bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2022–02–27
43 papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society
  1. Twenty Years' Development of Teacher Identity Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  2. Bibliometric Analysis of Renal Fibrosis in Diabetic Kidney Disease From 1985 to 2020.
  3. Top 100 Most Cited Papers in Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis Surgery: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  4. Research Hotspots and Trend Exploration on the Clinical Translational Outcome of Simulation-Based Medical Education: A 10-Year Scientific Bibliometric Analysis From 2011 to 2021.
  5. Global Development of Research on Anorectal Malformations over the Last Five Decades: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  6. Digital Twin and Smart Manufacturing in Industries: A Bibliometric Analysis with a Focus on Industry 4.0.
  7. The Past, the Present, and the Future: A Bibliometric Analysis of Failed/Fragile/Collapsed State Research During 1990-2020.
  8. Trends in research on corneal cross linking from 2001 to 2020: a bibliometric analysis.
  9. Bibliometric Analysis Reveals a 20-Year Research Trend for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy.
  10. A Decade of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: A Bibliometric Network Analysis.
  11. A bibliometric analysis of the studies on dental implant failure.
  12. Accessing Neuromarketing Scientific Performance: Research Gaps and Emerging Topics.
  13. Evaluating the Impact of Intraoperative MRI in Neuro-Oncology by Scientometric Analysis.
  14. Retracted publications in pharmacy systematic reviews.
  15. What Research Has Been Conducted on Procrastination? Evidence From a Systematical Bibliometric Analysis.
  16. Trends in publication of general surgery research in Australia, 2000-2020.
  17. The Citation Cloud of a biomedical article: a free, public, web-based tool enabling citation analysis.
  18. The Public Health Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  19. Post-exposure prophylaxis against blood-borne viral infections among health care workers: A bibliometric analysis.
  20. A Bibliometric Analysis of Familial Hypercholesterolemia From 2011 to 2021.
  21. Radiolucent Lesions of the Jaws: An Attempted Demonstration of the Use of Co-Word Analysis to List Main Similar Pathologies.
  22. Cleft Lip and Palate Research in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Scientometric Analysis.
  23. Do Prospective Intent and Established Metrics Correlate with Journal Impact Factor in Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy Trials?: A Secondary Analysis of A Methodological Review.
  24. Citizen Environmental Behavior From the Perspective of Psychological Distance Based on a Visual Analysis of Bibliometrics and Scientific Knowledge Mapping.
  25. Conjoint Analysis: A Research Method to Study Patients' Preferences and Personalize Care.
  26. The impacts of learning analytics and A/B testing research: a case study in differential scientometrics.
  27. Representation of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at neurological surgery conferences.
  28. Navigating through our history in research: An altmetric analysis for publications by the full-time operative dentistry faculty at the Aga Khan University Hospital in the past decade.
  29. Food Supply Chain Safety Research Trends From 1997 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  30. A Bibliometric Analysis of the Landscape of Parathyroid Carcinoma Research Based on the PubMed (2000-2021).
  31. Prospective analyses of sex/gender-related publication decisions in general medical journals: editorial rejection of population-based women's reproductive physiology.
  32. International Technologies on Prevention and Treatment of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases: Bibliometric Analysis of Patents.
  33. Size of science team at university and internal co-publications: science policy implications.
  34. Editorial: developments at the Annals of regional science 2020-2021.
  35. Evidence-based biomedical research in Sub-Saharan Africa: how library and information science professionals contribute to systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
  36. Characteristics of 'mega' peer-reviewers.
  37. Understanding Dietary Habit Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy.
  38. Sharing of retracted COVID-19 articles: an altmetric study.
  39. Climate change adaptation (CCA) research in Nepal: implications for the advancement of adaptation planning.
  40. Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience.
  41. Correction to: Past, current, and future perspectives on eco-tourism: a bibliometric review between 2001 and 2018.
  42. Biomedical Engineering Letters indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).
  43. The giant plan to track diversity in research journals.
  1. Front Psychol. 2021 ;12 783913
    Twenty Years' Development of Teacher Identity Research: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Yunyun Zhang, Ping Wang.
      This study aims to demonstrate a detailed knowledge map of teacher identity research via a 20-year data set from the Web of Science (WoS) database. A bibliometric analysis was employed for analyzing the articles published between 2001 and 2021 to show the status of teacher identity research in the past 20 years, research topics on teacher identity, and future research directions. Using the keyword "teacher identity" and filtering data by selecting articles and early access in teaching and education, 848 articles were retrieved. Through production, content, and citation analysis with the help of a bibliometric tool, this study found that teacher identity remained a popular research theme in the academic field over the past 20 years, and its booming production involved many authors, institutions, and sources, and countries. Furthermore, teachers' "beliefs," "emotions," "professional development," and "context" impacting the construction and reconstruction of teacher identity were the popular topics in teacher identity research, and fundamental issues, including "identity," "teacher identity," "professional identity," "development," "teacher development," "beliefs," and "intersectionality" of teacher identity keep good topics in future research.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; construction; identity; teacher identity; twenty-year development
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.783913
  2. Front Public Health. 2022 ;10 767591
    Bibliometric Analysis of Renal Fibrosis in Diabetic Kidney Disease From 1985 to 2020.
    Yuqing Zhang, De Jin, Yingying Duan, Yuehong Zhang, Liyun Duan, Fengmei Lian, Xiaolin Tong.
       Background: Diabetic renal fibrosis (DRF) is an irreversible renal pathological change in the end-stage of diabetic kidney disease (DKD), which plays a significant role in the development and deterioration of the disease. However, data for bibliometric analysis of renal fibrosis in DKD is currently missing. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive and visualized view of DRF research and lay the foundation for further studies.
    Materials and Methods: Firstly, the data was collected from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database. Secondly, the Web of Science analytic tool was performed to analyze publication years, authors, countries/regions, organizations, and citation frequency. Finally, CiteSpace was employed to construct a visualization bibliometric network to reveal the emerging trends and hotspots of DRF.
    Results: A total of 3,821 publications from 1985 to 2020 were included in this study. The number of publications has maintained a growth trend since 2003. Cooper is the most prolific author in this field, and the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology ranking as first place compared with other journals. In terms of the number of publications, China contributed the most to DRF. Monash University is the organization that published the most papers. The top 5 clusters of keyword co-appearance are "chronic kidney disease", "primary biliary cirrhosis", "receptor", "TGF-beta", "renal tubulointerstitium". The top 5 clusters of reference co-citation are "microRNAs", "bone morphogenetic protein", "hypertrophy", "glomerulosclerosis", "diabetic kidney disease". The strongest citation burst of keyword is "diabetic kidney disease" and the strongest burst of cited reference is "Meng, 2016".
    Conclusions: The present study analyzed the research hotspots, Frontiers, and development trend of DRF and have important implications for future research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; bibliometrics; cluster analysis; diabetic kidney disease; renal fibrosis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.767591
  3. Semin Ophthalmol. 2022 Feb 21. 1-7
    Top 100 Most Cited Papers in Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis Surgery: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Erin Flynn, Haig Pakhchanian, Preet Sohal, Rishabh Gupta, Rahul Raiker, Masumi G Asahi, David Belyea.
       PURPOSE: To conduct a bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited publications on LASIK using the Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge database.
    METHODS: This analysis used keyword-specific searches within the Web of Science database to isolate the 100 most frequently cited LASIK articles published between 1996 and 2019 (T100). Number of citations per article and per year were quantified from 1996 to 2019. Title, authors (as well as affiliated institutions and countries of origin), journal, year of publication, and citation frequency were variables analyzed.
    RESULTS: Of the T100 articles, each article was cited between 103 to 411 times with a mean of 167 citations. Between 0-11 articles in the T100 were published every year on average with a median of 5 publications per year. The highest concentration of T100 publications occurred between 2003 and 2008 at 51%. A decrease in the annual publication rate of influential articles was observed after 2010 at 23%; 39.1% of these articles compared LASIK to newer refractive surgical approaches. The highest number of T100 articles were from the Journal of Refractive Surgery. The University of California System produced the highest number of T100 articles. The author with the most articles in the T100 is Dan Z. Reinstein. Most T100 articles originated from the United States.
    CONCLUSION: The peak of influential LASIK research occurred between 2000-2010, likely due to topics such as postprocedural corneal ectasia and the femtosecond laser approach. While newer surgical techniques such as SMILE may have contributed to the decline in the annual rate of LASIK-related publication, the underlying cause for this decline is unclear.
    Keywords:  LASIK; SMILE; bibliometric analysis; refractive surgery; treatment lasers
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/08820538.2022.2039221
  4. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 ;8 801277
    Research Hotspots and Trend Exploration on the Clinical Translational Outcome of Simulation-Based Medical Education: A 10-Year Scientific Bibliometric Analysis From 2011 to 2021.
    Shun Yao, Yabin Tang, Chenyue Yi, Yao Xiao.
       Background: In recent decades, an increasing number of studies have focused on the clinical translational effect of simulation-based medical education (SBME). However, few scientific bibliometric studies have analyzed the research hotspots and publication trends. This study aimed to investigate research hotspots and future direction in the clinical translational outcome of SBME via bibliometrics.
    Method: Relevant publications on the clinical translational outcomes of SBME from 2011 to 2021 were identified and retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC). Software including VOSviewer (1.6.17) and CiteSpace (5.8R3) and a platform (bibliometric.com) were employed to conduct bibliographic and visualized analysis on the literature.
    Results: A total of 1,178 publications were enrolled. An increasing number of publications were observed in the past decades from 48 in 2011 to 175 in 2021. The United States accounted for the largest number of publications (488, 41.4%) and citations (10,432); the University of Toronto and Northwestern University were the leading institutions. Academic Medicine was the most productive journal concerning this field. McGaghie W C and Konge L were the most influential authors in this area. The hot topic of the translational outcome of SBME was divided into 3 stages, laboratory phase, individual skill improvement, and patient outcome involving both technical skills and non-technical skills. Translational research of comprehensive impact and collateral outcomes could be obtained in the future.
    Conclusion: From the overall trend of 10 years of research, we can see that the research is roughly divided into three phases, from laboratory stage, individual skill improvement to the patient outcomes, and comprehensive impacts such as skill retention and collateral effect as cost-effectiveness is a major trend of future research. More objective evaluation measurement should be designed to assess the diverse impact and further meta-analysis and randomized controlled trials are needed to provide more clinical evidence of SBME as translational science.
    Keywords:  bibliometric; clinical skill; scientific visualization analysis; simulation-based medical education (SBME); translational outcomes
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.801277
  5. Children (Basel). 2022 Feb 14. pii: 253. [Epub ahead of print]9(2):
    Global Development of Research on Anorectal Malformations over the Last Five Decades: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Illya Martynov, Xiaoyan Feng, Johannes W Duess, Jan-Hendrik Gosemann, Martin Lacher, Steffi Mayer.
       PURPOSE: Anorectal malformations (ARM) are one of the most challenging congenital malformations in pediatric surgery. We aimed to assess the research activity on ARM over the last five decades.
    METHODS: Data on original research publications were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (1970-2020), and analyzed for countries, authors, scientific journals, and top-ten papers. Scientific quantity was assessed by the number of publications. Research quality was estimated from the number of citations, average citation rate per item (ACI), and h-index.
    RESULTS: A total number of 1595 articles with 19,419 citations (ACI = 12.2; h-index = 54) were identified. The annual number of publications and citations significantly increased over time (p < 0.0001). The USA (n = 386; 24.2%), Japan (n = 153; 9.6%), and China (n = 137; 8.6%) were the most productive countries; and the USA (n = 7850; ACI = 20.3; h-index = 44), Japan (n = 1937; ACI = 12.6; h-index = 21), and the Netherlands (n = 1318; ACI = 17.3; h-index = 22) were the top cited countries. Articles were preferentially published in JPS (n = 391; 24.5%), PSI (n = 181; 11.3%), and EJPS (n = 56; 3.5%). Top-ten cited papers focused on classification (n = 1), surgical technique (n = 3), associated syndromes (n = 2), postoperative outcome (n = 3), and basic research (n = 1).
    CONCLUSION: This bibliometric study provides valuable insights into the global development of ARM research, and shows that clinical studies and international collaborations dominate in this field.
    Keywords:  ARM; PSARP; anorectal malformations; bibliometrics; posterior sagittal anorectoplasty
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020253
  6. Sensors (Basel). 2022 Feb 11. pii: 1388. [Epub ahead of print]22(4):
    Digital Twin and Smart Manufacturing in Industries: A Bibliometric Analysis with a Focus on Industry 4.0.
    Georgiana Moiceanu, Gigel Paraschiv.
      Technology is being used in our society in all areas, mostly in industry, and generates the most interest in current research since it is a part of day-to-day activities. The main objective of this research was to use bibliometric analysis to analyze the production of scientific literature on digital twin and smart manufacturing with a focus on Industry 4.0, using information from the Web of Science database. To conduct the study, the keywords necessary for data selection were chosen, and then analyzed based on different variables such as author productivity, citations, most productive institutions, publishers with the highest number of publications, scientific document classification, countries with the highest number of publications, and a network analysis using VOSviewer. The results showed Tao F. and Soderberg R. were the main authors, that China was the country with the highest knowledge, and Elsevier was the main publisher. Although the subject has only been in publication for five years, digital twin will constitute an important part of future technologies due to its rapid ascension, proof of this being its yearly productivity (2020 producing the highest number of materials). Papers published in 2021 were excluded, but the difference between the numbers of materials found and those analyzed shows that 2021 will be even more productive than 2020.
    Keywords:  Industry 4.0; bibliometric analysis; digital twin; smart manufacturing
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/s22041388
  7. Front Res Metr Anal. 2022 ;7 720882
    The Past, the Present, and the Future: A Bibliometric Analysis of Failed/Fragile/Collapsed State Research During 1990-2020.
    Chi Swian Wong.
      The "failed/fragile/collapsed state" refers to state authority's complete or partial collapse, such as Somalia and Bosnia. According to Fragile States Index 2020 annual report, approximately 116 countries among 178 countries were in warning or alerting state quo, which hurts three-quarters of the world's population. A systematic scientometric interpretation of failed/fragile/collapsed state analysis would be helpful but is presently absent in the academic community. This review makes three donations by evaluating the 2,417 articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) Collection between 1990 and 2020. First, it provides a unique prospect in failed/fragile/collapsed state studies through a detailed, systematic, and objective analysis. Second, the author has quantitatively tracked the progression of failed/fragile/collapsed state studies from 1990 to 2020. Finally, the author associated evolutionary trajectory analysis with future research directions, offering new pathways for failed/fragile/collapsed state studies. It also helps novice "failed/fragile/collapsed state" researchers and veteran scholars identify future research trends.
    Keywords:  academic structure; bibliometric review; data analysis; emerging trends; failed/fragile/collapsed state research; political economy; science mapping
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.720882
  8. Clin Exp Optom. 2022 Feb 20. 1-7
    Trends in research on corneal cross linking from 2001 to 2020: a bibliometric analysis.
    Shaopei Wang, Kaili Yang, Yawen Wang, Liyan Xu, Yuwei Gu, Qi Fan, Meng Zhu, Qing Wang, Kai Guo, Shengwei Ren, Dongqing Zhao.
       CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The research status and hotspots in the field of corneal cross linking (CXL) can benefit clinicians, researchers and the general public.
    BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to map the publishing trend on CXL research and explore the research hotspots.
    METHODS: A bibliometric analysis was performed using the Web of Science Core Collection to investigate the publishing trend on CXL research. VOSviewer was used to build the knowledge map to visualise the number of annual publications, distribution of countries and institutions, international cooperation, author productivity, source journals and research hotspots in the field of CXL.
    RESULTS: A total of 2061 peer-reviewed articles on CXL research were collected from 2001 to 2020, and the annual research production increased over time. The United States was the country with the largest number of published articles, and the University of Zurich was the most active institution. Hafezi F published the largest number of articles on CXL, while Cornea was the journal with the largest number of studies on CXL. The most frequently cited references mainly focus on CXL in the treatment of keratoconus. The keywords were divided in 5 categories: 1) CXL mechanism, 2) ectasia diseases and refractive surgery, 3) corneal biomechanics, 4) efficacy evaluation, 5) treatment of infectious keratitis.
    CONCLUSION: The quantity and quality of articles on CXL were evaluated using bibliometric techniques by extracting the data from the Web of Science Core Collection. The research hotspots could provide insights on CXL research, providing valuable information for clinicians to perform research in this field and find potential partners.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; VOSviewer; corneal cross linking; keratoconus; mapping knowledge domain
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/08164622.2022.2038013
  9. Front Neurol. 2021 ;12 793663
    Bibliometric Analysis Reveals a 20-Year Research Trend for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy.
    Jialin Gu, Miao Hu, Zhancheng Gu, Jialin Yu, Yi Ji, Lingchang Li, Canhong Hu, Guoli Wei, Jiege Huo.
       Objective: A lot of research has focused on the field of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). In this study, we performed a bibliometric analysis of CIPN-related publications to identify the key research areas and trends over the last 20 years.
    Methods: We searched the Web of Science core collection for publications related to CIPN that were published between January 2001 and September 2021. We then performed bibliometric analysis and visualization using Microsoft Excel 2019, VOSviewer, and the Bibliometric online analysis platform (https://bibliometric.com/).
    Results: In total, we identified 2,188 eligible publications in the field of CIPN, with an increasing trend in the annual number of publications. The United States and Italy were dominant in the CIPN field. Supportive Care in Cancer was the most productive journal. G. Cavaletti and A.A. Argyriou published the largest number of papers. Of all institutions, the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, published the highest number of papers. Analysis of the co-occurrence of keywords revealed the specific characteristics relating to the four main clusters: oxaliplatin, paclitaxel, pain management, and quality of life (QOL). Newly emerging research focusses predominantly on neuroinflammatory mechanisms and non-pharmacological interventions for CIPN.
    Conclusion: This bibliometric study reviewed the evolutionary trends in CIPN research and identified current research hotspots and research trends. In addition, we identified journals, institutions, and authors, with the highest levels of impact to enhance the collaboration and learning.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; bibliometric analysis; chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy; publications; research hotspots
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.793663
  10. Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Jan 23. pii: 170. [Epub ahead of print]58(2):
    A Decade of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: A Bibliometric Network Analysis.
    Nicolas Paul, Valentina Albrecht, Claudia Denke, Claudia D Spies, Henning Krampe, Björn Weiss.
      Background and Objectives: In 2012, the umbrella term post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) was introduced to capture functional long-term impairments of survivors of critical illness. We present a bibliometric network analysis of the PICS research field. Materials and Methods: The Web of Science core database was searched for articles published in 2012 or later using 'post-intensive care syndrome' and variant spellings. Using VOSviewer, we computed co-authorship networks of countries, institutions, and authors, as well as keyword co-occurrence networks. We determined each country's relative research effort and Category Normalized Citation Index over time and analyzed the 100 most-cited articles with respect to article type, country of origin, and publishing journal. Results: Our search yielded 379 articles, of which 373 were analyzed. Annual PICS research output increased from 11 (2012) to 95 articles (2020). Most PICS research originates from the US, followed by England, Australia, the Netherlands, and Germany. We found various collaborations between countries, institutions, and authors, with recent collaborative networks of English and Australian institutions. Article keywords cover aspects of cognitive, mental health, and physical impairments, and more recently, COVID-19. Only a few keywords and articles pertained to PICS prevention and treatment. Conclusions: Our analysis of Web of Science-indexed PICS articles highlights the stark increase in PICS research output in recent years, primarily originating from US- and Europe-based authors and institutions. Despite the research field's growth, knowledge gaps with respect to PICS prevention and treatment remain.
    Keywords:  PICS; bibliometric analysis; critical illness; intensive care unit; post-intensive care syndrome; research collaboration; research output; survivorship
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020170
  11. J Pak Med Assoc. 2022 Feb;72(Suppl 1)(2): S76-S80
    A bibliometric analysis of the studies on dental implant failure.
    Farhan Raza Khan, Syed Murtaza Raza Kazmi, Yusra Fahim Siddiqui.
       Objective: To identify top 30 studies related to dental implant failures based on bibliometric analysis.
    METHODS: The bibliometric study was conducted at Aga Khan University, Karachi from April 2021 to June 2021 and comprised database search on Google Scholar used key words "dental implant failures" for studies published between 1990 and 2020. The selected studies were reviewed based on citation count for which the cut-off date was June 1, 2021.
    RESULTS: The top 30 papers on dental implant failures had median citation count of 153 (range: 41-1583. Most of the studies were retrospective 11(36.7%), followed by literature reviews 6(20%). The top three contributing journals were the 'International Journal of Oral Maxillofacial Implants' 6(20%), the 'Clinical Oral Implants Research' 5(16.7%) and 'Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research' 3(10%). Goteborg University, Sweden, contributed the maximum number of most cited papers 8(26.7%).
    CONCLUSIONS: Most of the papers in the top-cited on dental implant failures were retrospective studies, and there was only one clinical trial.
    Keywords:   Dental implants, Dental implant failure, Bibliometrics.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.AKU-15
  12. Behav Sci (Basel). 2022 Feb 21. pii: 55. [Epub ahead of print]12(2):
    Accessing Neuromarketing Scientific Performance: Research Gaps and Emerging Topics.
    Lucília Cardoso, Meng-Mei Chen, Arthur Araújo, Giovana Goretti Feijó de Almeida, Francisco Dias, Luiz Moutinho.
      (1) Background: Using neuroscience to understand and influence consumer behavior often leads to ethical controversy. Thus, it is necessary to demystify the use of neuroscience for marketing purposes; the present paper, by accessing the worldwide academic performance in this domain, fulfills this objective. (2) Methods: All extant literature on neuromarketing indexed to the Scopus database-318 articles-was subjected to a bibliometric analysis through a mixed-method approach. (3) Results: The results show that Spain leads the ranks of the most productive countries, while Italian researchers clearly dominate in terms of collaboration. Regarding the most prominent topics, the connection between "Neuroscience" and "Advertising" is highlighted. The findings provide a better understanding of the state-of-the-art in neuromarketing studies, research gaps, and emerging research topics, and additionally provide a new methodological contribution by including SciVal topic prominence in the bibliometric analysis. (4) Conclusions: As practical implications, this study provides useful insights for neuromarketing researchers seeking funding opportunities, which are normally associated with topics within the top prominence percentile or emerging topics. In terms of originality, this study is the first to apply SciVal topic prominence to a bibliometric analysis of neuromarketing, and provides a new bibliometric indicator for neuromarketing research.
    Keywords:  SciVal topic prominence; bibliometric analysis; emerging topics; neuromarketing scientific performance; research gaps
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12020055
  13. Life (Basel). 2022 Jan 25. pii: 175. [Epub ahead of print]12(2):
    Evaluating the Impact of Intraoperative MRI in Neuro-Oncology by Scientometric Analysis.
    Harsh Deora, Gianluca Ferini, Kanwaljeet Garg, M D Krishna Narayanan, Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana.
      (1) Objective-Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (IOMRI) guided surgery has revolutionized neurosurgery and has especially impacted the field of Neuro-Oncology, with randomized controlled trails demonstrating improved resection, fewer postoperative deficits and enhanced survival rates. Bibliometric analysis allows for analysing chronological trends and measuring the impact and directions of research in a particular field. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first Bibliometric analysis conducted on IOMRI. (2) Methods-a title specific search of the Web of Science database was executed using the keywords 'intraoperative MRI', 'intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging', and "IOMRI' on 23rd April 2021. Results-663 articles met the inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis. In addition, the 100 most cited were analysed as well. Among these 100 articles, 76 were original research papers, while 14 others were review articles. Amongst all the authors, Ganslandt contributed the maximum number of articles, with USA being the largest single source of these articles, followed by Germany. Interestingly, a shift of trends from "Image guided surgery' and 'accuracy' in the early 2000s to 'extent of resection', 'impact', and 'survival' in the later years was noted. (3) Conclusions-IOMRI has now become an integral part of neurosurgery, especially in neuro-oncology. Focus has now shifted from implementation to refinement of technique in the form of functional and oncological outcomes. Therefore, future research in this direction is imperative and will be of more impact that in any other sub-field related to IOMRI.
    Keywords:  article impact; bibliometric; citations; intraoperative MRI; neuro-oncology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/life12020175
  14. J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Jan 01. 110(1): 47-55
    Retracted publications in pharmacy systematic reviews.
    Sarah Jane Brown, Caitlin J Bakker, Nicole R Theis-Mahon.
       Objective: Systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses, the pinnacle of the evidence pyramid, embody comprehensiveness and rigor; however, retracted data are being incorporated into these publications. This study examines the use of retracted publications in the field of pharmacy, describes characteristics of retracted publications cited by systematic reviews, and discusses factors associated with citation likelihood.
    Methods: Using data from Retraction Watch, we identified retracted publications in the pharmacy field. We identified all articles citing these retracted publications in Web of Science and Scopus and limited results to systematic reviews. We classified the retraction reason, determined whether the citation occurred before or after retraction, and analyzed factors associated with the likelihood of systematic reviews citing a retracted publication.
    Results: Of 1,396 retracted publications, 283 were cited 1,096 times in systematic reviews. Most (65.0%) (712/1096) citations occurred before retraction. Citations were most often to items retracted due to data falsification or manipulation (39.2%), followed by items retracted due to ethical misconduct including plagiarism (30.4%), or concerns about or errors in data or methods (26.2%). Compared to those not cited in systematic reviews, cited items were significantly more likely to be retracted due to data falsification and manipulation, were published in high impact factor journals, and had longer delays between publication and retraction.
    Conclusions: Further analysis of systematic reviews citing retracted publications is needed to determine the impact of flawed data. Librarians understand the nuances involved and can advocate for greater transparency around the retraction process and increase awareness of challenges posed by retractions.
    Keywords:  evidence-based pharmacy practice; pharmacy; publishing; research; retraction of publication as topic; systematic reviews as topic
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1280
  15. Front Psychol. 2022 ;13 809044
    What Research Has Been Conducted on Procrastination? Evidence From a Systematical Bibliometric Analysis.
    Bo Yan, Xiaomin Zhang.
      Procrastination is generally perceived as a common behavioral tendency, and there are a growing number of literatures to discuss this complex phenomenon. To elucidate the overall perspective and keep abreast of emerging trends in procrastination research, this article presents a bibliometric analysis that investigates the panorama of overviews and intellectual structures of related research on procrastination. Using the Web of Science Database, we collected 1,635 articles published between 1990 and 2020 with a topic search on "procrastination" and created diverse research maps using CiteSpace and VOS viewer. Bibliometric analysis in our research consists of category distribution, keyword co-occurrence networks, main cluster analysis, betweenness centrality analysis, burst detection analysis, and structure variation analysis. We find that most research has focused on students' samples and has discussed the definition, classification, antecedents, consequences and interventions to procrastination, whereas procrastination in diverse contexts and groups remains to be investigated. Regarding the antecedents and consequences, research has mainly been about the relationship between procrastination and personality differences, such as the five-factor model, temperament, character, emotional intelligence, and impulsivity, but functions of external factors such as task characteristics and environmental conditions to procrastination have drawn scant attention. To identify the nature and characteristics of this behavior, randomized controlled trials are usually adopted in designing empirical research. However, the predominant use of self-reported data collection and for a certain point in time rather than longitudinal designs has limited the validation of some conclusions. Notably, there have been novel findings through burst detection analysis and structure variation analysis. Certain research themes have gained extraordinary attention in a short time period, have evolved progressively during the time span from 1990 to 2020, and involve the antecedents of procrastination in a temporal context, theoretical perspectives, research methods, and typical images of procrastinators. And emerging research themes that have been investigated include bedtime procrastination, failure of social media self-control, and clinical interventions. To our knowledge, this is almost the first time to conduct systematically bibliometric analysis on the topic of procrastination and findings can provide an in-depth view of the patterns and trends in procrastination research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; bibliometric analysis; co-citation analysis; intellectual structure; procrastination
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.809044
  16. ANZ J Surg. 2022 Feb 26.
    Trends in publication of general surgery research in Australia, 2000-2020.
    Sara Izwan, Erick Chan, Christian Ibraheem, Gayatri Bhagwat, David Parker.
       BACKGROUND: The significance of evidence-based surgery has resulted in a shift towards producing high-quality surgical research. The aim of this bibliometric analysis was to evaluate trends in publication of general surgery research in Australia from 2000 to 2020.
    METHODS: General surgery publications including clinical trials, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), systematic reviews and meta-analyses by Australian-affiliated authors between 2000 and 2020 were extracted from PubMed. Titles, abstracts, journals and authors were independently screened by two investigators and arbitrated by a third. Publication type and area of focus were manually entered. Quality of articles was measured by trends in impact factor (IF) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). Descriptive statistics were used to summarize data and identify trends.
    RESULTS: Three hundered and ninety-eight articles met inclusion criteria for this study, with a progressive increase in publications over the study period. RCTs and systematic reviews accounted for 109 and 234 publications, respectively. The median number of authors remained constant (p = 0.060). There was a significant increase in publication of clinical trials and RCTs (p < 0.001) as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses (p < 0.001). The median IF increased from 1.93 to 3.08, whilst median SJR increased from 1.11 to 1.16, equivalent to organic growth of journal IF and SJR over this period. Female authorship significantly increased over time (p < 0.001).
    CONCLUSION: There is a trend towards increased quantity, quality and diversity in Australian general surgery publications, which is indicative of the progression and importance of robust modern surgical research.
    Keywords:  evidence-based medicine; general surgery; surgical education; surgical publications; surgical research
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/ans.17543
  17. J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Jan 01. 110(1): 103-108
    The Citation Cloud of a biomedical article: a free, public, web-based tool enabling citation analysis.
    Neil R Smalheiser, Jodi Schneider, Vetle I Torvik, Dean P Fragnito, Eric E Tirk.
       Background: An article's citations are useful for finding related articles that may not be readily found by keyword searches or textual similarity. Citation analysis is also important for analyzing scientific innovation and the structure of the biomedical literature. We wanted to facilitate citation analysis for the broad community by providing a user-friendly interface for accessing and analyzing citation data for biomedical articles.
    Case Presentation: We seeded the Citation Cloud dataset with over 465 million open access citations culled from six different sources: PubMed Central, Microsoft Academic Graph, ArnetMiner, Semantic Scholar, Open Citations, and the NIH iCite dataset. We implemented a free, public extension to PubMed that allows any user to visualize and analyze the entire citation cloud around any paper of interest A: the set of articles cited by A, those which cite A, those which are co-cited with A, and those which are bibliographically coupled to A.
    Conclusions: Citation Cloud greatly enables the study of citations by the scientific community, including relatively advanced analyses (co-citations and bibliographic coupling) that cannot be undertaken using other available tools. The tool can be accessed by running any PubMed query on the Anne O'Tate value-added search interface and clicking on the Citations button next to any retrieved article.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; citation analysis; evidence based medicine; information retrieval; science of science
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1117
  18. Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Feb 04. pii: 299. [Epub ahead of print]10(2):
    The Public Health Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Keng Yang, Hanying Qi.
      The 2019 global outbreak of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on public health governance systems around the world. In response, numerous scholars have conducted research on public health governance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of 1437 documents retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database, with 49,695 references. It analyses the research directions, countries of publications, core journals, leading authors and institutions and important publications. The paper also summarises research trends by analysing the co-occurrence of keywords, frequently cited documents and co-cited references. It summarises the global responses to COVID-19, including public health interventions and a range of supporting policies based on the features and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper provides comprehensive literary support and clear lines of research for future studies on the governance or regulation of public health emergencies.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; bibliometric analysis; public health emergency; public health governance; regulatory policies
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10020299
  19. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2022 Feb 22.
    Post-exposure prophylaxis against blood-borne viral infections among health care workers: A bibliometric analysis.
    Waleed M Sweileh.
       BACKGROUND: Health care workers face a wide range of chemical, physical, and biological occupational hazards in their jobs.
    OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to investigate research trends on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against blood-borne viral infections among health care workers.
    METHOD: Keywords related to health care workers, PEP, and blood-borne viruses were entered in the Scopus database for the period from 1950 to 27 January 2022.
    RESULTS: The search query returned 271 papers. The earliest publication was in 1984. The Pan African Medical Journal ranked first (n = 8, 3.0%), followed by the Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and Journal of Hospital Infection with 6 (2.2%) papers for each. One hundred ninety-one journals took part in publishing the retrieved papers. Authors from 63 different countries took part in publishing the retrieved papers. The United States (US) ranked first (n = 53, 19.6%) followed by India (n = 26, 9.6%). The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contributed the most (n = 9, 3.3%) and ranked first in the top active institutions. The mean number of authors per paper was 4.4 and the mean number of citations per paper was 17.0. The most frequent author keywords focused on PEP, health care workers, occupational exposure, HIV, hepatitis B, anti-retroviral and needle-stick injuries. Research themes in the retrieved papers focused on knowledge/attitude/practice and management and epidemiology of occupational exposure and PEP. There was a limited number of research publications in this field.
    CONCLUSION: Research activity in this field needs to be strengthened in low- and middle-income countries through reporting and training of HCWs.
    Keywords:  HIV; Post-exposure prophylaxis; bibliometric; health care workers; occupational exposure
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3233/JRS-210078
  20. Curr Probl Cardiol. 2022 Feb 21. pii: S0146-2806(22)00048-2. [Epub ahead of print] 101151
    A Bibliometric Analysis of Familial Hypercholesterolemia From 2011 to 2021.
    Namin Wei, Yuanhui Hu, Guoxiu Liu, Siyu Li, Guozhen Yuan, Xintian Shou, Xuesong Zhang, Jingjing Shi, Huaqiang Zhai.
      Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an autosomal dominant genetic disease, is increasingly emerging as a global threat. To learn more about the development of FH, 1 617 papers about FH and related research were retrieved in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2011 to 2021. Then, these publications were scientometrically analyzed based on CiteSpace and VOSviewer in terms of spatiotemporal distribution, author distribution, subject categories, topic distribution, and references. The results showed that research on FH is at a stable stage. More FH research has been conducted in developed countries, implying the necessity for strengthening international cooperation and exchanges. We have obtained scholars, institutions, relevant journals, and representative literatures that play an important role in FH. The research direction of FH is on the mechanisms of FH and its complications, diagnosis, statin therapy, and new lipid-lowering drug therapy. Care is the research frontier in FH, and it is in an explosive period.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; CiteSpace; Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH); VOSviewer; Visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2022.101151
  21. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 09. pii: 1933. [Epub ahead of print]19(4):
    Radiolucent Lesions of the Jaws: An Attempted Demonstration of the Use of Co-Word Analysis to List Main Similar Pathologies.
    Andy Wai Kan Yeung.
      (1) Background: Many radiolucent jaw lesions exist, and they often show a radiographic resemblance, rendering diagnosis a challenging act. Closely related lesions should be frequently mentioned together in the academic literature, which might be helpful for junior practitioners in determining their differential diagnosis. The usefulness of bibliometric analysis in this respect has yet to be demonstrated. (2) Methods: This study evaluated academic publications on radiolucent jaw lesions, as indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection database. The mentions of radiolucent jaw lesions were extracted from the complete bibliographic records of the publications, and co-word analyses were conducted with the aid of VOSviewer. (3) Results: Based on 1897 papers, visualization maps were synthesized to evaluate co-occurrences of the radiolucent jaw lesions. Ameloblastoma was frequently mentioned together with odontogenic keratocyst, dentigerous cyst, and radicular cyst. Osseous dysplasia was co-mentioned with osteomyelitis, ossifying fibroma, odontoma, fibrous dysplasia, and apical periodontitis. (4) Conclusions: The co-word analysis, a form of bibliometric analysis, could demonstrate a relatedness of radiolucent jaw lesions that could be considered at differential diagnosis.
    Keywords:  ameloblastoma; differential diagnosis; jaw pathology; osseous dysplasia; radiolucency
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19041933
  22. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2022 Feb;10(2): e4122
    Cleft Lip and Palate Research in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Scientometric Analysis.
    Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, John L Dutton, Priyanka Naidu, Chifundo Msokera, Zachary J Collier, Maria Fernanda Tapia, Shady Mikhail, Meredith Xepoleas, Allyn Auslander, Caroline A Yao, William Magee.
      Cleft lip and palate (CLP) comprise over 90% of the world's congenital anomalies and cause significant disability worldwide, while disproportionally burdening low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Research can help inform strategies that reduce disparities in accessing CLP care. We performed a scientometric analysis of CLP research in LMICs to identify influential contributors and themes.
    Methods: The authors searched seven citation databases accessed via Web of Science, from inception to March 2, 2021. Social network analysis was done using VOSviewer. The Kruskal-Wallis test and linear regression were used.
    Results: In total, 1561 articles authored by 6414 researchers affiliated with 2113 organizations in 119 countries were included. Most authors (n = 6387, 99.6%) had published two or more articles. The USA (454 articles), Brazil (211 articles), China (175 articles), and India (127 articles) published the most. The most prolific institutions were the University of Sao Paulo (94 articles), the University of Pittsburgh (57 articles), and the University of Iowa (55 articles). Marazita ML (33 articles), Shi B (27 articles), and Murray JC (22 articles) had the highest number of publications. An estimated 510 articles (32.7%) were focused on epidemiology, 240 (15.4%) on management, and 54 (3.5%) on global plastic surgery for CLP.
    Conclusions: LMICs are disproportionally burdened by CLP, but research is limited and often produced by high-income countries. This study elucidates partnership and health system strengthening opportunities to improve LMIC research capacity and ultimately informs the management and outcomes for patients with CLP.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004122
  23. J Man Manip Ther. 2022 Feb 21. 1-8
    Do Prospective Intent and Established Metrics Correlate with Journal Impact Factor in Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy Trials?: A Secondary Analysis of A Methodological Review.
    Sean P Riley, Brian T Swanson, Stephen M Shaffer, Steven F Sawyer, Joshua A Cleland.
       OBJECTIVES: To determine if there are any statistically significant associations between: 1) randomized clinical trials (RCTs) investigating physical therapy musculoskeletal interventions, 2) journal impact factor (JIF), 3) frequency of RCT citation, 4) whether prospective intent was identifiable, and 5) the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scores.
    METHODS: MEDLINE indexed RCTs addressing musculoskeletal interventions published between January 2016 and July 2020 in physical therapy journals were included. Two blinded reviewers identified the RCTs and extracted the variables of interest.
    RESULTS: With a familywise alpha adjustment, there was no statistically significant correlation between JIF and number of citations (rho = 0.187; p = 0.0280). Statistically significant weak positive correlations were identified between the JIF and prospectively registered RCTs (rho = 0.240; p = 0.0046), JIF and PEDro scores (rho = 0.250; p = 0.0031), and PEDro scores and prospectively registered RCTs (rho = 0.335; p < 0.0001).
    CONCLUSION: The findings of this study suggest that JIF and PEDro scores may not be accurate measures of RCT quality. Failing to ensure that published RCTs followed their prospective intent and using bibliometrics that fail to accurately measure what they propose appears to create untrustworthy preprocessed resources for practicing physical therapists during the evidence-based practice process.
    LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 1a.
    Keywords:  Journal impact factor; physical therapy specialty; prospective studies; publication bias; research report
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/10669817.2022.2041285
  24. Front Psychol. 2021 ;12 766907
    Citizen Environmental Behavior From the Perspective of Psychological Distance Based on a Visual Analysis of Bibliometrics and Scientific Knowledge Mapping.
    Li Yang, Xin Fang, Junqi Zhu.
      Global warming and other climate issues seriously threaten global sustainable development. As citizen environmental behavior can have a positive impact on the environment, it is of great theoretical significance and practical reference value to study the impact of psychological distance theory on citizen environmental behavior. This study obtained 2,633 related studies from 1980 to 2020 from the Web of Science as research objects, and used CiteSpace, VOSviewer, Netdraw, and other software programs to perform a bibliometric analysis, which can show the complex relationship implied in the citation, intuitively grasp the development context and hot frontier in this field, and help scholars better study citizen environmental behavior. The results and conclusions are as follows. (1) The related research covered three periods: infancy, growth, and outbreak. (2) Chronologically, the relevant research evolved from building models to analyze the impact of environmental enrichment on human environmental behavior, to studying the motivation behind citizen environmental behavior, and finally to paying attention to sustainable development. (3) A cluster analysis of high-frequency keywords identified three research hotspots: "drivers of psychological distance of environmental change perception on citizen environmental behavior," "impact of social distance on adolescents' behavior," and "construal level theory and citizen green behavior." Based on these findings, possible future research directions were identified, including changing from a single theory to a combination of multiple theories to comprehensively study citizen environmental protection behavior; analyzing the motivation of citizen environmental behavior and summarizing the general motivation of environmental behavior according to its internal relationship; and determining how to narrow the global psychological distance, strengthen the awareness of the community of human destiny, and explore the establishment of an efficient global climate cooperation mechanism.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; VOSviewer; bibliometrics; construal level; environmental behavior; psychological distance
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.766907
  25. J Pers Med. 2022 Feb 13. pii: 274. [Epub ahead of print]12(2):
    Conjoint Analysis: A Research Method to Study Patients' Preferences and Personalize Care.
    Basem Al-Omari, Joviana Farhat, Mai Ershaid.
      This article aims to describe the conjoint analysis (CA) method and its application in healthcare settings, and to provide researchers with a brief guide to conduct a conjoint study. CA is a method for eliciting patients' preferences that offers choices similar to those in the real world and allows researchers to quantify these preferences. To identify literature related to conjoint analysis, a comprehensive search of PubMed (MEDLINE), EMBASE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar was conducted without language or date restrictions. To identify the trend of publications and citations in conjoint analysis, an online search of all databases indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection was conducted on the 8th of December 2021 without time restriction. Searching key terms covered a wide range of synonyms related to conjoint analysis. The search field was limited to the title, and no language or date limitations were applied. The number of published documents related to CA was nearly 900 during the year 2021 and the total number of citations for CA documents was approximately 20,000 citations, which certainly shows that the popularity of CA is increasing, especially in the healthcare sciences services discipline, which is in the top five fields publishing CA documents. However, there are some limitations regarding the appropriate sample size, quality assessment tool, and external validity of CA.
    Keywords:  choice based; conjoint analysis; multivariate technique; patient preferences; ranking; rating
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12020274
  26. Int J STEM Educ. 2022 ;9(1): 16
    The impacts of learning analytics and A/B testing research: a case study in differential scientometrics.
    Ryan S Baker, Nidhi Nasiar, Weiyi Gong, Chelsea Porter.
       Background: In recent years, research on online learning platforms has exploded in quantity. More and more researchers are using these platforms to conduct A/B tests on the impact of different designs, and multiple scientific communities have emerged around studying the big data becoming available from these platforms. However, it is not yet fully understood how each type of research influences future scientific discourse within the broader field. To address this gap, this paper presents the first scientometric study on how researchers build on the contributions of these two types of online learning platform research (particularly in STEM education). We selected a pair of papers (one using A/B testing, the other conducting learning analytics (LA), on platform data of an online STEM education platform), published in the same year, by the same research group, at the same conference. We then analyzed each of the papers that cited these two papers, coding from the paper text (with inter-rater reliability checks) the reason for each citation made.
    Results: After statistically comparing the frequency of each category of citation between papers, we found that the A/B test paper was self-cited more and that citing papers built on its work directly more frequently, whereas the LA paper was more often cited without discussion.
    Conclusions: Hence, the A/B test paper appeared to have had a larger impact on future work than the learning analytics (LA) paper, even though the LA paper had a higher count of total citations with a lower degree of self-citation. This paper also established a novel method for understanding how different types of research make different contributions in learning analytics, and the broader online learning research space of STEM education.
    Keywords:  A/B testing; Learning analytics; Online learning; STEM education platform; Scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-022-00330-6
  27. J Neurosurg. 2022 Feb 25. pii: 2022.1.JNS212096. [Epub ahead of print] 1-7
    Representation of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at neurological surgery conferences.
    Gabrielle W Johnson, Alison Almgren-Bell, Alexander Skidmore, Dhvanii Raval, Gretchen Blow, Hongjie Gu, Kimberly Mackey, Mari Groves, Hedwig Lee, Jennifer M Strahle.
       OBJECTIVE: Female neurosurgeon representation has increased, but women still represent only 8.4% of neurosurgeons in the US. Women are significantly underrepresented as authors in neurosurgical and spine journals, a key indicator of professional success in academic medicine. In this study, the authors aimed to assess the gender diversity of first and last authors of accepted abstracts at neurosurgical conferences in 2015 and 2019.
    METHODS: Annual meeting abstracts for 2015 and 2019 of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and pediatrics, spine, stereotactic and functional surgery, and cerebrovascular AANS/CNS subspecialty sections were obtained and analyzed for gender. Partial data were obtained for tumor and pain sections. Composite gender data were obtained from the societies. Percentage differences were calculated using comparison of proportions testing.
    RESULTS: Overall, female neurosurgeons accounted for only 8.3% of first and 5.8% of last authors, and 7.2% of authors overall. The pediatrics section had the highest proportion of female neurosurgeons as first (13.7%) and last (12.4%) abstract authors, while the spine section had the lowest proportions of female neurosurgeon first (4.6%) and last (2.0%) authors. Qualitatively, a higher proportion of women were first authors, while a higher proportion of men were last authors. Overall, there was no significant change in female neurosurgeon authorship between 2015 and 2019. With regard to society demographics, female neurosurgeons accounted for only 6.3% of AANS membership. The pediatrics section had the highest proportion of female neurosurgeons at 18.1% and the stereotactic and functional surgery section had the lowest of the subspecialty sections (7.6%). While female neurosurgeons represented 12.6% of spine section membership, they represented only 4.7% of first authors (-7.9% difference; p < 0.0001) and 2.4% of last authors (-10.2% difference; p < 0.0001). For the 2019 cerebrovascular section, female neurosurgeons were underrepresented as presenting authors (5.8%) compared with their membership representation (14.8%, -9.0% difference; p = 0.0018).
    CONCLUSIONS: Despite an increase in the number of female neurosurgeons, there has not been a corresponding increase in the proportion of female neurosurgeons as abstract authors at annual neurosurgery conferences, and female neurosurgeons remain underrepresented as authors compared with their male colleagues.
    Keywords:  authorship; diversity; gender gap; women in neurosurgery
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.1.JNS212096
  28. J Pak Med Assoc. 2022 Feb;72(Suppl 1)(2): S30-S34
    Navigating through our history in research: An altmetric analysis for publications by the full-time operative dentistry faculty at the Aga Khan University Hospital in the past decade.
    Nighat Naved, Fahad Umer.
       Objective: To analyse the social dissemination of publications by fulltime faculty at a tertiary care facility.
    METHODS: The retrospective study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised publication records of the fulltime Operative Dentistry faculty members between July 2011 till July 2021. The search was done on Google Scholar, Altmetric Explorer and PubMed electronic databases. After final screening, all the publications in PubMed-indexed journals, including in vitro studies, randomised controlled trials, original research articles, case reports and letters to the editor, for which the Altmetric Attention Score was available were included.
    RESULTS: Of the 225 publications identified, 34 (15%) formed the final sample. The cumulative citation count for the publications was 617 and Altmetric Attention Score was 158. There were 16 Facebook mentions and 163 tweets.
    Conclusion: The social impact of publications by the Operative Dentistry faculty over a decade was not convincing in terms of Altmetric Attention Score.
    Keywords:   Traditional bibliometrics, Altmetrics, Altmetric Attention Score, AAS, Online attention, Social dissemination
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.AKU-07
  29. Front Public Health. 2021 ;9 742980
    Food Supply Chain Safety Research Trends From 1997 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Jianli Luo, Shujuan Leng, Yanhu Bai.
       Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global food supply chain, strengthened consumers' awareness of the traceability system throughout the supply chain, and gradually changed consumers' consumption concepts and consumption patterns. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyse the relevant literature on food safety in the food supply chain, examine its current status, hot spots, and development trends, and provide some suggestions for academics and relevant government departments in food supply chain safety research.
    Methods: We collected the literature on the food safety research of the food supply chain from the Scopus database, used BibExcel to count the subject categories, published journals, geographical distributions, research institutions, authors, and keywords in the literature, and used Pajek software to analyse the keywords in the literature, perform co-occurrence analysis, draw related knowledge maps, and perform cluster analysis on primary keywords. Finally, to study the development trend, we used CorTexT software to illustrate the theme evolution path map in this research field.
    Results: The keyword visualization network revealed the following key research topics: (1) food safety at the consumer end of the food supply chain, (2) food safety management in the food supply chain, (3) risk management of food safety in the food safety chain, and (4) food safety at the production end of the food supply chain.
    Conclusions: After comprehensive discussion and analysis, we concluded that food supply chain management may be a hot topic in the future, especially in traceability management combined with the blockchain. It is necessary to explore in-depth how the blockchain can affect the food supply chain to provide a theoretical basis for managing the latter.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; food safety; food supply chain; pandemic; traceability
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.742980
  30. Front Oncol. 2022 ;12 824201
    A Bibliometric Analysis of the Landscape of Parathyroid Carcinoma Research Based on the PubMed (2000-2021).
    Chenzhe Feng, Chuwen Tian, Leyi Huang, Haolin Chen, Yeqian Feng, Shi Chang.
       Introduction: The purpose of this study was to assess the landscape of parathyroid carcinoma research during the last 22 years using machine learning and text analysis.
    Method: In November 2021, we obtained from PubMed all works indexed under the mesh subject line "parathyroid carcinoma". The entire set of search results was retrieved in XML format, and metadata such as title, abstract, keywords, mesh words, and year of publication were extracted for bibliometric evaluation from the original XML files. To increase the specificity of the investigation, the Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling method was applied.
    Results: The paper analyzed 3578 papers. The volume of literature related to parathyroid cancer has been relatively flat over the past 22 years. In the field of parathyroid cancer research, the most important topic of clinical interest is the differential diagnosis. Ultrasound and MIBI are the most commonly used imaging methods for localization. In terms of basic research, the mechanisms of gene mutation and local tumor recurrence are the focus of interest.
    Conclusion: There are huge unmet research needs for parathyroid carcinoma. Improving the diagnosis rates of parathyroid cancer by clinicians and establishing new and reliable molecular pathological markers and new image localization techniques will continue to be the focus of future research.
    Keywords:  PubMed; machine learning; natural language processing; parathyroid carcinoma; publication analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.824201
  31. BMJ Open. 2022 Feb 25. 12(2): e057854
    Prospective analyses of sex/gender-related publication decisions in general medical journals: editorial rejection of population-based women's reproductive physiology.
    Dharani Kalidasan, Azita Goshtasebi, Joan Chrisler, Helen L Brown, Jerilynn C Prior.
       OBJECTIVE: To assess whether editorial desk rejection at general medical journals (without peer review) of two clinical research manuscripts may relate to author gender or women's physiology topics. Given evidence for bias related to women in science and medicine, and editorial board attitudes, our hypothesis was that submissions by women authors, on women's reproductive, non-disease topics received differential editorial assessment.
    DESIGN: A prospective investigation of publications, author gender and topics in general medical journals in two issues following the editorial rejections of two clinical research manuscripts by five major English-language general medical journals. The rejected manuscripts (subsequently published in lower impact journals) described research funded by national granting bodies, in population-based samples, authored by well-published women scientists at accredited institutions and describing innovative women's reproductive physiology results.
    SETTING: Tertiary academic medical centre.
    MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: All clinical research published in the two issues following rejection date by each of the five major general medical journals were examined for first/senior author gender. The publication topic was assessed for its gendered population relevance, whether disease or physiology focused, and its funding. Rejection letters assessed editor gender and status.
    RESULTS: Women were underrepresented as original research authors; men were 84% of senior and 69% of first authors. There were no, non-disease focused publications relating to women's health, although most topics were relevant to both genders. The majority (80%) of rejection letters appeared to be written by junior-ranked women editors.
    CONCLUSION: Sex/gender accountability is necessary for clinical research-based editorial decisions by major general medical journals. Suggestions to improve gender equity in general medical journal publication: (1) an editorial board sex/gender champion with power to advocate for manuscripts that are well-performed research of relevance to women's health/physiology; (2) an editorial rejection adjudication committee to review author challenges; and (3) gender parity in double-blind peer review.
    Keywords:  Gender Equity; Publication Bias; Women's Health; clinical physiology; epidemiology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057854
  32. JMIR Ment Health. 2022 Feb 22. 9(2): e25238
    International Technologies on Prevention and Treatment of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases: Bibliometric Analysis of Patents.
    Fuhao Zheng, Ling Wang, Zhaonan Zeng, Siying Wu.
       BACKGROUND: Neurological and psychiatric disorders are serious and expensive global public health problems. Therefore, exploring effective intervention technologies plays an important role in improving patients' clinical symptoms and social functions, as well as reducing medical burden.
    OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to analyze and summarize the key new technologies and innovative development trends witnessed globally for neurological illness and psychiatric disorders by mining the relevant patent data.
    METHODS: A bibliometric analysis was conducted on patent applications, priority countries, main patentees, hot technologies, and other patent information on neurological and psychiatric disorders, revealing the current situation along with the trend of technology development in this field.
    RESULTS: In recent years, inventions and innovations related to neurological and psychiatric diseases have become very active, with China being the largest patent priority country. Of the top patent holders, Visicu (headquartered in the United States) is the leader. The distribution of patent holders in China remains relatively scattered, with no monopoly organization at present. Global technologies on neurological illness and psychiatric disorders are mainly concentrated around A61B (diagnosis, surgery, and identification).
    CONCLUSIONS: This paper analyzed and summarized the key new technologies and global innovative development trends of neurological and psychiatric diseases by mining the relevant patent data, and provides practical references and research perspectives for the prevention and treatment of the aforesaid diseases.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; neurological diseases; patent; prevention; psychiatric diseases; treatment
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2196/25238
  33. Scientometrics. 2022 Feb 14. 1-21
    Size of science team at university and internal co-publications: science policy implications.
    Hamid Bouabid, Hind Achachi.
      Scientific collaboration within a science team (unit, group, etc.) has been under scrutiny. Recently, science of team science has emerged to use science for deep understanding of the ways researchers jointly perform science to increase their team's performance. This article analyses internal scientific outputs with respect to the size of university's science team. The objective is to examine the science policy motive that is, if the team size increases, by encouraging academics to gather in larger teams, then their outputs increase. The method of the contrapositive of this conditional statement is adopted. Thus, 120 accredited teams, composed of about 1500 academics in four universities in Morocco, were analyzed using a cross-matrix of members' co-publications, an intra-collaboration index, Lorenz curve of both internal co-publications and sole-publications, with respect to team's size. Our findings show that internal co-publications and sole ones are higher for small size teams and that the Lorenz distributions of these two indicators are unequal in favor of small size teams. We discuss the implications of our findings for science policy, beyond size, such as the output- instead of input-based perspective to form a team, time requirement to build a collaborative team, inter- and intra-disciplinarity oriented research, team directorship, etc.
    Keywords:  Co-authoring; Co-publication; Collaboration; Research unit; Science policy; Science team
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04285-x
  34. Ann Reg Sci. 2022 Feb 14. 1-7
    Editorial: developments at the Annals of regional science 2020-2021.
    Martin Andersson, Brian H S Kim, Janet E Kohlhase.
      The editors-in-chief of the Annals of Regional Science offer an overview and analysis of recent developments at the journal from January 2020 through December 2021, a time period hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Annal's Impact Factor increased substantially to 2.646 in 2020. Moreover, submissions increased from pre-COVID times. A new development is the shifting of source regions for articles accepted for publication. For the first time, China tied with the USA to lead the distribution of acceptances by country. Special Issues continue to be important components of the journal.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01115-z
  35. J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Jan 01. 110(1): 72-80
    Evidence-based biomedical research in Sub-Saharan Africa: how library and information science professionals contribute to systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
    Toluwase Victor Asubiaro, Elueze Isioma.
       Objective: This study investigated the contributions of library and information science (LIS) professionals to systematic reviews and meta-analyses with authors from Sub-Saharan Africa. It also investigated how the first author's address and type of collaboration affected the involvement of LIS professionals in systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
    Methods: Bibliographic data of systematic reviews with author(s) from the forty-six Sub-Saharan African countries was retrieved from MEDLINE. Content and bibliometric analyses were performed on the systematic reviews' full-texts and bibliographic data, respectively, to identify the contributions of LIS professionals and collaboration patterns.
    Results: Beyond traditional roles as search strategy developers and searchers, the LIS professionals participated in article retrieval, database selection, reference management, draft review, review conceptualization, manuscript writing, technical support, article screening and selection, data extraction, abstract review, and training/teaching. Of the 2,539 publications, LIS professionals were mentioned in 472 publications. LIS professionals from only seven of the forty-six Sub-Saharan African countries were noted to have contributed. LIS professionals from South Africa were mentioned most frequently-five times more than those from other Sub-Saharan African countries. LIS professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa mostly contributed to publications with first authors from Sub-Saharan Africa (90.20%) and intra-Sub-Saharan African collaboration (61.66%). Most LIS professionals (97.91%) that contributed to international collaboration publications were from outside Sub-Saharan Africa.
    Conclusion: The contribution of LIS professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa to evidence-based biomedical research can improve through training, mentoring, and collaboration between LIS associations in Sub-Saharan Africa and those in countries with resources and a history of research collaboration with the region.
    Keywords:  Sub-Saharan Africa; content analysis; evidence-based biomedical research; information professionals; librarians; meta-analysis; systematic reviews
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1249
  36. Res Integr Peer Rev. 2022 Feb 21. 7(1): 1
    Characteristics of 'mega' peer-reviewers.
    Danielle B Rice, Ba' Pham, Justin Presseau, Andrea C Tricco, David Moher.
       BACKGROUND: The demand for peer reviewers is often perceived as disproportionate to the supply and availability of reviewers. Considering characteristics associated with peer review behaviour can allow for the development of solutions to manage the growing demand for peer reviewers. The objective of this research was to compare characteristics among two groups of reviewers registered in Publons.
    METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to compare characteristics between (1) individuals completing at least 100 peer reviews ('mega peer reviewers') from January 2018 to December 2018 as and (2) a control group of peer reviewers completing between 1 and 18 peer reviews over the same time period. Data was provided by Publons, which offers a repository of peer reviewer activities in addition to tracking peer reviewer publications and research metrics. Mann Whitney tests and chi-square tests were conducted comparing characteristics (e.g., number of publications, number of citations, word count of peer review) of mega peer reviewers to the control group of reviewers.
    RESULTS: A total of 1596 peer reviewers had data provided by Publons. A total of 396 M peer reviewers and a random sample of 1200 control group reviewers were included. A greater proportion of mega peer reviews were male (92%) as compared to the control reviewers (70% male). Mega peer reviewers demonstrated a significantly greater average number of total publications, citations, receipt of Publons awards, and a higher average h index as compared to the control group of reviewers (all p < .001). We found no statistically significant differences in the number of words between the groups (p > .428).
    CONCLUSIONS: Mega peer reviewers registered in the Publons database also had a higher number of publications and citations as compared to a control group of reviewers. Additional research that considers motivations associated with peer review behaviour should be conducted to help inform peer reviewing activity.
    Keywords:  Characteristics of reviewers; Peer review; Publons
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-022-00121-1
  37. Nutrients. 2022 Feb 18. pii: 850. [Epub ahead of print]14(4):
    Understanding Dietary Habit Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy.
    Giuseppe Grosso.
      A recently published study by Cicero et al. [1] gained a great deal of attention and was among the most cited articles published in Nutrients [...].
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14040850
  38. J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Jan 01. 110(1): 97-102
    Sharing of retracted COVID-19 articles: an altmetric study.
    Amrollah Shamsi, Brady Daniel Lund, Shohreh SeyyedHosseini.
       Objective: This study examines the extent to which retracted articles pertaining to COVID-19 have been shared via social and mass media based on altmetric scores.
    Methods: Seventy-one retracted articles related to COVID-19 were identified from relevant databases, of which thirty-nine had an Altmetric Attention Score obtained using the Altmetrics Bookmarklet. Data extracted from the articles include overall attention score and demographics of sharers (e.g., geographic location, professional affiliation).
    Results: Retracted articles related to COVID-19 were shared tens of thousands of times to an audience of potentially hundreds of millions of readers and followers. Twitter was the largest medium for sharing these articles, and the United States was the country with the most sharers. While general members of the public were the largest proportion of sharers, researchers and professionals were not immune to sharing these articles on social media and on websites, blogs, or news media.
    Conclusions: These findings have potential implications for better understanding the spread of misleading or false information perpetuated in retracted scholarly publications. They emphasize the importance of quality peer review and research ethics among journals and responsibility among individuals who wish to share research findings.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; altmetrics; articles; retractions; social media
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1269
  39. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Chang. 2022 ;27(3): 18
    Climate change adaptation (CCA) research in Nepal: implications for the advancement of adaptation planning.
    Gyanendra Karki, Balram Bhatta, Naba R Devkota, Ram P Acharya, Ripu Mardhan Kunwar.
      Climate change has become one of the most compelling fields of empirical research over the last couple of decades, partly due to its socio-economic impacts. Using a meta-analysis of 235 peer-reviewed articles published between January 2010 and July 2020, this paper appraises climate change adaptation (CCA) research in Nepal and draws lessons for future adaptation planning. The number of research is observed to have increased significantly in recent years (2015-2020) although there is no consistent pattern over the review period and at the thematic level. Findings submit that the agriculture and food security has the highest number of publications (37%) followed by gender equality and social inclusion (18%) and forest, biodiversity and watershed management (16%). There are no studies found in rural and urban settlement theme. Geographic distribution of CCA studies revealed that over 40% studies were carried out from central Nepal, while no study was conducted in ten districts of eastern and western Nepal. The study focus was also discrete, and the perception and attitude and impact assessment of climate change were common agendas; however, the drivers of change and options for adaptation were understudied. CCA with multipronged initiatives provide a broader understanding of dynamics and governance of climate change that not only affects rural livelihoods, but also influences regional and global environments and biodiversity.
    Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11027-021-09991-0.
    Keywords:  Adaptation planning; Climate change adaptation; Research; Sustainable development
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-021-09991-0
  40. Nat Neurosci. 2022 Feb 21.
    Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience.
    Eleanor R Palser, Maia Lazerwitz, Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
      We reviewed publicly available information from the top 50 journals worldwide in psychology and neuroscience to infer the proportions of editors by gender and country of affiliation. In both fields, the proportions of male and female editors differed significantly, both across editorial roles and within various role categories. Moreover, for 76% of psychology journals and 88% of neuroscience journals more than 50% of editors were male, whereas only 20% and 10%, respectively, had a similar proportion of female editors. US-based academics outnumbered those from other countries as editors in both psychology and neuroscience beyond what would be expected from approximate rates of senior psychology and neuroscience scholars worldwide. Our findings suggest that editorial positions in academic journals-possibly one of the most powerful decision-making roles in academic psychology and neuroscience-are balanced in neither gender nor geographical representation.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01012-w
  41. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Feb 23.
    Correction to: Past, current, and future perspectives on eco-tourism: a bibliometric review between 2001 and 2018.
    Ziphozakhe Theophilus Shasha, Yong Geng, Hua-Ping Sun, Walter Musakwa, Lu Sun.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19404-7
  42. Biomed Eng Lett. 2022 Feb;12(1): 1
    Biomedical Engineering Letters indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).
    Jae Sung Lee.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13534-021-00213-9
  43. Nature. 2022 Feb;602(7898): 566-570
    The giant plan to track diversity in research journals.
    Holly Else, Jeffrey M Perkel.
      
    Keywords:  Databases; Ethics; Publishing; Society
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00426-7
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