, journal, study type, year of publication, and institution. Cooccurrence network analysis and visualization were conducted using the VOS viewer (Version 1.6.16; Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands).
    Results: The top 50 cited literatures were cited 308 to 2689 times and were published between 1982 and 2014. The most studied drugs were the first-line drugs such as isoniazid and rifampicin (n = 22), and drug-resistant tuberculosis was most frequently reported (n = 16). They were published in 18 journals, and the New England Journal of Medicine published the most literatures (n = 18), followed by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (n = 7), and the Lancet (n = 6). The authors were from 13 countries, and the authors from the USA published most of the literatures (n = 30), while authors from other countries published less than five literatures. The CDC in the USA (n = 4), the World Health Organization (WHO) (n = 3), and the American Philosophical Society (n = 3) were the leading institutions, and only two authors published at least two top-cited literatures as first authors.
    Conclusions: This study provides insights into the development and most important literatures on drug therapy for tuberculosis and evidence for future research on tuberculosis treatment.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/9542756
  19. Neurocrit Care. 2022 Jan 24.
    Neuromonitoring in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Maria D Karagianni, Alexandros G Brotis, Charalambos Gatos, Theodosis Kalamatianos, Charikleia Vrettou, George Stranjalis, Konstantinos N Fountas.
      Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and disability among trauma-related injuries. Neuromonitoring plays an essential role in the management and prognosis of patients with severe TBI. Our bibliometric study aimed to identify the knowledge base, define the research front, and outline the social networks on neuromonitoring in severe TBI. We conducted an electronic search for articles related to neuromonitoring in severe TBI in Scopus. A descriptive analysis retrieved evidence on the most productive authors and countries, the most cited articles, the most frequently publishing journals, and the most common author's keywords. Through a three-step network extraction process, we performed a collaboration analysis among universities and countries, a cocitation analysis, and a word cooccurrence analysis. A total of 1884 records formed the basis of our bibliometric study. We recorded an increasing scientific interest in the use of neuromonitoring in severe TBI. Czosnyka, Hutchinson, Menon, Smielewski, and Stocchetti were the most productive authors. The most cited document was a review study by Maas et al. There was an extensive collaboration among universities. The most common keywords were "intracranial pressure," with an increasing interest in magnetic resonance imaging and cerebral perfusion pressure monitoring. Neuromonitoring constitutes an area of active research. The present findings indicate that intracranial pressure monitoring plays a pivotal role in the management of severe TBI. Scientific interest shifts to magnetic resonance imaging and individualized patient care on the basis of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Intracranial pressure; Monitoring; Severe traumatic brain injury
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-021-01428-5
  20. Biosens Bioelectron. 2021 Dec 29. pii: S0956-5663(21)00969-6. [Epub ahead of print]201 113932
    Frontier and hot topics in electrochemiluminescence sensing technology based on CiteSpace bibliometric analysis.
    Xiancheng Liu, Shuang Zhao, Lili Tan, Yu Tan, Yi Wang, Zhiyi Ye, Changjun Hou, Yan Xu, Shan Liu, Guixue Wang.
      Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is a process in which luminescence is produced by oxidizing or reducing luminophores to transfer radiant charges between electrochemically generated free radicals. Although about 7000 electrochemiluminescence articles have been published in the past 20 years (2000-2021), only a few review articles have summarized the development and application of ECL. In order to better understand the development status, research hotspots and future development trends of ECL technology, it is very necessary to conduct a comprehensive retrospective analysis. This review is based on the bibliometric analysis method of CiteSpace software to quantitatively analyze, visually review and comment on the articles published in the field of ECL in the past 20 years. Quantitatively analyze the authors, the institutional and other basic information to understand the basic development status of ECL, and then visually analyze the high-frequency keywords, burst keywords, keyword clusters, etc., to understand each the evolution of the main research hotspots and development directions of the period, and finally a detailed review and analysis of the selected highly cited articles. We particularly emphasized the development needs of electrochemiluminescence technology in improving the performance of ECL sensors, developing materials with excellent ECL performance, innovating and cooperating with other devices, and developing high-speed and high-throughput ECL sensors. We hope to provide new ideas for promoting the industrial development and clinical application of electrochemiluminescence technology.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Citespace; Electrochemiluminescence; Hot spot; Research progress
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2021.113932
  21. JMIR Med Inform. 2022 Jan 08.
    Global research Trends in Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Co-Word and Visualized Study.
    Jiming Hu, Kai Xing, Yan Zhang, Miao Liu, Zhiwei Wang.
      BACKGROUND: Tyrosinase inhibitors (TKIs) have achieved revolutionary results in the treatment of a wide range of tumors, which have brought out a lot of literature in this field every year. And some reviews provide a great value for us to understand TKIs. However, there is a lack of studies on the knowledge structure, bibliometric analysis, and visualized results in TKIs research.OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to investigate the knowledge structure, hotspots, and trends of evolution of the TKIs research by co-word analysis and literature visualization and help researchers in this field to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current status and trends.
    METHODS: We obtained all academic papers about TKIs published in 2016-2020 from the Web of Science. Based on counting keywords from those papers, we generated the co-word networks by extracting the co-occurrence relationships between keywords, and segmented communities to identify the sub-directions of TKIs research by calculating the network metrics of the overall and local networks. We also mapped the association network topology, including the network within and between TKIs sub-directions, to reveal the association and structure among varied sub-directions. Furthermore, we detected keyword bursts by combining their burst weights and durations to reveal changes in the focus of TKIs research. Finally, evolution venation and strategic diagram were generated to reveal the trends of TKIs research.
    RESULTS: We obtained 6,782 unique words (total frequency 26,175) from 5,584 paper captions. Finally, 296 high-frequency words were selected with a threshold of 10 after discussion, the total frequency of which accounted for 65.41%. The analysis of burst disciplines revealed a variable number of burst words of TKIs research every year, especially in 2019 and 2020, such as HER2, Pyrotinib, Next-generation Sequencing, Immunotherapy, ALK-TKI, ALK Rearrangement, etc. By network calculation, the TKIs co-word network was divided into six communities: C1-Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, C2-Targeted Therapy, C3-Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, C4-HER2, C5-Pharmacokinetics, and C6-ALK. The venation diagram revealed several clear and continuous evolution trends, such as Non-small Cell Lung Cancer venation, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia venation, Renal Cell Carcinoma venation, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia venation, etc. In the strategic diagram, C1-Non-small Cell Lung Cancer was the core direction located in the first quadrant, C2-Targeted Therapy was exactly at the junction of the first and fourth quadrants that meant C2 was developing, and C3-Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, C4-HER2, and C5-Pharmacokinetics were all immature that all located in the third quadrant.
    CONCLUSIONS: Using co-word analysis and literature visualization, we revealed the hotspots, knowledge structure, and trends of evolution of TKIs research during 2016-2020. TKIs research mainly focused on targeted therapies against varied tumors, particularly against NSCLC. The attention on CML and pharmacokinetics was gradually decreasing, but the heat of HER2 and ALK was rapidly increasing. TKIs research had shown a clear development path: TKIs research was disease-focused and revolved around "gene targets/targeted drugs/resistance mechanisms". Our outcomes will provide sound and effective support to researchers, funders, policymakers, and clinicians.
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    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2196/34548
  22. Toxicol Res. 2022 Jan;38(1): 53-62
    Publication trends in South Korean research on particulate matter and health effects during two decades (2000-2019).
    Jae-Eun Lee, Hyun Joung Lim, Young-Youl Kim.
      Ambient particulate matter is a serious risk factor for health outcomes associated with various diseases, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. South Korea is one of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries with the highest concentration of ambient particulate matter. The purpose of this study is to identify the status of research on particulate matter and associated health effects in South Korea through bibliometric methods. Scientific articles related to particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) and their effects on health published during the last two decades (2000-2019) were retrieved using the Scopus database. The total number of publications on PM10 and health effects was 518, and 197 publications were authored on PM2.5 and health effects. This number has increased substantially in the last 3 years. The institution and the country that contributed the highest number of publications to ambient particulate matter research were the Seoul National University and the United States, respectively. Publications on the effects of ambient particulates on children, the elderly, or pregnant women accounted for less than 30% of all retrieved publications. Publications on nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxide (SO2), or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) accounted for approximately 30% and 20% of health effects-associated publications retrieved from Scopus concerning PM10 and PM2.5 research, respectively. Analysis of author keywords showed that mortality, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disease, and oxidative stress were main research topics on particulate matter and health effects. Our study provides information that can be used to grasp research trends and not covered research topics on health effects of particulate matter in Korea.
    Keywords:  Health effects; PM10; PM2.5; Particulate matter; Publication trend; Research trend
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s43188-021-00095-0
  23. Anesth Analg. 2022 Jan 24.
    Representation of Women as Editors in Anesthesiology Journals.
    Kaley McMullen, Molly B Kraus, Heidi Kosiorek, Monica W Harbell.
      BACKGROUND: Although there has been a considerable increase in the representation of women in medicine, a gender gap still exists with regard to leadership positions. This gender discrepancy has been identified in the field of anesthesiology, in terms of first and senior authorship, as well as in general composition of editorial boards in Anesthesiology and Anesthesia & Analgesia. The goal of this study is to examine the current representation of women in editorial boards of anesthesia journals with respect to the hierarchy of different editorial positions and to assess whether there has been improvement toward equity in recent years.METHODS: A comprehensive search was performed for anesthesiology journals indexed in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank in May 2020. The editorial boards of the top 20 journals by impact factor were analyzed. Editorial board members were categorized based on their title. Gender was assigned using images or pronouns on research databases or hospital-affiliated websites. The percentage of women within each category was calculated. When available, the year the editors obtained their medical degree was collected. A binomial proportion test was used to analyze the distribution of women overall and among editorial roles, compared to the proportion of women anesthesiologists (26%). A Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to compare time since medical degree between genders. Additionally, women representation in anesthesiology editorial boards in 2020 was compared to 2010.
    RESULTS: A total of 19 journals were included in this study, as 1 journal did not disclose editorial board membership. Overall, women occupied 18% of all editorial board positions. All editors-in-chief and assistant/associate/deputy editors-in-chief were men. Women consisted of 17.1% of executive/section/senior editors, 17.9% of editors, and 20.6% of associate/assistant editors. There were significantly fewer women editorial board members than the percentage of women anesthesiologists (18% vs 26%; P < .001). Editorial boards from 2010 were available for 14 journals, and of these journals, women comprised 12% of editorial board members in 2010 compared to 19% in 2020 (P = .001).
    CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that in anesthesiology journals, women are underrepresented at all editorial levels, especially at higher levels. As editorial boards have a significant impact on which articles are published by a journal and thereby significant influence on the specialty as a whole, the lack of gender equity in editorial boards should be addressed.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000005881
  24. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Jan 25.
    Updating the landmark literature for the practice of geriatrics: Notable articles from 2012-2019.
    Laurence M Solberg, Mandi Sehgal, Pragnesh Patel, Katherine G Akers, Ariel Pomputius, Andrea Schwartz, Shellina R Scheiner, Alexander Small, Elizabeth Hidlebaugh, Theodore M Johnson, Camille P Vaughan.
      BACKGROUND: Remaining current on the latest advances in the peer-reviewed literature is a basic tenant of medical education and evidence-based practice. We updated an important prior publication (Vaughan, et al.) identifying landmark articles in geriatric medicine by considering the influence of altmetrics and updating the list with notable articles published between 2012 and 2019.METHODS: Articles were identified by searching Web of Science and Scopus for highly cited articles clinically relevant to geriatrics or gerontology and by searching the Altmetric Explorer database for relevant articles with high altmetric scores. The results of the literature search were screened and evaluated using a bibliometric score consisting of an adjusted journal impact factor, citation count, and altmetric score.
    RESULTS: The top 12 notable articles in geriatrics were selected by a consensus panel and ranked using an expert opinion survey. This process reinforces the concept of combining subjective and objective measures to identify notable articles to be used for the education of healthcare professionals in geriatrics principles of care for older adults.
    CONCLUSIONS: While our update was performed approximately 9 years after the initial identification of landmark articles, we propose that future updates are conducted at an interval of every 5 years by the governance of a national professional society.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; education; evidence-based practice; geriatrics; medical
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17661
  25. Healthc Manage Forum. 2022 Jan 27. 8404704211070240
    Publication trends in telemedicine research originating from Canada.
    Jim Shenchu Xie, Keean Nanji, Mohammad Khan, Muhammad Faran Khalid, Sunir Garg, Sobha Sivaprasad, Lehana Thabane, Varun Chaudhary.
      Telemedicine modalities for patient care have seen significant global uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to bibliometrically evaluate the evolution and current landscape of telemedicine literature in Canada. The Scopus database was searched to identify telemedicine publications for which the first or last author had a Canadian institutional affiliation. Study selection and data abstraction were conducted by two pairs of independent reviewers. Between 1976 and January 2021, 810 of 3620 retrieved citations were telemedicine publications originating from Canada, including 29 randomized controlled trials and 6 systematic reviews. The annual publication output increased substantially from 1/year in 1976 to 80/year in 2020. Based on author keyword analysis, the most frequently investigated disciplines or disease entities were primary care, COVID-19, telepsychiatry, heart failure, and mental health. The insights this study provides will aid scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders in identifying opportunities for future investigation and clinical application.
    Keywords:  Canada; bibliometrics; telemedicine
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/08404704211070240
  26. Scientometrics. 2022 Jan 16. 1-34
    Discovering temporal scientometric knowledge in COVID-19 scholarly production.
    Breno Santana Santos, Ivanovitch Silva, Luciana Lima, Patricia Takako Endo, Gisliany Alves, Marcel da Câmara Ribeiro-Dantas.
      The mapping and analysis of scientific knowledge makes it possible to identify the dynamics and/or growth of a particular field of research or to support strategic decisions related to different research entities, based on bibliometric and/or scientometric indicators. However, with the exponential growth of scientific production, a systematic and data-oriented approach to the analysis of this large set of productions becomes increasingly essential. Thus, in this work, a data-oriented methodology was proposed, combining Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Complex Network Analysis techniques, and Data Version Control (DVC) tool, for the extraction of implicit knowledge in scientific production bases. In addition, the approach was validated through a case study in a COVID-19 manuscripts dataset, which had 199,895 articles published on arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed and Scopus databases. The results suggest the feasibility of the proposed methodology, indicating the most active countries and the most explored themes in each period of the pandemic. Therefore, this study has the potential to instrument and expand strategic decisions by the scientific community, aiming at extracting knowledge that supports the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; COVID-19; Data Science; Pandemic; Scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04260-y
  27. J Osteopath Med. 2022 Jan 27.
    An analysis of publication trends of orthopedic surgery residency graduates in relation to academic achievement.
    Marvin Carr, J Michael Anderson, Samuel Shepard, James Hobbs, Corbin Walters, Austin L Johnson, Matt Vassar.
      CONTEXT: Traditionally, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires residency programs to implement research and other scholarly activities into their training curriculum. Encouraging residents to publish during residency is believed to promote research throughout their careers; however, no study has attempted to quantify research productivity among orthopedic surgery residents before, during, and after residency.OBJECTIVES: To determine whether publishing in peer-reviewed journals during orthopedic residencies was an indicator of continued academic achievement after graduation.
    METHODS: This study was observational in nature and employed a cross-sectional design. We examined whether research outcomes during orthopedic residency was associated with academic advancement or continued research involvement after residency. We identified 201 orthopedic residency programs on the Doximity website and randomly selected 50 to include in our sample. Of these programs, graduate rosters for 31 programs were located and subsequently included. Of the 341 graduates identified, we recorded the number of peer-reviewed publications, H-indices, fellowships, and whether the graduate pursued a career in private practice or academia.
    RESULTS: Orthopedic residency graduates from 31 programs published a total of 1923 peer-reviewed manuscripts. On average, residents had a total of 5.6 publications and an h-index of 3.2. Residents entering academia and pursuing fellowships had a significantly higher total number of publications, higher number of first-author publications, and greater H-indices compared to those who did not enter academia or pursue a fellowship.
    CONCLUSIONS: Increased research productivity was associated with continued academic pursuits and an increased likelihood of pursuing fellowship training after residency.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1515/jom-2021-0196
  28. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jan 04. 5(1): e2144742
    Translatability Analysis of National Institutes of Health-Funded Biomedical Research That Applies Artificial Intelligence.
    Feyisope R Eweje, Suzie Byun, Rajat Chandra, Fengling Hu, Ihab Kamel, Paul Zhang, Zhicheng Jiao, Harrison X Bai.
      Importance: Despite the rapid growth of interest and diversity in applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to biomedical research, there are limited objective ways to characterize the potential for use of AI in clinical practice.Objective: To examine what types of medical AI have the greatest estimated translational impact (ie, ability to lead to development that has measurable value for human health) potential.
    Design, Setting, and Participants: In this cohort study, research grants related to AI awarded between January 1, 1985, and December 31, 2020, were identified from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award database. The text content for each award was entered into a Natural Language Processing (NLP) clustering algorithm. An NIH database was also used to extract citation data, including the number of citations and approximate potential to translate (APT) score for published articles associated with the granted awards to create proxies for translatability.
    Exposures: Unsupervised assignment of AI-related research awards to application topics using NLP.
    Main Outcomes and Measures: Annualized citations per $1 million funding (ACOF) and average APT score for award-associated articles, grouped by application topic. The APT score is a machine-learning based metric created by the NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis that quantifies the likelihood of future citation by a clinical article.
    Results: A total of 16 629 NIH awards related to AI were included in the analysis, and 75 applications of AI were identified. Total annual funding for AI grew from $17.4 million in 1985 to $1.43 billion in 2020. By average APT, interpersonal communication technologies (0.488; 95% CI, 0.472-0.504) and population genetics (0.463; 95% CI, 0.453-0.472) had the highest translatability; environmental health (ACOF, 1038) and applications focused on the electronic health record (ACOF, 489) also had high translatability. The category of applications related to biochemical analysis was found to have low translatability by both metrics (average APT, 0.393; 95% CI, 0.388-0.398; ACOF, 246).
    Conclusions and Relevance: Based on this study's findings, data on grants from the NIH can apparently be used to identify and characterize medical applications of AI to understand changes in academic productivity, funding support, and potential for translational impact. This method may be extended to characterize other research domains.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.44742
  29. Bioinspir Biomim. 2022 Jan 26.
    Bibliometric survey and network analysis of biomimetics and nature inspiration in engineering science.
    Vincent Gerbaud, Hugues Leiser, Johnny Beaugrand, Bernard Cathala, Carole Molina-Jouve, Anne Marie Gue.
      The field encompassing biomimetics, bioinspiration and nature inspiration in engineering science is growing steadily, pushed by exogenous factors like the search for potentially sustainable engineering solutions that might exist already in nature. With help of information provided by bibliometric database and further processed with dynamic network and semantic analysis tool, we provide insight at two scales on the corpus of nature inspired engineering field and its dynamics. At macro scale, the Web of Science® (WoS) categories, countries and institutions are ranked and ordered by thematic clusters and country networks, highlighting leading countries and institutions and how they focus on specific topics. Such an insight provides an overview at a macro scale that can be valuable to orient scientific strategy at the country level. At meso scale where science is incarnated by collaborative networks of authors and institutions that run across countries, we identify six semantic clusters and subclusters within them, and their dynamics. We also pinpoint leading academic collaborative networks and their activity in relation with the six semantic clusters. Trends and prospective are also discussed. Typically one observe that the field is becoming mature since, starting by imitating nature, it proceeded with mimicking more complex natural structures and functions and now it investigates ways used in nature in response to changes in the environment and implements them in innovative and adaptive artefacts. The sophistication of devices, methods and tools has been increasing over the years as well as their functionalities and adaptability whereas the size of devices has decreased at the same time.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; bioinspiration; biomimetics; engineering; nature inspiration
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac4f2e
  30. JMIR Med Inform. 2022 Jan 27. 10(1): e31918
    The Development History and Research Tendency of Medical Informatics: Topic Evolution Analysis.
    Wenting Han, Xi Han, Sijia Zhou, Qinghua Zhu.
      BACKGROUND: Medical informatics has attracted the attention of researchers worldwide. It is necessary to understand the development of its research hot spots as well as directions for future research.OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore the evolution of medical informatics research topics by analyzing research articles published between 1964 and 2020.
    METHODS: A total of 56,466 publications were collected from 27 representative medical informatics journals indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection. We identified the research stages based on the literature growth curve, extracted research topics using the latent Dirichlet allocation model, and analyzed topic evolution patterns by calculating the cosine similarity between topics from the adjacent stages.
    RESULTS: The following three research stages were identified: early birth, early development, and rapid development. Medical informatics has entered the fast development stage, with literature growing exponentially. Research topics in medical informatics can be classified into the following two categories: data-centered studies and people-centered studies. Medical data analysis has been a research hot spot across all 3 stages, and the integration of emerging technologies into data analysis might be a future hot spot. Researchers have focused more on user needs in the last 2 stages. Another potential hot spot might be how to meet user needs and improve the usability of health tools.
    CONCLUSIONS: Our study provides a comprehensive understanding of research hot spots in medical informatics, as well as evolution patterns among them, which was helpful for researchers to grasp research trends and design their studies.
    Keywords:  LDA model; medical informatics; mobile phone; research hotspot; topic evolution analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2196/31918
  31. Can J Neurol Sci. 2021 Dec 01. 1-3
    Fifty Years of Motor Unit Number Estimation.
    Regan D Wright, Allison Sivak, Agessandro Abrahão, Kelvin E Jones.
      The objective was to use bibliometric analysis to create an infographic of motor unit number estimation methods over the past 50 years. The original method was published in 1971, but secondary and tertiary waves of research using alternative methods occurred in the early 2000s and a decade later. A metric of influence was used to determine if different methods had clear peaks of use over the past 50 years. While the original method continues to register influence, the MUNIX method introduced in 2004 stands out as the most influential method to estimate the innervation status of skeletal muscles.
    Keywords:  Electrophysiology; History; Neuromuscular; Neurophysiology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1017/cjn.2021.500
  32. Indian J Community Med. 2021 Oct-Dec;46(4):46(4): 584-586
    Publication Pressure versus Ethics, in Research and Publication.
    Rakesh Bahl, Saransh Bahl.
      Research is undertaken to increase scientific knowledge. Knowledge enters the domain of science after it is presented to others. Publishing research, contributes to medical community's knowledge. Research publications earn mileage to the researcher in carrier. Presently, a lot of pressure has built up on medical fraternity to publish in terms of quantity, thereby compromising the quality of papers as official bodies governing the medical professionals have linked the quantity of publications with career growth. These rules are to promote research but they create stress among medical teachers, lowering the quality of research and publications. Hence, It is the responsibility of authors to strictly follow guidelines while doing and publishing research. To promote academic research and deter plagiarism, educational institutions are to establish Academic Misconduct Panel to investigate the allegations, and report to Plagiarism Disciplinary authority which can impose penalties as conduct and publishing of research is a serious issue.
    Keywords:  Ethics; medical research; plagiarism; publication
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_309_20
  33. Br J Sports Med. 2022 Jan 24. pii: bjsports-2021-105042. [Epub ahead of print]
    Where are female editors from low-income and middle-income countries? A comprehensive assessment of gender, geographical distribution and country's income group of editorial boards of top-ranked rehabilitation and sports science journals.
    Aamir Raoof Memon, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Nabiha Ghaffar, Kainat Ahmed, Iqra Sadiq.
      OBJECTIVE: We aimed to examine the gender, geographical region and income group of the country of affiliation for editorial leadership (eg, editor-in-chief, section editor, associate editor) and advisors (eg, editorial board members) in top-ranked rehabilitation and sports science journals.METHODS: A list of Scopus indexed, Q1 (25% top) rehabilitation and sports science journals, available under four different journal categories, was prepared based on the data from the Scientific Journal Rankings (SJR) website. The information for editorial leadership and advisors for these journals was obtained and their gender was determined through a multistep process. The country of affiliation of editorial leadership and advisors was used to categorise them to World Bank's different geographical regions and income groups (for countries).
    RESULTS: There were 7248 editors (35.7% leadership and 64.3% advisors) across 113 rehabilitation and sports science journals. Of all editors, 1792 (24.7%) were women. Women represented 24.5% of editorial leadership positions, 24.8% of advisory roles and 10.4% of editors-in-chief. Editors from South Asia (0.5%) and sub-Saharan Africa (0.6%) had the least representation, while those affiliated with institutions from high-income countries represented 93.5% of leadership roles and 93.1% of advisory positions. Moreover, editors affiliated with institutions from North America occupied almost half of all editorial roles.
    CONCLUSIONS: Women and researchers affiliated with institutions from low-income and middle-income countries are under-represented on the editorial boards of top-ranked rehabilitation and sports science journals indexed in the Scopus database. Editors are responsible for promoting research in their specific field, and therefore, the current leadership in rehabilitation and sports science journals should consider diversifying their editorial boards by providing equitable opportunities to women and researchers from a broader geographical distribution.
    Keywords:  female; rehabilitation; sports medicine; women in sport; work-life balance
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-105042
  34. BMJ Open. 2022 Jan 24. 12(1): e053735
    Patient-driven innovations reported in peer-reviewed journals: a scoping review.
    Maria Reinius, Pamela Mazzocato, Sara Riggare, Ami Bylund, Hanna Jansson, John Øvretveit, Carl Savage, Carolina Wannheden, Henna Hasson.
      BACKGROUND: Awareness of patients' innovative capabilities is increasing, but there is limited knowledge regarding the extent and nature of patient-driven innovations in the peer-reviewed literature.OBJECTIVES: The objective of the review was to answer the question: what is the nature and extent of patient-driven innovations published in peer-reviewed scientific journals?
    ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: We used a broad definition of innovation to allow for a comprehensive review of different types of innovations and a narrow definition of 'patient driven' to focus on the role of patients and/or family caregivers. The search was limited to years 2008-2020.
    SOURCES OF EVIDENCE: Four electronic databases (Medline (Ovid), Web of Science Core Collection, PsycINFO (Ovid) and Cinahl (Ebsco)) were searched in December 2020 for publications describing patient-driven innovations and complemented with snowball strategies.
    CHARTING METHODS: Data from the included articles were extracted and categorised inductively.
    RESULTS: A total of 96 articles on 20 patient-driven innovations were included. The number of publications increased over time, with 69% of the articles published between 2016 and 2020. Author affiliations were exclusively in high income countries with 56% of first authors in North America and 36% in European countries. Among the 20 innovations reported, 'Do-It-Yourself Artificial Pancreas System' and the online health network 'PatientsLikeMe', were the subject of half of the articles.
    CONCLUSIONS: Peer-reviewed publications on patient-driven innovations are increasing and we see an important opportunity for researchers and clinicians to support patient innovators' research while being mindful of taking over the work of the innovators themselves.
    Keywords:  diabetes & endocrinology; gastroenterology; internal medicine; neurology; quality in health care
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053735
  35. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jan 24.
    Twenty-Year Trends of Female First Authorship in a Selection of Primary Healthcare Journals.
    Paul Sebo, Carole Clair.
      
    Keywords:  authorship; female; gender gap; primary care; primary healthcare; publication; woman
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07391-x
  36. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022 Feb 01. 149(2): 525-528
    Beyond the Impact Factor in Peer-Reviewed Literature: What Really Matters.
    Paige L Myers, Rod J Rohrich, Aaron Weinstein, Kevin C Chung.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000008800
  37. Work. 2022 Jan 20.
    Trends in remote work: A science mapping study.
    Izabela Simon Rampasso, Monica Santana, Milena Pavan Serafim, Thais Dibbern, Edilson A Rodrigues, Walter Leal Filho, Rosley Anholon.
      BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic made workers suddenly change their routines and several companies adopted a remote work modality. This change quickly started to be analysed in academic literature.OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to perform a scientific mapping on the theme "remote work" to highlight the prominent themes associated with the subject for 2020 and 2021, covering the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying mainly the "motor themes", this study contributes to identify themes developed and relevant to the subjects analyzed.
    METHODS: An initial sample of 479 articles published in the analyzed period was listed from the Web of Science database. After analysing these articles, 186 were selected and were analyzed by Scimat software. Journals and references were also analyzed.
    RESULTS: The centrality and density indexes of the sub-themes "job-satisfaction" and "flexible-work" were more evidenced in the analysis, enabling the classification of these sub-themes directly as "motor themes". Regarding the density index of the sub-theme, the classification "stress" was less seen. After a careful analysis of the articles content, it was verified that this is also a "motor theme".
    CONCLUSIONS: Considering the three defined "motor themes", they can be considered the most developed and important sub-themes of study in this field and, therefore, need to be well understood by new researchers in the field. In addition, these findings show that the mentioned sub-themes must be focused on by managers, considering the relevance that the literature attributes to them.
    Keywords:  Business management; COVID-19; employees management; remote work; scientific mapping; scimat
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-210912
  38. PeerJ. 2022 ;10 e12764
    The speed of information propagation in the scientific network distorts biomedical research.
    Raul Rodriguez-Esteban.
      Delays in the propagation of scientific discoveries across scientific communities have been an oft-maligned feature of scientific research for introducing a bias towards knowledge that is produced within a scientist's closest community. The vastness of the scientific literature has been commonly blamed for this phenomenon, despite recent improvements in information retrieval and text mining. Its actual negative impact on scientific progress, however, has never been quantified. This analysis attempts to do so by exploring its effects on biomedical discovery, particularly in the discovery of relations between diseases, genes and chemical compounds. Results indicate that the probability that two scientific facts will enable the discovery of a new fact depends on how far apart these two facts were originally within the scientific landscape. In particular, the probability decreases exponentially with the citation distance. Thus, the direction of scientific progress is distorted based on the location in which each scientific fact is published, representing a path-dependent bias in which originally closely-located discoveries drive the sequence of future discoveries. To counter this bias, scientists should open the scope of their scientific work with modern information retrieval and extraction approaches.
    Keywords:  Citation network; Information science; Knowledge diffusion; Knowledge management; Scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12764
  39. Zhonghua Yan Ke Za Zhi. 2022 Jan 21. 58 1-11
    [Data analysis of application and funding of ophthalmology projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2010 to 2021].
    X B Zhang.
      Objective: To review the application for funding of ophthalmologic projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the current research progress, and to provide reference for the promotion of basic eye research in China. Methods: The NSFC application and funding information of ophthalmology-related projects from 2010 to 2021 were collected as a database for further analysis. The main categories of the analysis included the number of application and funding, the funding ratio, the research directions and the funded organizations. Results: During the 12 years, 13 267 applications were received in the field of ophthalmology, with an increase of 157.21% in 2021 compared with 2010, and the number of applications for the Youth Foundation grew significantly. There were 2 221 funded projects, with an increase of 81.51% in 2021 compared with 2010. After 2017, the number of funded projects was basically around 200 per year, with a funding rate of 16.74%. The funding amount was 1 026.9 million yuan in total, with an average of 462 400 yuan. Sun Yat-sen University (1 060 applied and 265 funded projects), Fudan University (759 applied and 186 funded projects), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (820 applied and 178 funded projects), Wenzhou Medical University (625 applied and 113 funded projects) and Capital Medical University (538 applied and 95 funded projects) were the top five institutions in terms of the number of application and funding. Conclusions: From 2010 to 2021, the application number of ophthalmology projects increased rapidly, while the number of funded projects increased slowly, and the funding ratio decreased year by year. With the support of NSFC, the basic research of ophthalmology in China has made great progress. However, we still need to find and solve problems to promote the sustainable advance of ophthalmology.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112142-20211104-00520
  40. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jan 28.
    Allium cepa test vs. insecticides: a scientometric and meta-analytical review.
    Thais Fernandes Mendonça Mota, Amanda Roberta Sampaio, Marina Wust Vasconcelos, Nédia de Castilhos Ghisi.
      Insecticides stand out as the most dangerous pesticides, and many of them can cause cytotoxic and genotoxic effects in organisms. For this reason, a systematic review was performed focusing on the effect of insecticides on Allium cepa system by two ways: (1) a scientometric study to identify trends and gaps in the literature on the evaluation of insecticides to guide future research efforts and (2) a meta-analytical approach compiling the information to obtain an overall result about insecticide effect on A. cepa. It was found that there is an increasing production of articles in this research area. The H-index of our data set was 11, with an average of 13.72 citations per item. The leader country in this research area was India, followed by Turkey and Brazil. The best cited research area was "Environmental Sciences" and "Environmental Sciences and Ecology," followed by "Cell Biology." The most used keywords were genotoxicity, pesticides, and insecticide. The meta-analytical test showed that the number of micronuclei found in onion cells treated with insecticides is higher than that in untreated ones, and the use of pesticides reduced the mitotic index. In conclusion, it is evident the need for more studies about biotechnology, nanotechnology, and biopesticides to develop safer pesticides.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; Environment pollution; Micronuclei; Mitotic index; Pesticides; Toxicity
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15953-5
  41. Ann Fam Med. 2022 Jan-Feb;20(1):20(1): 32-34
    COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship.
    Katherine M Wright, Santina Wheat, Deborah S Clements, Deborah Edberg.
      This bibliometric analysis seeks to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted submission rates to Annals of Family Medicine by gender. Women represented 46.3% of all manuscript submissions included in our study (n = 1,964/4,238), spanning from January 1, 2015 to July 15, 2020. The overall volume of submissions increased during COVID-19 in comparison to pre-pandemic months; however, this increase was not evenly distributed among men and women (122% increase vs 101% increase, respectively). In the early months of the pandemic, 244 submissions were authored by men (58.5%), and 173 submissions were authored by women (41.5%). The gap in women's submission rates is troubling, as it suggests they may be at greater risk of falling behind male colleagues during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Keywords:  authorship; bibliometrics; disparities; gender; scholarly productivity; women
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2756
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