bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2022–03–20
forty-two papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society
  1. A Quantitative Synthesis of Eight Decades of Global Multiple Sclerosis Research Using Bibliometrics.
  2. Evolution of Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer from a Bird's-Eye Perspective: A Text-Mining Analysis of Publication Trends and Topics.
  3. The Trend of Drug Therapy on Uveitic Macular Edema: A Bibliometric Analysis of the 100 Most Cited Articles.
  4. Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Activity in the Field of GIANT Cell Arteritis: A SCOPUS-based Study.
  5. A bibliometric analysis of the top 50 most cited articles published in the Journal of Conservative Dentistry.
  6. A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Ketamine From 2001 to 2020.
  7. A bibliometric analysis of the research on preeclampsia in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
  8. Altmetric and Bibliometric Analysis of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research: Influence of Public Engagement on Citation Potential.
  9. Gender Disparity in the Citation of Surgical Research.
  10. Global and Current Research Trends of Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy/Biportal Endoscopic Spinal Surgery in the Treatment of Lumbar Degenerative Diseases: A Bibliometric and Visualization Study.
  11. Emerging Trends and Hot Spots in Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy Research From 2001 to 2021: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  12. Emerging Trends on the Correlation Between Neurotransmitters and Tumor Progression in the Last 20 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis via CiteSpace.
  13. Studies Related to Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Past 10 Years (2011-2020): A Bibliometric Analysis.
  14. The Global Research of Artificial Intelligence on Prostate Cancer: A 22-Year Bibliometric Analysis.
  15. Research Trends on Pillared Interlayered Clays (PILCs) Used as Catalysts in Environmental and Chemical Processes: Bibliometric Analysis.
  16. Investigation of highly cited publications related to vaccines against COVID-19: current state and future predictions.
  17. Scientific laws of research funding to support citations and diffusion of knowledge in life science.
  18. A bibliometric analysis of sustainable agriculture: based on the Web of Science (WOS) platform.
  19. Gender imbalance in gynecologic oncology authorship and impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
  20. The academic impact of 20 years of Irish otolaryngology society conferences.
  21. Bibliometric Analyses of Global Scholarly Output in Dentistry Related to COVID-19.
  22. [Analysis of articles on dental pulp biology research in China published in international journals from 2011 to 2020].
  23. Scientometric Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Gender Trends in 30 Years of IEEE VIS Publications.
  24. Discover the trend and evolution of sustainable manufacturing: a thematic and bibliometric analysis.
  25. Research on the Effects of Lying on Memory: A Scientometric Analysis and a Call for New Studies.
  26. Female Surgeons for Obesity Treatment: a Snapshot Sampling in Academic Productivity : The Role of Women in Obesity Surgery.
  27. Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia: A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends.
  28. Dissemination of Plastic Surgery Research: An Analysis of PRS and PRS-GO.
  29. Recent trends in the use of social media in parasitology and the application of alternative metrics.
  30. Reference Hygiene and Death on the Internet - Decay, Rot, Half-Life, Deterioration, and Corruption.
  31. [CiteSpace knowledge map analysis of research progress on Tripterygium wilfordii toxicity].
  32. Physical Exercise in the Context of Air Pollution: An Emerging Research Topic.
  33. Phytoremediation of heavy metal pollution: Hotspots and future prospects.
  34. Meta-Research: Individual-level researcher data confirm the widening gender gap in publishing rates during COVID-19.
  35. Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on the academic research agenda. A scientometric analysis.
  36. Trends of sources of clinical research funding from 1990 to 2020: a meta-epidemiological study.
  37. Bibliometric analysis and evaluation of the Journal of Prosthodontic Research from 2009 to 2021.
  38. Research output of Iran over the past two years: Contributions from the European Journal of Translational Myology.
  39. Analytical Mapping of Information and Communication Technology in Emerging Infectious Diseases Using CiteSpace.
  40. Publication Rate in English of Abstracts Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
  41. Insights into the mechanisms of organic pollutant toxicity to earthworms: Advances and perspectives.
  42. Bibliometric profile of the doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse (Tunisia).
  1. Front Neurol. 2022 ;13 845539
    A Quantitative Synthesis of Eight Decades of Global Multiple Sclerosis Research Using Bibliometrics.
    Ismail Ibrahim Ismail, Mohammed Saqr.
      Bibliometric studies on the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) research are scarce. The aim of this study is to offer an overarching view of the body of knowledge about MS research over eight decades-from 1945 to 2021-by means of a bibliometric analysis. We performed a quantitative analysis of a massive dataset based on Web of Science. The analysis included frequencies, temporal trends, collaboration networks, clusters of research themes, and an in-depth qualitative analysis. A total of 48,356 articles, with 1,766,086 citations were retrieved. Global MS research showed a steady increase with an annual growth rate of 6.4%, with more than half of the scientific production published in the last decade. Published articles came from 98 different countries by 123,569 authors in 3,267 journals, with the United States ranking first in a number of publications (12,770) and citations (610,334). A co-occurrence network analysis formed four main themes of research, covering the pathophysiological mechanisms, neuropsychological symptoms, diagnostic modalities, and treatment of MS. A noticeable increase in research on cognition, depression, and fatigue was observed, highlighting the increased attention to the quality of life of patients with MS. This bibliometric analysis provided a comprehensive overview of the status of global MS research over the past eight decades. These results could provide a better understanding of this field and help identify new directions for future research.
    Keywords:  articles; bibliometrics; citations; country productivity; impact factor; multiple sclerosis; publication trends; scientific collaboration
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.845539
  2. Front Oncol. 2022 ;12 795129
    Evolution of Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer from a Bird's-Eye Perspective: A Text-Mining Analysis of Publication Trends and Topics.
    Guangyi Jiang, Junjie Hong, Feng Shao, Qiang Wen, Feng Cheng, Tunan Yu, Jianqing Zhu.
       Objectives: Ovarian tumors are among the most prominent gynecological malignancies and have a poor prognosis. Immunotherapy has undergone incredible progress in the past two decades. Our study aimed to use a bibliometric approach to identify research trends in ovarian cancer immunotherapy.
    Methods: Literature on this topic published from 2000-2020 was retrieved from the Web of Science Core Citation database and analyzed using the bibliometric analysis software VOSviewer and CiteSpace.
    Results: A total of 1729 articles on ovarian cancer immunotherapy published from January 2000 to December 2020 were identified. The number of published articles increased each year, from 40 in 2000 to 209 in 2020. These publications were from 61 countries, and the USA showed a dominant position in publication output, total citations, and average number of citations per paper. Co-citation networks revealed 14 subtopics. 'PD-L1 expression,' 'tumor reactive til,' and 'parp inhibitor' are the current potential subtopics. Furthermore, we determined research trends according to the timeline analysis.
    Conclusion: Our study exhaustively describes the development and summarizes the research trends of ovarian cancer immunotherapy over the past 20 years.
    Keywords:  bibliometric; immunotherapy; ovarian cancer; subtopic trends; text-mining analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.795129
  3. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 ;9 807319
    The Trend of Drug Therapy on Uveitic Macular Edema: A Bibliometric Analysis of the 100 Most Cited Articles.
    Si Chen, Jinfeng Kong, Lei Feng.
       Background: Macular edema is the most common cause of impaired vision due to uveitis. Although various medications are available, not all uveitis patients with macular edema are satisfied with the treatment results. Therefore, solving this gap becomes the utmost concern worldwide. This study attempted to use bibliometric analysis to compare the valuable information in the top 100 highly cited studies in the field of drug therapy for uveitic macular edema (UME) and then determine the research hot spots and trends in this field.
    Methods: In this study, the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) of Web of Science (WOS) was used to collect the top 100 most cited studies on UME and analyze the literature from different countries/regions, institutions, and journals. The visualization knowledge maps is generated by VOSviewer and Citespace software.
    Results: The top 100 highly cited studies are from 34 countries/regions. The United States has the largest number of publications, followed by the England, Spain and Germany. The top three institutions publishing highly cited literature are all from the England: University of London, University College London, and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Ophthalmology is the most widely published journal with 14 papers. The total number of citations is 1,371, meaning that Ophthalmology is the most authoritative journal in the field of UME drug therapy. The top two articles with the most cited times are from the United States, accounting for 36.5% of the total cited times of the top 10 articles. Keywords were divided into three clusters: the corticosteroid administration pathway, biological agents, and clinical trials. Uveitis, cystoid macular edema, efficacy, dexamethasone, and triamcinolone acetonide appeared more frequently in keywords. Researches on local and long-acting drug has gradually becoming the hot spots and trends.
    Conclusion: This study concludes that bibliometric analysis can intuitively and quickly obtain the frontiers and hot spots of research in the field of UME drug therapy. Corticosteroid administration, biological agents, and clinical trials are considered the potential focus of future research.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; citations; drug treatment; macular edema; uveitis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.807319
  4. TH Open. 2022 Jan;6(1): e80-e88
    Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Activity in the Field of GIANT Cell Arteritis: A SCOPUS-based Study.
    Syeda Beenish Bareeqa, Syeda Sana Samar, Sufiyan Kamal, Fizza Zaman Khan, Hafsa Shakeel, Kanza Ali, Syed Hasham Humayun, Syed Ijlal Ahmed.
      Objective  Giant cell arthritis (GCA) is a type of vasculitis which is more common in female gender and is closely associated with Polymyalgia rheumatic. One of its important complication include visual impairment. The burden of disease is expected to be very high by 2050 and there is a need to compile the data on most influential studies on GCA to define future strategy to deal with this dangerous disease. Bibliometrics is a statistical analysis of published literature that reflects the value and impact of a particular publication within the specific field. Aim of our study is identify the most significant contributors and their quality of contribution in the field. Method  We conducted this analysis utilizing SCOPUS database using different related MeSH terms. After a detailed screening, the list of top-50 articles were presented in the results in descending order of their ranks on the basis of their total number of citation. Most of our data comprises of publications from 1971-2012. Result  The top-50 most cited articles on GCA were published between 1971 and 2012 with the median number of citations 274 ranging from 598-187. Annals of Internal Medicine was the top ranked journal with 13 publications from the list. The highly ranked author based on the number of publications was Hunder GG (20 publications) with h-index of 40, retaining affiliation with Mayo Clinic, Rochester, United States. Mayo Clinic was the most frequently mentioned institute among the affiliations. The United States was found to be the most productive country rendering most of the articles (64%). Conclusion  Our bibliometric analysis on Giant cell arteritis identifies the information which may direct future research contributions, identify field experts, guide researchers to fill knowledge gaps, and assist in research fund allocation.
    Keywords:  bibliometric; citation classics; giant cell arteritis; polymyalgia rheumatic; temporal arteritis; vasculitis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1760-0340
  5. J Conserv Dent. 2021 Jul-Aug;24(4):24(4): 341-347
    A bibliometric analysis of the top 50 most cited articles published in the Journal of Conservative Dentistry.
    Vinaya Susan Varghese, Preet Kanwal Atwal, Kapil K Dua, Nirmal Kurian, Joe Mathew Cherian, Aneeta Mary Sabu.
       Background: Bibliometric analysis is the quantitative analysis of measurable citation information of a journal. It unveils research topics, publishing trends, assess research impact, and productivity.
    Aims: The purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis to identify and analyze the top 50 most cited articles published in the Journal of Conservative Dentistry (JCD).
    Methodology: Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science was used to search and identify the 50 most cited scientific papers of JCD. Each article was then cross-matched with Google Scholar and PubMed databases and the mean citation was derived. In addition, citation density for each article was derived to negate the age of publication factor.
    Statistical Analysis: Shapiro-Wilk test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test were done to detect departures from normality. For testing and determining correlations among several variables, the Spearman rank test was performed.
    Results: The top 50 most-cited articles received a total of 6263 (Google Scholar), 323 (PubMed), and 2056 (Web of Science) citations. Major topics of interest in the top 50 most-cited articles were dental material science (n = 18) and carious and noncarious lesion management (n = 14). There was no significant association between mean citation count and time since publication (correlation coefficient = 0.273, P = 0.055). However, there was a significant negative association of citation density (correlation coefficient = -0.647, P < 0.01) with time since publication.
    Conclusions: Bibliometric analysis of top-cited articles gave valuable insights into journal's research history and progress of the journal concerning dissemination of scholarly work.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; journal impact factors; statistical bibliography
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4103/jcd.jcd_320_21
  6. Front Mol Neurosci. 2022 ;15 839198
    A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Ketamine From 2001 to 2020.
    Huihui Miao, Kang Yu, Danyang Gao, Xiaowan Lin, Ying Cao, Xiao Liu, Hui Qiao, Tianzuo Li.
       Background: Ketamine is an intravenous anesthetic with analgesic effects that has a rapid onset and short duration of action. Many studies have been conducted on the use of ketamine; however, the quantity and quality of such studies have not been reported. Therefore, we aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of research on ketamine from 2001 to 2020.
    Methods: We used the Web of Science database to get publications on ketamine from January 2001 to December 2020. Various bibliographic information was collected, including the number of publications, year of publication, country of origin, journal name, research hotspots, citation count, and author information.
    Results: A total of 5,192 articles were included in the analysis. The United States published the highest number of papers on ketamine and the United States participated in publishing the most papers and disclosure funds. The types of articles in clinical trials were cited more frequently. Most articles on ketamine were published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. Furthermore, the antidepressant effect of ketamine has been a research hotspot for the last 20 years.
    Conclusion: This study provided a comprehensive analysis of research on ketamine and highlighted the growing interest in ketamine and its antidepressant effects.
    Keywords:  analgesic; bibliometric analysis; clinical anesthesia; depression; ketamine
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2022.839198
  7. J Hypertens. 2022 Mar 11.
    A bibliometric analysis of the research on preeclampsia in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
    Dongying Zheng, Muhanmmad Khan, Guangyao Zhang, Kedong Song, Lixia Wang, Chong Qiao, Fuli Kang.
       BACKGROUND: Preeclampsia still remains one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality worldwide. Despite the concerted efforts of researchers, only a little improvement has been seen. Clinical decision-making is based on the published literatures. With the explosive growth of medical documents in recent decades, a bibliometric method is essential for assessing the intellectual contributions, major components and potential trends.
    METHODS: Web of Science Core Collections was selected as the original database and datasets were retrieved consisting of literatures published from 2000 to 2020. Different bibliometric software were employed to visualize the co-authorship network, citation analysis and research theme detection.
    RESULTS: A total of 25 497 articles and 3668 reviews were obtained. Despite the number of publications increased annually, the quantity of high-quality contributions did not elevate accordingly. Clinical practitioners should be alerted to the false bloom of achievements and the yield of improvement in future research. Nicolaides Kypros H was found to be the most productive and influential researcher. University of Pittsburgh was the most productive institution whereas Harvard University showed its leading academic status. America located at the central point in global collaboration and scholarship network. Reference citation analysis revealed the top landmark articles. Moreover, keywords co-occurrence analysis and burst detection certificated the lack of novel themes in this field, which needs further efforts.
    CONCLUSION: This study provides the overall landscape of science mapping in recent two decades in the field of preeclampsia, with the aim of identifying evolution of research topics and promoting potential concentration or collaboration in the future.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000003114
  8. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Mar 11. pii: S0002-9378(22)00184-3. [Epub ahead of print]
    Altmetric and Bibliometric Analysis of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research: Influence of Public Engagement on Citation Potential.
    Sonal Grover, Adam Elwood, Jharna Patel, Cande V Ananth, Justin S Brandt.
       BACKGROUND: Whether research engagement with social media and other public platforms results in increased citations in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) remains uncertain. The Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) is a metric of research influence that is based on mentions in social media and public platforms, like newsfeeds and Wikipedia. The correlation between AAS, absolute citation rates and the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), a novel metric of research engagement that is also based on citation rates, for research in OB/GYN is uncertain.
    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the correlation between AAS, absolute citation rate, and RCR for articles published in OB/GYN journals from 2004-2019. Our second objective was to identify, characterize, and compare the 100 articles with highest AAS, the 100 top-cited articles, and the 100 articles with highest RCR.
    STUDY DESIGN: We performed a cross-sectional altmetric and bibliometric study of all OB/GYN articles indexed in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Open Citation Collection (OCC) from 2004-2019. Articles were included if they were published in OB/GYN journals according to InCites Journal Citation Reports indexing. Citations data, including citation numbers and RCRs, were downloaded on 20 March 2021 and merged with altmetric data from the Altmetric Explorer based on each article's unique PubMed identification number. We assessed correlation between AASs and number of citations as well as AASs and RCRs by calculating Pearson correlation coefficient. The 100 articles with highest AAS, the 100 top-cited articles, and the 100 articles with highest RCRs were characterized and compared using means (standard deviations; SD) and mean differences (95% confidence intervals; CI).
    RESULTS: There were 156,592 articles published in 82 OB/GYN journals and indexed in the NIH OCC between 2004-2019. The correlation coefficient was 0.18 (95% CI 0.17-0.19) for AASs versus number of citations and 0.10 (95% CI 0.09-0.11) for AASs versus RCRs. There was no overlap among the 100 articles on the highest AAS list and the 100 top-cited list and minimal overlap among the 100 articles on the highest AAS list and the 100 highest RCR list (98 unique articles on each list). Articles with highest AASs generated substantially more engagement with social media and other public platforms compared to top-cited articles (mean [SD] AAS 763.1 (520.8) versus 49.9 [SD 81.6]; mean difference -713.2 [95% CI -819.9 - -606.6]) and highest-RCR articles (mean 116.2 [SD 415.9]; mean difference -661.5 [95% CI -746.2--576.9]). In contrast, the articles with highest AASs generated much fewer citations compared to top-cited articles (mean [SD] 39.7 [SD 47.6] versus 541.8 [SD 312.8]; mean difference 502.0 [95% CI 439.0-565.0]) and highest RCR articles (mean 458.9 [SD 363.5]; mean difference 427.7 [95% CI 353.8-501.6]). Nearly half of articles with highest AASs were basic/translational studies and prominently featured articles about menopause and environmental factors that impact fertility whereas top-cited articles and highest RCR were more likely to be reviews and consensus statements, respectively, and featured articles about the placentation and poly cystic ovarian disease, respectively. Articles with highest AASs were more likely to be published open access.
    CONCLUSION: There appears to be weak short-term correlation between AASs and citation rates. Further study is warranted to ascertain whether there may be long-term correlation between alternative metrics and citation rates in OB/GYN.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; citation rates; journals; obstetrics and gynecology; phrases: Altmetric attention score; relative citation ratio
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.03.013
  9. J Am Coll Surg. 2022 Apr 01. 234(4): 624-631
    Gender Disparity in the Citation of Surgical Research.
    William J Kane, Traci L Hedrick, Anneke T Schroen.
       BACKGROUND: Women surgeons face numerous barriers to career advancement. Inequitable citation of surgical literature may represent a contributing factor to gender disparities in academic surgery.
    STUDY DESIGN: This was a cross-sectional analysis of publications from 50 top-ranking surgery journals in 2017 and 2018, as defined by the 2019 InCites Journal Citation Reports. The citation rate of publications by women vs men first authors was compared. Similarly, the citation rate of publications by men vs women last authors was also compared. Adjusted regression analyses of citation rates accounted for the time interval since publication as well as the journal within which the article was published, among other potential confounding factors.
    RESULTS: A total of 19,084 publications from 48 surgery journals with a median (interquartile range) of 8 (4 to 15) citations contributing to a median (interquartile range) Journal Impact Factor of 4.0 (3.4 to 4.6) were analyzed. Compared with man-first author publications, woman-first author publications demonstrated a 9% lower citation rate (incidence rate ratio 0.91, p < 0.001). Similarly, compared with publications by man-last authors, woman-last author publications demonstrated a 4% lower citation rate (incidence rate ratio 0.96, p = 0.03). These associations persisted after multivariable adjustment for additional confounding factors, however, not on sensitivity analysis of 24 of the highest-ranking journals.
    CONCLUSIONS: Among top-tier surgical journals, publications by women-first and -last authors were less cited compared with publications by men-first and -last authors, but not among the highest-tier surgical journals. Gender bias may exist in the citation of surgical research, contributing to gender disparities in academic surgery.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/XCS.0000000000000089
  10. Orthop Surg. 2022 Mar 16.
    Global and Current Research Trends of Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy/Biportal Endoscopic Spinal Surgery in the Treatment of Lumbar Degenerative Diseases: A Bibliometric and Visualization Study.
    Pei-Lin Chu, Tao Wang, Jia-le Zheng, Chong-Qing Xu, Yin-Jie Yan, Qing-Shan Ma, Yin Meng-Chen, Tian Da-Sheng.
      The study aimed to make a bibliometric analysis of the current research situation in unilateral biportal endoscopy/biportal endoscopic spinal surgery (UBE/BESS). Research data sets were acquired from the Web of Science database. The study chosed "biportal endoscopic spinal surgery" OR "two portal endoscopic spinal surgery" OR "percutaneous biportal endoscopic decompression" OR "unilateral biportal endoscopy" OR "irrigation endoscopic discectomy" as the search terms. The literature search was limited to articles published before March 5, 2021. We only included original articles and reviews. VOS viewer and Citespace software were used to analyze the data and generate visualization knowledge maps. Annual trend of publications, distribution, H-index status, co-authorship status, and research hotspots were analyzed. A total of 74 publications met the requirement. The sum number of citations was 31,204, in which 19,336 were no self-citations. The average citation of all the papers was 21.84 times. The H-index of all the publications was 85. South Korea's total number of articles was far higher than that of other countries and regions (61, 82.4%), followed by United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Peoples Republic of China (three, ranking second, accounting for 12.2% of the total). For the most productive authors, Choi ranked first with 21 articles, Kim ranked second with 16 articles, and Heo ranked third with 12 articles. The journal with the greatest number of publications was World Neurosurgery, with a total of 18 (39.1%) papers. Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery ranked second with six (13.0%) papers. In third place, there were fix articles published by Asian Spine Journal and Neurospine, accounting for 21.8% of the total articles. These top three journals accounted for 73.9% of all the papers. Spondylolisthesis and endoscopic decompression were the research hotspots in recent years. The number of publications has showed an upward trend with a stable rise in recent years. South Korea is the country with the highest productivity, not only in quality, but also in quantity. Barun Hosp and Leon Wiltse Mem Hosphave published most articles. Choi is the most productive author. World Neurosurgery is the most productive journal. Spondylolisthesis and endoscopic decompression are the research hotspots in recent years. Indeed, this study provides new insight into the growth and development of UBE/BESS.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Research trends; Spinal surgery; UBE/BESS; Visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/os.13216
  11. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 ;9 817351
    Emerging Trends and Hot Spots in Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy Research From 2001 to 2021: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Yizhe Zhang, Sifan Chen, Weitian Tian, Hui Zhu, Weiwei Li, Wanbing Dai, Xiao Zhang, Xiyao Gu, Diansan Su.
       Study Objectives: To evaluate sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) research and to quantitatively and qualitatively predict research hot spots using bibliometric analysis.
    Methods: We extracted relevant publications from the Web of Science Core Collection on July 28, 2021. We investigated the retrieved data by bibliometric analysis (e.g. co-cited and cluster analysis, keyword co-occurrence) using the software CiteSpace and VOSviewer, the Online Analysis Platform of Literature Metrology (http://bibliometric.com/) and Bibliometrix to analyse and predict the trends and hot spots in this field.
    Main Results: We identified 1,582 published articles and reviews on SAE from 2001 to 2021. During this period, the number of manuscripts on SAE increased steadily and peaked in 2021. The USA and China were the leading countries that had a critical impact on SAE research. Among all institutions, Vanderbilt University and Pittsburgh University held leading positions and became central in the collaboration network. Among all the journals, Critical Care Medicine published the maximum number of manuscripts in the field of SAE within 20 years. Dal-Pizzol Felipe was the most productive author (61 papers) and received the largest number of citations (930 citations). Co-citation cluster analysis revealed that the most popular terms on SAE in the manner of cluster labels were critical illness, sepsis-associated encephalopathy, polymicrobial sepsis, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, rat brain, intensive care unit, prior sepsis, molecular hydrogen, inflammation drive, metabolic encephalopathies, delirium pathophysiology, and clinical neuroscience. Keyword burst detection indicated that neuroinflammation, blood-brain barrier (BBB) and mitochondria dysfunction were the current research hot spots.
    Conclusions: Our study revealed that neuroinflammation, blood-brain barrier, and mitochondria dysfunction had been the research foci of SAE over the past 20 years. These have emerged as the basis for transformation from basic research to clinical application in finding effective methods for the prevention and treatment of SAE.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; VOSviewer; bibliometric analysis; co-citation analysis; hot spots; sepsis-associated encephalopathy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.817351
  12. Front Oncol. 2022 ;12 800499
    Emerging Trends on the Correlation Between Neurotransmitters and Tumor Progression in the Last 20 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis via CiteSpace.
    Yumiao Shi, Jiamei Luo, Xiaoqiang Wang, Yiqi Zhang, Hui Zhu, Diansan Su, Weifeng Yu, Jie Tian.
       Background: Bibliometric analysis is used to gain a systematic understanding of developments in the correlation between neurotransmitters and tumor progression in research hotspots over the past 20 years.
    Methods: Relevant publications from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) were downloaded on August 1, 2021. Acquired data were then analyzed using the Online Analysis Platform of Literature Metrology (http://biblimetric.com) and the CiteSpace software to analyze and predict trends and hot spots in this field.
    Results: A total of 1310 publications on neurotransmitters and tumor progression were identified, and 1285 qualified records were included in the final analysis. The country leading the research was the United States of America. The University of Buenos Aires featured the highest number of publications among all institutions. Co-citation cluster labels revealed the characteristics of 10 main clusters: beta-adrenergic receptors (β-AR), glutamate, neurotransmitters, serotonin, drd2, histamine, glycine, interleukin-2, neurokinin receptor-1, and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AchRs). Keywords and references burst detection indicated that apart from β-AR, dopamine receptor and cancer types like gastric cancer and glioblastoma are the newly emerging research hotspots.
    Conclusions: This study analyzed 1285 publications and 39677 references covering the topic of neurotransmitters and tumor progression and showed that while β-AR has always been a hot topic in this field, dopamine receptor is an emerging target for this research field, and gastric cancer and glioblastoma are the top two tumors that have garnered increasing attention and have become the focal point of recent studies.
    Keywords:  Citespace; anesthesia and tumor; bibliometric analysis; cancer; neurotransmitters
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.800499
  13. Med Sci Monit. 2022 Mar 14. 28 e935006
    Studies Related to Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the Past 10 Years (2011-2020): A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Biyun Teng, Chaozheng Xie, Yu Zhao, Zhe Wang.
      BACKGROUND Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms have been a topic of common global interest for the past 20 years, with a steadily increasing number of publications. The purpose of this study was to explore the research themes and the current status of the last 10 years through a bibliometric analysis of the publications in this field. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a literature search for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms using the Web of Science Core Collection on November 14, 2021 and performed a bibliometric analysis and visualization of the results of the publications using the R-Bibliometrix package and VOSviewer software. RESULTS From 2011 to 2020, 2381 publications were retrieved, including 2073 articles and 308 reviews. The United States had the highest number of publications and has made a large contribution to the field. Jonathan Golledge is an important researcher with the highest number of publications. Journal of Vascular Surgery is ranked first in terms of the number of publications and local citations. Mortality and outcomes, repair treatment, and risk factors are the 3 main focuses in the field, followed by intraluminal thrombus and molecular expression. CONCLUSIONS Our bibliometric analysis suggests mainstream research is focused on clinical studies related to the surgical approach and its prognosis and on pathological mechanisms and hemodynamic studies related to risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysms rupture. There are many other opportunities for future research in the clinical joint basis of abdominal aortic aneurysms rupture.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12659/MSM.935006
  14. Front Oncol. 2022 ;12 843735
    The Global Research of Artificial Intelligence on Prostate Cancer: A 22-Year Bibliometric Analysis.
    Zefeng Shen, Haiyang Wu, Zeshi Chen, Jintao Hu, Jiexin Pan, Jianqiu Kong, Tianxin Lin.
       Background: With the rapid development of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in the diagnosis and prognosis prediction of a variety of diseases, including prostate cancer. Facts have proved that AI has broad prospects in the accurate diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
    Objective: This study mainly summarizes the research on the application of artificial intelligence in the field of prostate cancer through bibliometric analysis and explores possible future research hotspots.
    Methods: The articles and reviews regarding application of AI in prostate cancer between 1999 and 2020 were selected from Web of Science Core Collection on August 23, 2021. Microsoft Excel 2019 and GraphPad Prism 8 were applied to analyze the targeted variables. VOSviewer (version 1.6.16), Citespace (version 5.8.R2), and a widely used online bibliometric platform were used to conduct co-authorship, co-citation, and co-occurrence analysis of countries, institutions, authors, references, and keywords in this field.
    Results: A total of 2,749 articles were selected in this study. AI-related research on prostate cancer increased exponentially in recent years, of which the USA was the most productive country with 1,342 publications, and had close cooperation with many countries. The most productive institution and researcher were the Henry Ford Health System and Tewari. However, the cooperation among most institutions or researchers was not close even if the high research outputs. The result of keyword analysis could divide all studies into three clusters: "Diagnosis and Prediction AI-related study", "Non-surgery AI-related study", and "Surgery AI-related study". Meanwhile, the current research hotspots were "deep learning" and "multiparametric MRI".
    Conclusions: Artificial intelligence has broad application prospects in prostate cancer, and a growing number of scholars are devoted to AI-related research on prostate cancer. Meanwhile, the cooperation among various countries and institutions needs to be strengthened in the future. It can be projected that noninvasive diagnosis and accurate minimally invasive treatment through deep learning technology will still be the research focus in the next few years.
    Keywords:  Citespace; VOSviewer; artificial intelligence; bibliometric; prostate cancer
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.843735
  15. ScientificWorldJournal. 2022 ;2022 5728678
    Research Trends on Pillared Interlayered Clays (PILCs) Used as Catalysts in Environmental and Chemical Processes: Bibliometric Analysis.
    Iván F Macías-Quiroga, Julián A Rengifo-Herrera, Sandra M Arredondo-López, Alexander Marín-Flórez, Nancy R Sanabria-González.
      Over the last four decades, a large number of studies have been published on pillared interlayered clays (PILCs) used as adsorbent materials and catalysts or supports for transition metals in heterogeneous catalysis. Particularly, PILCs have been used for water treatment through advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to remove organic pollutants. They have also been studied in various chemical and environmental processes. Because of the growing interest in PILCs, this article is focused on analyzing scientific publications such as research/review articles and book chapters from the last four decades (from 1980 to 2019) through a bibliometric analysis (BA) to visualize and describe research trends on PILCs. By narrowing the bibliographic search to titles, keywords, and abstracts of publications related to PILCs, using Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) (the two scientific databases), a total of 3425 documents have been retrieved. The bibliometric dataset was analyzed by VantagePoint®. The main research trends identified in the last four decades were the use of PILCs in environmental processes (34.4% of total publications) along with chemical processes (petrochemical reactions 17.5%, SCR NOx 10.8%, and decomposition 8.2%). In environmental processes, PILCs have been used in photo-oxidation (32%), CWPO (21.1%), and heterogeneous catalysis (19.4%). Phenols, dyes, and VOCs have been the main pollutants studied using PILCs as catalysts. Fe, Ti, Zr, Cu, and Co are the most supported active phases in PILCs. Other research trends grouped by characterization techniques, countries, research areas, institutes, scientific journals that have published the most on this topic, number of publications per 5-year period, and most frequently used keywords through the last four decades have been identified. It was determined that the number of publications on PILCs has increased since 1980 and the countries with the highest number of publications are China, Spain, and The United States of America.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5728678
  16. Bratisl Lek Listy. 2022 ;123(4): 268-275
    Investigation of highly cited publications related to vaccines against COVID-19: current state and future predictions.
    Ali Kemal Erenler, Mehmet Oguzhan Ay, Ozlem Oymak Ay, Ahmet Baydin.
       BACKGROUND: Since the date of declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic by the World Health Organization (March 11, 2020), vaccine studies have been initiated. In this article, we aimed to investigate highly cited articles on vaccines and guide researchers for future studies.
    MATERIAL AND METHODS: Publications with 6 or more citations (highly cited publications) were extracted from Web of Science (WoS) database. These publications were investigated according to the number of citations, language, publication year, WoS categories, publication types, organizations involved, authors, countries and research areas. Additionally, top 20 articles were investigated in detail.
    RESULTS: A total of 126 publications were determined. When WoS categories were investigated, 18 pertained to immunology (14.2 %), 17 to biochemistry (13.4 %) and 17 to multidisciplinary sciences (13.4 %). There were three types of publications, namely 80 original articles (63.4 %), 46 reviews (36.5 %) and 11 early access publications (8.7 %). Top universities were Harvard University (n=9, 7.1 %), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (n=7, 5.5 %) and University of California system (n=7, 5.5 %). Top authors were Qin CF with 4 articles (3.1 %), Wang L with 4 articles (3.1 %) and Baric RS with 3 articles (2.3 %). Top journals with the highest number of publications were Journal of Biomolecular Structure Dynamics (n=8, 6.3 %), Nature (n=8, 6.3 %) and Science (n=6, 4.7 %). Top countries were the United States of America (USA) with 45 articles (35.7 %), People's Republic of China with 44 articles (34.9 %), and India with 15 articles (11.9 %). Research areas of the publications were science technology other topics (n=21, 16.6 %), immunology (n=18, 14.2 %) and pharmacology (n=18, 14.2 %).
    CONCLUSION: Vaccine studies play a pivotal role in the warfare against COVID-19. Our results revealed that under the leadership of the USA, China and India, the number of scientists focusing on vaccines is increasing and gratifying results are obtained from vaccine studies (Tab. 3, Ref. 40).
    Keywords:  COVID-19; citation publication.; vaccine
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4149/BLL_2022_043
  17. Scientometrics. 2022 Mar 05. 1-21
    Scientific laws of research funding to support citations and diffusion of knowledge in life science.
    Melika Mosleh, Saeed Roshani, Mario Coccia.
      One of the main problems in scientometrics is to explore the factors that affect the growth of citations in publications to identify best practices of research policy to increase the diffusion of scientific research and knowledge in science and society. The principal purpose of this study is to analyze how research funding affects the citation-based performance of scientific output in vital research fields of life science, which is a critical province (area of knowledge) in science to improve the wellbeing of people. This study uses data from the Scopus database in 2015 (to assess the impact on citations in 2021, after more than 5 years) concerning different disciplines of life science, given by "agricultural and biological sciences", "biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology", "Immunology and microbiology", "neuroscience" and "pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics". Results demonstrate that although journals publish un-funded articles more than funded publications in all disciplines of life science, the fraction of total citations in funded papers is higher than the share in the total number of publications. In short, funded documents receive more citations than un-funded papers in all research fields of life science under study. Findings also support that citations of total (funded + un-funded), funded, and un-funded published papers have a power-law distribution in all five research fields of life science. Original results here reveal a general property in scientific development: funded research has a higher scaling potential than un-funded publications. Critical implications of research policy, systematized in a decision-making matrix, suggest that R&D investments in "Neuroscience" can generate a positive impact of scientific results in science and society-in terms of citations-higher than other research fields in medicine. Overall, then, results here can explain some characteristics driving scientific change and help policymakers and scholars to allocate resources towards research fields that facilitate the development and diffusion of scientific research and knowledge in life science for positive societal impact.
    Keywords:  Decision-making matrix; Power-law distribution; Research funding; Research policy; Science diffusion; Scientific development
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04300-1
  18. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Mar 18.
    A bibliometric analysis of sustainable agriculture: based on the Web of Science (WOS) platform.
    Apurbo Sarkar, Hongyu Wang, Airin Rahman, Waqar Hussain Memon, Lu Qian.
      The global trends of sustainable agriculture (SA) have expanded dramatically through many scholarly studies in this area. Many literary works have focused on several aspects of sustainable agriculture (SA), such as the effectiveness of pesticide management, impacts on cultivation and enhancement, quantifying with soil, water, and air, agro-ecological activities, ecological aspects, and other areas of focus. The review offers a structured bibliometric and network evaluation that will profoundly observe the recent trends of SA, which other studies in this field have not comprehensively analyzed before. The study's prime objectives are to investigate the progress, trends and themes, and provide a comprehensive mapping of the field of sustainable agriculture. The study utilizes the Web of Science core collection database to search, filter, and extract the published article from 1992-2020. The review commences by exploring over 3000 journal articles, those then filtered into some well-recognized matrix of impacts and published by impactful journals, institutions, and authors. The results indicate a stable growth in publications since 2006, with a sharp improvement from 2010. Thematic assessment of key concepts by exploring the abstract discovered a robust emphasis on quantitative resource associations within a strong subjective focus with farm capacities and inner-sectorial dominations. We reveal how the outcome may assist the sectors to facilitate better understandings and comprehend the challenging transitions based on brainstorming to action formulation.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Literature characteristics; Strategic coordination diagram; Sustainability; Sustainable agriculture
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19632-x
  19. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2022 Mar 18. pii: ijgc-2021-003296. [Epub ahead of print]
    Gender imbalance in gynecologic oncology authorship and impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
    Sarah Jill Mah, Mallika Makkar, Kathy Huang, Tharani Anpalagan, Clare J Reade, Julie My Van Nguyen.
       OBJECTIVE: Despite increased participation of women in academic medicine in recent decades, gender disparities persist. The gender gap in authorship and editorial boards in gynecologic oncology, and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, have not been recently evaluated. We examined gender representation and the impact of COVID-19 on authorship and editorial boards of two major peer-reviewed gynecologic oncology journals.
    METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric analysis of original articles published in Gynecologic Oncology and the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, comparing the most contemporary 5-year period (2016-2020) to single years in the two prior decades (1996, 2006). To assess the early impact of COVID-19, we compared publications from May 2020-April 2021 to 2019. Editorial boards were analyzed for gender composition. First names, pronouns, and institutional photographs were used to determine gender.
    RESULTS: There were 3022 original articles published between 2016 and 2020, 763 in 2006, and 203 in 1996. Gender was identified for 91.3% of first authors (3641 articles) and 95.6% of senior authors (3813 articles). Men comprised the majority of the editorial boards in 2021 at 57% and 61% for Gynecologic Oncology and the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, respectively. Men were overrepresented as senior authors across all study periods: 93% in 1996, 77% in 2006, and 58% in 2016-2020. Over time, representation of women as first and senior authors increased (7% in 1996, 42% in 2016-2020, p<0.00001). There was no immediate impact of the early pandemic on gender distribution of authorship.
    CONCLUSIONS: Despite greater representation of women over time as authors in gynecologic oncology journals, there remains gender disparity in senior authorship and editorial board representation. This presents an opportunity for the academic publishing community to advocate for deliberate strategies to achieve gender parity. Although no impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic was found, this requires ongoing surveillance.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; genital neoplasms, female; gynecology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/ijgc-2021-003296
  20. Surgeon. 2022 Mar 12. pii: S1479-666X(22)00032-4. [Epub ahead of print]
    The academic impact of 20 years of Irish otolaryngology society conferences.
    Euan Ce Ó Mathúna, Anish Patil, Angus J Lloyd, Thomas J Crotty, Eoin F Cleere, Javed Munir, Mel Corbett.
       BACKGROUND: & Purpose: The Irish Otolaryngology Society (IOS) conference takes place annually. This conference allows surgeons and surgical trainees from Ireland and abroad an opportunity to showcase research ideas from their respective centres. This allows them to disseminate results, accept critique, and obtain different perspectives. We sought to examine research presented at the IOS meetings over 20 years. We aimed to analyse the publication rates, impact factor of journals, and citation rates of presented abstracts.
    METHODS: All oral presentations from IOS conferences were analysed between 2000 and 2019. Presentation titles and authors were searched using Pubmed, Google Scholar and Research Gate. We identified scientific publications which resulted from the research presented and the characteristics of each publication.
    RESULTS: Of 703 presentations made at the conferences spanning 20 years, 30.15% (n = 212) went on to publish their research averaging 19 citations per publication. Median time to publication was 2 years (-1-11). Each year there have been an increasing number of oral presentations with a declining publication rate.
    CONCLUSION: The Irish otolaryngology society meeting is a high-quality meeting with comparable publication rates to similar international conferences. Despite this, many presentations do not have any lasting impact as they are not published. The increasing pressure for trainees to rapidly present research projects without emphasis on completion of projects may explain the declining publication rate. Our study highlights the importance of completing high-quality research projects through publication. Meaningful conclusions from these projects can add to the body of knowledge and contribute to evidence-based practice.
    Keywords:  Impact factor; Irish ENT; Publication rate
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2022.02.006
  21. J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2022 Jan-Feb;12(1):12(1): 100-108
    Bibliometric Analyses of Global Scholarly Output in Dentistry Related to COVID-19.
    Frank Mayta-Tovalino.
       Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the bibliometric profile of dental scientific production related to coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in Scopus (2019-2020).
    Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive, observational, comparative, and retrospective study. All manuscripts on COVID-19 in dentistry were published between December 2019 and December 2020. The variables were measured objectively through Scopus (SciVal). For the extraction of the manuscripts, the following keywords were used: "Covid-19" and "Dentistry" with its multiple MeSH terms using the Boolean operators "OR" and "AND". On June 14, 2021, 843 manuscripts corresponding to the period January 2019 to December 2020 were downloaded, normalized, and refined through metadata analysis.
    Results: The largest number of manuscripts was published in the International Journal of Current Research and Review, Oral Oncology, Oral Diseases, British Dental Journal, and Journal of Dental Education with 54, 50, 49, 48, and 44 manuscripts, respectively. These are the most productive indexed scientific journals on COVID-19. The most productive institutions were Saveetha University, Universidade de São Paulo, and King's College London, with 42, 33, and 27 manuscripts, respectively. In 2019, there were only two scientific publications on COVID-19. In 2020, the largest amount, 228 manuscripts, were published in Q1 journals, followed by 210 manuscripts in Q3 journals, and only 194 manuscripts were published in Q4 journals.
    Conclusions: Currently, there is a notable increase in global academic production in Scopus on the impact of COVID-19 in dentistry, whereas Brazil is the only South American country with three highly productive universities.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; COVID-19; dentistry
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_294_21
  22. Zhonghua Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2022 Mar 09. 57(3): 233-241
    [Analysis of articles on dental pulp biology research in China published in international journals from 2011 to 2020].
    X Q Yu, J Li, H H Tao, Z Chen.
      Objective: To analyze the articles on research of dental pulp biology in China and to understand the situation of China in the entire field of dental pulp biology around the world in order to provide references for further in-depth research in dental pulp biology in China. Methods: Based on Web of Science core collection database, the articles published in the international journals in the field of dental pulp biology from 2011 to 2020 were retrieved and identified. Six indicators including research scale, academic influence, high-ranking and the high-influence journals, research areas, international partnership and project funding were statistically analyzed. Results: Totally 1 215 articles were published by Chinese researchers, which is the most in the research field of dental pulp biology. The total number of citations was 18 328, however the average number of citations of above mentioned articles was slightly lower than that of the world average. The number of articles published in Natural Index Journals and Journal of Dental Research is lower than that of the United States. The research areas of dental pulp biology in China were not only in dentistry, oral surgery and medicine, but also in cell biology, experimental medicine, materials science, engineering, molecular biology and applied microbiology. Articles of internationally cooperated researches were scarce. Most of the researches of dental pulp biology field conducted in China were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Conclusions: Although there were fruitful research outcomes in the field of dental pulp biology from 2011 to 2020, the academic influence of these researches still needed to be improved. It was recommended that great efforts should be made in developing interdisciplinary, inter-unit and international cooperation, focusing on hotspot and major projects, actively applying for and using of project fundings in order to produce more high-quality research outcomes.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112144-20210810-00359
  23. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2022 Mar 14. PP
    Scientometric Analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Gender Trends in 30 Years of IEEE VIS Publications.
    Ali Sarvghad, Rolando Franqui-Nadal, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Ria Chawla, Narges Mahyar.
      We present the results of a scientometric analysis of 30 years of IEEE VIS publications between 1990-2020, in which we conducted a multifaceted analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration and gender composition among authors. To this end, we curated BiblioVIS, a bibliometric dataset that contains rich metadata about IEEE VIS publications, including 3032 papers and 6113 authors. One of the main factors differentiating BiblioVIS from similar datasets is the authors' gender and discipline data, which we inferred through iterative rounds of computational and manual processes. Our analysis shows that, by and large, inter-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration has been steadily growing over the past 30 years. However, interdisciplinary research was mainly between a few fields, including Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, and Medicine and Health disciplines. Our analysis of gender shows steady growth in women's authorship. Despite this growth, the gender distribution is still highly skewed, with men dominating (~75%) of this space. Our predictive analysis of gender balance shows that if the current trends continue, gender parity in the visualization field will not be reached before the third quarter of the century (~2070). Our primary goal in this work is to call the visualization community's attention to the critical topics of collaboration, diversity, and gender. Our research offers critical insights through the lens of diversity and gender to help accelerate progress towards a more diverse and representative research community.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2022.3158236
  24. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Mar 17.
    Discover the trend and evolution of sustainable manufacturing: a thematic and bibliometric analysis.
    Wai Sze Yip, HongTing Zhou, Suet To.
      Manufacturing, as one of the most important sectors in a civilized society, has a strong impact on our city's sustainability issues, and it is therefore justified in taking a more sustainable approach in the future. As a consequence, research works and the research trend of sustainable manufacturing (SM) play a critical role in supporting the sustainable development of industries. With the knowledge of the research themes on SM from the past to the present, preferred options for planning the future of manufacturing and executing SM could be offered to industries. Motivated by this, this study presents a thematic and bibliometric analysis on research papers of SM, with the goal of providing an overall overview of SM research trends, as well as identifying the critical time of having major breakthroughs and evolution of the corresponding research works by comparing the research themes across the longitudinal timeline. A thematic analysis was used to determine the keywords and main themes of the research on SM in various time frames, as well as the perspectives on how the research works in relation to current technology and dynamic changes. Finally, the three stages of SM research were determined based on the overall results. Furthermore, this article demonstrates the research directions and advancements of SM in 2020, presenting the most recent research trends in SM to both industry and academia.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Evolution; Sustainable manufacturing; Text mining; Thematic analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19634-9
  25. Front Psychol. 2022 ;13 837265
    Research on the Effects of Lying on Memory: A Scientometric Analysis and a Call for New Studies.
    Fabiana Battista, Henry Otgaar.
      Research on the effects of lying and memory is increasingly attracting empirical attention. In the current manuscript, a scientometric analysis was carried out on the mnemonic consequences of lying. This analysis took into account 70 published articles extracted from Scopus and Web of Science databases from 1998 to 2021. A scientometric analysis was conducted in order to visualize the state of the art on this line of research (i.e., authors, countries, institutions, journals, and co-citations). Additionally, a keywords' cluster analysis was executed to investigate the main keywords used in the published papers. Based on the keywords' cluster analysis, we identified the main aims and critical issues of the reviewed papers. The United States and the Netherlands are the two most productive countries into the effects of lying on memory. The top five authors are mainly from European countries and wrote from 6 to 15 articles. The cluster analysis detected three clusters of keywords. The critical issues of this line of research are mainly related to the generalizability of the achieved findings for real situations, a lack of a direct control of the manipulation adopted, and a need of additional measures. The current analysis provides a comprehensive overview and understanding of existing research on the effects of lying on memory and provides possible future directions of this research domain.
    Keywords:  future direction; lying; memory; review; scientometric analyses
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.837265
  26. Obes Surg. 2022 Mar 17.
    Female Surgeons for Obesity Treatment: a Snapshot Sampling in Academic Productivity : The Role of Women in Obesity Surgery.
    Aikaterini Apostolopoulou, Barbara Fyntanidou, Anne D Shrewsbury, Katerina Kotzampassi.
      The proportion of females choosing a career in surgery is lower than that of males. Through the Obesity Surgery and SOARD journals of 2018-2020, the number of articles with female first/senior authors was identified and their characteristics were assessed. Almost 40% of the published papers were written by females, being mostly original and from University Hospitals, although the difference in the numbers between journals was prominent (p = 0.011). Articles with a female as first author had a female or male as senior, at a ratio 1:2, while less than 10% of female senior authors had a male as first. The number of females as corresponding authors in SOARD was significantly higher (p < 0.001). The findings of the present study underline the existing gender inequity in bariatric surgery.
    Keywords:  Bibliometry; Female gender; Obesity surgery; Publications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-022-05998-x
  27. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2022 Mar 15. pii: S0149-7634(22)00097-5. [Epub ahead of print]136 104608
    Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia: A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends.
    Michel Sabe, Toby Pillinger, Stefan Kaiser, Chaomei Chen, Heidi Taipale, Antti Tanskanen, Jari Tiihonen, Stefan Leucht, Christoph U Correll, Marco Solmi.
      Changes over 50 years of research on antipsychotics in schizophrenia have occurred. A scientometric synthesis of such changes over time and a measure of researchers' networks and scientific productivity is currently lacking. We searched Web of Science Core Collection from inception until November 5, 2021, using the appropriate key. Our primary objective was to conduct systematic mapping with CiteSpace to show how clusters of keywords have evolved over time and obtain clusters' structure and credibility. Our secondary objective was to measure research network performance (countries, institutions, and authors) using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and Bibliometrix. We included 32,240 studies published between 1955 and 2021. The co-cited reference network identified 25 clusters with a well-structured network (Q=0.8166) and highly credible clustering (S=0.91). The main trends of research were: 1) antipsychotic efficacy; 2) cognition in schizophrenia; 3) side effects of antipsychotics. Last five years research trends were: 'ultra-resistance schizophrenia' (S=0.925), 'efficacy/dose-response' (S=0.775), 'evidence-synthesis' (S=0.737), 'real-world effectiveness' (S=0.794), 'cannabidiol' (S=0.989), and 'gut microbiome' (S=0.842). These results can inform funding agencies and research groups' future directions.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; Evidence synthesis; Meta-analysis; Psychosis; Scientometric; Systematic review
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104608
  28. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2022 Mar;10(3): e3808
    Dissemination of Plastic Surgery Research: An Analysis of PRS and PRS-GO.
    Jacob S Nasser, Jessica I Billig, Sakura Horiuchi, Kevin C Chung.
      Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) recently developed an open access counterpart, PRS Global Open (PRS-GO), to increase dissemination of research in an efficient and widespread manner. We aimed to (1) examine the differences in the dissemination of research published in PRS and PRS-GO, and (2) identify differences in the authorship between the journals.
    Methods: We extracted data on Altmetric Attention Scores, article mentions, citations, and author characteristics using the Altmetric Explorer Database from January 1, 2018, to January 1, 2020. We stratified research outputs into traditional dissemination and social media dissemination. Additionally, multivariable linear regression models were used to examine differences in dissemination between the journals.
    Results: A total of 1798 articles were included in the analysis (PRS = 1031, PRS-GO = 767). The average Altmetric Attention Score was higher for PRS compared with PRS-GO (PRS = 15.2, PRS-GO = 8.1). Articles in PRS had a greater Altmetric Attention Score (β-coefficient: 7.50, P < 0.001), higher measures of traditional dissemination (β-coefficient: 3.11, P < 0.001), and higher measures of social media dissemination than articles in PRS-GO (β-coefficient: 4.38, P = 0.73).
    Conclusions: Despite being an open access journal, PRS-GO had significantly fewer measures of social media and traditional dissemination compared with PRS. Given that numerous factors may influence the dissemination of scientific literature, it is imperative that publications identify specific ways to provide a fair advantage for both researchers and readers. Additional initiatives to engage readership for open access may include creative campaigns targeting an appropriate audience.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000003808
  29. Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis. 2021 ;1 100013
    Recent trends in the use of social media in parasitology and the application of alternative metrics.
    John Ellis, Bethany Ellis, Kevin Tyler, Michael P Reichel.
      In recent times, the use of social media for the dissemination of "news and views" in parasitology has increased in popularity. News, Twitter and Blogs have emerged as commonplace vehicles in the knowledge dissemination and transfer process. Alternative metrics ("altmetrics"), based on social media mentions have been proposed as a measure of societal impact, although firm evidence for this relationship is yet to be found. Nevertheless, increasing amounts of data on "altmetrics" are being analysed to identify the nature of the unknown impact that social media is generating. Here, we examine the recent, and increasing use of social media in the field of parasitology and the relationship of "altmetrics" with more traditional bibliometric indicators, such as article citations and journal metrics. The analyses document the rise and dominance of Twitter as the main form of social media occurring in the discipline of parasitology and note the contribution to this trend of Twitter bots that automatically tweet about publications. We also report on the use of the social referencing platform Mendeley and its correlation to article citations; Mendeley reader numbers are now considered to provide firm evidence on the early impact of research. Finally, we consider the Twitter profile of 31 journals publishing parasitology research articles (by volume of papers published); we show that 13 journals are associated with prolific Twitter activity about parasitology. We hope this study will stimulate not only the continued and responsible use of social media to disseminate knowledge about parasitology for the greater good, but also encourage others to further investigate the impact and benefits that altmetrics may bring to this discipline.
    Keywords:  Alternative metrics; Altmetric data sourced from Altmetric; Dimensions; Mendeley; Mentions; News; Parasitology; Twitter
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpvbd.2021.100013
  30. JSLS. 2022 Jan-Mar;26(1):pii: e2021.00082. [Epub ahead of print]26(1):
    Reference Hygiene and Death on the Internet - Decay, Rot, Half-Life, Deterioration, and Corruption.
    Douglas E Ott.
       Background and Objectives: References for medical articles are not always retrievable. This eliminates the ability to check on the validity of statements, methodologies, data collection, and conclusions.
    Methods: References of review, scientific, and research articles published in the 2019 and 2020 Journal of the Society of Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgeons were evaluated for ability to retrieve the reference cited.
    Results: Ninety-five articles with 2,424 references were evaluated. There were 1,025 (1,025/2,424 = 42.3%) open access versus 1,399 (1,399/2,424 = 47.7%) paywall articles. There were 357 (14.7%) citations unavailable (misreference) due to bad, broken, or nonexistent links and wrong article, abstract or citation only, and missing citations.
    Conclusion: Loss of reference existence or retrievability is a scientific hazard. Science is self-correcting but is doomed to not knowing what was said or discovered when references are no longer available.
    Keywords:  Citation; Link rot; References
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4293/JSLS.2021.00082
  31. Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2022 Feb;47(4): 1085-1094
    [CiteSpace knowledge map analysis of research progress on Tripterygium wilfordii toxicity].
    Shan-Shan Han, Yan-Lin Dai, Ying Ding, Xia Zhang, Li-Hui Sun, Min Gao.
      This study systematically searched CNKI and Web of Science(WoS) for the research papers on the toxicity of Tripterygium wilfordii included from database inception to August 31, 2021, and visually displayed the authors, research institutions, keywords, and other contents using bibliometrics and CiteSpace 5.8.3. Furthermore, the current situation and research progress on T. wilfordii safety were also analyzed based on information extraction to find the research hotspot, evolution path, and development trend, and to provide references for future research. A total of 1 876 Chinese papers and 243 English papers were included in the study. The analysis of authors showed that WANG Qi and ZHANG Luyong had the most publications in Chinese and English papers, respectively. According to the analysis of research institutions, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control and China Pharmaceutical University possessed the largest number of Chinese and English papers, respectively, but there was less cooperation between them. The analysis of keywords in Chinese and English papers showed that the research contents of the safety of T. wilfordii mainly focused on clinical monitoring, mechanism, dosage form improvement, quality standard, component analysis, monomer research, efficiency and toxicity reduction, etc. Metabonomics, tripterine, and the underlying mechanism of toxicity were the research hotspots in the future. At present, the research on the toxicity of T. wilfordii is still under development. It is necessary to highlight the in-depth research and strengthen the inter-group and inter-region cooperation of authors or institutions to provide references for the research on the toxicity of T. wilfordii.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; Tripterygium wilfordii; bibliometrics; knowledge map; visual analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20211108.501
  32. Front Physiol. 2022 ;13 784705
    Physical Exercise in the Context of Air Pollution: An Emerging Research Topic.
    Yanwei You, Dizhi Wang, Jianxiu Liu, Yuquan Chen, Xindong Ma, Wenkai Li.
      Physical exercise (PE) brings physiological benefits to human health; paradoxically, exposure to air pollution (AP) is harmful. Hence, the combined effects of AP and PE are interesting issues worth exploring. The objective of this study is to review literature involved in AP-PE fields to perform a knowledge-map analysis and explore the collaborations, current hotspots, physiological applications, and future perspectives. Herein, cluster, co-citation, and co-occurrence analysis were applied using CiteSpace and VOSviewer software. The results demonstrated that AP-PE domains have been springing up and in rapid growth since the 21st century. Subsequently, active countries and institutions were identified, and the productive institutions were mainly located in USA, China, UK, Spain, and Canada. Developed countries seemed to be the major promoters. Additionally, subject analysis found that environmental science, public health, and sports medicine were the core subjects, and multidimensional communications were forming. Thereafter, a holistic presentation of reference co-citation clusters was conducted to discover the research topics and trace the development focuses. Youth, elite athletes, and rural population were regarded as the noteworthy subjects. Commuter exposure and moderate aerobic exercise represented the common research context and exercise strategy, respectively. Simultaneously, the research hotspots and application fields were elaborated by keyword co-occurrence distribution. It was noted that physiological adaptations including respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health were the major themes; oxidative stress and inflammatory response were the mostly referred mechanisms. Finally, several challenges were proposed, which are beneficial to promote the development of the research field. Molecular mechanisms and specific pathways are still unknown and the equilibrium points and dose-effect relationships remain to be further explored. We are highly confident that this study provides a unique perspective to systematically and comprehensively review the pieces of AP-PE research and its related physiological mechanisms for future investigations.
    Keywords:  air pollution; knowledge map; physical exercise; physiological mechanisms; visualized analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.784705
  33. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2022 Mar 11. pii: S0147-6513(22)00243-3. [Epub ahead of print]234 113403
    Phytoremediation of heavy metal pollution: Hotspots and future prospects.
    Le Yang, Junbang Wang, Yongsheng Yang, Sha Li, Tongxin Wang, Patrik Oleksak, Zofia Chrienova, Qinghua Wu, Eugenie Nepovimova, Xiujuan Zhang, Kamil Kuca.
      To clarify the global status and research hotspots of heavy metal pollution phytoremediation, we used Web of Science, Cite Space software, and VOS viewer to analyse 1123 publications from the period of 2000-2020. Literature categories, research hotpots, and the most prolific publications by country, institution, and author were analysed separately. Around 34% of the articles are contributed from five countries: China (29.37%), India (11.00%), Spain (6.29%), Italy (6.20%), and Pakistan (5.67%). The hot research topic keywords were "diversity", "translocation", and "enhanced phytoremediation". Cadmium was the most highly concerned heavy metal in the phytoremediation. Twenty-three articles were highly cited, and they mainly focused on 1) enhancing the remediation ability of plants in heavy metal contaminated soil by microbial and chemical additives; 2) the molecular effect and mechanism of heavy metals on plant growth and development; 3) discovering novel heavy metal hyper-enriched plants which can remediate mixed heavy metal pollution. From the above analysis, we concluded that the future research directions should be 1) strengthening the plant remediation ability by biochemical means; 2) studying the molecular mechanism underlying heavy metal damage to plants; 3) studying the enrichment principle of plants for heavy metals. The present study provides a further understanding of the trends in phytoremediation of heavy metal pollution, and the data analysed can be used as a guide for future research directions.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Cite space; Heavy metal contamination; Phytoremediation; Web of science
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113403
  34. Elife. 2022 Mar 16. pii: e76559. [Epub ahead of print]11
    Meta-Research: Individual-level researcher data confirm the widening gender gap in publishing rates during COVID-19.
    Emil Bargmann Madsen, Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Josefine Bjørnholm, Reshma Jagsi, Jens Peter Andersen.
      Publications are essential for a successful academic career, and there is evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing gender disparities in the publishing process. We used longitudinal publication data on 431,207 authors in four disciplines - basic medicine, biology, chemistry and clinical medicine - to quantify the differential impact of COVID-19 on the annual publishing rates of men and women. In a difference-in-differences analysis, we estimated that the average gender difference in publication productivity increased from -0.26 in 2019 to -0.35 in 2020; this corresponds to the output of women being 17% lower than the output of men in 2019, and 24% lower in 2020. An age-group comparison showed a widening gender gap for both early-career and mid-career scientists. The increasing gender gap was most pronounced among highly productive authors and in biology and clinical medicine. Our study demonstrates the importance of reinforcing institutional commitments to diversity through policies that support the inclusion and retention of women in research.
    Keywords:  computational biology; medicine; none; systems biology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76559
  35. PLoS One. 2022 ;17(3): e0265409
    Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on the academic research agenda. A scientometric analysis.
    Antonio Sianes, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Pilar Tirado-Valencia, Antonio Ariza-Montes.
      Today, global challenges such as poverty, inequality, and sustainability are at the core of the academic debate. This centrality has only increased since the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), whose scope is to shift the world on to a path of resilience focused on promoting sustainable development. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a critical yet comprehensive scientometric analysis of the global academic production on the SDGs, from its approval in 2015 to 2020, conducted using Web of Science (WoS) database. Despite it being a relatively short period of time, scholars have published more than five thousand research papers in the matter, mainly in the fields of green and sustainable sciences. The attained results show how prolific authors and schools of knowledge are emerging, as key topics such as climate change, health and the burden diseases, or the global governance of these issues. However, deeper analyses also show how research gaps exist, persist and, in some cases, are widening. Greater understanding of this body of research is needed, to further strengthen evidence-based policies able to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the achievement of the SDGs.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265409
  36. J Investig Med. 2022 Mar 15. pii: jim-2021-002044. [Epub ahead of print]
    Trends of sources of clinical research funding from 1990 to 2020: a meta-epidemiological study.
    Erick Burciaga-Jimenez, Ricardo Cesar Solis, Melissa Saenz-Flores, Jorge Alberto Zuñiga-Hernandez, Miguel Zambrano-Lucio, Rene Rodriguez-Gutierrez.
      Evidence has raised concerns regarding the association between funding sources and doubtful data. Our main outcome was to analyze trends on funding sources in articles published from 1990 to 2020 in the more influential journals of internal and general medicine. In this meta-epidemiological study, we included peer-reviewed studies from the 10 highest impact journals in general and internal medicine published between January 1990 and February 2020 based on published original research according to the 2018 InCites Journal of Citation Reports, these consisted of the following: The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, PLOS Medicine, Cachexia, BMC Medicine, and Mayo Clinic Proceedings Two reviewers working in duplicate extracted data regarding year of publication, study design, and sources of funding. In total, 496 articles were found; of these, 311 (62.7%) were observational studies, 167 (33.7%) were experimental, and 16 (3.2%) were secondary analyses. Percentages of grant sources through the years were predominantly from government (60%), industry (23.83%), and non-governmental (16.06%) organizations. The percentage of industry subsidies tended to decrease, but this was not significant in a linear regression model (r=0.02, p≥0.05). Government and non-government funding sources showed a trend to decrease in the same univariate analysis with both significant associations (r=0.21, p≤0.001 and r=0.10, p≤0.001, respectively). The main funding source in medical research has consistently been government aid. Despite previous reported data, no association was found between the source of funding and statistically significant results favoring study authors' hypothesis.
    Keywords:  biostatistics; industry; medicine; organizations
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/jim-2021-002044
  37. J Prosthodont Res. 2022 Mar 16.
    Bibliometric analysis and evaluation of the Journal of Prosthodontic Research from 2009 to 2021.
    Mohammed Nasser Alhajj, Esam Halboub, Sadeq Ali Al-Maweri, Abdulaziz A Alkheraif, Ahlam Smran, Ali Alqerban, Abdulaziz Samran.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2186/jpr.JPR_D_21_00311
  38. Eur J Transl Myol. 2022 Mar 14.
    Research output of Iran over the past two years: Contributions from the European Journal of Translational Myology.
    Mohsen Khosravi.
      Over the last two decades, all branches of science and technology have rapidly progressed, including the medical area. In Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, the increased growth of technology and science production has led to this rapid medical progress. Recent evidence has revealed that the increase in the number of scientific papers generated in Iran after the Iraqi imposed war against Iran has been eight times that in six main countries in the Middle East, including Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Syria. Although Iran's output in sciences has been still small in comparison to developed countries, it has significantly grown in the last decade, which is hoped to continue to increase and improve. The current paper shows a portion of the science production in Iran over the past two years based on papers published in the European Journal of Translational Myology in 2020 and 2021. Although the Issue 32 (1), 2022 in a special section contains several typescripts from Iran, they were not included in our analysis since they have not been yet indexed in the Scopus database. However, our report would encourage researchers of diverse nationalities to take part in research works and author joint papers. Further, this paper can be used to rate the universities and research centers regarding their science output, as well as being beneficial to university students, lecturers, and governments.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4081/ejtm.2022.10447
  39. Telemat Inform. 2022 Mar 08. 101796
    Analytical Mapping of Information and Communication Technology in Emerging Infectious Diseases Using CiteSpace.
    Sandeep Kumar Sood, Keshav Singh Rawat, Dheeraj Kumar.
      The prevalence of severe infectious diseases has become a major global health concern. Currently, the COVID-19 outbreak has spread across the world and has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The proliferation of novel viruses has put traditional health systems under immense pressure and posed several serious issues. Henceforth, early detection, identification, rapid testing, and advanced surveillance systems are required to address public health emergencies. However, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tackles several issues raised by this pandemic and significantly improves the quality of services in the health care sector. This paper presents an ICT-assisted scientometric analysis of infectious diseases, namely, airborne, food & waterborne, fomite-borne, sexually transmitted illnesses, and vector-borne illnesses. It assesses the international research status of this field in terms of citation structure, prolific journals, and country contributions. It has used the CiteSpace tool to address the visualization needs and in-depth insights of scientific literature to pinpoint core hotspots, research frontiers, emerging research areas, and ICT trends. The research finding reveals that mobile apps, telemedicine, and artificial intelligence technologies have greater scope to reduce the threats of infectious diseases. COVID-19, influenza, HIV, and malaria viruses have been identified as research hotspots whereas COVID-19, contact tracing applications, security and privacy concerns about users' data are the recent challenges in this field that need to address. The United States has produced higher research output in all domains of infectious diseases. Furthermore, it explores the co-occurrence network analysis and intellectual landscape of each domain of infectious diseases. It provides potential research directions and insightful clues to researchers and the academic fraternity for further research.
    Keywords:  3D Printing; Artificial Intellegence, mediacal Imaging; COVID-19 pandemic; Information Communication Technology; Mobile Technology; Social Media Platforms; bigdata analytics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101796
  40. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2022 Mar 16.
    Publication Rate in English of Abstracts Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology.
    Kazunari Yoshida, Sho Moriguchi, Masahide Koda, Takuya Oka, Fumihiko Ueno, Saeko Ikai-Tani, Hideaki Tani, Masaru Mimura.
       BACKGROUND: Relatively low publication rates of abstracts presented at scientific meetings (i.e., 37.3%, 95% CI: 35.3-39.3) have been reported across various fields worldwide. However, no study has investigated the publication rate of abstracts presented at psychiatric meetings and factors associated with full publication in Japan. This study aimed to determine the proportion of conference abstracts in the psychiatric field that reach full publication in English and its associated factors in Japan.
    METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted to determine the publication rate of abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (JSPN) in 2013 and 2014, the largest psychiatric meeting in Japan, by searching for full-text publications in PubMed and Google Scholar. Furthermore, we examined factors associated with a successful full publication of the conference abstract.
    RESULTS: Of the 737 abstracts evaluated, 132 (17.9%) were published in peer-reviewed journals; the publication rates for oral and poster presentations were 12.7% (46/363) and 23.0% (86/374), respectively. In multivariate logistic regression analyses, the following factors were significantly associated with successful publications: poster presentations (odds ratio [OR]: 1.67, 95% CI: 1.10-2.57), original studies (OR: 4.16, 95% CI: 2.44-7.47), and academic institutions (OR: 5.77, 95% CI: 3.44-10.19).
    CONCLUSIONS: The publication rate in English of the conference abstracts presented at the JSPN annual meetings was relatively lower than those in previous studies. Further encouragement of the publication of the abstracts presented in psychiatric conferences in Japan would be helpful in disseminating scientific findings in the field of psychiatry. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
    Keywords:  Japan; abstracts; psychiatry; publication rate
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13351
  41. Environ Pollut. 2022 Mar 10. pii: S0269-7491(22)00334-7. [Epub ahead of print] 119120
    Insights into the mechanisms of organic pollutant toxicity to earthworms: Advances and perspectives.
    Wentian Zhao, Miaomiao Teng, Jie Zhang, Kai Wang, Jialu Zhang, Yong Xu, Chengju Wang.
      Earthworms play positive ecological roles in soil formation, structure, and fertility, environmental protection, and terrestrial food chains. For this review, we searched the Web of Science database for articles published from 2011 to 2021 using the keywords "toxic" and "earthworm" and retrieved 632 publications. From the perspective of bibliometric analysis, we conducted a co-occurrence network analysis using the keywords "toxic" and "earthworm" to identify the most and least reported topics. "Eisenia fetida," "bioaccumulation," "heavy metals," "oxidative stress," and "pesticides" were the most common terms, and "microbial community," "bacteria," "PFOS," "bioaugmentation," "potentially toxic elements," "celomic fluid," "neurotoxicity," "joint toxicity," "apoptosis," and "nanoparticles" were uncommon terms. Additionally, in this review we highlight the main routes of organic pollutant entry into soil, and discuss the adverse effects on the soil ecosystem. We then systematically review the mechanisms underlying organic pollutant toxicity to earthworms, including oxidative stress, energy and lipid metabolism disturbances, neurological toxicity, intestinal inflammation and injury, gut microbiota dysbiosis, and reproductive toxicity. We conclude by discussing future research perspectives, focusing on environmentally relevant concentrations and conditions, novel data processing approaches, technologies, and detoxification and mitigation methods. This review has implications for soil management in the context of environmental pollution.
    Keywords:  Adverse effects; Bibliometrics; Earthworm; Soil ecosystems; Toxic mechanisms
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119120
  42. Tunis Med. 2021 Décembre;99(12):99(12): 1156-1166
    Bibliometric profile of the doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Sousse (Tunisia).
    Ahmed Ben Abdelaziz, Abdelnour Errafei, Sarra Melki, Asma Ben Abdelaziz, Dhekra Chebil, Mohamed Azzaza.
       OBJECTIVE: Describe the bibliometric profile of medical dissertations in Sousse Faculty of Medicine (SOFM) in Tunisia.
    METHODS: This is a cross-sectional bibliometric study of all dissertations defended from 2001 to 2005. The data were collected through a reading grid applied to the cover page, conclusion, and summary of the thesis. The specialty of the dissertation has been attributed to its first director. Themes were defined by the "essential descriptor", chosen from the descriptors used for the indexing.
    RESULTS: The 670 theses collected, all written in French except one in Arabic, were original, pedagogic or bibliographical works in respectively 93.3%, 6.4%, and 0.3% respectively. "Community and Preventive Medicine" was the discipline that generated the most theses with a proportion of 8.9%. About half (48%) of the dissertations were supervised by two directors. The first director was a University Hospital Professor or an Associate Professor of Conferences, respectively in 34% and 42% of cases. The chairman of the thesis jury belonged to the same specialty as the first director and was from the same department in respectively 54% and 41% of cases. Four "essential descriptors" were frequently cited as indexation of the dissertation: "tumor", "CD-Rom", "trauma", and "diabetes". These dissertations were "clinical" type in 68% of cases, of which around 80% were "case studies".
    CONCLUSION: The doctoral dissertation in SOFM was characterized by the orientation towards clinical and epidemiological research and the preference for general medicine and community health themes. It's often recourse to a basic research estimate and its writing in French would be two factors limiting its scientific promotion and its social influence.
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