bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2022–11–27
93 papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society
  1. Bibliometric analysis of the African Health Sciences' research indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.
  2. A Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Activity of Authors of Research Articles Published in the Journal of Physician Assistant Education from 2011-2020.
  3. The top 100 cited articles on spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a bibliometric analysis.
  4. Bibliometric Analysis of Research Relating to IgA Nephropathy from 2010 to 2021.
  5. A global bibliometric and visualized analysis in the status and trends of corneal tissue engineering research from 1991 to 2021.
  6. Mapping the current trends and hotspots of vascular cognitive impairment from 2000-2021: A bibliometric analysis.
  7. A bibliometric and visual analysis of obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome from 2012 to 2022.
  8. Motivation in second language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis between 2000 and 2021.
  9. Sustainable development goals: a bibliometric analysis of literature reviews.
  10. Evaluating the research productivity of academic dermatologists based on the NIH-supported relative citation ratio.
  11. Cognitive Linguistics: Analysis of Mapping Knowledge Domains.
  12. Growing Global Research Interest in Antimicrobial Peptides for Caries Management: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  13. Mapping the research trends of third language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis based on Scopus.
  14. Seeing Is Believing: The Effect of Graphical Abstracts on Citations and Social Media Exposure in Gastroenterology & Hepatology Journals.
  15. Global Cluster Analysis and Network Visualization in Musculoskeletal Pain Management: A Scientometric Mapping.
  16. Trends and characteristics of employing cavitation technology for water and wastewater treatment with a focus on hydrodynamic and ultrasonic cavitation over the past two decades: A Scientometric analysis.
  17. Uncovering the information immunology journals transmitted for COVID-19: A bibliometric and visualization analysis.
  18. Scientific production in heart failure in Peru: a bibliometric study.
  19. Rehabilitation of motor function after stroke: A bibliometric analysis of global research from 2004 to 2022.
  20. Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years.
  21. Bibliometric analysis of isotopic studies on Quaternary megafauna available in the Scopus database.
  22. Knowledge Mapping of the Literature on Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymers: A Scientometric Review.
  23. Global trends and current status of distraction osteogenesis: Bibliometric analysis of publications from 1980 to 2021.
  24. Panic buying research: A bibliometric review.
  25. Bibliometric analysis of traditional Chinese medicine for smoking cessation.
  26. Gender Disparities in Academic Radiology Authorship: A 13-Year Review.
  27. Knowledge domain and emerging trends in empagliflozin for heart failure: A bibliometric and visualized analysis.
  28. Stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes: a scientometric assessment of global research during the twenty-first century.
  29. Biometrics Data Visualization of Ginsenosides in Anticancer Investigations.
  30. A Bibliometric mapping of peer-to-peer lending research based on economic and business perspective.
  31. High-impact papers in the field of anesthesiology: a 10-year cross-sectional study.
  32. The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) as a Novel Bibliometric among 2,511 Academic Orthopaedic Surgeons.
  33. Mapping current research and identifying hotspots of ferroptosis in cardiovascular diseases.
  34. Neuro-oncology authorship trends in gender since 1944: a systematic review of 14,020 articles from five top-tier academic journals.
  35. Oculoplastic publication trends in general ophthalmology journals.
  36. The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for cancer: A scientometric analysis.
  37. Global research trends in in-stent neoatherosclerosis: A CiteSpace-based visual analysis.
  38. Bibliometric Review on the Volatile Organic Compounds in Meat.
  39. Bibliometrics of Functional Polymeric Biomaterials with Bioactive Properties Prepared by Radiation-Induced Graft Copolymerisation: A Review.
  40. Publication trends of artificial intelligence in retina in 10 years: Where do we stand?
  41. The Global research of protein post-translational modifications in the cancer field: A bibliometric and visualized study.
  42. Past, Present and Future of Research on Wearable Technologies for Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Scopus.
  43. Bibliometric Analysis of Accidental Oil Spills in Ice-Infested Waters.
  44. Social network and HIV/AIDS: A bibliometric analysis of global literature.
  45. A bibliometrics and visualization analysis of cannabidiol research from 2004 to 2021.
  46. Mapping the Global Evolution and Research Directions of Information Seeking, Sharing and Communication in Disasters: A Bibliometric Study.
  47. CiteSpace-Based Visualization Analysis of Forensic Research in China from 2010 to 2019.
  48. Revealing the Intellectual Structure and Evolution of Digital Addiction Research: An Integrated Bibliometric and Science Mapping Approach.
  49. The impact of COVID-19 on citations of laboratory medicine journals.
  50. Fifty Years of Wildlife Diseases in Europe: A Citation Database Meta-Analysis.
  51. The role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines.
  52. Scientific Productivity of University Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
  53. Scientometric Analysis of Global Scientific Publications on COVID-19 and Diabetes with an Emphasis on Middle Eastern Countries.
  54. The JOGC's Journey to an Impact Factor.
  55. Visualization and Analysis of Global Vision Zero Studies and Policy Orientation in China.
  56. A Bibliographic Analysis of Primary Studies on Physical Activity and COVID-19 during 2020-2021.
  57. Disciplinary Roots of 300 Top-Ranked Scientific Contributors to Gerontology: From Legacy to Enriching Our Discovery.
  58. A mini-review on the use of waste in the production of sustainable Portland cement composites.
  59. Structural and temporal dynamics analysis on drug-eluting stents: History, research hotspots and emerging trends.
  60. Measuring the impact of health research data in terms of data citations by scientific publications.
  61. Author multidisciplinarity and disciplinary roles in field of study networks.
  62. Academic Productivity of Early Career Transfusion Medicine Specialists: A Workforce Study.
  63. The menace of self citation: An audit of two years from journals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
  64. The Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Physical Literacy for a Healthy Life.
  65. A review of energy harvesting from regenerative shock absorber from 2000 to 2021: advancements, emerging applications, and technical challenges.
  66. Uterine fibroid embolization or myomectomy: how much marketing is enough? Comparative analysis of public search trends in Google and medical publications in PubMed.
  67. Research trends analysis of chronic hepatitis C versus nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A literature review text-mining analysis of publications.
  68. Time to Publication in High-Impact General Medical Journals Differs Between Female and Male Researchers.
  69. United States Neurosurgery Department Program Directors: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Current and Future Trends and Attributes.
  70. Correlation of Scholarly Activity and Departmental Clinical Productivity in a Surgical Subspecialty.
  71. Trends of Regional Anesthesia Studies in Emergency Medicine: An Observational Study of Published Articles.
  72. Investigating the evolution of the technologies for collecting microplastics.
  73. The Relative Citation Ratio: A Modern Approach to Assessing Academic Productivity within Plastic Surgery.
  74. Academic dependency: the influence of the prevailing international biomedical research agenda on Argentina's CONICET.
  75. Mapping the Literature on Diet and Multiple Sclerosis: A Data-Driven Approach.
  76. Effects of Photobiomodulation on Oral Mucositis: Visualization and Analysis of Knowledge.
  77. Comparative Study on International Research Hotspots and National-Level Policy Keywords of Dynamic Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning in China (2000-2021).
  78. Research Progress and Hotspot Evolution Analysis of Landscape Microclimate: Visual Analysis Based on CNKI and WOS.
  79. COVID-19 Scientific Publications From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 2020-January 2022.
  80. Shifts in periphyton research themes over the past three decades.
  81. Current Trends in Subspecialty Fellowship Training for 1,691 Academic Neurological Surgeons.
  82. Why are medical research articles tweeted? The news value perspective.
  83. Global scientific production in the pre-Covid-19 Era: An analysis of 53 countries for 22 years.
  84. Research Methods Used in Evidence-Based Design: An Analysis of Five Years of Research Articles From the HERD Journal.
  85. Progressive and degenerative journals: on the growth and appraisal of knowledge in scholarly publishing.
  86. Genotoxicity of Organic contaminants in the soil: A review based on bibliometric analysis and methodological progress.
  87. Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Medical Sociology: A Co-Word Analysis.
  88. Introduction of the 13th Hypertension Research Awards for authors of outstanding papers in Hypertension Research.
  89. A Bibliometric-Based Analytical Framework for the Study of Smart City Lifeforms in China.
  90. A Bibliometrics-Enhanced, PAGER-Compliant Scoping Review of the Literature on Paralympic Powerlifting: Insights for Practices and Future Research.
  91. Leading science cities by the numbers.
  92. Reply from the authors to: Artificial intelligence applied to ophthalmology and optometry: A citation network analysis.
  93. Health Information System and Health Care Applications Performance in the Healthcare Arena: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  1. Afr Health Sci. 2022 Jun;22(2): 704-716
    Bibliometric analysis of the African Health Sciences' research indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.
    Taha Hussein Musa, Joseph Kawuki, Hassan Hussein Musa.
       Background: The Journal of African Health Sciences (AHS) is an internationally refereed journal in the field of health sciences with vast research contributions in the world and Africa region.
    Objective: The study aimed to document the scientific production and explore the AHS research bibliometric characteristics since its first issue.
    Methods: A comprehensive retrospective bibliometric analysis was performed on AHS published documents indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus since the journal's first issue. The analysis was done using SPSS v. 22.0, Bibliometrix Package in R, and VOSviewer v.1.6.15.
    Results: A total of 1649 and 1879 documents indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus were retrieved. The annual number of publications showed a significant increase in both databases. The most contributing countries (in WoS vs. Scopus) were; Nigeria (n = 393 vs. 276), Uganda (215 vs. 220) and South Africa (143 vs. 101).The most productive authors were "Tumwine JK", "Mayanja-Kizza H", and "Ocama P". Makerere University, The University of Ibadan, and University of Nigeria were the most contributive institutions. International agencies mainly from the USA were the main funders of AHS documents. Analysis of keywords revealed the dominance of research topics with keywords such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Obesity, Hypertension, risk factors, infection, mortality, amongst others.
    Conclusions: This analysis has revealed the progress in the development and growth of scientific research from AHS. Moreover, top-cited documents-analysis has reflected its focus on health issues relevant to Africa. This analysis would help in evidence-based descriptions of AHS research output.
    Keywords:  African Health Sciences; Bibliometric analysis; Publication progress; VOSviewer
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v22i2.80
  2. J Physician Assist Educ. 2022 Dec 01. 33(4): 309-312
    A Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Activity of Authors of Research Articles Published in the Journal of Physician Assistant Education from 2011-2020.
    Marcia Bouton, Michael Halasy.
       INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to analyze bibliometric data and trends of author contributions to the Journal of Physician Assistant Education (JPAE) from 2011-2020.
    METHODS: Author data were collected from JPAE research articles published from 2011-2020. Publication history and h-index were obtained from Scopus. Data collected included first authors, last authors, and PA authors as well as trends in publications in JPAE . Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests were completed.
    RESULTS: From 2011-2020, 200 research articles were published in JPAE; the volume was constant. Of 698 authors listed, 374 were physician assistants (PAs). Overall, contributing authors had a mean publication number of 19.6 (1-327) compared to 12.1 (1-163) for PAs. First and last PA authors had mean publication numbers of 13.2 and 16.1, respectively, and an average h-index of 3.2 and 4.4, respectively. The overall author h-index was 5.2. The mean number of publications for non-PA last authors was 32.9. Publication to h-index proportion was similar between PAs and other authors. The top 25 th percentile of PA authors published > 9 indexed documents, 3 times the number published by those in the 1-75 th percentile.
    DISCUSSION: PA author articles in JPAE from 2011 to 2020 were fewer than those by non-PAs but were as likely to have a proportionate h-index. PAs listed as first and last author were highly published. Trends suggest that when PA first authors work with PA last authors, there may be a more egalitarian relationship, and mentorship patterns may also exist within these groups. Increasing publication numbers from 2011 to 2020 for PA first and last authors indicates increasing academic contribution.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/JPA.0000000000000459
  3. Future Cardiol. 2022 Nov 22.
    The top 100 cited articles on spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a bibliometric analysis.
    Onoriode Kesiena, Famojuro Oluwaseun, Temitope Olokulade, Syed Hyder, Garba Rimamskep, Tamunoinemi D Bob-Manuel.
      Aim: This study identifies the most cited papers on spontaneous coronary artery dissection and evaluates their focus and the characteristics of the current literature. Methods: The Web of Science database was queried for publications between 1971 and 2021. The articles were ranked from the most to the least citations, and each was reviewed by two authors. Results: The total citations ranged from 44 to 457, with a median (interquartile range) citation of 78.5 (60-140). Females were 28% of the first authors, about half the papers (52/100) were published in the last decade, most were observational studies (78/100) and the rest were nonoriginal studies. The impact factor of the journal weakly correlated with the number of citations (r [98] = 0.24; p = 0.018). Conclusion: Efforts are needed to encourage female authorship and increase the quality of articles in this subject area.
    Keywords:  authorship; bibliometric; coronary artery; dissection; gender; spontaneous
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2217/fca-2022-0049
  4. Med Sci Monit. 2022 Nov 23. 28 e937976
    Bibliometric Analysis of Research Relating to IgA Nephropathy from 2010 to 2021.
    Mengdan Xi, Xiangfu Gao.
      BACKGROUND IgA nephropathy (IgAN), characterized by the deposition of IgA, is one of the most common forms of primary glomerulonephritis. Although bibliometrics has been popular in the field of medicine, the bibliometric analysis of research related to IgAN has not been reported in the past 10 years. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the evolution trend and hotspots of IgAN over the last 10 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS The literature data related to IgAN between 2010 and 2021 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database, a high-quality digital database that has been broadly accepted among researchers and has become a common tool for retrieving and evaluating different types of publications. VOSviewer 1.6.18 was used to analyze co-authorship, co-occurrence, citation, and co-citation. CiteSpace 5.8.R3 was used to analyze burst keywords. RESULTS According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 3664 papers were gathered. The country with the largest number of publications was China. Peking University was the most productive institution. The journal with the highest publications was Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. The most prolific author was Zhang Hong. The highly cited references mainly investigated the pathology and pathogenesis of IgAN. The most frequent keywords were "IgA nephropathy", "glomerulonephritis", and "Oxford classification". CONCLUSIONS Our study provided a comprehensive overview of IgAN research and showed the development status and scientific trend of IgAN through bibliometric analysis from 2010 to 2021. Our results will allow researchers to understand the existing research quickly and get direction for future research.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12659/MSM.937976
  5. J Tissue Eng. 2022 Jan-Dec;13:13 20417314221138188
    A global bibliometric and visualized analysis in the status and trends of corneal tissue engineering research from 1991 to 2021.
    Hua-Qing Niu, Yun Yang, Bei-Bei Wang, Wen-Tian Xiao, Hui-Ru Wu, Ya-Dong Liu, Bo-Wen Zheng, Ming-Xiang Zou.
      Corneal tissue engineering has developed rapidly in recent years, with a large number of publications emerging worldwide. This study focused on exploring the global status and research trends in this field. Publications related to corneal tissue engineering from 1991 to 2021 were acquired from the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-Expanded) of Web of Science (WoS). Firstly, the VOS viewer software was chosen for visualizing bibliometric networks, including bibliographic coupling analysis, co-citation analysis, co-authorship analysis, and co-occurrence analysis, and the CiteSpace software was used to detect burst keywords. Subsequently, the publication trends in corneal tissue engineering research were also predicted. In present study, 953 publications were selected and analyzed. The number of annual publications was increasing globally and was predicted to continue the current trend. While Japan ranked top 1 in terms of average citation, the USA contributed the most to the corneal tissue engineering research with highest number of citations and highest H-index. The journal of Biomaterials contributed the largest publication number. The top-ranked institutions were National University of Singapore and Singapore National Eye Center. Additionally, researches could be manually divided into four clusters: "biomaterial related research," "cell related research," "transplantation therapy," and "mechanism research on biomaterials." Specifically, the research topic "hydrogel" was predicted to be hotspots which may help researchers to explore new directions for future research.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; cornea; global trend; tissue engineering; visualized study
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/20417314221138188
  6. CNS Neurosci Ther. 2022 Nov 22.
    Mapping the current trends and hotspots of vascular cognitive impairment from 2000-2021: A bibliometric analysis.
    Xu Han, Jian Zhang, Sifan Chen, Weifeng Yu, Yan Zhou, Xiyao Gu.
       AIMS: To visualize the trends and hotspots in the scientific research related to vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) quantitatively and qualitatively.
    METHODS: Cross-sectional bibliometric analysis of publications that related to VCI was conducted. Publications were found by searching in the Web of Science Core Collection database (WoSCC) - Edition: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) from January 2000 to December 2021. Publication type was restricted to article and review in the English language. The downloaded data were screened and analyzed in January 2022.
    RESULTS: In total, 16,264 publications were identified, with a steady increase in annual publications. The United States was the leading country in VCI research regarding publication numbers and national influence. National Institute of Aging had the highest influence among all the institutes in the field of VCI. Philip Scheltens was the most active author. The top five active authors' publications focused on pathobiology, neuroimaging standards, risk factors, prevention, and the standard diagnosis of vascular dementia (VaD). A co-cited publication clustering resulted in 19 main clusters, and the prevention, blood-brain barrier, cholesterol, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and VaD were the top 5 clusters. Moreover, burst keywords detection revealed that the "small vessel disease" is the current hotspot in the field of VCI.
    CONCLUSIONS: This bibliometric analysis mapped the overall research structure of VCI and analyzed the current research trends and hotspots for future studies orientation. Neuroimaging, risk factors detection, and pathobiology are the current trends in VCI research. Small vessel disease and its mechanisms are the current hotspots of VCI research.
    Keywords:  Citespace; bibliometric analysis; keywords co-occurrence and burst keywords; small vessel disease; vascular cognitive impairment
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/cns.14026
  7. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 ;13 1011105
    A bibliometric and visual analysis of obesity and polycystic ovary syndrome from 2012 to 2022.
    Ping Luo, Jiake Li, Pengzhou Li, Guohui Wang, Weizheng Li, Zhi Song, Xulong Sun, Zhibing Fu, Hui Zhou, Xianhao Yi, Liyong Zhu, Shaihong Zhu.
       Background: Obesity is associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). We aimed to elucidate the research status and explore research trends and future directions of research on obesity and PCOS.
    Methods: A bibliometric analysis of the published papers in the field of obesity and PCOS between 2012 and 2022 was conducted on the basis of the Web of Science Core Collection database. The collaboration networks, research trends, literature sources, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and keywords analysis were statistically analyzed and visualized using the VOSviewer software.
    Results: We retrieved 2843 records from 681 journals by 12307 authors from 2942 institutes in 99 countries. The number of published papers and citations had a roughly increasing trend annually. The United States and China contributed the majority of the records. Monash University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Karolinska Institute, University of São Paulo, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences were the biggest nodes in their cluster of the collaboration network map, and Moran LJ, Teede HJ, Joham AE, Escobar-Morreale HF, and Macut D were prolific authors. Research trends and hotspots were identified and visualized in the field of obesity and PCOS. Research hotspots in this field focused on insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome, metformin, and inflammation. Bariatric surgery, mitochondrial dysfunction, binding globulins, and comorbidities may be the frontiers of future research.
    Conclusions: We concluded the research status and trends in the field of obesity and PCOS. A better understanding of collaboration patterns, research hotspots, and frontiers may be useful for researchers.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; bibliometric analysis; obesity; polycystic ovary syndrome; visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.1011105
  8. Front Psychol. 2022 ;13 1032316
    Motivation in second language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis between 2000 and 2021.
    Xue Wu.
      As one of the most important constructs of individual differences in second language learning, motivation has garnered a lot of attention in the area of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Nevertheless, little bibliometric research has been conducted to provide a systematic overview of this line of research, which will help researchers to better understand how motivation-related research in SLA has evolved over the past 22 years and where it might push the boundaries of SLA research into in the future. In this study, three types of bibliometric analyses (i.e., co-citation analysis, citation analysis, and keyword analysis) were performed to identify the prominent scholarly documents, authors, venues of publications, and research topics that have been highly influential in the research of motivation in SLA between 2000 and 2021. Results from scientific network maps and keyword analysis suggest significant changes in the topic over the past 22 years. The results in this study also indicate an evident continuity of theoretic development in L2 language learning motivation research. Moreover, an air of active use of qualitative approaches has been detected in L2 language learning motivation research in the last 22 years.
    Keywords:  L2MSS; SLA; bibliometric analysis; motivation; multilingualism
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1032316
  9. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Nov 24.
    Sustainable development goals: a bibliometric analysis of literature reviews.
    Natália Ueda Yamaguchi, Eduarda Gameleira Bernardino, Maria Eliana Camargo Ferreira, Bruna Pietroski de Lima, Mauro Renato Pascotini, Mirian Ueda Yamaguchi.
      The research in sustainable development goals (SDG) increases year by year since its approval in 2015. Typically, after a phase of exponential growth, the number of publications increases at lower rates, suggesting a consolidation process in which literature reviews become a relevant and high-evidence type of document. In this context, the aim of this study was to perform an unprecedented bibliometric analysis of literature reviews on SDG to assess the evolution and consolidation of the scientific research. Article reviews on SDG from 2015 to 2022 were retrieved from Web of Science core collection and a descriptive bibliometric analysis was performed by growth rate, research area, source, citation, and region. Mapping and cluster analysis using keyword co-occurrence, co-authorship, and bibliographic coupling were also applied. The result revealed that SDG is a fast-growing field, with a trend in the diversification of research areas. Most of the review documents were categorized in general aspects of sustainability. Technology (SDG 9) and economic growth (SDG 8) were spotted as hidden key research areas. This result is contrary to previous bibliometric studies on SDG, demonstrating the rapid evolution and change in the field. In addition, literature reviews on reduced inequalities (SDG 10), gender equality (SDG 5); oceans, seas, and marine environments (SDG 14); and peace, justice, and strong institutions (SDG 16) were revealed as research gaps. Thus, the results demonstrated that the research on SDG cannot yet be considered a consolidated area of research, as it leaves many SDG unexplored. Future research has been proposed accordingly.
    Keywords:  Agenda 2030; Citation analysis; Health promotion; SDG; Scientometrics; Sustainability
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24379-6
  10. Arch Dermatol Res. 2022 Nov 24.
    Evaluating the research productivity of academic dermatologists based on the NIH-supported relative citation ratio.
    Charles B Lau, Luka Machavariani, Guohai Zhou, Gideon P Smith.
      The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently developed an article-level metric called the relative citation ratio (RCR). It improves upon prior metrics such as the h-index in that it is field-normalized, allowing for more accurate comparisons of author productivity between fields. The RCR is also a more accurate metric for evaluating early-career stage investigators. We sought to provide benchmark RCR data of academic dermatologists and examine how factors such as gender, degrees, and academic rank impact RCR scores. Academic dermatologists were indexed using the NIH iCite database. Gender, additional degrees, academic rank, total number of publications, mean RCR, and weighted RCR were collected for each dermatologist. Mean and weighted RCR scores were compared by gender, degrees, and academic rank, with P values based on multiple linear regression. 1899 dermatology faculty members were included in the analysis. Academic dermatologists had a median mean RCR of 1.12 (interquartile range/IQR 0.65-1.73) and a median weighted RCR of 18.89 (IQR 4.67-62.18). Full professorship as well as Doctor of Philosophy acquisition were associated with an increase in mean and weighted RCR scores. Male gender was associated with an increase in weighted RCR scores. Interestingly, male and female academic dermatologists along with assistant and associate professors had similar mean RCR scores. Limitations of the study include the inability to differentiate dermatologists with the same name. The iCite website also only includes PubMed-listed articles from 1995 to 2021. Overall, academic dermatologists have a median mean RCR value greater than the NIH benchmark value of 1.00, suggesting that their publications are more impactful compared to those published by the general scientific community. The benchmark data from this study may prove useful for self-evaluation and also grant, hiring, and promotional decisions.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Citations; Dermatology; Relative citation ratio; Research impact; Research productivity
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00403-022-02485-2
  11. J Intell. 2022 Oct 24. pii: 93. [Epub ahead of print]10(4):
    Cognitive Linguistics: Analysis of Mapping Knowledge Domains.
    Ahmed Alduais, Ammar Al-Khawlani, Shrouq Almaghlouth, Hind Alfadda.
      Language acquisition, processing, comprehension, and production encompass a complex mechanism. Particularly, the mechanisms by which we make sense of language, including perception, conceptualization, and processing, have been controversial topics among cognitive linguists and researchers in cognitive sciences. Cognitive processes such as attention, thought, perception, and memory play a significant role in meaningful human communication. This study aimed to apply the science mapping method to detect and visualize emerging trends and patterns in literature pertaining to cognitive linguistics. In order to accomplish this, eight bibliometric and eight scientometric indicators were used in conjunction with CiteSpace 5.8.R3 and VOSviewer 1.6.18 for scientometric analysis and data visualisation. The data were collected and triangulated from three databases, including 2380 from Scopus, 1732 from WOS, and 9911 from Lens from 1969 to 2022. Among the findings were the visualization of eight bibliometric indicators regarding the knowledge production size of cognitive linguistics based on year, country, university, journal, publisher, research area, authors, and cited documents. Second, we presented scientometric indicators with regard to cognitive linguistics development, including the most important authors in the field, co-citation networks, citation networks, sigma metrics to detect works with potential citation growth, and clusters to group related topics to cognitive linguistics. We conclude the study by emphasizing that cognitive linguistics has evolved from the micro level where it focused on studying cognitive aspects of language in relation to time, language, and modality dimensions, to the macro level, which examines cognitive processes and their relationship to the construction of meaningful communication using both sensation and perception.
    Keywords:  cognitive linguistics; cognitive processes; conceptual representation; mental representation; perception; perceptual processes; scientometric review
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10040093
  12. J Funct Biomater. 2022 Oct 29. pii: 210. [Epub ahead of print]13(4):
    Growing Global Research Interest in Antimicrobial Peptides for Caries Management: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Olivia Lili Zhang, John Yun Niu, Iris Xiaoxue Yin, Ollie Yiru Yu, May Lei Mei, Chun Hung Chu.
      Objective: Researchers are studying the use of antimicrobial peptides as functional biomaterials to prevent and treat dental caries. This study aims to investigate the global research interest in antimicrobial peptides for caries management. Methods: Two independent investigators systematically searched with keywords ('Caries' OR 'Dental caries') AND ('Antimicrobial peptide' OR 'AMP' OR 'Statherin' OR 'Histatin' OR 'Defensin' OR 'Cathelicidin') on Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus. They removed duplicate publications and screened the titles and abstracts to identify relevant publications. The included publications were summarized and classified as laboratory studies, clinical trials or reviews. The citation count and citation density of the three publication types were compared using a one-way analysis of variance. The publications' bibliometric data were analyzed using the Bibliometrix program. Results: This study included 163 publications with 115 laboratory studies (71%), 29 clinical trials (18%) and 19 reviews (11%). The number of publications per year have increased steadily since 2002. The citation densities (mean ± SD) of laboratory study publications (3.67 ± 2.73) and clinical trial publications (2.63 ± 1.85) were less than that of review articles (5.79 ± 1.27) (p = 0.002). The three publication types had no significant difference in citation count (p = 0.54). Most publications (79%, 129/163) reported the development of a novel antimicrobial peptide. China (52/163, 32%) and the US (29/163, 18%) contributed to 50% (81/163) of the publications. Conclusion: This bibliometric analysis identified an increasing trend in global interest in antimicrobial peptides for caries management since 2002. The main research topic was the development of novel antimicrobial peptides. Most publications were laboratory studies, as were the three publications with the highest citation counts. Laboratory studies had high citation counts, whereas reviews had high citation density.
    Keywords:  antimicrobial; caries; peptides; prevention; remineralisation
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb13040210
  13. Front Psychol. 2022 ;13 1021517
    Mapping the research trends of third language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis based on Scopus.
    Zhao Liu.
      L3 acquisition is gaining prominence in the academic community. The cardinal aim of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of research on L3 acquisition. 425 documents from the Scopus database were analyzed with Bibliometrix. To gain a general and systematic overview of research on L3 acquisition, we grounded our study on three main levels of bibliometric analysis: performance analysis, collaboration analysis, and thematic map. By doing so, we identified the most influential sources, authors, affiliations, countries, and documents, the scientific network among different constituents, as well as the evolution of research trends. The results suggest that L3 acquisition has experienced three periods: initial phase (1984-2008), development phase (2009-2014), and burst phase (2015-2022). The results also indicate that: (1) The International Journal of Multilingualism is the most steady source contributing to this field. (2) Relevant contributors for each period are recognized, including established and emerging researchers. (3) European countries such as Spain, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Poland are at the forefront of publication. (4) Collaboration increases over time but is becoming increasingly oriented in European and Anglophone countries. (5) The research hotspots have shifted throughout time, encompass a broad range of fields, and continue to grow. The study results provide insights into the evolving trends of L3 acquisition studies and data to assist researchers in identifying research gaps.
    Keywords:  L3 acquisition; collaboration analysis; performance analysis; systematic literature review; thematic map
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1021517
  14. J Korean Med Sci. 2022 Nov 21. 37(45): e321
    Seeing Is Believing: The Effect of Graphical Abstracts on Citations and Social Media Exposure in Gastroenterology & Hepatology Journals.
    Yohan Kim, Jieun Lee, Jeong-Ju Yoo, Eun-Ae Jung, Sang Gyune Kim, Young Seok Kim.
       BACKGROUND: Graphical abstracts (GAs) have recently been included as an essential element in various journals, including those in the field of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. However, there has been no study on the effect of GAs on the impact factor (IF) of journals, and the citation index or social media exposure of individual articles.
    METHODS: We investigated the presence of GAs, total citations and social media exposure of full-length original articles in the top ten journals of gastroenterology and hepatology for three years (2019-2021). Citations and social media exposure were evaluated with the Web of Science citation index, Altmetric Attention score, Dimension recorded citation count, and PlumX index.
    RESULTS: A total of 4,205 articles from ten journals were evaluated for three years. First, journals that have adopted GAs demonstrated significantly higher IF increases for the past three years than those of journals without GAs. The longer GAs have been utilized in a journal, the higher IFs the journal had. Secondly, individual articles with GAs had significantly higher Web of Science citation counts (median 14 vs. 12), more social media exposure (median 23 vs. 5) and more Altmetric.com tweet counts (median 15 vs. 7) than those of articles without GAs. In multiple regression analysis, the inclusion of GAs was particularly effective in increasing the number of Web of Science citations (β = 14.1, SE = 1.9, P < 0.001) and social media exposure (β = 13.3, SE = 6.1, P = 0.030) after adjusting for journal IFs and topics.
    CONCLUSION: GAs are effective in increasing IFs of journals in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology, as well as increasing citations and social media exposure of individual articles.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Journal Impact Factor; Social Media
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e321
  15. Orthop Surg. 2022 Nov 21.
    Global Cluster Analysis and Network Visualization in Musculoskeletal Pain Management: A Scientometric Mapping.
    Fengyao Mei, Jiao Jiao Li, Jiarong Li, Shengjie Dong, Zhichang Li, Dan Xing.
       OBJECTIVE: Musculoskeletal pain is the most prominent clinical manifestation of more than 150 musculoskeletal disease conditions, and its effective long-term management poses a great challenge to healthcare systems globally. For this, it is important to understand current research progress on musculoskeletal pain management. The purpose of the present study is to provide a comprehensive insight into the current state of research and global trends in musculoskeletal pain management.
    METHODS: Publications on musculoskeletal pain management from 1972 to 2021 were retrieved from the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) database. Included articles were any article type related to aspects of musculoskeletal pain management, including etiology, mechanisms, epidemiology, treatment, outcomes, side effects, and patient compliance. Publication data were analyzed using bibliometric methods. The software VOSviewer was employed to perform bibliographic coupling, co-authorship, co-citation, and co-occurrence analysis, and to visualize publication tendencies in musculoskeletal pain management.
    RESULTS: A total of 5475 articles were included in this study. The number of global publications on musculoskeletal pain management has escalated annually. Based on the number of publications and citations from the published literature, as well as the H-index, the United States led global contributions in this area. The institutions making the highest contributions were the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the University of Sydney, and Harvard University. The journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders published the highest number of articles in this area. The published studies fall under six groups: "Prevention and rehabilitation," "Etiology and diagnosis," "Clinical study," "Epidemiology," "Mental health," and "Education." High-quality primary studies and epidemiology are predicted to be the next prevailing topics in this field of research.
    CONCLUSIONS: Based on current global trends, the number of publications on musculoskeletal pain management will continue to increase. Future studies will likely place more emphasis on high-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and epidemiological studies.
    Keywords:  Cluster analysis; Musculoskeletal; Pain management; Visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/os.13564
  16. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Oct 28. pii: S0048-9697(22)06902-9. [Epub ahead of print]858(Pt 2): 159802
    Trends and characteristics of employing cavitation technology for water and wastewater treatment with a focus on hydrodynamic and ultrasonic cavitation over the past two decades: A Scientometric analysis.
    Saman Moftakhari Anasori Movahed, Loris Calgaro, Antonio Marcomini.
      Cavitation-based technologies have emerged as a sustainable and effective way to treat natural waters and wastewater, considering their increasing scarcity due to pollution and climate change. For this reason, this work aimed to conduct a scientometric analysis on the topic of cavitation for water and wastewater treatment during the last 20 years, from 2001 to August 2022. We focused on hydrodynamic and ultrasonic cavitation as the prevalent methods of inducing cavitation. Furthermore, an in-depth study on the main trends regarding the number of publications and citations, keywords co-occurrence and evolution, and countries' publication trends was carried out to investigate the future direction of this research topic. The data was gathered from the Web of Science database and analyzed by the Visualization Of Similarities software. This work focused on: i) publication and citation trends, ii) scientific categories, iii) countries' contribution to the topic of cavitation, iv) prominent journals, v) keyword co-occurrence and cluster analysis, and vi) keyword evolution analysis. Results showed a significant increase in publications during the past 5 years. The scientific categories with the highest number of publications were "environmental sciences" and "environmental engineering," with a combined share of 19.4 % of publications. Keywords evolution analysis showed that limited focus was given to topics related to "energy" and "energy efficiency" in the field of cavitation, but with the rising importance of each process's sustainability, the attention given to these concepts will increase in the future. Future directions for the topic of cavitation-related water and wastewater treatments will shift towards more environmentally friendly applications of hydrodynamic and ultrasonic cavitation as well as towards more green and sustainable approaches to address the increasing water pollution problems and shortage. Moreover, it will include other uses besides water treatment such as manufacturing nanomaterials food production and medicine.
    Keywords:  Cavitation; Research trend; Scientometric analysis; Sustainable treatment; VOS viewer
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159802
  17. Front Immunol. 2022 ;13 1035151
    Uncovering the information immunology journals transmitted for COVID-19: A bibliometric and visualization analysis.
    Jiefeng Zhao, Jinfeng Zhu, Chao Huang, Xiaojian Zhu, Zhengming Zhu, Qinrong Wu, Rongfa Yuan.
       Background: Since the global epidemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a large number of immunological studies related to COVID-19 have been published in various immunology journals. However, the results from these studies were discrete, and no study summarized the important immunological information about COVID-19 released by these immunology journals. This study aimed to comprehensively summarize the knowledge structure and research hotspots of COVID-19 published in major immunology journals through bibliometrics.
    Methods: Publications on COVID-19 in major immunology journals were obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection. CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and R-bibliometrix were comprehensively used for bibliometric and visual analysis.
    Results: 1,331 and 5,000 publications of 10 journals with high impact factors and 10 journals with the most papers were included, respectively. The USA, China, England, and Italy made the most significant contributions to these papers. University College London, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School, University California San Diego, and University of Pennsylvania played a central role in international cooperation in the immunology research field of COVID-19. Yuen Kwok Yung was the most important author in terms of the number of publications and citations, and the H-index. CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES and FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY were the most essential immunology journals. These immunology journals mostly focused on the following topics: "Delta/Omicron variants", "cytokine storm", "neutralization/neutralizing antibody", "T cell", "BNT162b2", "mRNA vaccine", "vaccine effectiveness/safety", and "long COVID".
    Conclusion: This study systematically uncovered a holistic picture of the current research on COVID-19 published in major immunology journals from the perspective of bibliometrics, which will provide a reference for future research in this field.
    Keywords:  B-ibliometric analysis; CiteSpace; R-bibliometrix; immunology journal; the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1035151
  18. Arch Cardiol Mex. 2022 ;92(4): 476-483
    Scientific production in heart failure in Peru: a bibliometric study.
    Pedro Segura-Saldaña, Mayita Álvarez-Vargas, Wendy Nieto-Gutiérrez, Marcos Pariona-Javier, Cristian Morán-Mariños.
       OBJECTIVE: To analyze the Peruvian scientific production on Heart Failure (HF) in the period 2000-2020.
    METHODS: We performed an observational bibliometric study, in the Scopus and Scielo database, of documents published on heart failure by an author with Peruvian affiliation, between the years 2000 and 2020. We describe variables of scientific production, number of annual publications, documents, characteristics of the publications, and institutions. The collaborative networks were analyzed by building a network of nodes using the VOSViewer v1.6.5 software.
    RESULTS: A 236 publications were found in Scopus and 55 in Scielo. The largest number of documents were original articles followed by review articles. The journal "The Lancet" and "Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública" were those that had the highest number of publications. Thirty-one countries were registered that had at least 5 documents published with an author from Peru. Scientific collaboration was mainly with the United States and at the regional level with Argentina. 55 documents were published with only Peruvian authors.
    CONCLUSION: The scientific production in HF by Peruvian authors is in exponential growth. And the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia/CRÓNICAS is the Peruvian institution with the most publications on it.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Bibliométrica; Heart failure; Insuficiencia cardiaca; Peru; Perú; Publicaciones; Publications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.24875/ACM.21000236
  19. Front Aging Neurosci. 2022 ;14 1024163
    Rehabilitation of motor function after stroke: A bibliometric analysis of global research from 2004 to 2022.
    Jinjing Hu, Jihua Zou, Yantong Wan, Qiuru Yao, Peng Dong, Gege Li, Xuan Wu, Lijie Zhang, Donghui Liang, Qing Zeng, Guozhi Huang.
       Background and aims: The mortality rate of stroke has been increasing worldwide. Poststroke somatic dysfunctions are common. Motor function rehabilitation of patients with such somatic dysfunctions enhances the quality of life and has long been the primary practice to achieve functional recovery. In this regard, we aimed to delineate the new trends and frontiers in stroke motor function rehabilitation literature published from 2004 to 2022 using a bibliometric software.
    Methods: All documents related to stroke rehabilitation and published from 2004 to 2022 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection. Publication output, research categories, countries/institutions, authors/cocited authors, journals/cocited journals, cocited references, and keywords were assessed using VOSviewer v.1.6.15.0 and CiteSpace version 5.8. The cocitation map was plotted according to the analysis results to intuitively observe the research hotspots.
    Results: Overall, 3,302 articles were retrieved from 78 countries or regions and 564 institutions. Over time, the publication outputs increased annually. In terms of national contribution, the United States published the most papers, followed by China, Japan, South Korea, and Canada. Yeungnam University had the most articles among all institutions, followed by Emory University, Fudan University, and National Taiwan University. Jang Sung Ho and Wolf S.L. were the most productive (56 published articles) and influential (cited 1,121 times) authors, respectively. "Effect of constraint-induced movement therapy on upper extremity function 3-9 months after stroke: the Extremity Constraint Induced Therapy Evaluation randomized clinical trial" was the most frequently cited reference. Analysis of keywords showed that upper limbs, Fugl-Meyer assessment, electromyography, virtual reality, telerehabilitation, exoskeleton, and brain-computer interface were the research development trends and focus areas for this topic.
    Conclusion: Publications regarding motor function rehabilitation following stroke are likely to continuously increase. Research on virtual reality, telemedicine, electroacupuncture, the brain-computer interface, and rehabilitation robots has attracted increasing attention, with these topics becoming the hotspots of present research and the trends of future research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; VOSviewer; motor function; rehabilitation; stroke
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.1024163
  20. Health Psychol Res. 2022 ;10(4): 38356
    Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years.
    Natalie Strand, Molly Kraus, Charlotte Pougnier, Audrey Keim, Anagha Deshpande, Jillian Maloney.
      Authorship of peer-reviewed publications is important for academic rank, promotion, and national reputation. In pain medicine, limited information is available for authorship trends for women as compared with men. The objective of this study was to describe trends of female authorship data in the 5 pain journals with the highest impact factors over a 10-year period. We analyzed data for January, April, and October in 2009, 2014, and 2019. For each article, the following information was recorded: journal name, journal month, journal year, article title or article PMCID, total authors, total female authors, total male authors, total authors of unknown gender, presence or absence of a female first author, and presence or absence of a female last/senior author. Authorship for 924 articles was reviewed. When a man was senior author, women were first author on only 27.9% of articles (P<.001). A woman was 2 times as likely (57.2%) to be first author when a woman was the senior author (P<.001), pointing to the potential impact of female senior authors. An article with 50% or more female authors was 76.4% more likely to have a female senior author (P<.001). The results demonstrate the influence of a senior female author on the likelihood of an article's having a female first author. When men were the senior authors, women were half as likely to be first authors. The total number of female authors changed very little between 2009 and 2019.
    Keywords:  female physician; gender disparity; physicians; women representation; women/standards/trends
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.52965/001c.38356
  21. An Acad Bras Cienc. 2022 ;pii: S0001-37652022000701201. [Epub ahead of print]94(suppl 3): e20211404
    Bibliometric analysis of isotopic studies on Quaternary megafauna available in the Scopus database.
    Lucas DE M França, Mário André T Dantas, Hermínio Ismael DE Araújo-Júnior.
      The number of isotopic studies on Quaternary megafauna has increased over the last decades, yet, there is no published data addressing the status of scientific production of this research field. The present study shows the results of a bibliometric research carried out in the Scopus database where the publishing trends within this scientific field was analyzed using the open source software tool SciMAT. We retrieved 278 papers published from 1980 to 2019 and observed that a significant increase in publishing has mainly occurred in the last decade analyzed here. We also identified some of the field´s most influential articles and journals; recognized that carbon, oxygen and nitrogen isotopes are the most used markers in these studies; and that the most cited taxa are representatives of Equidae, Bovidae and Proboscidae. Also, Paleoecology is the basic thematic area, whereas Climate and Paleoenvironmental Changes is the one with the greatest development potential. Our results clearly show that the isotopic study on Quaternary megafauna is still under development and that some subjects could be further explored, such as analyzing more taxa within Carnivora, Pilosa, Notoungulata, Cetartiodactyla and Perissodactyla as well as using other less frequent stable isotope markers, such as strontium, calcium and hydrogen.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202220211404
  22. Polymers (Basel). 2022 Nov 18. pii: 5008. [Epub ahead of print]14(22):
    Knowledge Mapping of the Literature on Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymers: A Scientometric Review.
    Hassan Ali Alkadhim, Muhammad Nasir Amin, Waqas Ahmad, Kaffayatullah Khan, Mohammed Najeeb Al-Hashem, Sara Houda, Marc Azab, Zaher Abdel Baki.
      This study examined the bibliographic data on fiber-reinforced geopolymers (FRGPs) using scientometrics to determine their important features. Manual review articles are inadequate in their capability to connect various segments of literature in an ordered and systematic manner. Scientific mapping, co-citation, and co-occurrence are the difficult aspects of current research. The Scopus database was utilized to find and obtain the data needed to achieve the study's aims. The VOSviewer application was employed to assess the literature records from 751 publications, including citation, bibliographic, keyword, and abstract details. Significant publishing outlets, keywords, prolific researchers in terms of citations and articles published, top-cited documents, and locations actively participating in FRGP investigations were identified during the data review. The possible uses of FRGP were also highlighted. The scientometric analysis revealed that the most frequently used keywords in FRGP research are inorganic polymers, geopolymers, reinforcement, geopolymer, and compressive strength. Additionally, 27 authors have published more than 10 articles on FRGP, and 29 articles have received more than 100 citations up to June 2022. Due to the graphical illustration and quantitative contribution of scholars and countries, this study can support scholars in building joint ventures and communicating innovative ideas and practices.
    Keywords:  bibliographic analysis; fiber-reinforced geopolymers; fibers; geopolymers
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14225008
  23. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2022 ;10 1046476
    Global trends and current status of distraction osteogenesis: Bibliometric analysis of publications from 1980 to 2021.
    Qi Liu, Jieyu Liang, Ze Liu, Hongbin Guo, Min Wang, Yi Zhang.
      Introduction: Distraction osteogenesis (DO) has become an important technology for the correction of various congenital and acquired skeletal ridge deformities. It is widely used in oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopedics, and other disciplines. From 1980 to 2021, the cutting-edge research of DO has been continuously promoted, and the interaction between disciplines has also been deepening. However, the analysis on the global trend and status of DO is relatively rare. Therefore, the aim of our study was to summarize the global trends and current status of DO through bibliometrics. Materials and methods: Web of Science (WOS) core collection database and Medline were used to search DO-related literatures published during 1980-2021. The collected data are imported into Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, VOSviewer software for analysis and drawing figure/table. Results: A total of 7,721 publications were included in this study. The United States is the main contributing country to DO (ranking first in terms of total publications, sum of times cited and H-index). Harvard University was the main contributing institution to DO. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery is the main contributing journal of DO related articles. Buchman, SR is the main contributing author to DO related articles. DO related publications can be summarized into 7 clusters: 1) "mechanism study", 2) "limb bone distraction study", 3) "alveolar bone distraction study", 4) "temporomandibular joint ankylosis study", 5) "maxillofacial surgery study", 6) "skull distraction study" and 7) "mandible distraction study". Mandible distraction study has been a hot topic in recent years. In addition, the "management", "osteogenesis" and "reconstruction" of DO have been the research hotspots from 1980 to 2021. Conclusion: From 1980 to 2021, the total number of DO articles has increased rapidly and maintained a steady trend. The United States is the predominant country in the field. Surgery, dental, and oral surgery and orthopaedics are hot fields of DO research. The study of mandible distraction has been paid more and more attention and will become a hotspot in the future. Our study is beneficial for scientists to specify the research hotspot and development direction of DO.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; bibliometrics; distraction osteogenesis; visual analyses; web of science
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.1046476
  24. Nepal J Epidemiol. 2022 Sep;12(3): 1224-1230
    Panic buying research: A bibliometric review.
    S M Yasir Arafat, Sujita Kumar Kar, Rakesh Singh, Vikas Menon, Brijesh Sathian, Russell Kabir.
       Background: Panic buying has been reported during a period of crisis when people buy an extra amount of essential commodities and hoard them anticipating their future utility. As a newer entity, a bibliometric analysis would reveal the research gaps for further studies. We aimed to do a bibliometric analysis of researches published on panic buying over the past two decades.
    Methods: A literature search was conducted in the SCOPUS database using the keyword "panic buying". All published research in the English language between 1st January 2001 to 1st August 2021 was included in the analysis of this study.
    Results: We identified a total of 142 articles on panic buying published over the past two decades. There is an exponential increase in the publication on this topic during the COVID-19 pandemic (n=127). Majority of the articles were published from the United States (n=23), followed by the United Kingdom (n=20), and China (n=20). The Frontiers in Public Health and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services published the highest number of articles (eight each). Arafat SMY published the highest number of publications as a single author (n=10) and Enam Medical College and Hospital, Bangladesh has the highest number of papers as an institution (n=10). Among all the publishers, Elsevier has published the maximum number of papers (n=38).
    Conclusion: There is an exponential growth of panic buying research during 2020-21. The global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has been attributed to the recent rise in panic buying research.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Panic buying; bibliometric review; hoarding; pandemic; perspectives
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v12i3.43436
  25. Tob Induc Dis. 2022 ;20 97
    Bibliometric analysis of traditional Chinese medicine for smoking cessation.
    Jingli Xing, Jianping Liu, Mei Han, Yue Jiang, Jiali Jiang, He Huang.
       INTRODUCTION: Smoking cessation is an efficient approach to reducing disease burden. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapies such as acupuncture, acupressure, and herbal drugs are often used to help quit smoking. However, there is a lack of overarching bibliometric analysis of the clinical research on smoking cessation focusing on TCM. The aim of our study is to explore the current patterns and trends of TCM therapy for smoking cessation through bibliometric methods with visual presentation.
    METHODS: This study is an assessment of academic publications retrieved from the Scopus database on smoking cessation using TCM therapy published in the period 2005-2021. Sankey diagram, word-cloud, network analysis, thematic maps, tree-maps, and the collaborative work of authors, institutions and countries, were used to identify research trends on TCM therapy for smoking cessation. The total cited index and H-index (for journals, authors, countries, organizations) were used to identify the trends of worldwide development by R Package and Excel 2016.
    RESULTS: There was an upward trend, with some fluctuations, of 1908 articles from 2005 to 2021. The most productive country was China. The top institution in this field was Beijing University. The dominant author that contributed to TCM therapy for smoking cessation was Wang Y, who has the highest H-Index. The most productive cited journals were Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicines and the Chinese Journal of Clinical Rehabilitation. Liu L, (2011, STROKE) had the highest centrality. The keywords 'acupuncture', 'traditional Chinese medicine', 'colitis', 'hypertension', 'chronic obstructive pulmonary disease', 'risk factors' and 'alternative medicine' ranked highest in frequency. The diseases of healthy people concerned mainly cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, hypertension and pregnancy. The diseases of the patients concerned mainly cancer, diabetes, hematopathy, stroke, cardiovascular, diabetes, lung disease, and hypertension. Treatment methods were mainly traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. The research methods mainly included randomized controlled trials that were multi-center and double-blind.
    CONCLUSIONS: A substantial number of articles on TCM therapy for smoking cessation, mainly focusing on TCM and acupuncture were identified. It is worth noting that research that focused on TCM therapy for smoking cessation also was related to COVID-19.
    Keywords:  TCM; bibliometric analysis; smoking cessation; therapy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/154961
  26. Acad Radiol. 2022 Nov 21. pii: S1076-6332(22)00591-8. [Epub ahead of print]
    Gender Disparities in Academic Radiology Authorship: A 13-Year Review.
    Nicholas Xiao, Rocio Marquez-Karry, Diego F M Oliveira, Senta Berggruen, Jeanne M Horowitz.
       RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Underrepresentation of women in many scientific fields has been linked to biases against female-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals, thereby reducing their opportunities for career development and promotions. The objective of this study is to determine the representation of female academic radiologists in four flagship general radiology journals to elucidate gender-specific trends and disparities in academic radiology.
    MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed 23,741 peer-reviewed articles published in Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, Journal of the American College of Radiology and Academic Radiology from 2007 to 2020. Data abstraction and statistical analysis were performed for author gender, first and last authorship, research funding, and number of citations and grants. Baseline demographics data of academic radiologists was obtained from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
    RESULTS: A total of 72.4% of authors were male with 54% of articles were written by a male first author and male last author. When compared with assumed random pairing, there were significantly fewer Male/Female author combinations and more Female/Female author combinations than expected (p<0.01). Over the 13-year time period, the rate of increase in the number of female authors exceeded the rate of increase in women in academic radiology as reported by the AAMC. Female last authors received on average 3.2 less citations than their male counterparts (p=.03). Of manuscripts with last female authors, 31.7% of female last authors were funded compared to 25.9% of last male authors.
    CONCLUSION: This study showed the increasing numbers and higher productivity of female authors in academic radiology, suggesting progress is being made in overcoming gender disparities.
    Keywords:  Academic radiology; Gender disparity; Women
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2022.10.031
  27. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 ;9 1039348
    Knowledge domain and emerging trends in empagliflozin for heart failure: A bibliometric and visualized analysis.
    Xuesong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Yuanhui Hu.
       Objective: Empagliflozin (EMPA), a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2i), is recommended for all patients with Heart failure (HF) to reduce the risk of Cardiovascular death, hospitalization, and HF exacerbation. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation was conducted by searching relevant literatures of EMPA for Heart Failure from 2013 to 2022, and visual analysis in this field was conducted.
    Methods: The data were from the Web of Science Core Collection database (WOSCC). The bibliometric tools, CiteSpace and VOSviewer, were used for econometric analysis to probe the evolvement of disciplines and research hotspots in the field of EMPA for Heart Failure.
    Results: A total of 1461 literatures with 43861 references about EMPA for Heart Failure in the decade were extracted from WOSCC, and the number of manuscripts were on a rise. In the terms of co-authorship, USA leads the field in research maturity and exerts a crucial role in the field of EMPA for Heart Failure. Multidisciplinary research is conducive to future development. With regards to literatures, we obtained 9 hot paper, 93 highly cited literatures, and 10 co-cited references. The current research focuses on the following three aspects: EMPA improves left ventricular remodeling, exert renal protection, and increases heart rate variability.
    Conclusion: Based on methods such as bibliometrics, citation analysis and knowledge graph, this study analyzed the current situation and trend of EMPA for Heart Failure, sorted out the knowledge context in this field, and provided reference for current and future prevention and scientific research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; VOSviewer; bibliometrics; empagliflozin; heart failure; visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.1039348
  28. J Diabetes Metab Disord. 2022 Dec;21(2): 1679-1687
    Stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes: a scientometric assessment of global research during the twenty-first century.
    Devi Dayal, Brij Mohan Gupta, Ghouse Modin Mamdapur, Latika Rohilla, Pamali Mahasweta Nanda.
       Purpose: We aimed to provide a scientometric assessment of global research in stem cell therapy (SCT) for type 1 diabetes (T1D) during 1999-2020.
    Methods: The published data on SCT in T1D were retrieved from Elsevier's Scopus database and analyzed using select bibliometric tools. We used VOSviewer software and the Biblioshiny app to construct and visualize bibliometric networks.
    Results: The global yield totaled 1806 publications in the 22-year study period, registering a 17.7% annual growth peaking at 196.9% in the last 11 years. The average citations per publication (CPP) decreased from 62.0 during 1999-2009 to 24.3 during 2010-2020. The funded publications were 727 (40.2%). Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were only 2.4% (45). Amongst 70 participating countries, the USA led with a 38.6% share. Of the 388 global organizations, Harvard Medical School, USA, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy, and the University of Florida, USA were the topmost contributors. Florina, Couri, and Trucco were the top productive authors, whereas Melton, Abdi, and Simoes were the most impactful. Only 129 (3.1%) publications were highly-cited; their total and average CPP were 31,228 and 214.0 (range 101-1841), respectively.
    Conclusions: The quantity of research in SCT for T1D has increased during the last two decades while the quality has dipped. The research landscape is dominated by high-income North-American and Western-European countries. There is a need for conducting large-scale RCTs and promoting research collaborations between high- and low-income countries for long-term sustainability and global impact.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Global publications; Scientometrics; Stem cell therapy; Treatment; Type 1 diabetes
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40200-022-01120-1
  29. Am J Chin Med. 2022 Nov 21. 1-17
    Biometrics Data Visualization of Ginsenosides in Anticancer Investigations.
    Ying Chang, Zhongqi Lu, Jinyuan Sui, Tiefeng Jin, Meihua Zhang.
      Ginsenoside extracts have been shown to have anticancer effects by a growing number of studies and have thus become a hot topic in cancer research. Our study used VOSviewer and CiteSpace softwares to conduct a bibliometric approach to co-citation and co-occurrence analysis of countries, institutions, authors, references, and keywords in the field of cancer research to investigate the current status and trends of ginsenosides research in cancer. The web of science core collection (WoSCC) contained a total of 1102 papers. China made the most contributions in this area, with the most publications (742, 67.3%), and collaborated closely with Korea and the USA. The Journal of Ginseng Research, with the most total citations (1607) and an IF of 6.06, is the leading journal in the field of ginsenoside and cancer research, publishing high quality articles. Saponin and its extracts inhibit oxidative stress, promote apoptosis, and inhibits chemotherapy resistance by ginsenosides, all of which are hot research areas in this field. In the coming years, it is expected that the combination of ginsenosides and nanoparticles, in-depth mechanisms of cancer inhibition, and targeted therapy will receive widespread attention.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric; Cancer; Ginsenosides; Hot Research; Research Progress; Review
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1142/S0192415X23500039
  30. Heliyon. 2022 Nov;8(11): e11512
    A Bibliometric mapping of peer-to-peer lending research based on economic and business perspective.
    Himmatul Kholidah, Hanifiyah Yuliatul Hijriah, Imron Mawardi, Nurul Huda, Sri Herianingrum, Bani Alkausar.
      This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis on peer-to-peer lending literature published in Scopus indexed journals from an economic and business perspective. The data were processed and analyzed using VOSviewer software. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is the first paper that conducts a bibliometric analysis of the peer-to-peer lending literature using VOSviewer. The results of study showed the most popular authors, countries, organizations and keywords. Moreover, this study also discovered trending topics from recent publications. A direct benefit of this study is to provide input for stakeholders, businessmen and investors to identify important issues regarding peer-to-peer lending and directions for further researchers.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Financial access; Peer-to-peer lending; Technology; VOSViewer
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11512
  31. Can J Anaesth. 2022 Nov 23.
    High-impact papers in the field of anesthesiology: a 10-year cross-sectional study.
    Lingmin Chen, Nian Li, Yonggang Zhang.
       PURPOSE: This study was performed to evaluate trends in and provide future direction for anesthesiology education, research, and clinical practice.
    METHODS: We collected high-impact papers, ranking in the top 10% in the field of anesthesiology and published from 2011 to 2020, by the InCites tool based on the Web of Science Core Collection. We analyzed the trends, locations, distribution of subject categories, research organizations, collaborative networks, and subject terms of these papers.
    RESULTS: A total of 4,685 high-impact papers were included for analysis. The number of high-impact papers increased from 462 in 2011 to 520 in 2020. The paper with the highest value of category normalized citation impact (115.95) was published in Anesthesia and Analgesia in 2018. High-impact papers were mainly distributed in the subject categories of "Anesthesiology," "Clinical Neurology," "Neurosciences," and "Medicine General Internal." They were primarily cited in "Anesthesiology," "Clinical Neurology," "Neurosciences," "Medicine General Internal," and "Surgery." Most of these high-impact papers came from the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia. The most productive institutions were the League of European Research Universities, Harvard University, University of Toronto, University of London, University of California System, and University Health Network Toronto. Research collaboration circles have been formed in the USA, UK, and Canada. Subject-term analysis indicated postoperative analgesia, chronic pain, and perioperative complications were high-interest topics, and COVID-19 became a new hot topic in 2020.
    CONCLUSIONS: The current study provides a historical view of high-impact papers in anesthesiology in the past ten years. High-impact papers were mostly from the USA. Postoperative analgesia, chronic pain, and perioperative complications have been hot topics, and COVID-19 became a new topic in 2020. These findings provide references for education, research, and clinical practice in the field of anesthesiology.
    Keywords:  InCites; anesthesiology; education; high-impact papers; research; visual analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-022-02363-5
  32. J Orthop Res. 2022 Nov 20.
    The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) as a Novel Bibliometric among 2,511 Academic Orthopaedic Surgeons.
    Arjun Gupta, Alexandra Meeter, Jorden Norin, Joseph A Ippolito, Kathleen S Beebe.
      Objectively measuring research output is important for grant awards, promotion and tenure, or self-evaluation of productivity. However, certain shortcomings limit common bibliometric indicators. The time- and field-independent relative citation ratio (RCR) was proposed to overcome these limitations. The objective of this study was to determine whether the RCR correlates with academic rank, gender, and Ph.D. degree status among U.S. academic orthopaedic surgeons. Full-time faculty-surgeons at Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited orthopaedic surgery residency programs were included in this study. Mean (mRCR) and weighted (wRCR) RCR scores were collected from the NIH iCite database to quantify scholarly "impact" and "production", respectively, and were compared by academic rank, gender, and Ph.D. status. All information was collected from publicly available faculty listings on departmental websites. A total of 2,511 orthopaedic surgeons from 132 residency programs were assessed. Overall, the median (IQR) mRCR score was 1.56 (1.05-2.12) and the median wRCR score was 27.6 (6.97-88.44). Both metrics increased with each successive academic rank, except for department chairs. There was no difference in mRCR between male and female surgeons. Among assistant professors, males had higher wRCR scores. Both metrics were higher among surgeons with a Ph.D. degree. The RCR offers key advantages over other indices, which are reflected in differences in score distributions compared to the widely used h-index. Nevertheless, implementation of the RCR should be preceded with careful consideration of its own limitations. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; National Institutes of Health (NIH); Orthopaedic Surgery; Relative Citation Ratio (RCR); Research Productivity
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.25490
  33. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 ;9 1046377
    Mapping current research and identifying hotspots of ferroptosis in cardiovascular diseases.
    Teng Teng, Chun-Yan Kong, Rong Huang, Zhen-Guo Ma, Can Hu, Xin Zhang, Min Hu, Qi-Zhu Tang.
       Objective: Ferroptosis is a unique cell death depended on iron metabolism disorder which is different from previous apoptosis-regulated cell death. Early studies have proposed that ferroptosis is closely associated with multiple cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, the relationship of ferroptosis and CVDs has not been summarized by using bibliometric analysis. We intended to illustrate the development of ferroptosis in CVDs over the past years and provide relevant valuable information.
    Materials and methods: The authoritative database of Web of Science Core Collection was collected for retrieving ferroptosis studies in CVDs. In this work, statistical and visualization analysis were conducted using VOSviewer and Citespace.
    Results: A total of 263 studies were included in the final study. From the perspective of the overall literature, the study maintains an increased trend year by year and most manuscripts belonged to original article. China was the most productive country with the utmost scientific research output, as well as the institutions and authors, followed by Germany and the United States of America (USA). Jun Peng from China contributes to the most publications. Collaborative efforts between institutes and authors were limited and there was little widespread cooperation. In addition, burst keywords analysis discovered that ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury, heart failure (HF), and atherosclerosis were the top three research directions of ferroptosis in CVDs. The burst investigation and timeline views also indicated that endothelial injury and gut microbiota may also serve as new research topics in the future.
    Conclusion: This study provided comprehensive and specific information about the most influential articles on ferroptosis in CVDs. The relationship between ferroptosis and CVDs had attracted the scholar's concerns especially in China. Cooperations and communications between countries and institutions should be emphasized and future directions can be concentrated on endothelial disorder and gut microbiota.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; cardiovascular diseases; ferroptosis; heart; ischemic-reperfusion injury
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.1046377
  34. J Neurosurg. 2022 Nov 25. 1-10
    Neuro-oncology authorship trends in gender since 1944: a systematic review of 14,020 articles from five top-tier academic journals.
    Rosemary T Behmer Hansen, Ryan A Behmer Hansen, Justin L Gold, Sai Batchu, Rebecca D Lozada, Samantha D Palma, Stephen J Susman, William A Blocher, Angela M Richardson.
       OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to compare authorship trends, by gender, in the neurosurgical oncology literature.
    METHODS: Complete author listings for neurosurgical oncology articles published between 1944 and 2021 in five top neuro-oncology journals were extracted from the PubMed database and journal websites on December 2, 2021. Author gender was characterized with the web application programming interface (API) genderize.io. The statistical significance (p < 0.05) of time-, journal-, and gender-based differences was determined by independent-samples t-test, chi-square test, and/or Fisher's exact test.
    RESULTS: A total of 14,020 articles were written by 67,115 unique authors occupying 97,418 authorship spots. The gender for 80,030 authorship positions (82.2%) was successfully characterized. Male authors were significantly more likely than the female authors to have a first-author publication, have a last-author publication, and have authored multiple articles within the data set. Among authors who published in multiple different years (n = 11,532), women had a shorter time window of publishing (5.46 vs 6.75 years between first and last publication: mean difference [MD] 1.28 [95% CI 1.06-1.50] years, p < 0.001). During this window, however, they were slightly more productive than the men, based on the mean number of publications per year (1.06 vs 1.01 articles: MD 0.05 [95% CI 0.02-0.09] articles, p = 0.002). The percentage of female authors on each neuro-oncology research team has increased by 3.3% (95% CI 2.6%-3.9%) per decade to a mean of 26.5% in the 2020s. Having a female last author was positively associated with having a female first author (OR 2.57 [95% CI 2.29-2.89]) and a higher proportion of women on the research team overall. The percentages of female first and last authors increased at significantly higher rates in medically oriented journals than in surgically oriented journals (first authors: 0.72% [95% CI 0.58%-0.87%] vs 0.36% [95% CI 0.30%-0.42%] per year, p < 0.001; and last authors: 0.50% [95% CI 0.38%-0.62%] vs -0.03% [95% CI -0.10% to 0.05%] per year, p < 0.001).
    CONCLUSIONS: Female authorship in top neuro-oncology journals has increased since the 1940s, with female-led teams showing greater gender diversity. However, female researchers lag behind their male counterparts in quantity of published research and are less likely to hold first or last authorship positions. This difference is more pronounced in the three neurosurgical oncology journals than in the two medical neuro-oncology journals, which may reflect the relatively low female representation in neurosurgery relative to medical oncology. Collectively, these trends have meaningful implications for career advancement, which is often dependent on academic productivity.
    Keywords:  authorship; neuro-oncology; neurosurgery; oncology; women in medicine; women in surgery
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.10.JNS221183
  35. Int J Ophthalmol. 2022 ;15(11): 1852-1856
    Oculoplastic publication trends in general ophthalmology journals.
    Jean-Paul Dray, Nur Khatib, Eric Souied, Peerooz Saeed, Guy Ben Simon, Juliana Gildener-Leapman, Ofira Zloto.
       AIM: To examine the publication trend of oculoplastic articles throughout the last decade in general ophthalmology journals.
    METHODS: A review of all abstracts published between January 2010 to December 2019 in general, clinical ophthalmic journals was conducted. Articles that were categorized as original articles in general and clinical journals were included in the study.
    RESULTS: Totally 10 281 abstracts were included. Of them 465 (4.5%) were oculoplastic publications. The mean number of annual-publications was 46.5 and the mean annual-rate of oculoplastic publications was 4.51%. A significant decreasing trend in the number of oculoplastic publication in the last decade was found (P<0.01, R 2=0.770). However, there was no significant change in the annual-rate of oculoplastic publications during the last decade (P=0.191, R 2=0.203). From the 465 oculoplastic articles: 179 (38.5%) were articles about eyelid diseases, 160 (34.40%) were about orbit diseases, 92 (19.80%) were about lacrimal diseases and 34 (7.30%) were about thyroid eye disease (TED). A significant decreasing trends in the number of orbital and eyelids publications were found (P<0.01, P<0.01). However, there were no significant changes in the annual-rate of orbital, eyelids, TED and lacrimal-diseases publications throughout the last decade.
    CONCLUSION: Oculoplastic subspecialty deals with a wide range of pathologies in different ages. However, less than 5% of the articles in general, clinical, high impact factor ophthalmology journals are about oculoplastic diseases. One of the best way for ophthalmologists from different subspecilties, nowadays, to be updated, is to read high-impact-factor, general ophthalmology journals. Therefore, it is important that those journals will include articles about breakthroughs in oculoplastic.
    Keywords:  articles; general; journals; oculoplastic; ophthalmology; publications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18240/ijo.2022.11.17
  36. Front Psychiatry. 2022 ;13 1030630
    The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for cancer: A scientometric analysis.
    Chuanghao Lin, Huiting Tian, Lingzhi Chen, Qiuping Yang, Jinyao Wu, Zeqi Ji, Daitian Zheng, Zhiyang Li, Yanna Xie.
      Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most recognized psychological interventions to improve the overall quality of life of cancer survivors. To analyze current research trends in the field of the link between CBT and cancer and to provide potential future research directions, we conducted the scientometric analysis. The study was conducted on all documents in this field from 2012 to 2022 retrieved from Web of Science. Then Biblioshiny, VOSviewer software, and CiteSpace software were used for getting the information of article postings and citations, countries, institutions, journals, authors, and keywords. The number of documents about the link between CBT and cancer from 2012 to 19 July 2022, was 619, with 476 of articles and 143 of reviews. The number of annual publications has been fluctuating, with the highest number of publications in 2020. The country with the maximum number of publications and citations was the US. The University of Houston was the organization with the highest quantity of publications and total link strength (TLS). Psycho-Oncology was the most active journal in the field and has the highest h-index. Zvolensky MJ was the author with the highest quantity of publications. The most cited keywords were "Quality-of-life," "Cognitive-behavioral therapy," "Depression," "Cognitive therapy" and "Breast-cancer." And as evidenced by the keyword citations, the focus of this research area has gradually shifted to the mental health of patients and the underlying pathogenesis. The impact of CBT in cancer treatment is now well established and has gradually evolved toward symptom-specific treatment. However, the relationship between CBT and cancer has not been further developed. Future research is needed to be further developed in the identification of a generic formula for CBT in cancer and the exploration of mechanisms of CBT and cancer.
    Keywords:  Scientometrics; cancer; cognitive behavioral therapy; mechanisms; psychological
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1030630
  37. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 ;9 1025858
    Global research trends in in-stent neoatherosclerosis: A CiteSpace-based visual analysis.
    Heng Wang, Qian Wang, Jie Hu, Ruijing Zhang, Tingting Gao, Shuling Rong, Honglin Dong.
       Background: Recent studies have shown that in-stent neoatherosclerosis (ISNA/NA) is an important cause of late stent failure. A comprehensive understanding of the current state of research in this field will facilitate the analysis of its development trends and hot frontiers. However, no bibliometric correlation has been reported yet. Here, we analyze the relevant literature since the emergence of the concept and provide valuable insights.
    Methods: Publications were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and PubMed. Microsoft Excel, SPSS and CiteSpace were used to analyze and present the data.
    Results: A total of 498 articles were collected, with Japan and Cardiovasc Res Fdn being the main publishing forces in all country/region and institutions. J AM COLL CARDIOL is the journal with the most published and co-cited articles. According to co-citation analysis, optical coherence tomography, thrombosis, implantation, restenosis, drug-eluting stent, and bare metal stent have become more and more popular recently.
    Conclusion: ISNA is a niche and emerging field. How to reduce the incidence of ISNA and improve the late patency rate of coronary stents may remain a hot spot for future research. The pathogenesis of ISNA also needs to be explored in more depth.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; cardiovascular disease; in-stent neoatherosclerosis (ISNA/NA); in-stent restenosis (ISR); optical coherence tomography (OCT); visualization analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.1025858
  38. Foods. 2022 Nov 10. pii: 3574. [Epub ahead of print]11(22):
    Bibliometric Review on the Volatile Organic Compounds in Meat.
    Qianlin Ni, Nicolò Amalfitano, Franco Biasioli, Luigi Gallo, Franco Tagliapietra, Giovanni Bittante.
      Meat flavor is an important aspect of meat quality that also influences consumer demand, and is therefore very important for the meat industry. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contribute in large part to the flavor of meat, and while increasing numbers of articles are published on this topic, reviews of these articles are very scarce. Therefore, our aim was to perform a bibliometric analysis of the scientific publications on VOCs in meat over the period 2000-2020. We selected 611 scientific sources from the Scopus database related to VOCs in meat (seafood excluded). The bibliometric information retrieved included journals, authors, countries, institutions, keywords, and citations. From this analysis, we drew up a list of the most important journals, authors, countries, and institutions, and the trends in VOC research on meat. We conducted a social network analysis (SNA) to identify the collaborations among the many authors and countries, and a keyword analysis to generate a network map of the authors' keywords. We also determined which meat species were most frequently chosen as research subjects, traced the evolution of the various methods/instruments used, and explored the research tendencies. Finally, we point out the need for further research in defining meat quality, improving meat flavor, identifying adulterants, and certifying the authenticity of meat.
    Keywords:  VOC; beef; chicken; meat aroma; meat flavor; meat odor; meat sensory traits; olfactometry; pork
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11223574
  39. Polymers (Basel). 2022 Nov 10. pii: 4831. [Epub ahead of print]14(22):
    Bibliometrics of Functional Polymeric Biomaterials with Bioactive Properties Prepared by Radiation-Induced Graft Copolymerisation: A Review.
    Mostafa Yusefi, Mohamed Mahmoud Nasef, Mohammad Ali Tareq, Bhuvanesh Gupta, Kamyar Shameli, Roshafima Rasit Ali, Teo Ming Ting, Hesham Ali El Enshasy.
      Functional polymeric biomaterials (FPBMs) with bioactive characteristics obtained by radiation-induced graft copolymerisation (RIGC) have been subjected to intensive research and developed into many commercial products. Various studies have reported the development of a variety of radiation-grafted FPBMs. However, no reports dealing with the quantitative evaluations of these studies from a global bibliographic perspective have been published. Such bibliographic analysis can provide information to overcome the limitations of the databases and identify the main research trends, together with challenges and future directions. This review aims to provide an unprecedented bibliometric analysis of the published literature on the use of RIGC for the preparation of FPBMs and their applications in medical, biomedical, biotechnological, and health care fields. A total of 235 publications obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) in the period of 1985-2021 were retrieved, screened, and evaluated. The records were used to manifest the contributions to each field and underline not only the top authors, journals, citations, years of publication, and countries but also to highlight the core research topics and the hubs for research excellence on these materials. The obtained data overviews are likely to provide guides to early-career scientists and their research institutions and promote the development of new, timely needed radiation-grafted FPBMs, in addition to extending their applications.
    Keywords:  antimicrobial fabrics; bibliometric analysis; enzyme carriers; functional polymeric biomaterials; medical and biomedical applications; radiation induced grafting
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14224831
  40. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 ;9 1001673
    Publication trends of artificial intelligence in retina in 10 years: Where do we stand?
    Jingyuan Yang, Shan Wu, Rongping Dai, Weihong Yu, Youxin Chen.
       Purpose: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied in the field of retina. The purpose of this study was to analyze the study trends within AI in retina by reporting on publication trends, to identify journals, countries, authors, international collaborations, and keywords involved in AI in retina.
    Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study. Bibliometric methods were used to evaluate global production and development trends in AI in retina since 2012 using Web of Science Core Collection.
    Results: A total of 599 publications were retrieved ultimately. We found that AI in retina is a very attractive topic in scientific and medical community. No journal was found to specialize in AI in retina. The USA, China, and India were the three most productive countries. Authors from Austria, Singapore, and England also had worldwide academic influence. China has shown the greatest rapid increase in publication numbers. International collaboration could increase influence in this field. Keywords revealed that diabetic retinopathy, optical coherence tomography on multiple diseases, algorithm were three popular topics in the field. Most of top journals and top publication on AI in retina were mainly focused on engineering and computing, rather than medicine.
    Conclusion: These results helped clarify the current status and future trends in researches of AI in retina. This study may be useful for clinicians and scientists to have a general overview of this field, and better understand the main actors in this field (including authors, journals, and countries). Researches are supposed to focus on more retinal diseases, multiple modal imaging, and performance of AI models in real-world clinical application. Collaboration among countries and institutions is common in current research of AI in retina.
    Keywords:  artificial intelligence; bibliometric; deep learning; retina; retinal diseases
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.1001673
  41. Front Oncol. 2022 ;12 978464
    The Global research of protein post-translational modifications in the cancer field: A bibliometric and visualized study.
    Ruixia Ma, Meigui Zhang, Jiahui Xi, Jing Li, Yinxia Ma, Binxiao Han, Tuanjie Che, Zhihui Ma, Jinhui Tian, Zhongtian Bai.
       Objectives: Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) are closely associated with tumorigenesis, targeting PTMs of key proteins might be the focus of antitumor drug discovery. This study aimed to analyze the research progress on protein PTMs in tumorigenesis by performing qualitative and quantitative evaluations.
    Methods: The Web of Science Core Collection was selected as the database, and Science Citation Index Expanded was selected as the citation index. Visualization tools such as VOSviewer, CiteSpace, HistCite, and Online Analysis Platform of Bibliometrics were used to deeply explore the information of the retrieved research papers and analyze them in terms of research trends and main aspects of research.
    Results: The search yielded 3777 relevant articles. The results showed that the total number of PTMs related papers in cancer field has been increasing annually, with the largest number of papers published in the United States of America. The co-word cluster analysis showed that the research on PTMs and tumorigenesis was primarily focused on the following four areas, mechanism, histone, P53, key Technologies. Tumor metabolism, autophagy, and protein-protein interaction, histone ubiquitination have become new research topics.
    Conclusion: This study provides an important reference for the research direction and selection of topics of interest in the PTMs of cancer field.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; bibliometrics; citespace; histcite; knowledge graph; post-translational modification; tumor
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.978464
  42. Sensors (Basel). 2022 Nov 08. pii: 8599. [Epub ahead of print]22(22):
    Past, Present and Future of Research on Wearable Technologies for Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Scopus.
    Yolanda-María de-la-Fuente-Robles, Adrián-Jesús Ricoy-Cano, Antonio-Pedro Albín-Rodríguez, José Luis López-Ruiz, Macarena Espinilla-Estévez.
      Currently, wearable technology is present in different fields that aim to satisfy our needs in daily life, including the improvement of our health in general, the monitoring of patient health, ensuring the safety of people in the workplace or supporting athlete training. The objective of this bibliometric analysis is to examine and map the scientific advances in wearable technologies in healthcare, as well as to identify future challenges within this field and put forward some proposals to address them. In order to achieve this objective, a search of the most recent related literature was carried out in the Scopus database. Our results show that the research can be divided into two periods: before 2013, it focused on design and development of sensors and wearable systems from an engineering perspective and, since 2013, it has focused on the application of this technology to monitoring health and well-being in general, and in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals wherever feasible. Our results reveal that the United States has been the country with the highest publication rates, with 208 articles (34.7%). The University of California, Los Angeles, is the institution with the most studies on this topic, 19 (3.1%). Sensors journal (Switzerland) is the platform with the most studies on the subject, 51 (8.5%), and has one of the highest citation rates, 1461. We put forward an analysis of keywords and, more specifically, a pennant chart to illustrate the trends in this field of research, prioritizing the area of data collection through wearable sensors, smart clothing and other forms of discrete collection of physiological data.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; Sustainable Development Goals; VOSviewer; bibliometric analysis; healthcare; scientific visualization; wearable sensors; wearable technologies
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228599
  43. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 17. pii: 15190. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    Bibliometric Analysis of Accidental Oil Spills in Ice-Infested Waters.
    Almat Kabyl, Ming Yang, Dhawal Shah, Arshad Ahmad.
      Oil spills are environmental pollution events that occur due to natural disasters or human activities, resulting in a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon release in the environment, especially into the marine ecosystem. Once oil spills happen, they cause detrimental consequences to the environment, living organisms, and humans. Although there are increasing oil and gas activities in the Arctic region, which is abundant with undiscovered oil and gas resources, the harsh environmental conditions of the region, such as the ice coverage, cold temperatures, long periods of darkness, and its remoteness, pose significant challenges to managing the risk of accidental oil spills in ice-infested waters. In this paper, a bibliometric analysis has been applied to study the global work on oil spill research in ice-infested waters. The paper aims to present an overview of the available oil spill response methods in ice-infested waters, identify the current trends of the research on oil spills in ice-infested waters, and determine the challenges with the future research directions based on the bibliometric analysis. The analysis includes a total number of 77 articles that have been published in this research field which were available in the Scopus database, involving 193 authors from 17 countries dating from 1960 to September 2022. During the bibliometric analysis, the top five most productive authors and countries as well as the most cited publications on oil spills in ice-infested waters have been identified; the authors' cooperation network and the cooperation network between the countries in oil spills research in ice-infested waters have been created; a co-citation analysis and a terms analysis have been performed to identify the popular terms and topics. For future directions, it is recommended for researchers (1) to study real oil spills as much as possible to obtain a good overview through replication under different situations; (2) to develop a new technique for the careful examination and management of the potential risks; (3) to study oil separation from the recovered oil-ice mixture.
    Keywords:  harsh environment; ice-infested waters; oil spills; response; risk management
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215190
  44. Front Public Health. 2022 ;10 1015023
    Social network and HIV/AIDS: A bibliometric analysis of global literature.
    Linh Phuong Doan, Long Hoang Nguyen, Pascal Auquier, Laurent Boyer, Guillaume Fond, Hien Thu Nguyen, Carl A Latkin, Giang Thu Vu, Brian J Hall, Cyrus S H Ho, Roger C M Ho.
      Social networks (SN) shape HIV risk behaviors and transmission. This study was performed to quantify research development, patterns, and trends in the use of SN in the field of HIV/AIDS, and used Global publications extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Networks of countries, research disciplines, and most frequently used terms were visualized. The Latent Dirichlet Allocation method was used for topic modeling. A linear regression model was utilized to identify the trend of research development. During the period 1991-2019, in a total of 5,698 publications, topics with the highest volume of publications consisted of (1) mental disorders (16.1%); (2) HIV/sexually transmitted infections prevalence in key populations (9.9%); and (3) HIV-related stigma (9.3%). Discrepancies in the geographical distribution of publications were also observed. This study highlighted (1) the rapid growth of publications on a wide range of topics regarding SN in the field of HIV/AIDS, and (2) the importance of SN in HIV prevention, treatment, and care. The findings of this study suggest the need for interventions using SN and the improvement of research capacity via regional collaborations to reduce the HIV burden in low- and middle-income countries.
    Keywords:  HIV; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; bibliometric; social network; topic modeling
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1015023
  45. Front Pharmacol. 2022 ;13 969883
    A bibliometrics and visualization analysis of cannabidiol research from 2004 to 2021.
    Liu Liu, Jianxing Liu, Ming Zhao, Meiming Cai, Fanzhang Lei, Xiaofeng Zeng, Bofeng Zhu.
      Cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component extracted from the plant cannabis sativa, has gained growing focus in recent years since its extensive pharmacology effects have been founded. The purpose of this study intends to reveal the hot spots and frontiers of cannabidiol research using bibliometrics and data visualization methods. A total of 3,555 publications with 106,793 citations from 2004 to 2021 related to cannabidiol were retrieved in the Web of Science database, and the co-authorships, research categories, keyword burst, and reference citations in the cannabidiol field were analyzed and visualized by VOSviewer and Citespace software. Great importance has been attached to the pharmacology or pharmacy values of cannabidiol, especially in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as epilepsy, anxiety, and schizophrenia. The mechanisms or targets of the cannabidiol have attracted the extreme interest of the researchers, a variety of receptors including cannabinoids type 1, cannabinoids type 2, 5-hydroxytriptamine1A, and G protein-coupled receptor 55 were involved in the pharmacology effects of cannabidiol. Moreover, the latest developed topic has focused on the positive effects of cannabidiol on substance use disorders. In conclusion, this study reveals the development and transformation of knowledge structures and research hotspots in the cannabidiol field from a bibliometrics perspective, exploring the possible directions of future research.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics analysis; burst detection; cannabidiol; co-citation analysis; data visualization; research hotspots
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.969883
  46. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 11. pii: 14878. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    Mapping the Global Evolution and Research Directions of Information Seeking, Sharing and Communication in Disasters: A Bibliometric Study.
    Hao Tan, Yuyue Hao.
      This paper aims to grasp developments and trends in research on information communication, information seeking and information sharing in disasters during 2000-2021. By using bibliometrics software CiteSpace and VOSviewer, the development trends of publications, disciplinary, journals, institutions and regional cooperation are mapped. Keyword co-occurrence analysis is used to further identify the evolution of the research hot points and visualize the research orientation and frontier. The results indicate that the field of information communication in disasters has received growing attention from various disciplines. Results of institutions and regional cooperation show that worldwide cooperation is still lacking and needs to be strengthened in future studies in this field. The key findings are five main research orientations in this field based on keyword co-occurrence, which are public information coordination research, public information behavior and perception research, health information communication research, risk communication and social media research and information technology in emergency management. The findings of this paper can be helpful for academics and emergency managers in disaster information management and risk communication by giving them a comprehensive understanding of people's information communication, seeking and sharing.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; communication behavior; disaster management; information seeking; information sharing
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214878
  47. Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2022 Aug 25. pii: 1004-5619(2022)04-0478-08. [Epub ahead of print]38(4): 478-485
    CiteSpace-Based Visualization Analysis of Forensic Research in China from 2010 to 2019.
    Hai-Biao Zhu, Hong-Xia Liu, Yu-Cong Wang, Yi-Xun Ma, Dong Zhao, Xu Wang, Tian-Tong Yang.
       OBJECTIVES: To analyze the research status of forensic medicine in China from 2010 to 2019, obtain the development trend of forensic medicine and explore the hotspots and research frontiers.
    METHODS: The forensic medical academic papers published on China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database from 2010 to 2019 were collected. CiteSpace 5.7.R1, an information visualization analysis software, was used to analyze publication organizations, authors, keywords, and other elements.
    RESULTS: The majority of the research institutions were universities, provincial and ministerial scientific research and forensic institutions. Forensic pathology was still an important branch of forensic medicine and a popular research direction. The "polymorphism" and "Y chromosome" had been the research hotspots in recent years. "Medical damage" and "standard" were the most novel studies.
    CONCLUSIONS: In order to provide scientific basis and research direction for forensic research, this paper analyzes the cooperation network, research hotspots and research innovation in forensic research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; bibliometrics; co-occurrence analysis; document subject; forensic medicine; information visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12116/j.issn.1004-5619.2020.401008
  48. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 12. pii: 14883. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    Revealing the Intellectual Structure and Evolution of Digital Addiction Research: An Integrated Bibliometric and Science Mapping Approach.
    Turgut Karakose, Tijen Tülübaş, Stamatios Papadakis.
      The current study uses "digital addiction" as an umbrella term to refer to addiction to the Internet, social media, smartphones, digital devices, video games, or similar digital technologies. The study aims to investigate the scientific landscape of the digital addiction research field through combining bibliometric and science mapping analysis and to facilitate insight into the development and evolution of this knowledge base. Data for the analysis were extracted from the Scopus database, which covers a wide range of journal articles, with 429 articles addressing digital addiction included in the analysis. The science mapping analysis was performed over three consecutive time periods using SciMAT software to observe the thematic evolution. The results indicated that addictive behavior was the most significant theme across the three time periods. Cross-sectional studies addressing the risk factors or outcomes of addiction among adults and different sexes were prevalent during the first period (1997-2012), while interest moved to the addictive behavior of adolescents and students during the second period (2013-2017). Research during the third period (2018-2022) was driven by smartphone and social media addiction, and resilience as a preventive factor garnered more research interest than previously studied risk factors, which may indicate a perspective change by researchers. Implications are suggested for future investigations of digital addiction.
    Keywords:  Internet addiction; SciMAT; bibliometric analysis; digital addiction; game addiction; science mapping; smartphone addiction; social media addiction; technology addiction
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214883
  49. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2022 Nov 22.
    The impact of COVID-19 on citations of laboratory medicine journals.
    Giuseppe Lippi.
      
    Keywords:  COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; citations; impact factor; publication
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2022-1159
  50. Vet Sci. 2022 Nov 11. pii: 629. [Epub ahead of print]9(11):
    Fifty Years of Wildlife Diseases in Europe: A Citation Database Meta-Analysis.
    Rachele Vada, Stefania Zanet, Ezio Ferroglio.
      Although wildlife has progressively been recognized as a booster for the spillover of pathogens to humans and other wild and domestic animals, the interest of scientists in this topic has not been constant over time and uniform in its targets. Epidemiological outbreaks and technological development have contributed to this. Through the analysis of the number of publications from a citation database, we aimed to obtain an indicator of the scientific community's interest towards wildlife diseases over the years. Using Web of Science, bibliographic searches were performed by adding to the basic search string "Wildlife AND Disease" terms detailing topics such as aspect investigated, pathogen type, aetiologic group and species group. For each host species group, the 100 most frequent Medical Subject Headings (MeSHs) related to specific diseases in each decade were extracted. The scientific production regarding wildlife diseases has increased 3.7 times the relative proportion of publications on diseases during the last 50 years, focusing mainly on zoonotic or epizootic pathogens, and with a sharp growth in contemporary hot topics. Wildlife disease scenarios are complex and challenging to approach. Knowing the trends in the scientific interest in the past decades may pose a guide to direct future steps and actions in several fields, from public health to ecosystem management.
    Keywords:  publication trends; scientific databases; trend analysis; wild animals; zoonoses
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9110629
  51. Isr J Health Policy Res. 2022 11 23. 11(1): 39
    The role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines.
    Bruce Rosen, Nadav Davidovitch, Gabriel Chodick, Avi Israeli.
       BACKGROUND: The accurate and timely publication of scientific findings is a key component of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores the role of Israeli researchers in the scientific literature regarding COVID-19 vaccines.
    METHODS: Content and bibliometric analysis of articles included in the Web of Science database regarding COVID-19 vaccines, that were published between January 2020 and June 2022.
    RESULTS: The Web of Science includes 18,596 articles regarding COVID-19 vaccines that were published between January 2020 and June 2022. 536 (3%) of those articles had at least one Israeli author. These "Israeli articles" accounted for 11% of the NEJM articles on COVID-19 vaccines, 9% of such articles in Nature Medicine, and 4% of such articles in the Lancet. 80 of the 536 Israeli articles (15%) were recognized as "Highly Cited Papers" (articles that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year). Most of the Israeli Highly Cited Papers (HCPs) analyzed the safety and/or efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech (BNT162b2). Most of the Israeli HCPs made use of detailed and comprehensive individual data available from Israel's health plans, hospitals, or Ministry of Health. The 15% HCP rate (i.e., the number of HCPs divided by the number of all articles) for the Israeli articles was triple the HCP rate for all articles on COVID-19 vaccines (5%). A key factor contributing to Israel's prominent role in rapid publication of vaccination impact studies was Israel's being a world leader in the initial vaccination rollout, the administration of boosters, and the vaccination of pregnant women. Other contributing factors include Israeli researchers' access to well-developed electronic health record systems linking vaccinations and outcomes, the analytic strengths of leading Israeli researchers and research institutions, collaborations with leading research institutions in other countries, and the ability to quickly identify emerging research opportunities and mobilize accordingly. Recent developments in the priorities and selection criteria of leading journals have also played a role; these include an increased openness to well-designed observational studies and to manuscripts from outside of Europe and North America.
    CONCLUSIONS: Israeli researchers, Israeli research institutions, and the Israeli government can, and should, take concrete steps to build upon lessons learned in the course of the recent surge of high-quality publications related to COVID-19 vaccines (such as the value of linking data across organizations). These lessons can be applied to a wide range of fields, including fields that go well beyond vaccines and pandemic responses.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Israel; Publications; Vaccination
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-022-00548-3
  52. Z Orthop Unfall. 2022 Nov 25.
    Scientific Productivity of University Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
    Friederike Schömig, Yannick Palmowski, Florian Schitz, Tobias Winkler, Carsten Perka, Matthias Pumberger.
       BACKGROUND: Despite major achievements, such as the development of hip prostheses, scientific productivity in orthopaedics and trauma surgery has hardly been investigated. Our study's aim therefore was to analyse the correlation between the leading physicians' h-index and their academic rang, in order to determine whether this objective measure of scientific accomplishments correlates with clinical position.
    METHODS: All physicians in leading positions at university hospitals' orthopaedics or trauma surgery departments in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland were included. Year of habilitation, number of publications and citations as well as h-index were collected from September to November 2020.
    RESULTS: A total of 844 leading physicians at 46 university hospitals were included. Professors had the highest number of total publications (117.4 ± 124.8, p < 0.001) and highest h-index (20.1 ± 10.1, p < 0.001). We found significant differences in the total number of publications (p = 0.001), publications in the last three years (p < 0.001), and h-index (p < 0.001) between the three investigated nations, with all parameters being highest in Switzerland.
    CONCLUSION: Our study shows that increasing scientific productivity is correlated with academic success. The country-specific differences indicate significant differences in the value of scientific activity in daily clinical routine.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1956-5413
  53. Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Jul;20(3): e120812
    Scientometric Analysis of Global Scientific Publications on COVID-19 and Diabetes with an Emphasis on Middle Eastern Countries.
    Rasha Atlasi, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Fatemeh Bandarian, Nafiseh Rezaei, Pouria Khashayar, Bagher Larijani.
       Background: Due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19, various countries have designed scientific studies on different aspects of the disease. Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have been proven to be at higher risk of COVID-19-related complications, hospitalization, and death.
    Objectives: The aim was to conduct a scientometric analysis of scholarly outputs on diabetes and COVID-19.
    Methods: Web of Science was searched for scientific publications on diabetes and COVID-19 by Middle Eastern researchers until September 14, 2021. Collected data were analyzed for document type, subject area, countries, top journals, citation number, and authors' collaboration network using VOS viewer 1.6.15 and bibliometrix R-package 4.1.1.
    Results: Overall, the characteristics of 603 documents on DM and COVID-19 were analyzed. The top three productive countries in the field were Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. The top affiliation was from Iran; "Tehran University of Medical Sciences" (n = 168), followed by "Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences" (n = 82). The total citation number was 3704 times. The highest cited paper (348) was a systematic review from Iran, published in arch Acad Emerg Med. The top source was "Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews," with 26 documents.
    Conclusions: The current study provides an overview of the quantity and quality of published scholarly documents on the intersection of DM and COVID-19 in the region. Our findings help scientists find the existing gaps, manage the research budgets, identify active authors and scientific institutes to collaborate with, and use their experience to produce new knowledge in the future.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Diabetes Mellitus; Middle Eastern Countries; Scientometric
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5812/ijem-120812
  54. J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2022 Nov;pii: S1701-2163(22)00622-3. [Epub ahead of print]44(11): 1121-1122
    The JOGC's Journey to an Impact Factor.
    Togas Tulandi, Kristen Hines.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2022.09.009
  55. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 11. pii: 14841. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    Visualization and Analysis of Global Vision Zero Studies and Policy Orientation in China.
    Yi He, Yixiong Fan, Lixin Yan, Jianhua Peng, Zhiqiang Li.
      As a policy that is widely used worldwide, Vision Zero is a long-term strategic goal for road safety in China. The aim of this paper is to examine the literature in the field of Vision Zero retrieved by the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection database from 1997 to 2021 based on mapping knowledge domain (MKD) and bibliometric methods. In this paper, we analyzed the overall development level of Vision Zero at different stages using the statistical analysis of the distribution of literature years. Based on the analysis, four major research directions of Vision Zero are obtained through keywords co-occurrence analysis, including "Vision Zero in road safety", "vulnerable road users' risks", "effect of speed on severity", and "responsibility management for crashes". Furthermore, we explore the influence and development potential of each country and region of Vision Zero based on the number and citation frequency of the literature, and the distribution of time dimensions. Among the research topics, all countries and regions are clustered into four clusters, and the current status of Vision Zero for countries in the most influential clusters, which include Sweden, the United States, Australia, China, and Norway, have been presented. Finally, an analysis of road safety in China is carried out, which includes displaying the changes in the number of road accidents, fatalities, and serious injuries in China between 2009 and 2018, comparing the fatalities per 10,000 vehicles and the fatalities per 100,000 people between China and other countries, and describing China's strategic routes toward Vision Zero.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; Vision Zero; mapping knowledge domain; road safety; visualization analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214841
  56. Epidemiologia (Basel). 2022 Jun 22. 3(3): 314-322
    A Bibliographic Analysis of Primary Studies on Physical Activity and COVID-19 during 2020-2021.
    Melissa Ciuldim, Rozangela Verlengia, Alex Harley Crisp.
      Physical distancing and restrictions have been implemented to reduce the transmission rate of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). In contrast, the impact of the pandemic on levels of physical activity has been the subject of studies worldwide. Since the first reported case in December 2019, the number of scientific studies on COVID-19 has grown in a way that has never been seen before. The current study aimed to perform a bibliometric analysis of primary studies on physical activity and COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic. The search was carried out using the SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. Our analysis identified a total of 2023 published documents from 10,199 authors, with an annual growth rate of 330% between 2020 and 2021. Open-access scientific journals were the main sources of publication, and the level of collaboration among the most influential researchers contributed to productivity. A co-occurrence analysis of the authors' keywords indicated a high prevalence of themes related to mental health, depression, anxiety, stress, sleep, and quality of life. In conclusion, the bibliometric analysis revealed a high volume of primary studies on physical activity and COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic, and mental health was a much discussed topic.
    Keywords:  bibliometrix; coronavirus; pandemic; physical inactivity; sedentary
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia3030024
  57. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 11 21. 77(11): 2149-2154
    Disciplinary Roots of 300 Top-Ranked Scientific Contributors to Gerontology: From Legacy to Enriching Our Discovery.
    Kenneth F Ferraro.
      Gerontology is viewed by many as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry, but which disciplines have had the greatest impact on research in the field? Combining data from a composite score incorporating multiple citation indicators with information on the highest degree, we examine the disciplinary origins of the 300 top-ranked scholars in gerontology. Despite efforts for gerontology to be distinct from geriatrics, more than 30 percent of the most influential scholars in gerontology during the past 6 decades hold a degree in medicine. Other fields of the leading contributors to gerontology include psychology, sociology, biology, biochemistry, and genetics. Although the disciplinary origins of gerontology will likely shift in the coming decades, we conclude that biomedical sciences are likely to remain core to the development of gerontology. To build on the scientific contributions of leading scholars in gerontology, future research should reflect conceptual precision and scientific innovation while prioritizing methodological rigor and transparency.
    Keywords:  Aging research; Citation metrics; Gerontology; Geroscience; Interdisciplinary studies
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glac129
  58. Waste Manag Res. 2022 Nov 19. 734242X221135246
    A mini-review on the use of waste in the production of sustainable Portland cement composites.
    Felipe Augusto Santiago Hansted, Diunay Zuliani Mantegazini, Thais Marchetti Ribeiro, Carlos Eduardo Cardoso Gonçalves, Jose Antonio Perrella Balestieri.
      With an increase in climate and environmental issues awareness, the use of waste of various types has gained increased visibility, acknowledging that wastes are any and all kinds of unused materials from the production process or after using the final product for its intended purpose. The use of wastes to produce alternative cement materials is an alternative to reduce the use of natural resources. Forestry residues, ash, plastic residues, LDPE/Al composites, and geopolymer materials are some of the possible residues used for the partial replacement of cement materials. The objective of this research is to establish how these materials relate to each other, based on a topic review and how they can contribute towards sustainability. The study was performed on several scientific article search engines, in which the keywords 'Carton Packages', 'Wood Waste' and 'Geopolymers' were inserted, and then a refinement was carried out using the term 'Cement Materials'. Such analysis allowed the generation of information related to publication numbers, countries, research areas, as well as publication types. Co-authorship networks of organization, co-citation of references, co-occurrence of keywords, among others, were also plotted. Through this bibliometric analysis, it was possible to reveal the structure of the research, analyse the developments and predict the future directions for the research regarding the use of residues in the production of sustainable Portland cement composites.
    Keywords:  Carton packages; cement materials; geopolymers; sustainability; wood waste
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X221135246
  59. Bioact Mater. 2023 May;23 170-186
    Structural and temporal dynamics analysis on drug-eluting stents: History, research hotspots and emerging trends.
    Lili Tan, Xiangxiu Wang, Kungshan Yuan, Tieying Yin, Ruolin Du, Li Shen, Zhirong Zhu, Suhua Yu, Haijun Zhang, Guixue Wang.
       Purpose: This review aims to explore the history, research hotspots, and emerging trends of drug-eluting stents(DES)in the last two decades from the perspective of structural and temporal dynamics.
    Methods: Publications on DES were retrieved from WoSCC. The bibliometric tools including CiteSpace and HistCite were used to identify the historical features, the evolution of active topics, and emerging trends on the DES field.
    Results: In the last 20 years, the field of DES is still in the hot phase and there is a wide range of extensive scientific collaborations. In addition, active topics emerge in different periods, as evidenced by a total of 41 disciplines, 511 keywords, and 1377 papers with citation bursts. Keyword clustering anchored five emerging research subfields, namely #0 dual antiplatelet therapy, #3 drug-coated balloon, #4 bifurcation, 5# rotational atherectomy, and 6# quantitative flow ratio. The keyword alluvial map shows that the most persistent research concepts in this field are thrombosis, restenosis, etc., and the emerging keywords are paclitaxel eluting balloon, coated balloon, drug-eluting balloon, etc. There are 7 recent research subfields anchored by reference clustering, namely #2 dual antiplatelet therapy, #4 drug-coated balloon, #5 peripheral artery disease, #8 fractional flow reserve, #10 bioresorbable vascular scaffold, # 13 intravascular ultrasound, #14 biodegradable polymer.
    Conclusion: The findings based on the bibliometric studies provide the current status and trends in DES research and may help researchers to identify hot topics and explore new research directions in this field.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric; Bioresorbable scaffold; Drug-coated balloon; Drug-eluting stents; Dual antiplatelet therapy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.09.009
  60. Scientometrics. 2022 Nov 14. 1-13
    Measuring the impact of health research data in terms of data citations by scientific publications.
    Yongmei Bai, Jian Du.
      Health is a representative domain data-driven research since health research data are growingly generated at a massive scale. There is an intuitive logic that the degree to which disease burden and the number of data resources align. In order to figure out disease-specific data sharing and reuse level, we took the number of data records and their citations in the scientific literature in the Data Citation Index platform as approximate indicators. The results indicated that only a small percentage (7.5%) of health data records had received documented citations by scientific publications. We find the level of data sharing and reuse varies across diseases. Our study suggested that the more socioeconomic burden and the more research funding, the more likely scientific data for diseases will be produced and made available. But such a correlation could not be observed for the activity of data reuse. Secondary reuse of scientific data is a complex behavior.
    Keywords:  Data records; Data sharing and reuse; Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs); Funding; Incidence
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04559-4
  61. Appl Netw Sci. 2022 ;7(1): 78
    Author multidisciplinarity and disciplinary roles in field of study networks.
    Eoghan Cunningham, Barry Smyth, Derek Greene.
      When studying large research corpora, "distant reading" methods are vital to understand the topics and trends in the corresponding research space. In particular, given the recognised benefits of multidisciplinary research, it may be important to map schools or communities of diverse research topics, and to understand the multidisciplinary role that topics play within and between these communities. This work proposes Field of Study (FoS) networks as a novel network representation for use in scientometric analysis. We describe the formation of FoS networks, which relate research topics according to the authors who publish in them, from corpora of articles in which fields of study can be identified. FoS networks are particularly useful for the distant reading of large datasets of research papers when analysed through the lens of exploring multidisciplinary science. In an evolving scientific landscape, modular communities in FoS networks offer an alternative categorisation strategy for research topics and sub-disciplines, when compared to traditional prescribed discipline classification schemes. Furthermore, structural role analysis of FoS networks can highlight important characteristics of topics in such communities. To support this, we present two case studies which explore multidisciplinary research in corpora of varying size and scope; namely, 6323 articles relating to network science research and 4,184,011 articles relating to research on the COVID-19-pandemic.
    Keywords:  Multidisciplinarity; Network analysis; Scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-022-00517-4
  62. Transfus Med Rev. 2022 Oct 29. pii: S0887-7963(22)00050-5. [Epub ahead of print]
    Academic Productivity of Early Career Transfusion Medicine Specialists: A Workforce Study.
    Yvette C Tanhehco, Tina S Ipe, Garrett S Booth, Brian D Adkins.
      Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine (BB/TM) specialists oversee all aspects of blood component transfusions and are often involved with apheresis, coagulation, and cellular therapy services as well. This study characterizes the BB/TM workforce to determine the scholarly productivity in the first 3 to 5 years after obtaining board certification and the impact of job type, job location, and academic rank on scholarly productivity. Academic productivity was assessed among individuals passing the American Board of Pathology BB/TM board exam between 2016 and 2018 using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Portfolio Analysis tool, iCite. One hundred and 28 BB/TM specialists were included in the analysis. The majority of BB/TM specialists work in academia, are located in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions, and have a rank of Assistant Professor. Since passing the board exam, 76.5% (98/128) of BB/TM specialists have published papers, with 4.0 (IQR = 1-8) total number of published papers per individual, and 791 total papers amongst the group. The median publications per individual per year since passing boards is 0.9 (IQR = 0.2-2.3) the number of publications per year since passing boards for BB/TM specialists in academia is significantly higher compared to other jobs at 1.33 (IQR, 0.5-2.89, Kruskal-Wallis P = .03) per individual Assistant Professors and Associate Professors (1.3, IQR= 0.4-2.7 and 1.4, IQR = 0.6-3.3, Mann-Whitney test P > .99). BB/TM specialists who passed the board exam between 2016 and 2018 are highly academically productive, especially those working in academia where publications are necessary for promotion. BB/TM physicians are an extensively trained and academically-minded group of practitioners.
    Keywords:  Academia; Publication; Scholarly productivity; Transfusion medicine specialist
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmrv.2022.09.006
  63. Pak J Med Sci. 2022 Nov-Dec;38(8):38(8): 2284-2288
    The menace of self citation: An audit of two years from journals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
    Mian Saad Ahmed, Umema Zafar, Hamna Zafar, Maryam Shahid Ullah, Feroz Ali Khan.
       Objective: To assess the author and journal self-citation amongst journals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
    Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted from January 2021 to July 2021. In total, manuscript published in 10 journals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, either recognized by the Higher Education Commission or Pakistan Medical Commission, in the years 2018 and 2019 were included in the present research. All types of manuscripts were analyzed using a pre-designed data extraction table. Results were extracted, analyzed and appropriate statistics were applied.
    Results: About 1235 manuscripts published in 68 issues over a period of two years' time were analyzed. The majority of manuscripts were 1039 (84.1%) original articles followed by case reports 90 (7.3%). Author self-citation came out to be 11.26% and journal self-citation was 6.5%. The same institute's author affiliation came out to be 40.6%.
    Conclusion: The trend of author self-citation was found to be high while that of journal self-citation was low when compared with already prevalent literature.
    Keywords:  Audit; Author self-citation; Home authorship; Journal self-citation
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.8.6571
  64. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 17. pii: 15211. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    The Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Physical Literacy for a Healthy Life.
    María Mendoza-Muñoz, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, Ángel Denche-Zamorano, José Camelo Adsuar, Armando Raimundo, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda, Nicolás Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás Muñoz-Urtubia.
      This article empirically provides a global overview of physical literacy, which allows for the understanding of the structure of the epistemic community studying literacy for healthy living. Publications registered in the Web of Science are analyzed using bibliometrics (spatial, productive, and relational) based on data from 391 records, published between 2007 and April 2022, applying five bibliometric laws and using VOSviewer software for data and metadata processing and visualization. In terms of results, we observe an exponential increase in scientific production in the last decade, with a concentration of scientific discussion on physical literacy in seven journals; a production distributed in 46 countries situated on the five continents, but concentrated in Canada and the United States; co-authored research networks composed of 1256 researchers but with a production concentrated of around 2% of these, and an even smaller number of authors with high production and high impact. Finally, there are four thematic blocks that, although interacting, constitute three specific knowledge production communities that have been delineated over time in relation to health and quality of life, fitness and physical competence, education, and fundamental movement skills.
    Keywords:  attitude towards sport; bibliometrics; children; education; fitness; health; healthy behavior; healthy habits; well-being
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215211
  65. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Nov 22.
    A review of energy harvesting from regenerative shock absorber from 2000 to 2021: advancements, emerging applications, and technical challenges.
    Asif Ali, Ammar Ahmed, Manthar Ali, Ali Azam, Xiaoping Wu, Zutao Zhang, Yanping Yuan.
      In the automotive and transportation sectors, technological advancements and innovations aim to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of vehicles. In vehicles, a significant portion of fuel energy is wasted in heat, vibrations, and frictional losses. The vibration energy from vehicle suspension systems is always wasted in heat and can be utilized for useful purposes. Many researchers have designed various regenerative shock absorbers (RSA) to transform vibration energy into electrical energy that can charge electric vehicles' batteries and power low-wattage devices. The present work focuses on an in-depth summary of rotary, hydraulic, and linear electromagnetic RSA. Also, the applications of regenerated energy and technical challenges are discussed. In RSA, the maximum energy harvesting, and ride comfort of the vehicle cannot be achieved simultaneously. The weight of RSA may increase due to the integration of some additional components compared with conventional shock absorbers. It is necessary to examine the impact of weight on the vehicle's road handling and ride comfort. The hydraulic RSAs have low energy harvesting efficiency, so they are not suitable for lightweight vehicles despite their higher energy harvestability than rotary and linear RSAs. The bibliometric analysis is conducted using the visualization of similarities (VOS) viewer to visualize the contributing authors and countries and specify the research themes. The articles are collected from the Web of Science using keywords related to energy harvesting from 2000 to 2021. Authors from China are more productive than others, with the highest number of publications related to the energy-harvesting from RSAs in 2019.
    Keywords:  Applications; Challenges; Energy harvesting; Regenerative shock absorber; Research progress
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24170-7
  66. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2022 Nov 19. pii: S1051-0443(22)01337-9. [Epub ahead of print]
    Uterine fibroid embolization or myomectomy: how much marketing is enough? Comparative analysis of public search trends in Google and medical publications in PubMed.
    Younes Jahangiri, Ahmed Gabr, Timothy C Huber, Teodora Bochnakova, Khashayar Farsad.
      To compare public popularity and volume of scientific publications regarding uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) and myomectomy. Google Trends and PubMed data were queried to assess temporal variations in online public search volumes and number of research publications for UFE and myomectomy. Time series analysis was used to identify meaningful temporal trends and to forecast a future trend. Compared to UFE, myomectomy had significantly higher volumes of public online search and research publications with an increasing trend over time (P<0.0001). The forecasting models predicted a continuing increase in both public search volumes and number of research publications for myomectomy, and static future trends in these metrics for UFE. This study signals significantly lower public popularity and research efforts for UFE compared to myomectomy for uterine fibroids. More effective marketing strategies and further research support will be needed to fill this gap.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2022.11.017
  67. Health Sci Rep. 2022 Nov;5(6): e805
    Research trends analysis of chronic hepatitis C versus nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A literature review text-mining analysis of publications.
    Eyal Klang, Shelly Soffer, Lee Alper, Orit Shimon, Yiftach Barash, Yana Davidov, Mariya Likhter, Oranit Cohen-Ezra, Gil Ben Yakov, Ziv Ben-Ari.
       Background: Hepatits C virus (HCV) rates have lowered due to direct-acting antiviral treatment. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)/nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rising with no available therapy. We employed text-mining to analyze trends in HCV and NAFLD research from the past two decades.
    Materials and Methods: We queried PubMed for all HCV and NASH/NAFLD entries published between 2000 and 2020. We compared the total number of publications on both etiologies. We performed subanalyses for different terms of interest and for geographic origin.
    Results: Overall, 75,934 HCV-related entries and 24,987 NASH/NAFLD-related entries were published during the study period. Up to 2015, there was a linear upward slope in the number of annual HCV publications (154.9 publications/year, p < 0.001). In 2015, the yearly number of HCV publications started showing a downward slope (-242.2 publications/year, p < 0.001). The number of NASH/NAFLD publications showed a continuous upward slope during the study period. The NASH/NAFLD field lacks publications on screening and treatment methods.
    Conclusion: Trends in publications varied between both etiologies. They reflect the success of antiviral treatment for HCV. The growing rates of NAFLD/NASH and the lack of a targeted cure explain the rise in related publications.
    Keywords:  PubMed; chronic hepatitis C; nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; text mining
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.805
  68. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Nov 23.
    Time to Publication in High-Impact General Medical Journals Differs Between Female and Male Researchers.
    Paul Sebo.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07946-y
  69. World Neurosurg. 2022 Nov 16. pii: S1878-8750(22)01615-1. [Epub ahead of print]
    United States Neurosurgery Department Program Directors: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Current and Future Trends and Attributes.
    Tritan Plute, Aneek Patel, Arka N Mallela, Roberta K Sefcik, D Kojo Hamilton, L Dade Lunsford, Robert M Friedlander, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar.
       PURPOSE: While United States (US) neurosurgery residency programs have been subject to many studies, none have focused solely on the program directors (PDs). We aim to analyze the demographics, educational, and academic attributes of this cohort to understand current and future trends of PDs.
    METHODS: One hundred sixteen neurosurgeons listed as PDs at US accredited neurosurgical residency training programs as of August 2022 were assessed. Descriptive data including age upon acceptance of role, gender, and h-index were collected from publicly available sources.
    RESULTS: Most PDs matriculated to their positions before the age of 45, were male, and had been hired internally. Approximately 25% of PDs had earned an additional degree. Departments with higher aggregate h-indexes were more likely to hire PDs with higher average publications per year (p < 0.001) and have a higher h-index (p < 0.001). PD subspecialty influenced h-index (p < 0.05) and total average publications per year (p < 0.05) with neuro-oncology subspecialists having higher averages in both. More recently hired PDs had a higher average number of publications per year (p < 0.05) and were more likely to hold an additional degree (OR = 1.14, p < 0.05). Female PDs were hired at a younger age (p < 0.05).
    CONCLUSIONS: Neurosurgery PDs typically rise to their position after 10 years of practice and more recent PD hires are more likely to have additional degrees and more publications. As academic neurosurgery becomes more competitive, increased academic productivity and acquisition of additional degrees will become increasingly necessary.
    Keywords:  Demographics; Funding; Neurosurgery; Program director; Residency; h-index
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2022.11.063
  70. J Surg Res. 2022 Nov 22. pii: S0022-4804(22)00726-0. [Epub ahead of print]283 324-328
    Correlation of Scholarly Activity and Departmental Clinical Productivity in a Surgical Subspecialty.
    Jason Silvestre, Andrew R Boone, Gabriel Wilson, Terry L Thompson, Bernard T Lee, Robert H Wilson.
       INTRODUCTION: Promotion within academic surgery involves demonstrated excellence in administrative, clinical, and scholarly activities. The present study analyzes the relationship between scholarly and clinical productivity in the field of reconstructive microsurgery.
    METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study of microsurgery fellowship directors (MFDs). Data on clinical productivity were obtained from the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery and scholarly productivity from Scopus. Outcomes were department annual free flap volume, number of publications, and h-index. Descriptive statistics were calculated, and nonparametric tests were used to compare continuous variables.
    RESULTS: Thirty-nine MFDs were included in this study. All were plastic surgery residency trained and 38% trained under the independent training pathway. Most underwent formal fellowship training in reconstructive microsurgery (89%). The top three microsurgery fellowships trained 37% of all MFDs. Twenty-five percent of MFDs trained at the institution where they ultimately became program director. Twenty percent of MFDs had an additional degree (4 MS, 2 PhD, and 1 MBA). The median number of annual free flaps performed per institution was 175 (interquartile range [IQR] 122). The median h-index was 17 (IQR 13) resulting from 48 (IQR 99) publications. There was a correlation between department annual free flap volume and h-index (r = 0.333, P = 0.038).
    CONCLUSIONS: There is a correlation between academic productivity of MFDs and the clinical productivity of their department. This study provides a benchmark for aspiring reconstructive microsurgeons.
    Keywords:  Fellowship; Microsurgery; Plastic surgery; Program director; h-index
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2022.11.007
  71. West J Emerg Med. 2022 Oct 24. 23(6): 878-885
    Trends of Regional Anesthesia Studies in Emergency Medicine: An Observational Study of Published Articles.
    Tou-Yuan Tsai, Hsin-Tzu Yeh, Yu-Chang Liu, Ching-Hsing Lee, Kuan-Fu Chen, Eric H Chou, Jen-Tang Sun, Kuo-Chih Chen, Yi-Kung Lee, Su Weng Chau.
       INTRODUCTION: Regional anesthesia (RA) has become a prominent component of multimodal pain management in emergency medicine (EM), and its use has increased rapidly in recent decades. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of data on how RA practice has evolved in the specialty. In this study we sought to investigate how RA has been implemented in EM by analyzing trends of published articles and to describe the characteristics of the published research.
    METHODS: We retrieved RA-related publications from the SciVerse Scopus database from inception to January 13, 2022, focusing on studies associated with the use of RA in EM. The primary outcome was an analysis of trend based on the number of annual publications. Other outcomes included reports of technique diversity by year, trends in the use of individual techniques, and characteristics of published articles. We used linear regression analysis to analyze trends.
    RESULTS: In total, 133 eligible publications were included. We found that overall 23 techniques have been described and results published in the EM literature. Articles related to RA increased from one article in 1982 to 18 in 2021, and the rate of publication has increased more rapidly since 2016. Reports of lower extremity blocks (60.90%) were published most frequently in ranked-first aggregated citations. The use of thoracic nerve blocks, such as the erector spinae plane block, has increased exponentially in the past three years. The United States (41.35%) has published the most RA-related articles. Regional anesthesia administered by emergency physicians (52.63%) comprised the leading field in published articles related to RA. Most publications discussed single-shot (88.72%) and ultrasound-guided methods (55.64%).
    CONCLUSION: This study highlights that the number of published articles related to regional anesthesia in EM has increased. Although RA research has primarily focused on lower extremity blocks, clinical researchers continue to broaden the field of study to encompass a wide spectrum of techniques and indications.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2022.8.57552
  72. J Environ Manage. 2022 Nov 17. pii: S0301-4797(22)02283-6. [Epub ahead of print]326(Pt B): 116710
    Investigating the evolution of the technologies for collecting microplastics.
    Christian Spreafico, Davide Russo.
      To stop the dispersion of microplastics in the ecosystem, many technologies for collecting them were designed, tested and developed in the last period. However, a complete and exhaustive comparison of these technologies to guide in the choice and/or in the development of the most suitable appropriate one is missing in the literature. This study investigates the presence of some known technological trends, deriving from the TRIZ (Russian acronym for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving") in the behaviour (i.e. the operating principle) of these technologies. To do this, a systematic methodology was followed, which has a general value and consists in analysing the patents relating to these technologies through various bibliometric indexes (i.e. Innovation index, Emergence Score index, Independent Claims index and Technology Cycle Time index). In general, the obtained results did not reveal a clearly identifiable ranking of the behaviour which was unanimously confirmed by all the considered bibliometric indexes. In addition, the average of the scores of the different indexes associated with the different behaviours equalized their differences. However, these results are mainly due to the markedly different evaluations obtained by the Emergence Score index compared to those of the other indexes. From the comparison of the results with the evolutionary trends, it emerged that the operative zone reduction trend was the most confirmed, while the technical system dematerialization was the least confirmed by the bibliometric analysis of all the indexes. In particular, the ranking of the behaviours provided by the Innovation index best confirmed all the evolutionary trends, while that of the Emergence Score index was the worst. In conclusion, this study confirmed the adherence of the development that technologies for collecting microplastics are following to the evolutionary trends through bibliometric analysis: this sequence places magnetic technologies in first place, followed by chemical, fluid dynamics, dynamic mechanics and static mechanics. The analysis of the performances declared in the patents substantially confirms this result.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Evolutionary trends; Microplastics; Patents; TRIZ
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116710
  73. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2022 Nov;10(11): e4564
    The Relative Citation Ratio: A Modern Approach to Assessing Academic Productivity within Plastic Surgery.
    Christopher James Didzbalis, David Avery Cohen, Isabel Herzog, John Park, Joseph Weisberger, Edward S Lee.
      The accurate assessment of physician academic productivity is paramount and is frequently included in decisions for promotion and tenure. Current metrics such as h-index have been criticized for being biased toward older researchers and misleading. The relative citation ratio (RCR) is a newer metric that has been demonstrated within other surgical subspecialties to be a superior means of measuring academic productivity. We sought to demonstrate that RCR is a valid means of assessing academic productivity among plastic surgeons, and to determine demographic factors that are associated with higher RCR values.
    Methods: All Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited plastic and reconstructive surgery residency programs and faculty throughout the United States were compiled from the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons website. Demographic information was obtained for each surgeon via the program's website, and RCR data were obtained utilizing iCite, a bibliometrics tool provided by the National Institutes of Health. Surgeons were excluded if any demographic or RCR data were unavailable.
    Results: A total of 785 academic plastic surgeons were included in this analysis. Surgeons who belonged to departments with more than six members had a higher median RCR (1.23). Increasing academic rank (assistant: 12.27, associate: 24.16, professor: 47.58), chief/chairperson status (47.58), male gender (25.59) and integrated model of residency training program (24.04) were all associated with higher median weighted RCR.
    Conclusions: RCR is a valid metric for assessing plastic surgeon academic productivity. Further research is warranted in assessing disparities among different demographics within academic plastic surgery.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004564
  74. Heliyon. 2022 Nov;8(11): e11481
    Academic dependency: the influence of the prevailing international biomedical research agenda on Argentina's CONICET.
    Mercedes García Carrillo, Federico Testoni, Marc-André Gagnon, Cecilia Rikap, Matías Blaustein.
       Background: The prevailing health and biomedical sciences (HBMS) research agenda, not only determined by leading academic institutions but also by large pharmaceutical companies, has been shown to prioritize the exploration of novel pharmacological interventions over the study of the socio-environmental factors influencing illness onset and progression. The aim of this investigation is to quantitatively explore whether and to what extent the prevailing international HBMS research agenda and the key actors setting this agenda influence research in non-core countries.
    Methods: We used the Web of Science database and the CorText platform to proxy the HBMS research agenda of a prestigious research institution from Latin America: Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET). We conducted a bibliometric and lexical analysis of 16,309 HBMS academic articles whereby CONICET was among the authors' affiliations. The content of CONICET's agenda was represented through co-occurrence network maps of the most frequent concatenation of terms found in titles, keywords, and abstracts. We compared our findings with previous reports on the international HBMS research agenda.
    Results: In line with the results previously reported for the prevailing international agenda, we found that terms linked to molecular biology and cancer research hegemonize CONICET's HBMS research agenda, whereas terms connecting HBMS research with socio-environmental cues are marginal. However, we also found differences with the international agenda: CONICET's HBMS agenda shows a marginal presence of terms linked to translational medicine, while terms associated with categories such as pathogens, plant research, agrobiotechnology, and food industry are more represented than in the prevailing agenda.
    Conclusions: CONICET's HBMS research agenda shares topics, priorities, and methodologies with the prevailing HBMS international research agenda. However, CONICET's HBMS research agenda is internally heterogeneous, appearing to be mostly driven by a combination of elements that not only reflect academic dependency (the adoption of the prevailing research agenda by non-core research institutions) but also local economic determinants associated with Argentina's place in the international division of labor as an exporter of primary goods.
    Keywords:  Academic dependency; Agenda; Argentina; Biomedical sciences; CONICET; Public health
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11481
  75. Nutrients. 2022 Nov 14. pii: 4820. [Epub ahead of print]14(22):
    Mapping the Literature on Diet and Multiple Sclerosis: A Data-Driven Approach.
    Xiaochen Qu, Erin I Walsh, Nicolas Cherbuin, Lucinda J Black.
      Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system that is currently incurable. Diet may influence the onset and progression of MS. A variety of literature reviews have been conducted in the field of diet and MS. However, conventional reviews mostly focus on specific topics rather than delivering a holistic view of the literature landscape. Using a data-driven approach, we aimed to provide an overview of the literature on diet and MS, revealing gaps in knowledge. We conducted citation network analysis to identify clusters of all available publications about diet and MS over the past 50 years. We also conducted topic analysis of each cluster and illustrated them in word clouds. Four main clusters were identified from 1626 publications: MS risk and symptom management; mouse models of MS; gluten sensitivity; and dysphagia. Citation network analysis revealed that in this emerging field, articles published after 1991 were more likely to be highly cited. Relatively few studies focused on MS disease progression compared to risk factors, and limited evidence was available for many foods and nutrients in relation to MS. Future studies could focus on filling these identified knowledge gaps.
    Keywords:  citation network analysis; diet; multiple sclerosis; nutrition; text mining
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14224820
  76. Life (Basel). 2022 Nov 21. pii: 1940. [Epub ahead of print]12(11):
    Effects of Photobiomodulation on Oral Mucositis: Visualization and Analysis of Knowledge.
    Wallacy Watson Pereira Melo, Walessa Alana Bragança Aragão, Daiane Claydes Baia-da-Silva, Priscila Cunha Nascimento, Rafael Rodrigues Lima, Renata Duarte de Souza-Rodrigues.
      This review article mapped and analyzed the most cited articles on the association of photobiomodulation (PBM) with oral mucositis (OM) and the evolution of clinical protocols in the area. A comprehensive search was performed on the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS-CC) database, leading to the extraction of information such as title, authors, abstract, journal name, number, average of citations, study design, year of publication, institutions, continents, countries, type of laser used, irradiated anatomical points, primary anti-cancer therapy, and laser parameters. Among those, clinical trials and literature reviews were the most common study designs. The main type of laser used was the InGaAlP diode, with a wavelength ranging from 630-660 nm, power going in 40-100 mW, and energy density ranging from 0.375-22 J/cm2. As for the anatomical sites irradiated by PBM, the cheek mucosa, upper and lower lips, lateral tongue, and bottom of the mouth stood out. This analysis highlights an increasing interest in PBM as a supportive treatment in cases of OM, as well as the evolution of the technique, types of laser devices, and protocols used.
    Keywords:  cancer; chemotherapy; oral mucositis; photobiomodulation; radiotherapy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/life12111940
  77. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 16. pii: 15107. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    Comparative Study on International Research Hotspots and National-Level Policy Keywords of Dynamic Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning in China (2000-2021).
    Jie Gao, Wu Zhang, Chunbaixue Yang, Rui Wang, Shuai Shao, Jiawei Li, Limiao Zhang, Zhijian Li, Shu Liu, Wentao Si.
      For more than 20 years, disaster dynamic monitoring and early warning have achieved orderly and sustainable development in China, forming a systematic academic research system and top-down policy design, which are inseparable from the research of China's scientific community and the promotion of government departments. In the past, most of the research on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning focused on specific research in a certain field, scene, and discipline, while a few studies focused on research review or policy analysis, and few studies combined macro and meso research reviews in academia with national policy analysis for comparative analysis. It is necessary and urgent to explore the interaction between scholars' research and policy deployment, which can bring theoretical contributions and policy references to the top-down design, implementation promotion, and academic research of China's dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning. Based on 608 international research articles on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning published by Chinese scholars from 2000-2021 and 187 national policy documents published during this period, this paper conducts a comparative analysis between the knowledge maps of international research hotspots and the co-occurrence maps of policy keywords on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning. The research shows that in the stage of initial development (2000-2007), international research articles are few and focused, and research hotspots are somewhat alienated from policy keywords. In the stage of rising development (2008-2015), after the Wenchuan earthquake, research hotspots are closely related to policy keywords, mainly in the fields of geology, engineering disasters, meteorological disasters, natural disasters, etc. Meanwhile, research hotspots also focus on cutting-edge technologies and theories, while national-level policy keywords focus more on overall governance and macro promotion, but the two are gradually closely integrated. In the stage of rapid development (2016-2021), with the continuous attention and policy promotion of the national government, the establishment of the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the gradual establishment and improvement of the disaster early warning and monitoring system, research hotspots and policy keywords are integrated and overlapped with each other, realizing the organic linkage and mutual promotion between academic research and political deployment. The motivation, innovation, integration, and transformation of dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning are promoted by both policy and academic research. The institutions that issue policies at the national level include the State Council and relevant departments, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Water Resources, and other national ministries and commissions. The leading affiliated institutions of scholars' international research include China University of Mining and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, Shandong University of Science and Technology, and other institutions. The disciplines involved are mainly multidisciplinary geosciences, environmental sciences, electrical and electronic engineering, remote sensing, etc. It is worth noting that in the past two to three years, research and policies focusing on COVID-19, public health, epidemic prevention, environmental governance, and emergency management have gradually increased.
    Keywords:  disaster prevention and mitigation; dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning; emergency management; knowledge map visualization; policy document quantification; policy keyword; research hotspot
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215107
  78. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 16. pii: 15118. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    Research Progress and Hotspot Evolution Analysis of Landscape Microclimate: Visual Analysis Based on CNKI and WOS.
    Han Xu, Xinya Lin, Kailong Shi, Shumeng Lin, Guorui Zheng, Qiyue Wang, Jianwen Dong, Minhua Wang.
      With the increasing requirements of healthy habitat environments, landscape microclimates have been widely concerned. To comprehensively grasp the development history and research status of the landscape microclimates in China and other countries, CiteSpace software was used to comparatively analyze and visually present the literature related to landscape microclimates in CNKI and WOS databases for the past 20 years. The results show that: (1) The number of publications on landscape microclimate research shows an increasing trend in China and other countries, and the number of publications increased significantly after 2016. Although the number of publications by Chinese scholars is less than that of foreign scholars, they have developed rapidly in recent years, and their international influence has increased significantly. (2) A positive exchange has been formed among international scholars, and the number of collaborative studies has been increasing. China's microclimate research has formed relatively stable teams that have conducted numerous studies in the fields of urban communities, street greening, and plant communities, respectively. Although the links between research teams and institutions in China and other countries are relatively close, they still need to be further strengthened. (3) In the past decade, the theoretical system of landscape microclimates has been improved, and the research themes have become more concentrated, but it still has remained close to the early basic research. (4) Future research will remain centered on "mitigating the urban heat island effect" and "optimizing human heat perception". New topics such as "biodiversity", "carbon cycle", and "climate change" have been added. In conclusion, the research needs to continue to explore the evaluation system of microclimates and verify the evaluation index of outdoor thermal comfort for human thermal adaptation in different regions. The standards and systems of human habitat adapted to different regional characteristics should be formed.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; knowledge graph; landscape microclimate; visualization analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215118
  79. Public Health Rep. 2022 Nov 23. 333549221134130
    COVID-19 Scientific Publications From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 2020-January 2022.
    Elissa Meites, Martha Knuth, Kaely Hall, Patrick Dawson, Teresa W Wang, Marcienne Wright, Wei Yu, Schabbethai Senesie, Elizabeth Stephenson, Chukwuebuka Imachukwu, Takudzwa Sayi, Brian Gurbaxani, Erik R Svendsen, Muin J Khoury, Barbara Ellis, Brian A King.
       OBJECTIVE: High-quality scientific evidence underpins public health decision making. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agency provides scientific data, including during public health emergencies. To understand CDC's contributions to COVID-19 science, we conducted a bibliometric evaluation of publications authored by CDC scientists from January 20, 2020, through January 20, 2022, by using a quality improvement approach (SQUIRE 2.0).
    METHODS: We catalogued COVID-19 articles with ≥1 CDC-affiliated author published in a scientific journal and indexed in the World Health Organization's COVID-19 database. We identified priority topic areas from the agency's COVID-19 Public Health Science Agenda by using keyword scripts in EndNote and then assessed the impact of the published articles by using Scopus and Altmetric.
    RESULTS: During the first 2 years of the agency's pandemic response, CDC authors contributed to 1044 unique COVID-19 scientific publications in 208 journals. Publication topics included testing (n = 853, 82%); prevention strategies (n = 658, 63%); natural history, transmission, breakthrough infections, and reinfections (n = 587, 56%); vaccines (n = 567, 54%); health equity (n = 308, 30%); variants (n = 232, 22%); and post-COVID-19 conditions (n = 44, 4%). Publications were cited 40 427 times and received 81 921 news reports and 1 058 893 social media impressions. As the pandemic evolved, CDC adapted to address new scientific questions, including vaccine effectiveness, safety, and access; viral variants, including Delta and Omicron; and health equity.
    CONCLUSION: The agency's COVID-19 Public Health Science Agenda helped guide impactful scientific activities. CDC continues to evaluate COVID-19 priority topic areas and contribute to development of new scientific work. CDC is committed to monitoring emerging issues and addressing gaps in evidence needed to improve health.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; bibliometrics; strategic planning
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549221134130
  80. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Nov 19.
    Shifts in periphyton research themes over the past three decades.
    Yihan Zhao, Yun Zhang, Jishu Guo, Jun Wang, Yanling Li.
      It has been well documented that periphyton communities play a key role in primary productivity, nutrient cycling, and food web interactions. However, a worldwide overview of research on the key themes, current situation, and major trends within the field is lacking. In this study, we applied the machine learning technique (latent Dirichlet allocation, LDA) to analyze the abstracts of 6690 publications related to periphyton from 1991 to 2020 based on the Web of Science database. The relative frequency of classical and basic research on periphyton related to colonization, biomass, growth rate, and habitats has been clearly decreasing. The increasing trends of research on periphyton are embodied in the periphyton function in freshwater ecosystems (e.g., application as ecological indicators, function in the removal of nutrients, and application in paleolimnology), the research at macroscales (e.g., spatial-temporal variation, and functional and taxonomic diversity), and the anthropogenic themes (e.g., climate warming, response to multiple stressors, and land use type). The keyword and title analysis showed that the periphyton studies are concentrated mainly on diatom aspects, especially with respect to streams relative to lakes. The thematic space based on non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) showed that the classical themes such as growth rate, colonization, and environmental factors (e.g., multiple stressors and climate warming) were most linked to other research themes. We proposed that future trends in the periphyton should focus on the function of periphyton in lakes and their response to multiple environmental pressures with the increasingly extensive eutrophication in lakes and the increasingly significant change in the climate.
    Keywords:  Biofilm; Climate change; Ecological indicators; Freshwater ecosystems; Latent Dirichlet allocation; Nutrient removal
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24251-7
  81. World Neurosurg. 2022 Nov 17. pii: S1878-8750(22)01625-4. [Epub ahead of print]
    Current Trends in Subspecialty Fellowship Training for 1,691 Academic Neurological Surgeons.
    Arjun Gupta, Vamsi Reddy, Awinita Barpujari, Raj Lavadi, Prateek Agarwal, Yue-Fang Chang, James Mooney, Galal A Elsayed, Nitin Agarwal.
       OBJECTIVE: Neurosurgical subspecialty fellowship training has become increasingly popular in recent decades. However, few studies have evaluated recent trends in postgraduate subspecialty education. This study aims to provide a detailed cross-sectional analysis of subspecialty fellowship training completion trends and demographics among U.S. academic neurosurgeons.
    METHODS: Academic clinical faculty (M.D. or D.O.) teaching at accredited neurosurgery programs were included. Demographic, career, and fellowship data was collected from departmental physician profiles and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) membership database. Relative citation ratio (RCR) scores were retrieved using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) iCite tool.
    RESULTS: This study included 1,691 surgeons (1,756 fellowships) from 125 institutions. The majority (79.13%) reported fellowship training. Fellowship completion was more common among recent graduates (residency year >2000), as was training in multiple subspecialties (p<.0001). Spine was the most popular subspecialty (16.04%), followed by pediatrics (11.18%) and cerebrovascular (9.46%). The least common were trauma/critical care (2.52%) and peripheral nerve (1.26%). Spine, neuroradiology, and endovascular grew in popularity over time. Pediatrics and spine were most popular for females and males, respectively. Epilepsy and cerebrovascular had the most full professors, while endovascular and spine had the most assistant professors. Stereotactic/functional and epilepsy had the most Ph.Ds. Fellowship training correlated with higher weighted, but not mean, RCR scores among associate (p=.002) and full professors (p=.005).
    CONCLUSIONS: There is an emerging proclivity for additional fellowship training among young neurosurgeons, often in multiple subspecialties. These findings are intended to help guide professional decision-making and optimize the delivery of postgraduate education.
    Keywords:  Academic neurosurgery; Demographics; Fellowship training; Postgraduate education; Subspecialty training
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2022.11.074
  82. Scientometrics. 2022 Nov 14. 1-20
    Why are medical research articles tweeted? The news value perspective.
    Tint Hla Hla Htoo, Na Jin-Cheon, Michael Thelwall.
      Counts of tweets mentioning research articles are potentially useful as social impact altmetric indicators, especially for health-related topics. One way to help understand what tweet counts indicate is to find factors that associate with the number of tweets received by articles. Using news value theory, this study examined six characteristics of research papers that may cause some articles to be more tweeted than others. For this, we manually coded 300 medical journal articles about COVID-19. A statistical analysis showed that all six factors that make articles more newsworthy according to news value theory (importance, controversy, elite nations, elite persons, scale, news prominence) associated with higher tweet counts. Since these factors are hypothesised to be general human news selection criteria, the results give new evidence that tweet counts may be indicators of general interest to members of society rather than measures of societal impact. This study also provides a new understanding of the strong positive relationship between news mentions and tweet counts for articles. Instead of news coverage attracting tweets or the other way round (journalists noticing highly tweeted articles and writing about them), the results are consistent with newsworthy characteristics of articles attracting both tweets and news mentions.
    Keywords:  Altmetrics; COVID-19; News value; Twitter
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04578-1
  83. An Acad Bras Cienc. 2022 ;pii: S0001-37652022000700707. [Epub ahead of print]94(suppl 3): e20201428
    Global scientific production in the pre-Covid-19 Era: An analysis of 53 countries for 22 years.
    Eduardo A Oliveira, Maria Christina L Oliveira, Enrico A Colosimo, Daniella B Martelli, Ludmila R Silva, Ana Cristina Simões E Silva, Hercílio Martelli-Júnior.
      Based on an extensive analysis of public databases, we provide an overview of the global scientific output and describe the dynamics of the profound changes in the scientific enterprise during the last decades. The analysis included the scientific production of 53 countries over the 1996-2018 period. During this period, the production of articles per year has tripled. There was a strong correlation between the growth of the global gross domestic product and the increase in the number of articles (R2 = 0.973, P<0.001). Six countries showed a robust increment of their scientific production and are currently among the top 20 in the ranking of world scientific production (China, India, South Korea, Brazil, Turkey, and Iran). The mean annual growth rate was about 12.7% for these six countries. The share of the global scientific production of these countries increased from 7% in 1996 to 27.8% in 2018. Conversely, the participation of the 10 most traditional countries has dropped from 73% to 45% during the same period. In conclusion, we believe that our findings may contribute to further studies aiming to evaluate the impact and changes of the scientific endeavor over the next years in light of the forthcoming new world framework.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202220201428
  84. HERD. 2022 Nov 24. 19375867221125940
    Research Methods Used in Evidence-Based Design: An Analysis of Five Years of Research Articles From the HERD Journal.
    Dina Battisto, Xiaowei Li, Jiaying Dong, Luke Hall, Julia Blouin.
       OBJECTIVE: This study aims to analyze research methodologies from 157 research articles published in this journal in the last five years (2016-2020).
    BACKGROUND: Health environments research is comprised of research covering many topics and from various disciplines worldwide. No systematic study exists to uncover themes in evidence-based design (EBD) research concerning the types of research published, people engaged in research, and the research methods employed. Understanding the nature of health environment research performed can help researchers, practitioners, and students situate their work within an EBD research structure.
    METHODS: Case study research was used to analyze 157 articles published in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal devoted to EBD and research. Secondary data were extracted to capture research methods from health environments studies and then analyzed to identify themes. The design and outcome categories were structured around and the Center for Health Design's (CHD) Knowledge Repository with origins to Ulrich et al.'s Evidence-Based Design Framework.
    RESULTS: Findings are reported on categories commonly found in empirical research articles: (i) key words, (ii) disciplines from authors, (iii) settings studied, (iv) populations studied or sampled, (v) research approach and study design, (vi) research strategies, (vii) data collection methods, (viii) data analysis procedures, (ix) design categories and variables, and (x) outcome categories and variables.
    CONCLUSIONS: The analyses highlighted the research methods most frequently used in health environments research. Findings revealed several inconsistencies across articles on key words and the framing of research methodologies. Results suggest that there should be a consistent and overarching research taxonomy with a set of acceptable terms for effective literature searches.
    Keywords:  Health Environments Research & Design Journal; case study; evidence-based design; research methods; secondary data analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867221125940
  85. Eur J Philos Sci. 2022 ;12(4): 61
    Progressive and degenerative journals: on the growth and appraisal of knowledge in scholarly publishing.
    Daniel J Dunleavy.
      Despite continued attention, finding adequate criteria for distinguishing "good" from "bad" scholarly journals remains an elusive goal. In this essay, I propose a solution informed by the work of Imre Lakatos and his methodology of scientific research programmes (MSRP). I begin by reviewing several notable attempts at appraising journal quality - focusing primarily on the impact factor and development of journal blacklists and whitelists. In doing so, I note their limitations and link their overarching goals to those found within the philosophy of science. I argue that Lakatos's MSRP and specifically his classifications of "progressive" and "degenerative" research programmes can be analogized and repurposed for the evaluation of scholarly journals. I argue that this alternative framework resolves some of the limitations discussed above and offers a more considered evaluation of journal quality - one that helps account for the historical evolution of journal-level publication practices and attendant contributions to the growth (or stunting) of scholarly knowledge. By doing so, the seeming problem of journal demarcation is diminished. In the process I utilize two novel tools (the mistake index and scite index) to further illustrate and operationalize aspects of the MSRP.
    Keywords:  Journalology; Meta-science; Methodology of scientific research programmes; Predatory publishing; Scholarly publishing; Sociology of science
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00492-8
  86. Chemosphere. 2022 Nov 18. pii: S0045-6535(22)03811-5. [Epub ahead of print] 137318
    Genotoxicity of Organic contaminants in the soil: A review based on bibliometric analysis and methodological progress.
    Miao Han, Zaifeng Zhang, Si Liu, Youying Sheng, Michael Gatheru Waigi, Xiaojie Hu, Chao Qin, Wanting Ling.
      Organic contaminants (OCs) are ubiquitous in the environment, posing severe threats to human health and ecological balance. In particular, OCs and their metabolites could interact with genetic materials to induce genotoxicity, which has attracted considerable attention. In this review, bibliometric analysis was executed to analyze the publications on the genotoxicity of OCs in soil from 1992 to 2021. The result indicated that significant contributions were made by China and the United States in this field and the research hotspots were biological risks, damage mechanisms, and testing methods. Based on this, in this review, we summarized the manifestations and influencing factors of genotoxicity of OCs to soil organisms, the main damage mechanisms, and the most commonly utilized testing methods. OCs can induce genotoxicity and the hierarchical response of soil organisms, which could be influenced by the physicochemical properties of OCs and the properties of soil. Specific mechanisms of genotoxicity can be classified into DNA damage, epigenetic toxicity, and chromosomal aberrations. OCs with different molecular weights lead to genetic material damage by inducing the generation of ROS or forming adducts with DNA, respectively. The micronucleus test and the comet test are the most commonly used testing methods. Moreover, this review also pointed out that future studies should focus on the relationships between bioaccessibilities and genotoxicities, transcriptional regulatory factors, and potential metabolites of OCs to elaborate on the biological risks and mechanisms of genotoxicity from an overall perspective.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Genotoxicity; Organic contaminants; Soil
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137318
  87. Iran J Public Health. 2022 May;51(5): 1161-1171
    Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Medical Sociology: A Co-Word Analysis.
    Azam Rohani, Fatemeh Makkizadeh.
       Background: Medical sociology is concerned with the relationship between social factors and health, and with the application of sociological theory and research techniques to questions related to health and the health care system. Considering the wide range of studies in the field that each examined different aspects, to promote health in community, bibliometrics analysis in this area is felt.
    Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study with a scientometric approach, the data about "medical sociology" were retrieved from PubMed in MEDINE format, including 1226 records over the period 1945-2018. By using Co-word analysis, clustering methods, and strategic diagram with the help of SPSS, UcInet 6 software the data were analyzed.
    Results: The keyword "Attitude to Health" and two pairs of frequently used keywords, namely "Power (Psychology)*Professional Autonomy" were the most frequent in medical sociology. The results shaped the concepts of medical sociology in 7 clusters. The clusters "Attitude of health personnel", "Health Policy" and "Sociology of Medical Education" are topics that may be emerging or disappearing. The "Physicians", "Models of Social Determinants of Health" and "medical philosophy" are immature clusters.
    Conclusion: This research used co-word networks that indicate the important links between keywords of research areas. Considering the frequency of keywords along with the clusters obtained, it seems that the most research approach was seen on the medical aspect rather than the sociological aspect. Despite the importance of sociological aspects such as social rooting of disease, sociability, medicine as a social institution and etiological studies, these subjects have not been sufficiently considered.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Co-word analysis; Medical sociology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i5.9431
  88. Hypertens Res. 2022 Nov 25.
    Introduction of the 13th Hypertension Research Awards for authors of outstanding papers in Hypertension Research.
    Masaki Mogi.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-022-01108-7
  89. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 10. pii: 14762. [Epub ahead of print]19(22):
    A Bibliometric-Based Analytical Framework for the Study of Smart City Lifeforms in China.
    Yanmin Xu, Wengang Li, Jianjiang Tai, Chunjiong Zhang.
      Smart cities are the future development direction of cities and are a comprehensive expression of the development of the organic life body of cities. The organic life form of a smart city relates to viewing the city as an organic life self-organizing system based on the wholeness and systemic nature of the smart city life form itself, to construct a holistic spatial linkage of the functions and mechanisms of the city life system, and to enhance the overall vitality of the space. This study is based on the literature of "smart city" research in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database, and the current situation and related themes of smart city research in China are discussed through co-word analysis and cluster analysis using software such as SPSS and VOSviewer, among which there are four themes in co-word cluster analysis, namely, intelligent technology supporting smart city research; research on the integration of the social system of a smart city; research on the top-level strategic design and planning and construction of a smart city; and research on the development, evaluation, and concrete practice of smart city construction. Four conclusions are drawn from the development of smart city research in China: Firstly, smart city research has attracted the attention of multiple disciplines, and the research themes are scattered and integrated across disciplinary systems. Secondly, smart city construction, development rules, and characteristics need to be further explored, and the problems, future trends, and policy support for the modernization of China's cities and towns have been focused on engineering and technology, with a lack of practical research in non-technical areas such as humanities and ethics. Thirdly, the philosophical humanism and ecological ethics of smart cities need to be systematized, and their construction and development needs to be humanistic, systematic, and comprehensive, thus contributing to the sustainability, livability, ecology, and wisdom of future urban development. Fourthly, the development of the smart city system is supported by theories related to global cities and innovative cities, and the world city, a product of globalization, is undergoing a transformation into a digital and intelligent organic urban life form.
    Keywords:  co-word analysis; digitization; humanistic city; smart city; urban lifeform
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214762
  90. Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Nov 19. pii: 2319. [Epub ahead of print]10(11):
    A Bibliometrics-Enhanced, PAGER-Compliant Scoping Review of the Literature on Paralympic Powerlifting: Insights for Practices and Future Research.
    Luca Puce, Khaled Trabelsi, Carlo Trompetto, Laura Mori, Lucio Marinelli, Antonio Currà, Emanuela Faelli, Vittoria Ferrando, Patrick Okwen, Jude Dzevela Kong, Achraf Ammar, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi.
      Paralympic powerlifting (PP), formerly known as "International Paralympic Committee" (IPC) powerlifting, is the format of powerlifting adapted for athletes with disabilities, and it differs from the version for able-bodied athletes in that it consists of bench press only. According to the mandate of the IPC, PP athletes should be enabled to achieve sporting excellence. As such, rigorous evidence is needed. However, to the best of our knowledge, there exists no systematic assessment of the body of scholarly evidence in the field of PP. Therefore, the present study was conducted to fill in this gap of knowledge, by conducting a scoping review of the literature enhanced by a bibliometrics analysis and by mining two major scholarly databases (MEDLINE via PubMed and Scopus). The aim was to provide a review/summary of the findings to date to help practitioners and athletes. Thirty-seven studies were retained in the present study. These covered the following thematic areas: (i) warm-up strategies (n = 2); (ii) aspects of training (n = 2); (iii) physiological aspects and responses (n = 2); (iv) psychological aspects and responses (n = 2); (v) biomechanics of bench press (n = 8); (vi) recovery strategy (n = 5); (vii) impact of the disability and type of disability (n = 4); (viii) epidemiology of PP (n = 6); and (ix) new analytical/statistical approaches for kinematics assessments, internal load monitoring, and predictions of mechanical outputs in strength exercises and in PP (n = 6). Bibliometrics analysis of the PP-related scientific output revealed that, despite having already become a paralympic sports discipline in 1984, only in the last few years, PP has been attracting a lot of interest from the community of researchers, with the first scholarly contribution dating back to 2012, and with more than one-third of the scientific output being published this year (2022). As such, this scholarly discipline is quite recent and young. Moreover, the community dealing with this topic is poorly interconnected, with most authors contributing to just one article, and with one single author being a hub node of the author network. Distributions of the number of articles and the authors/co-authors were found to be highly asymmetrical, indicating that this research is still in its infancy and has great room as well as great potential to grow. Reflecting this, many research topics are also overlooked and underdeveloped, with the currently available evidence being based on a few studies.
    Keywords:  PAGER framework; athletes with disabilities; bibliometrics; para powerlifting; scoping review
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112319
  91. Nature. 2022 Nov 25.
    Leading science cities by the numbers.
      
    Keywords:  Funding; Institutions; Research management
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02881-8
  92. J Optom. 2022 Nov 16. pii: S1888-4296(22)00071-1. [Epub ahead of print]
    Reply from the authors to: Artificial intelligence applied to ophthalmology and optometry: A citation network analysis.
    Clara Martinez-Perez, Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina, Cesar Villa-Collar, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optom.2022.11.003
  93. Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Nov 12. pii: 2273. [Epub ahead of print]10(11):
    Health Information System and Health Care Applications Performance in the Healthcare Arena: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Ayogeboh Epizitone, Smangele Pretty Moyane, Israel Edem Agbehadji.
      There have been several studies centred on health information systems with many insights provided to enhance health care applications globally. These studies have provided theoretical schemes for fortifying the enactment and utilisation of the Health Information System (HIS). In addition, these research studies contribute greatly to the development of HIS in alignment with major stakeholders such as health practitioners and recipients of health care. Conversely, there has been trepidation about HIS' sustainability and resilience for healthcare applications in the era of digitalization and globalization. Hence, this paper investigates research on HIS with a primary focus on health care applications to ascertain its sustainability and resilience amidst the transformation of the global healthcare space. Therefore, using a bibliometric approach, this paper measures the performance of health information systems and healthcare for health care applications using bibliometric data from the web of science database. The findings reveal solid evidence of the constructive transformation of health information systems and health care applications in the healthcare arena, providing ample evidence of the adaptation of HIS and health care applications within the healthcare arena to the fourth industrial revolution and, additionally, revealing the resilient alignment of health care applications and health information systems.
    Keywords:  HIS applications; health care applications; health information system; healthcare
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10112273
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