bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2021‒10‒03
fifty-one papers selected by
Thomas Krichel
Open Library Society
  1. Bibliometric analysis of the top 50 most cited publications of the Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma.
  2. A bibliometric analysis of paramedicine publications using the Scopus database: 2010-2019.
  3. Overview of Graves Ophthalmopathy Literature From 1999 to 2019: Bibliometric Analysis.
  4. At The Forefront of Penile Surgical Reconstruction: A Bibliometric Study of the 100 Most-Cited Articles.
  5. The Hirsch Index and Self-Citation in Academic Physiatry among Graduate Medical Education Program Directors.
  6. Bibliometric analysis of immigration and environmental degradation: evidence from past decades.
  7. Analysis of the Most-Cited Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis in Acupuncture Research.
  8. Telemedicine: Niche or mainstream? A bibliometric analysis and review of the output of highly ranked clinical journals.
  9. Research Trends and Hotspots on Montessori Intervention in Patients With Dementia From 2000 to 2021: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  10. Scholarly Productivity Evaluation of KL2 Scholars Using Bibliometrics and Federal Follow-on Funding: Cross-Institution Study.
  11. Global Trends and Future Prospects of Child Nutrition: A Bibliometric Analysis of Highly Cited Papers.
  12. Dedicated COVID-19 Resource Center in Radiology Journals: Its Citation Metrics and Altmetrics Impact.
  13. United States Family Medicine research collaborations associated with higher citation and funding rates.
  14. Publication rate of scientific papers presented at the largest event on breast cancer research in Latin America.
  15. Gender gap in authorship: a study of 44,000 articles published in 100 high-impact general medical journals.
  16. Publication Times in Ophthalmology Journals: The Story of Accepted Manuscripts.
  17. Randomized controlled trials of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine-based interventions for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a bibliometric analysis and review of study designs.
  18. Spirituality and Well-Being of Children, Adolescent, and Adult Students: A Scientific Mapping of the Literature.
  19. Are Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Applicants Making an Impact? A Bibliometric Evaluation of Applicants.
  20. Bibliometric analysis of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  21. Anchoring effects in the assessment of papers: The proposal for an empirical survey of citing authors.
  22. Bibliometric Analysis and Research Trend Forecast of Healthy Urban Planning for 40 Years (1981-2020).
  23. Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Coffee/Caffeine and Sport.
  24. The Trends of Uveal Melanoma Research in the Past Two Decades and Future Perspectives.
  25. Academic Promotion of Physicians in Medical Schools: A Special Focus on Primary Health Care in Taiwan.
  26. COVID-19 from a rheumatology perspective: bibliometric and altmetric analysis.
  27. Exploring female parity in pharmacoepidemiology authorship: A case study of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies and its citing articles.
  28. Worldwide Research Trends in Landslide Science.
  29. A Half Century of Research on Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Science Mapping the Literature, 1970 to 2019.
  30. Bibliometric Analysis on Utilization of New Information Technology in the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 - China, 2020.
  31. The glass podium: Gender representation within the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) from 2010 to 2019.
  32. Is Pediatric Dentistry a Topic of Interest for Pediatric Journals? A Scoping Review.
  33. Statistical Analysis of Articles Published in China CDC Weekly - Worldwide, 2019-2020.
  34. Publication Rate of Abstracts Presented at AAPOS Annual Meetings: From Conference Abstract to Full-Text Article.
  35. Is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Coming out on Top? A Comparison with Activity-Based Costing in the Health Field.
  36. [Visualization analysis of traditional Chinese medicine for neurogenesis research based on CiteSpace].
  37. Gender in 30 Years of IEEE Visualization.
  38. Mapping the Field in Stress, Anxiety, and Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Preterm Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care.
  39. How the scientific community responded to the COVID-19 pandemic: A subject-level time-trend bibliometric analysis.
  40. A Bibliometric Review of Research on International Students' Mental Health: Science Mapping of the Literature from 1957 to 2020.
  41. Finding the "Heart" in the Green: Conducting a Bibliometric Analysis to Emphasize the Need for Connecting Emotions with Biophilic Urban Planning.
  42. Authorship commerce: Bylines for sale.
  43. Increasing evidence-based substance use interventions globally: The National Institute on Drug Abuse postdoctoral fellowships.
  44. Research Trends of Human-Computer Interaction Studies in Construction Hazard Recognition: A Bibliometric Review.
  45. Global cancer research in the era of COVID-19: a bibliometric analysis.
  46. Comments on "Barriers to Impact Factor Growth in Two Major Psychiatry Journals in India".
  47. Physical Activity and Exercise: Text Mining Analysis.
  48. Health research funding and its output in Pakistan.
  49. Outcome of endodontic treatment - the most cited publications.
  50. Response to the Comments on "Barriers to Impact Factor Growth in Two Major Psychiatry Journals in India".
  51. Publication practices of sub-Saharan African Cochrane authors: a bibliometric study.
  1. J Clin Orthop Trauma. 2021 Nov;22 101590
    Bibliometric analysis of the top 50 most cited publications of the Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma.
    Karthik Vishwanathan, Srinivas B S Kambhampati, Mohit Kumar Patralekh, Abhishek Vaish, Raju Vaishya.
      Background: The Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma (JCOT) is one of the top three orthopaedic journals from India. We set out to analyse the top 50 cited articles from JCOT since indexing in PubMed and Scopus.Methods: We looked into the bibliometrics of the top 50 cited articles and compared citations from PubMed and Scopus, and depicted outputs from VOS viewer analysis on co-authorship and keywords.
    Results: Total citations for top-cited articles were 1076 in numbers, with a maximum of 103.2016 and 2018 were the most productive years. The major contribution was from India with 74%, followed by the USA. New Delhi published maximally at 72%. Clinical topics and narrative reviews were the most common types of studies. Trauma and Adult reconstruction was the most common sub-specialities, and Level 4 was the most frequent level of study. The basic science and COVID-19 related articles received the maximum citations. The authors from Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals published the maximum number of top-50 cited articles in the JCOT.
    Conclusions: There is a steady increase in the number of publications in the JCOT, with an increasing number of citation counts. Both the Indian and foreign authors have been publishing in this journal at a comparative rate. Although the citation counts in Scopus are more than those in PubMed for given articles, more than 80% of articles are listed in both databases as top 50 cited articles. The majority of top-cited articles belonged to trauma and adult reconstruction, level III studies, and narrative reviews.
    Keywords:  50 most cited; Bibliometrics; Indian journal; JCOT; Orthopaedic bibliometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2021.101590
  2. Int Emerg Nurs. 2021 Sep 24. pii: S1755-599X(21)00115-4. [Epub ahead of print]59 101077
    A bibliometric analysis of paramedicine publications using the Scopus database: 2010-2019.
    Bronwyn Beovich, Alexander Olaussen, Brett Williams.
      BACKGROUND: Paramedicine is an evolving profession undergoing increases in scholarly activity and peer-reviewed publications. This study aims to complete the first extensive bibliometric examination of the worldwide paramedicine literature.METHOD: Scopus was utilised to search for paramedicine-based articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2019 inclusive. The included articles were examined for citation count, journal, journal quartile, country of origin, university affiliation, collaboration, and topic.
    RESULTS: Paramedicine-based publications have steadily increased and are predominantly published in prehospital or emergency healthcare journals. The majority of highly cited authors were located in Australia; however, only one of these authors was identified as a paramedic. Monash University (Australia) was the most productive institution (11.7% of total articles) and collaboration was mostly within national boundaries (53.2%).
    CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the progressive increase in paramedic scholarly activity over the past decade. Although a large number of articles originate from two countries (Australia and the USA) and one university, numerous nations and institutions are contributing to this body of knowledge. The growing literature base is indicative of the evolution of paramedicine; however, the high level of non-paramedic authors suggests the opportunity for further scholarly development within the paramedic discipline.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Citations; Journal article; Journal impact factor; Paramedicine; Publications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2021.101077
  3. Interact J Med Res. 2021 Sep 28. 10(3): e24831
    Overview of Graves Ophthalmopathy Literature From 1999 to 2019: Bibliometric Analysis.
    Jiamin Cao, Nuo Wang, Shiying Hou, Xin Qi, Yu Chen, Wei Xiong.
      BACKGROUND: Research on Graves ophthalmopathy has increased remarkably over the last 2 decades; however, few statistical analyses of the data presented in these publications have been conducted.OBJECTIVE: This study aims to detect and analyze emerging trends and collaboration networks in Graves ophthalmopathy research.
    METHODS: Graves ophthalmopathy-related publications from 1999 to 2019 were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection Database. Collected publications were restricted by category (article or review) and language (English). Bibliometric analyses included changes in the annual numbers of publications, journals, authors, countries, institutions, keywords, and references.
    RESULTS: In total, 3051 publications that met the criteria were collected. The number of annual publications has exhibited an increasing trend over the last 20 years. The journal Thyroid ranked first, publishing 183 Graves ophthalmopathy-related studies. There was no evidence of a relationship between impact factor (IF) and the number of publications (P=.69). The author Smith TJ had the largest number of publications on Graves ophthalmopathy (n=83). Of the countries that had published Graves ophthalmopathy-related articles, the United States had the largest number (n=784) and the highest centrality (0.18). Among institutions, the University of Pisa (Italy) contributed the most Graves ophthalmopathy-related articles (n=114). The most recent burst keywords (proliferation, rituximab, and selenium) and references may provide clues on emerging trends in research and clinical practice.
    CONCLUSIONS: This bibliometric analysis highlights countries, institutions, and authors who contributed to Graves ophthalmopathy-related publications. Emerging trends in Graves ophthalmopathy research, based on burst keywords and references, may provide clues relevant to clinical practice and future research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; Graves ophthalmopathy; Web of Science; bibliometric analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2196/24831
  4. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2021 Sep 30.
    At The Forefront of Penile Surgical Reconstruction: A Bibliometric Study of the 100 Most-Cited Articles.
    Minliang Wu, Rui Chen, Yalong Xu, Xiaolei Shi, Ruixiang Song, Mengyan Sun, Chunyu Xue, Yuchong Wang, Wei Zhang.
      PURPOSE: The citation count of a scientific article is considered as the recognition it received from this field. The purpose of this bibliometric analysis was to identify the top 100 most-cited scientific articles in penile surgical reconstruction.METHODS: The Web of Science database was used to extract the top 100 most-cited articles. Individual articles were reviewed to identify the authorship, published journal, journal impact factor (IF), primary disease, article type, institution and country of origin, and year of publication.
    RESULTS: The top 100 most-cited articles were published between 1947 and 2013. The number of citations ranged from 23 to 233. Journal of Urology contributed the most articles (n = 36). Articles with a high level of evidence like prospective analysis (n = 5), systematic review and meta-analysis (n = 2), and guideline (n = 1) were all published after 2000. The average citation per year of articles published in high-IF journals was significantly higher than that of other articles (p = 0.0129). There was a positive linear correlation between citation count per year and publication year (r2 = 0.26, p < 0.001). Among the top 100 articles, 74 articles were interlinked via citation of each other. The major topic of co-citation network was the application of flaps in penile reconstruction.
    CONCLUSIONS: The analysis of top 100 most-cited articles facilitates the comprehensive recognition of current focus in the field of penile surgical reconstruction, which is the exploration of flaps and development of new techniques in penile reconstruction. In the future, more attention should be paid to evidence-based medicine to provide high-level evidence for research.
    LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Flap; Penis; Reconstruction; Surgery
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-021-02609-5
  5. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2021 Sep 28.
    The Hirsch Index and Self-Citation in Academic Physiatry among Graduate Medical Education Program Directors.
    Scott J Pfirrman, Christopher G Yheulon, John R Parziale.
      ABSTRACT: The Hirsch Index (h-index) is a measure of academic productivity which captures both the quantity and quality of an author's output. A well-accepted bibliometric, the h-index still may be influenced by self-citation, which has been assessed in other medical and surgical specialties. This study aims to evaluate research output and self-citation in physiatry, establishing a benchmark for the field, in addition to identifying differences between PM&R sub-specialties. This study identified PM&R residency and fellowship program directors and analyzed the number of publications, citations, self-citations, and h-indices. A total of 169 program directors were identified, and the mean number ± SD of publications, citations, and h-index for the cohort were 16.7 ± 29.5, 348 ± 753, and 5.7 ± 6.7, respectively. When self-citation was excluded, less than 2% of program directors (3/169) had changes in h-index greater than one integer, and none greater than two integers. The h-index remained unchanged for 90% (152/169). Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) fellowship directors had significantly higher mean number of publications (28, P = .04), mean number of citations (672, P = .03), and h-index (9.2, P < .01) (95% CI). Overall, self-citation is infrequent in PM&R, and SCI directors had more robust academic profiles.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0000000000001902
  6. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct 01.
    Bibliometric analysis of immigration and environmental degradation: evidence from past decades.
    Azyyati Anuar, Nur Fakhzan Marwan, John Smith, Sirinya Siriyanun, Arshian Sharif.
      The aim of this paper is to examine immigration and environmental degradation using bibliometric analysis. This paper also analyzes sources of publication, authorship, citations, distributions publications and other bibliometric indicators. The study focuses on a total of 1372 articles published from 2000 to 2020. These articles were collected through an automated process from the Scopus database and later analyzed using techniques such as bibliometric indicators analysis, VOSviewer, and Perish or Publish. The research identified 991 articles from varieties of published sources. The topic of immigrants and environmental degradation has been an emerging topic since 1981. Starting in 2000, most of the scholars actively producing an articles pertinent to this topic. Most of the articles were published in journals, and English is the primary language of research. United States is the leading country in contributing the publications. Meanwhile, the most significant fields in which the sources were produced were environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, arts and humanities and earth and planetary sciences. However, some limitations has been found. It has been suggested for future research, to lengthen this work to other databases, as well as bibliometric analyses of immigration and environmental degradation in developed and developing countries by adding a new keyword such as energy consumption and climate change. This paper aims to assess recent trends in the expansion of academic literature on immigration and environmental degradation using the bibliometric analysis method. Network visualization and bibliometric indicators are used in this paper to present the results.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Environmental degradation; Immigration; Scopus database
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16470-1
  7. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2021 ;2021 3469122
    Analysis of the Most-Cited Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis in Acupuncture Research.
    Ying He, Yuxi Li, Juan Li, Ning Li, Yonggang Zhang, Nian Li.
      Objectives: The aim of the current study was to analyze the 100 most-cited systematic reviews or meta-analyses in the field of acupuncture research.Methods: The Web of Science Core Collection was used to retrieve lists of 100 most-cited systematic reviews or meta-analyses in the field of acupuncture research. Two authors screened literature, extracted data, and analyzed the results.
    Results: The citation number of the 100 most-cited systematic reviews or meta-analyses varied from 65 to 577; they were published between 1989 and 2018. Fourteen authors published more than 1 study as the corresponding author and 10 authors published more than 1 study as the first author. In terms of the corresponding authors, Edzard Ernst and Linde Klaus published the most systematic reviews/meta-analyses (n = 7). The USA published most of the systematic reviews or meta-analyses (n = 24), followed by England (n = 23) and China (n = 14). Most institutions with more than 1 study were from England (4/13). The institutions with the largest numbers of most-cited systematic reviews or meta-analyses were the Technical University of Munich in Germany, the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the USA (n = 8), the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth in England (n = 6), and the University of Exeter in England (n = 6). The journal with the largest number of most-cited systematic reviews or meta-analyses was the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (n = 20), followed by Pain (n = 6).
    Conclusion: Our study reveals that the 100 most-cited systematic reviews or meta-analyses in the acupuncture research field are mostly from high impact factor journals and developed countries. It will help researchers follow research hot spots, broaden their research scope, expand their academic horizons, and explore new research ideas, thereby improving the quality of acupuncture research.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/3469122
  8. J Telemed Telecare. 2021 Sep 28. 1357633X211043376
    Telemedicine: Niche or mainstream? A bibliometric analysis and review of the output of highly ranked clinical journals.
    Sisira Edirippulige, Buddhika Senanayake, Farhad Fatehi, Julie Hansen, Matthew Bambling, Anthony C Smith, Nigel R Armfield.
      Historically, telemedicine research is predominantly published in discipline-specific telemedicine journals. However, in recent times the number of publications on telemedicine in clinical journals has increased. Acceptance of telemedicine research by clinical journals indicates a maturing of the telemedicine field. This bibliometric study reviewed telemedicine-related literature published in clinical journals from 2008 to 2018. A search was conducted in PubMed using two types of clinical outlets. (1) Top 20 journals with highest Impact Factor in the field of Medicine. (2) Top five journals with highest Impact Factor in most common Medical Specialty Areas. Analysis showed that there is a steady growth of literature relating to research and non-research publications appearing in clinical journals. Top five journals in the field of Medicine - BMJ, JAMA, Cochrane database, Medical Journal of Australia and Lancet have published 64% (n = 270) of telemedicine-related articles for the study period. Disease areas associated with telemedicine publications are consistent with global disease priorities. The review demonstrated that the most significant increase in telemedicine research published in clinical journals was focused on patient care.
    Keywords:  Telehealth; Telemedicine; bibliometric analysis; clinical practice; literature; research evidence
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X211043376
  9. Front Psychiatry. 2021 ;12 737270
    Research Trends and Hotspots on Montessori Intervention in Patients With Dementia From 2000 to 2021: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Ting Zhou, Jiling Qu, Huiping Sun, Mengxin Xue, Yijing Shen, Yongbing Liu.
      Background: Patients with dementia experience a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms and behavioral disturbances. The Montessori method is a type of non-pharmacological intervention to care for people with dementia. However, there are few bibliometric studies on the application of Montessori methods. We aimed to analyze the hotspots and trends of research on the application of Montessori methods to the care of dementia patients. Methods: Microsoft Office Excel, Co-Occurrence 9.9, and CiteSpace were used to analyze the articles on Montessori intervention in patients with dementia from 2000 to 2021 in China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, China Science and Technology Journal Database, Web of Science core collection database, PubMed, and Scopus. Results: A total of 23 Chinese language publications and 113 English language publications were included. The number of English language publications was on the rise, while the number of Chinese language publications was low. There are many issuing institutions which published articles in this field, mostly concentrated in universities. English language publication sources were more than Chinese language publication sources. The hot research topic in Chinese language publications and English language publications was the care of agitated behavior of dementia patients based on the Montessori method. The psychological problems of dementia patients are likely to become a hot issue of concern for scholars in Chinese. There will be a lot of research focusing on dementia patients and their family caregivers in this field. Conclusion: The bibliometric and visualization analysis helps us understand the current research status and hotspots of Montessori intervention in dementia patients in Chinese language publications and English language publications.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; bibliometric analysis; dementia; montessori; nursing; research hotspots
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.737270
  10. J Med Internet Res. 2021 Sep 29. 23(9): e29239
    Scholarly Productivity Evaluation of KL2 Scholars Using Bibliometrics and Federal Follow-on Funding: Cross-Institution Study.
    Kelli Qua, Fei Yu, Tanha Patel, Gaurav Dave, Katherine Cornelius, Clara M Pelfrey.
      BACKGROUND: Evaluating outcomes of the clinical and translational research (CTR) training of a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hub (eg, the KL2 program) requires the selection of reliable, accessible, and standardized measures. As measures of scholarly success usually focus on publication output and extramural funding, CTSA hubs have started to use bibliometrics to evaluate the impact of their supported scholarly activities. However, the evaluation of KL2 programs across CTSAs is limited, and the use of bibliometrics and follow-on funding is minimal.OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to evaluate scholarly productivity, impact, and collaboration using bibliometrics and federal follow-on funding of KL2 scholars from 3 CTSA hubs and to define and assess CTR training success indicators.
    METHODS: The sample included KL2 scholars from 3 CTSA institutions (A-C). Bibliometric data for each scholar in the sample were collected from both SciVal and iCite, including scholarly productivity, citation impact, and research collaboration. Three federal follow-on funding measures (at the 5-year, 8-year, and overall time points) were collected internally and confirmed by examining a federal funding database. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were computed using SPSS to assess the bibliometric and federal follow-on funding results.
    RESULTS: A total of 143 KL2 scholars were included in the sample with relatively equal groups across the 3 CTSA institutions. The included KL2 scholars produced more publications and citation counts per year on average at the 8-year time point (3.75 publications and 26.44 citation counts) than the 5-year time point (3.4 publications vs 26.16 citation counts). Overall, the KL2 publications from all 3 institutions were cited twice as much as others in their fields based on the relative citation ratio. KL2 scholars published work with researchers from other US institutions over 2 times (5-year time point) or 3.5 times (8-year time point) more than others in their research fields. Within 5 years and 8 years postmatriculation, 44.1% (63/143) and 51.7% (74/143) of KL2 scholars achieved federal funding, respectively. The KL2-scholars of Institution C had a significantly higher citation rate per publication than the other institutions (P<.001). Institution A had a significantly lower rate of nationally field-weighted collaboration than did the other institutions (P<.001). Institution B scholars were more likely to have received federal funding than scholars at Institution A or C (P<.001).
    CONCLUSIONS: Multi-institutional data showed a high level of scholarly productivity, impact, collaboration, and federal follow-on funding achieved by KL2 scholars. This study provides insights on the use of bibliometric and federal follow-on funding data to evaluate CTR training success across institutions. CTSA KL2 programs and other CTR career training programs can benefit from these findings in terms of understanding metrics of career success and using that knowledge to develop highly targeted strategies to support early-stage career development of CTR investigators.
    Keywords:  Clinical and Translational Science Award; KL2; bibliometrics; career development; translational research
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2196/29239
  11. Front Pediatr. 2021 ;9 633525
    Global Trends and Future Prospects of Child Nutrition: A Bibliometric Analysis of Highly Cited Papers.
    Yunhua Wang, Qiaorong Liu, Yongcong Chen, Yaling Qian, Bei Pan, Long Ge, Qi Wang, Guowu Ding, Jiancheng Wang.
      Child nutrition has always been a global concern. This study performed visual analysis of 1,398 child nutrition highly cited papers (HCPs) from 2009 to 2019. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and present the performances of authors, journals, countries, institutions, top cited papers; to explore the hot topics, prospects, and to propose the future research directions on child nutrition. We used bibliometric methods to conduct in-depth statistical analysis of HCPs on child nutrition, showing research progress, trends and hot spots. We included HCPs on child nutrition from the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) database February 7, 2020. Two tools, CiteSpace and VOSviewer, were used to conduct the bibliometric analyses. The results showed that, since 2011, the number of HCPs on child nutrition has increased rapidly. The top three contributors in this field were the USA, the UK and Canada. However, the contribution of developing countries was very limited. Intestinal microflora, food allergy, overweight and obesity were the three major research hotspots in this field. Results of this study provide valuable references for ongoing child nutrition related research, which may be interesting and noteworthy to the researchers involved.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; child nutrition; highly cited papers; intestinal microflora; obesity
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.633525
  12. Curr Med Imaging. 2021 Sep 24.
    Dedicated COVID-19 Resource Center in Radiology Journals: Its Citation Metrics and Altmetrics Impact.
    Nosaiba Al-Ryalat, Lna Malkawi, Saif Aldeen AlRyalat.
      BACKGROUND: Since the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), several journals established dedicated resource center for all articles published on COVID-19. Our study compared the altmetric impact captured by articles published in journals having such COVID-19 resource center.METHODS: We used Web of Science database to assess radiology journals publishing most common articles on COVID-19. We used Dimensions database to assess citations received and altmetric attention score for each article. For each article, we extracted number of citation received and altmetric attention score. To account for the the variation in strength and exposure between included journals, we adopted a normalization strategy and we used regression analysis in our statistical analysis.
    RESULTS: A total of 494 articles included in the current assessment, including 334 (67.6%) articles published in journals with dedicated COVID-19 resource center including European radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, Radiology, and Journal of the American college of radiology, while European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Academic Radiology did not have COVID-19 resource center. Journals with COVID-19 resource center had a mean normalized altmetric attention score of 0.38 higher (95% CI 0.25 to 0.50; p< 0.001) and a mean normalized citation count of 6.73 higher (95% CI 3.99 to 9.48; p< 0.001) than those without COVID-19 resource center.
    CONCLUSION: Radiology journals that provided COVID-19 articles in a dedicated resource center within its homepage had higher attention and citation for their COVID-19 articles compared to journals that did not have such dedicated resource center.
    Keywords:  Altmetric; Attention; COVID-19; Citation; Impact factor.; Radiology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2174/1573405617666210924162011
  13. J Prim Health Care. 2021 Sep;13(3): 238-248
    United States Family Medicine research collaborations associated with higher citation and funding rates.
    Vivian Jiang, Stephen Petterson, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Alison Shmerling, Yalda Jabbarpour, Andrew Bazemore, Winston Liaw.
      INTRODUCTION Among academic medical disciplines, Family Medicine (FM) research is notable for its breadth of health-care content areas, making it particularly susceptible to interdisciplinary collaboration. AIM This study characterises the degree and typology of such collaborations, and determines whether collaboration patterns are associated with citation frequency and funding. METHODS This cross-sectional study describes collaboration patterns for publications from 2015 indexed in Web of Science and authored by faculty from United States (US) departments of family medicine (DFMs). We determined mean number of total and FM authors per publication, and percentage of publications with FM first or last authors. Publications were categorised by inclusion of non-FM faculty author(s) and number of DFMs represented. RESULTS Overall, 919 FM faculty from 109 DFMs authored a total of 1872 unique publications in 2015. There was an average of 6.8 authors per publication with 1.4 authors being FM faculty. FM faculty were first author on 26.2% and last author on 29.2% of publications. Of all publications, 0.9% were single FM Author; 1.0% were same DFM; 0.3% were multiple DFMs; 72.4% were single FM Author+non-FM; 19.3% were same DFM+non-FM; 6.0% were multiple DFMs+non-FM. FM publications with non-FM faculty authors showed higher citation rates, higher rates of funding, and lower rates of having no funding source. DISCUSSION Most FM publications involved non-FM faculty authors. Collaborations involving non-FM authors were correlated with higher impact publications and projects that were more likely to have been funded.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1071/HC20136
  14. Ecancermedicalscience. 2021 ;15 1259
    Publication rate of scientific papers presented at the largest event on breast cancer research in Latin America.
    Sergio Nascimento, Rosemar Macedo Sousa Rahal, Leonardo Ribeiro Soares, Herik Jansen de Souza Pimentel, Tágara Oliveira Kamimura, Ruffo Freitas-Junior.
      Purpose: Medical congresses allow scientific production to be appropriately disseminated and discussed. However, most of the scientific papers presented at medical congresses do not go on to be published in indexed journals. The present study aimed to determine the publication rate of papers presented at the Brazilian Breast Cancer Symposium (BBCS) and trends associated with publication over that timeframe.Methods: This was a retrospective, observational study evaluating scientific papers presented at the BBCS between 2012 and 2017. All the abstracts presented at the event within this timeframe were recorded. Next, a search for papers was made using online databases (BIREME/LILACS and MEDLINE/PubMed) and in the curricula of the authors on the Lattes Platform.
    Results: Overall, 543 abstracts of papers presented at the BBCS between 2012 and 2017 were included. Of these, 112 (20.6%) had been published in an indexed journal, mostly in English (67.0%), in journals with an impact factor of 2.0-3.0 (21.4%) and ≥1 year after presentation at the event (75.9%). The factors associated with publication were: study conducted in a public institution (p = 0.01), oral or commented poster presentation (p > 0.001) and study concerning rehabilitation following breast cancer (p = 0.04). There was a downward trend in the rate of publication of articles over the years (p = 0.01). Conversely, the impact factor of the publications increased significantly between 2012 and 2017 (p = 0.04).
    Conclusion: The publication rate of papers presented at the BBCS is low and remains consistent over the study period despite academic incentives and substantial awards.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; breast neoplasms; journal article; research report
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1259
  15. Eur J Intern Med. 2021 Sep 28. pii: S0953-6205(21)00313-7. [Epub ahead of print]
    Gender gap in authorship: a study of 44,000 articles published in 100 high-impact general medical journals.
    Paul Sebo, Carole Clair.
      
    Keywords:  Authorship; Gender gap; General medical journal; Research; Woman
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2021.09.013
  16. Cureus. 2021 Sep;13(9): e17738
    Publication Times in Ophthalmology Journals: The Story of Accepted Manuscripts.
    Tomasz Skrzypczak, Jakub Michałowicz, Marta Hossa, Michał Mamak, Aleksandra Jany, Anna Skrzypczak, Joanna Bogusławska, Agnieszka Kowal-Lange.
      INTRODUCTION: The process of scientific publishing changed greatly in the past decades. The authors aimed to get insight into the time required for articles to be accepted and released online in high-impacted ophthalmology journals.METHODS: Comprehensive review of all original articles published by eight ophthalmology journals during a one-year period was performed for 2020 and 2005. Time taken from submission to acceptance and the first online release of the article was abstracted and analyzed.
    RESULTS: A total of 3110 articles were reviewed. In 2020, the overall median time from submission to acceptance (AT) was 119 days (IQR 83-168) and 30 days (10-71) from acceptance to the first online release of the article (OP). AT increased by 7.3% from 2005 to 2020, whereas OP reduced by 73%. Publications, which the corresponding author was affiliated with US-located institution had shorter both AT and OP in 2005 and 2020. The author's specialty in ophthalmology had an inconclusive impact on AT and OP. Papers with multiple affiliated institutions had shorter AT and OP in both 2005 and 2020; however, these differences were not statistically significant.
    CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that increasing pressure on authors, editors, and reviewers to publish articles and journals with high impact factor (IF) significantly influenced publication times in ophthalmology journals. Inflation of research papers was associated with rising AT time. A significant decrease in OP time was potentially explained by the editor's demand to achieve decent journal IF. This article brings to light relative publication times in the ophthalmology scientific journals.
    Keywords:  articles; journal; ophthalmology journals; peer-review; publication times; research and publication; scientific papers
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17738
  17. Integr Med Res. 2021 Sep 23. 100777
    Randomized controlled trials of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine-based interventions for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a bibliometric analysis and review of study designs.
    Lin Ang, Eunhye Song, Myeong Soo Lee.
      Background: To date, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains ongoing and continues to affect millions of people worldwide. In the effort of fighting this pandemic, there has been an increasing interest in the potential of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicines (TCIMs) in engaging COVID-19. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the research trends of TCIMs for COVID-19.Methods: Six databases were searched on July 15, 2021, to retrieve all the citations on TCIM-focused RCTs available on COVID-19. Only RCTs that mentioned at least one TCIMs for the treatment and/or management or COVID-19 were eligible. Data such as number and countries of trials conducted, publication journal, research focus, studies designs, and sample size were extracted for analysis.
    Results: The resulting 56 articles included 28 English articles, 19 Chinese articles with English abstracts, and 9 Chinese articles with 553 unique authors. Analyses had shown that China was the dominant country with TCIM related RCT publications, followed by India and United States. The included articles were published across 24 English journals and 22 Chinese journals with a wide range of impact factors from 0.220 to 56.272. The most commonly studied TCIM modalities included Chinese herbal decoction (n=12) and Chinese patent medicine (n=16). In terms of study designs, TCIM interventions were integrated with standard medicine across the trials with most trials having a small to medium sample size and open-labeled.
    Conclusion: This bibliometric analysis of RCTs demonstrated the research trends and characteristics of TCIM mentioned in COVID-19 research. Although there are still many research gaps and limitations for pandemic research, the publication of TCIM-focused RCTs is anticipated to show a continuously increasing trend.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric; clinical trials; coronavirus; pandemic; research trends; review; study designs
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2021.100777
  18. J Relig Health. 2021 Sep 27.
    Spirituality and Well-Being of Children, Adolescent, and Adult Students: A Scientific Mapping of the Literature.
    Mehmet Karakus, Alpay Ersozlu, Muhammet Usak, Salih Yucel.
      This study aims to map the selected literature on students' spirituality and well-being to reveal the current and historical research trends in the relevant literature. Bibliographic coupling of the journals, countries, authors, and organizations, and co-occurrences of author keywords were illustrated through VOSviewer. Moreover, citation analysis was done, and h-classics publications were reviewed. The researchers did the initial search on January 5, 2020, and updated all the records on August 14, 2021. Most of the studies showed that students' spirituality was positively associated with their well-being. Most of the researchers preferred to work on samples of adult and adolescent students rather than children. The current and historical trends in the relevant literature are discussed in the paper.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Religiosity; Spirituality; Students; Well-being
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01435-y
  19. J Surg Orthop Adv. 2021 ;30(3): 150-155
    Are Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Applicants Making an Impact? A Bibliometric Evaluation of Applicants.
    Martin Collier, Cory Janney.
      Orthopaedic surgery is one of the most competitive surgical specialties in the United States. No investigation has focused on the impact of research productivity and reputation on matching in this applicant pool. A retrospective investigation evaluating publications was conducted on residency applicants to the department of orthopaedic surgery of a single institution in 2019. Predictors of successful matching in orthopaedic surgery were analyzed. Of 519 candidates, 314 (60.5%) reported publications on their applications at the time of submission. The mean impact factor of reported publications was 3.6 (95% CI 0-11.8) and did not differ between candidates who did (3.4 [95% confidence interval [CI] 0-12.2]) and did not (3.4 [95%CI 0-8.0]) match, (p = 0.90). An applicant's participation in research, number of publications, publications in higher impact journals, or misrepresentation of their publications had no effect on successful orthopaedic residency match. (Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances 30(3):150-155, 2021).
  20. Asian J Psychiatr. 2021 Sep 21. pii: S1876-2018(21)00302-6. [Epub ahead of print]65 102846
    Bibliometric analysis of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Ying Chen, Xiaojun Zhang, Shixiang Chen, Yanwen Zhang, Yulu Wang, Qi Lu, Yue Zhao.
      BACKGROUND: As a global pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a profound effect on public mental health.METHODS: Publications related to mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic from December 1, 2019, to November 13, 2020, were extracted from the Web of Science database. Bibliometric indicator analysis was performed using VOSviewer 1.6.15.
    RESULTS: In total, 1233 documents from 2020 were retrieved, of which 680 were original articles. The United States contributed the largest publication output (285, 23.1%). Huazhong University of Science and Technology published the most articles in this field (35), while Wuhan University received the most citations (1149). The United Kingdom had the strongest collaboration network. Four keyword clusters representing hotspots in this field were identified.
    CONCLUSIONS: In addition to developed countries, countries seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic also made significant contributions to mental health research during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study focused on various aspects, such as mental health during isolation, mental health in healthcare workers, and public mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the future, countries should strengthen global cooperation and pay more attention to the mental health of vulnerable groups during pandemics.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric; COVID-19; Mental health
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102846
  21. PLoS One. 2021 ;16(9): e0257307
    Anchoring effects in the assessment of papers: The proposal for an empirical survey of citing authors.
    Lutz Bornmann, Christian Ganser, Alexander Tekles.
      In our planned study, we shall empirically study the assessment of cited papers within the framework of the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic. We are interested in the question whether citation decisions are (mainly) driven by the quality of cited references. The design of our study is oriented towards the study by Teplitskiy, Duede [10]. We shall undertake a survey of corresponding authors with an available email address in the Web of Science database. The authors are asked to assess the quality of papers that they cited in previous papers. Some authors will be assigned to three treatment groups that receive further information alongside the cited paper: citation information, information on the publishing journal (journal impact factor), or a numerical access code to enter the survey. The control group will not receive any further numerical information. In the statistical analyses, we estimate how (strongly) the quality assessments of the cited papers are adjusted by the respondents to the anchor value (citation, journal, or access code). Thus, we are interested in whether possible adjustments in the assessments can not only be produced by quality-related information (citation or journal), but also by numbers that are not related to quality, i.e. the access code. The results of the study may have important implications for quality assessments of papers by researchers and the role of numbers, citations, and journal metrics in assessment processes.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257307
  22. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 07. pii: 9444. [Epub ahead of print]18(18):
    Bibliometric Analysis and Research Trend Forecast of Healthy Urban Planning for 40 Years (1981-2020).
    Bingyao Jia, Yuting Chen, Jing Wu.
      The history of healthy city planning can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century. Since the industrialization period, the harsh living conditions of cities and the outbreak of infectious diseases have promoted the coordinated development of urban planning and public health, and people have gradually realized the importance of urban design and planning to the health of residents. After searching keywords related to health city and urban planning, and excluding repeated, non-English, and unrelated papers, this work retrieved 2582 documents as the basic data (timespan is 1 January 1981-31 December 2020, retrieval time is 28 January 2021). Additionally, CiteSpace was used to analyze document co-citation, cooperation network, and topic co-occurrence. Subsequently, random forest algorithm was used to predict the probability of citation. Overall, this work found that the hot spots of healthy urban planning are physical activity, green space, urban green space, and mental health. It also shows the diversification of themes and the development trend of cross-fields in the field of healthy urban planning. In addition, the article found that two factors, namely, the average number of citations of the first author and whether the article belongs to the field of environmental research, have a great impact on the number of citations of the article. This work is of practical significance to relevant practitioners and researchers, because it provides guidance for hot topics and future research directions in the field of healthy urban planning.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; bibliometric analysis; healthy urban planning; random forest; spatial planning
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189444
  23. Nutrients. 2021 Sep 17. pii: 3234. [Epub ahead of print]13(9):
    Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Coffee/Caffeine and Sport.
    Nicolás Contreras-Barraza, Héctor Madrid-Casaca, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda, Miguel Ángel Garcia-Gordillo, José C Adsuar, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz.
      This article provides an empirical overview of coffee/caffeine studies in relation to sport worldwide, an incipient but growing relationship that has existed since 1938, although systematized over time since 1999. The extracted articles were examined using a bibliometric approach based on data from 160 records stored in the Web of Science (JCR) between 1938 and August 2021, applying traditional bibliometric laws and using VOSviewer for data and metadata processing. Among the results, these articles highlight an exponential increase in scientific production in the last two decades, with a concentration in only 12 specific journals, the hegemony of the USA among the co-authorship networks of worldwide relevance, and the thematic and temporal segregation of the concepts under study. This article concludes a high fragmentation of the authors with the highest level of scientific production and an evolution of almost 20 years in relevant thematic topics, and a concurrent concentration in three large blocks: (1) coffee consumption and risk factors, (2) health and coffee consumption, and (3) metabolism and sport correlated with the intake of coffee, which are distanced in time, providing evidence of an evolution that gives way to the irruption of alternative visions in the relationship of coffee and caffeine with sport.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; caffeine effects; coffee consumption; drinkable nutrients; energy drinks; metabolism; risk factors; sports health; sports performance; sugar-sweetened beverages
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13093234
  24. SN Compr Clin Med. 2021 Sep 22. 1-10
    The Trends of Uveal Melanoma Research in the Past Two Decades and Future Perspectives.
    Khaled Ali Elubous, Ali D Alebous, Hebah A Abous, Rawan A Elubous.
      Evaluation of the research trends in uveal melanoma in the past two decades. Data were extracted from the Web of Science database website. VOSviewer and Citespace software were used to analyze the retrieved data. The leading country in terms of output and international collaboration is the USA. Research interest in genetic mutations, molecular pathways, and immunotherapy was remarkable in recent years. Most of the top ten journals are specialized in ophthalmology. In recent years, the hotspots include future perspectives, BAP1 mutation, therapeutic target, and systematic reviews. The keywords with the strongest citation bursts are immunotherapy, outcome, and in situ hybridization. The output of uveal melanoma research increased during the past two decades. Before 2015, the main focus of the research was to facilitate prognostication and metastatic risk stratification. Recently, research has moved to examine the metastatic microenvironment. Future research foci may include exploring the role of different mutations, immunotherapy, molecular alterations, and finding ideal clinical biomarkers.
    Keywords:  Analysis using software; Bibliometric; COVID-19; Choroidal melanoma; Future perspectives; Ocular oncology; Trends; Uveal melanoma
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-021-01068-y
  25. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 12. pii: 9615. [Epub ahead of print]18(18):
    Academic Promotion of Physicians in Medical Schools: A Special Focus on Primary Health Care in Taiwan.
    Hsin Ma, Feng-Yuan Chu, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Shinn-Jang Hwang.
      The quality and quantity of papers published in journals play a crucial role in achieving an academic promotion in medical schools. Reports on the criteria for promotion and their impact on different specialties, especially on primary health care, which has low research output, are rare. We investigated the scoring systems generally adopted for academic promotion at most medical schools in Taiwan. The weighted scores were derived from the multiplication of weights from categories of paper, journal impact factor, or ranking in a certain category by impact factor, and author order. To determine the thresholds of papers required for different levels of promotion, we took papers in the highest- or lowest-ranked journals in the primary health care category in 2019 Journal Citation Reports as examples. Considering publications in the highest-ranked journals, a median of 4.6 first or corresponding author papers were required for a professorship, as well as 3.3 for an associate professorship, and 2.5 for an assistant professorship. In contrast, a median of 30, 20, and 13.5 papers in the lowest-ranked journals was required for the corresponding positions. Thus, academic promotions for primary health care educators in Taiwan are highly demanding. The detrimental effects of scoring systems deserve further research.
    Keywords:  career mobility; journal impact factor; medical faculty; primary health care; publishing
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189615
  26. Rheumatol Int. 2021 Oct 01.
    COVID-19 from a rheumatology perspective: bibliometric and altmetric analysis.
    Bohdana Doskaliuk, Roman Yatsyshyn, Iryna Klishch, Olena Zimba.
      The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak turned out the greatest pandemic for decades. It challenged enormously the global health system, forcing it to adjust to the new realities. We aimed to analyze articles covering COVID-19 papers in the rheumatological field and outline emerging topics raising within this frame. We applied the bibliometric database Scopus for our literature search and conducted it on the 5th of June using the following keywords: "rheumatic" OR "rheumatology" OR "rheumatoid arthritis" OR "systemic lupus erythematosus" OR "myositis" OR "systemic sclerosis" OR "vasculitis" OR "arthritis" OR "ankylosing spondylitis" AND "COVID-19". We analyzed all selected articles according to various aspects: type of document, authorship, journal, citations score, rheumatology field, country of origin, language, and keywords. With the help of the software tool VOSviewer version 1.6.15, we have built the visualizing network of authors and keywords co-occurrence. The measurement of the social impact of articles was made using Altmetric data. This study included 1430 retrieved articles with open access mostly. The top five journals in this field were Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (n = 65), Rheumatology International (n = 51), Clinical Rheumatology (n = 50), Lancet Rheumatology (n = 50), and Frontiers In Immunology (n = 33). Most studies originate from countries with a high incidence of COVID-19 among the general population (the USA-387; Italy-268; UK-184; France-114; Germany-110; India-98 and Spain-96, China-94, Canada-73 Turkey-66). Original Articles (42.1%) were the most common articles' type, following by Letters (24.4%), Reviews (21.7%), Notes (6%), Editorials (4.8%), Erratum (1%). According to the citations scores, articles dedicated to the clinical course of COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases were of the highest importance for the scientific rheumatologic community. Rheumatoid arthritis (n = 527), systemic lupus erythematosus (n = 393), vasculitis (n = 267), myositis (n = 71), systemic sclerosis (n = 68), and psoriatic arthritis (n = 68) were the most widely discussed rheumatic diseases in the view of COVID-19. The analysis of Altmetric and citations scores revealed a moderate correlation between them. This article provides a comprehensive bibliometric and altmetric analysis of COVID-19 related articles in the rheumatology field and summarizes data about features of rheumatology service in the time of the pandemic.
    Keywords:  Altmetric; Bibliometric analysis; COVID-19; Rheumatology; Scopus
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-021-04987-0
  27. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2021 Sep 27.
    Exploring female parity in pharmacoepidemiology authorship: A case study of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies and its citing articles.
    Ingrid S Sketris, Robyn L Traynor, Melissa Helwig, Elaine Burland, Samuel A Stewart.
      PURPOSE: The Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) studies the benefits and risks of post-market drugs and evaluates its research mobilization efforts for accountability, demonstrating value, and learning. As part of these evaluation efforts, and acknowledging gender disparity in authorship across many academic disciplines, CNODES examined the relationship between gender and authorship in its own journal articles and the literature citing them.METHODS: CNODES articles (published 2012-2017) and all citing articles were identified and extracted using Scopus. Scopus author IDs were used to extract full names and a web service (www.genderapi.com) was used to estimate gender, converting all probabilities <80% to "indeterminate". T-tests and visualizations were used to compare the proportion of females between CNODES and the citing literature.
    RESULTS: Twenty-eight CNODES articles and 463 citing articles were identified. The mean number of authors per article was 9.5 in CNODES articles and 5.7 in the citing literature. CNODES articles had a female authorship rate of 36%, compared to 29% in the citing literature (7% difference, 95% CI: [1%, 13%]). There were no female authors in 14% of CNODES articles vs. 36% of the citing literature. Women were first authors in 25% and corresponding authors in 14% of CNODES articles.
    CONCLUSIONS: This analysis provides a benchmark and method to monitor progress in female parity in pharmacoepidemiology authorship. Further work is needed to determine and address barriers and facilitators to women's recruitment and advancement in the field of pharmacoepidemiology. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
    Keywords:  authorship; bibliometrics; gender equity; knowledge translation; pharmacoepidemiology; research impact
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.5364
  28. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 07. pii: 9445. [Epub ahead of print]18(18):
    Worldwide Research Trends in Landslide Science.
    Paúl Carrión-Mero, Néstor Montalván-Burbano, Fernando Morante-Carballo, Adolfo Quesada-Román, Boris Apolo-Masache.
      Landslides are generated by natural causes and by human action, causing various geomorphological changes as well as physical and socioeconomic loss of the environment and human life. The study, characterization and implementation of techniques are essential to reduce land vulnerability, different socioeconomic sector susceptibility and actions to guarantee better slope stability with a significant positive impact on society. The aim of this work is the bibliometric analysis of the different types of landslides that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) emphasizes, through the SCOPUS database and the VOSviewer software version 1.6.17, for the analysis of their structure, scientific production, and the close relationship with several scientific fields and its trends. The methodology focuses on: (i) search criteria; (ii) data extraction and cleaning; (iii) generation of graphs and bibliometric mapping; and (iv) analysis of results and possible trends. The study and analysis of landslides are in a period of exponential growth, focusing mainly on techniques and solutions for the stabilization, prevention, and categorization of the most susceptible hillslope sectors. Therefore, this research field has the full collaboration of various authors and places a significant focus on the conceptual evolution of the landslide science.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; co-citation analysis; landslides; science mapping
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189445
  29. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 09. pii: 9524. [Epub ahead of print]18(18):
    A Half Century of Research on Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Science Mapping the Literature, 1970 to 2019.
    Mi Zhou, Biyu Bian, Weiming Zhu, Li Huang.
      In order to gain an in-depth understanding of research about childhood and adolescent depression, this article analyzes the scale, development, and geographic distribution of the literature in the field based on 8491 articles extracted from the Web of Science Core database. Using citation analysis, this article identifies influential journals, scholars, and documents in this field. The study found that in the past 15 years, the number of documents has increased significantly and geographical diversity has also increased. Most of the highly influential literature relates to depression inventories. Using keyword co-occurrence analysis, this article also identified three key research topics focusing on (a) child and adolescent depression symptoms and prevalence, (b) parental depression and child behavioral or emotional problems, and (c) childhood abuse and depression. This study uses 'science mapping' as a means to provide a better understanding of research trends about childhood and adolescent depression that have emerged over the past half century, and may serve as reference for future research.
    Keywords:  adolescents; bibliometric analysis; children; depression; science mapping
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189524
  30. China CDC Wkly. 2021 Feb 19. 3(8): 165-169
    Bibliometric Analysis on Utilization of New Information Technology in the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 - China, 2020.
    Dan Li, Songwang Wang, Xuemei Su.
      Introduction: New information technology (IT) has been applied to prevent and control coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in many regions of China since the outbreak of COVID-19. This study aims to illustrate the current status and key areas of the application of new IT in the prevention and control of COVID-19.Methods: Literature related to the prevention and control of COVID-19 with new IT since 2020 was retrieved from China National Knowledge Internet and Wanfang Literature databases, the two most authoritative databases in China. CiteSpace 5.7.R2 was used to analyze the institutions, authors, and keywords of the articles. The application of new IT is determined by keywords and highly cited documents.
    Results: A total of 1,711 articles were included, as the number of publications has been continually increasing over the investigation period. The six hot topics of new IT applied in COVID-19 were big data, artificial intelligence, Internet+, blockchain, Internet of Things, and 5G. The most productive institution is University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the most productive author in this field is Tao Pei, whose article, "Multi-level Spatial Distribution Estimation Model of the Inter-Regional Migrant Population Using Multi-Source Spatio-Temporal Big Data: A Case Study of Migrants from Wuhan During the Spread of COVID-19," was highly cited.
    Discussion: This study could help medical professionals understand the application status and research trends of new IT in the prevention and control of COVID-19. This paper also helps researchers find potential co-operative institutions and partners.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.047
  31. Surgery. 2021 Sep 28. pii: S0039-6060(21)00797-2. [Epub ahead of print]
    The glass podium: Gender representation within the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) from 2010 to 2019.
    Sean M Wrenn, Rajshri M Gartland, Lindsay E Kuo, Nancy L Cho.
      BACKGROUND: Despite increasing numbers of women in surgery, female underrepresentation in surgical societies remains an ongoing issue. We sought to determine the gender composition of presenters at the American Association of Endocrine Surgery annual meetings.METHODS: Utilizing previous meeting data, we collected gender information for presenters from 2010 to 2019, including first/senior author combinations. Awards winners and invited lecturers were also reviewed. We performed binomial testing to analyze proportions of male to female presenters, with significance set at P < .05. Temporal trends were analyzed via linear regression.
    RESULTS: Fifty-six percent of American Association of Endocrine Surgery fellows and 36% of members are female. Of 354 podium and 477 poster presentations, women were listed less often as first (42.7%, P = .007) and senior (30.6%, P < .0001) podium authors and less often as first (42.8%, P = .002) and senior (29.8%, P < .0001) poster authors. The most common combination of first/senior authors was male-male (43.1%), followed by female-male (26.8%), female-female (16.1%), and male-female (14.0%). Less than 15% of invited lecturers were women, and women represented a minority in nearly all award categories. We observed a positive trend in female first authorship over time (slope = 0.766, 95% confidence interval, 0.70%-2.23%, P = .26) but no change in female senior authorship over time (slope = 0.03348, 95% confidence interval, 1.086%-1.153%, P = .95).
    CONCLUSION: Women are underrepresented as American Association of Endocrine Surgery presenters and less likely to receive awards or deliver invited lectures. Although female first authorship increased over time, women continued to lag behind men as senior authors and mentors to trainees and junior faculty. Opportunities to improve speaker and awardee representation should be explored.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2021.07.039
  32. Children (Basel). 2021 Aug 24. pii: 720. [Epub ahead of print]8(9):
    Is Pediatric Dentistry a Topic of Interest for Pediatric Journals? A Scoping Review.
    Maria Grazia Cagetti, Araxi Balian, Silvia Cirio, Nicole Camoni, Claudia Salerno, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia.
      BACKGROUND: Pediatric dentistry shares many skills with pediatrics. This review evaluates the amount of literature on pediatric dentistry in the first 30 pediatric journals classified by the Web of Science in 2019. The aim was to perform a quantitative analysis of the main dental topics addressed.METHODS: A scoping review with the PRISMA-ScR criteria was performed. The Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Report was consulted for journals ranked in the category "Pediatrics" in 2019. Papers were searched in PubMed using an ad hoc prepared string.
    RESULTS: A total of 504 papers were included. Papers on dental hard tissues were the most prevalent (45.6%), followed by dental public health (23.2%), orofacial development (15.3%), soft tissues related conditions (12.3%), and orofacial trauma (3.6%). Increasing trends have been observed for total papers published (R2 = 0.9822) and total dental papers (R2 = 0.8862), with no statistically significant differences (χ2(6) = 0.051 p > 0.05). The majority of papers (n = 292, 57.9%) were cited between 1 and 10 times, whilst less than 7% of papers received more than 40 citations.
    DISCUSSION: It is desirable that papers on pediatric dentistry increase in the pediatric scenario, allowing the two related disciplines to intertwine more in the future.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; pediatric dentistry; pediatrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/children8090720
  33. China CDC Wkly. 2021 Jul 30. 3(31): 669-673
    Statistical Analysis of Articles Published in China CDC Weekly - Worldwide, 2019-2020.
    Zhenwei Zhang, Kun Han, Wenhui Shi.
      Introduction: This study analyzed views and downloads of articles published in China CDC Weekly from 2019 to 2020 as part of an evaluation of the academic level and quality of the journal.Methods: The study included articles published between November 29, 2019 and December 25, 2020 and evaluated views and downloads through February 9, 2021 using standard bibliometrics. We conducted network analysis with VOSviewer software.
    Results: There were 283 articles from 101 institutions published in China CDC Weekly during the analysis period, among which 22 (21.8%) institutions were overseas institutions. There were 220 unique first authors, with 1.28 articles per first author. There were 2,404,882 views and 58,760 downloads in total. The article with the highest view and download counts had 1,244,826 views and 38,978 downloads. Article types with more than 4,500 views per article were Vital Surveillance, Notes from the Field, and Preplanned Studies. Subjects with more than 3,500 views per article were epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemiology of non-infectious diseases, and maternal and child health. Articles with descriptive research and articles discussing public health monitoring received more attention, shown by larger average per article page views.
    Discussion: Study results can help the editorial department improve the journal's international influence through targeted measures, such as adjusting article types according to view and download analyses and increasing the proportion of international manuscripts selected.
    Keywords:  China CDC Weekly; articles; downloads; journal; statistical analysis; views
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.169
  34. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2021 Sep 01. 1-7
    Publication Rate of Abstracts Presented at AAPOS Annual Meetings: From Conference Abstract to Full-Text Article.
    Aldo Vagge, Matilde Roda, Paolo Nucci, Gabriele Siccardi, Marina Agrusta, Carlo Catti, Tommaso Cannavacciuolo, Giuseppe Giannaccare, Carlo Enrico Traverso.
      PURPOSE: To review and analyze abstracts presented at American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) annual meetings, and to identify publication rates and potential predictive factors for better outcomes.METHODS: All abstracts accepted for presentation at AAPOS annual meetings from 2013 to 2017 were examined. A comprehensive literature search via PubMed and Scopus was conducted to identify whether the abstracts had been published as full text. A multivariate analysis was achieved to assess the factors related to successful publication, and a Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to evaluate the publication time course of abstracts.
    RESULTS: Of 819 analyzed abstracts, 437 (53%) were published in peer-reviewed journals with a median impact factor of 2.7. The overall mean time to publication was 3 ± 2.2 years. The multivariate analysis revealed that abstracts were more likely to be published if they were accepted at an AAPOS annual meeting as an oral paper (P < .001), if they were prospective (P > .001) and multicenter (P = .013) studies, and if they had strabismus, retina, and vitreous disorders and diagnosis as main topics (P = .022). The Kaplan-Meier analyses revealed significant differences in the publication time distribution for multicenter versus single-center abstracts and paper versus poster and e-poster (P < .05).
    CONCLUSIONS: More than half of the abstracts accepted for presentation at the AAPOS annual meetings were published in peer-reviewed journals within 3 years from submission to the meeting. The factors associated with a higher publication rate were the prospective study design, multicentricity, and presentation at the meeting as an oral paper. [J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 20XX;XX(X):XX-XX.].
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3928/01913913-20210708-04
  35. Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Aug 27. pii: 1113. [Epub ahead of print]9(9):
    Is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Coming out on Top? A Comparison with Activity-Based Costing in the Health Field.
    Angels Niñerola, Ana-Beatriz Hernández-Lara, Maria-Victoria Sánchez-Rebull.
      The cost of health is a recurrent topic that has generated much research, as it affects all of society. Both public and private agents need to know the real cost of treatments, services, and products for decision-making. This article aims to compare the use and research impact of two cost systems widely used in health: ABC and TDABC, which is an evolution of ABC. For doing so, a bibliometric review in Scopus and Medline was carried out encompassing the years 2009-2019. The results show a great increase in publications using TDABC, while publications on ABC stabilized. On the other hand, the TDABC articles presented higher research impacts in traditional and alternative metrics. Articles on TDABC are more frequently cited, published in better journals, and more visible in academic social networks. The findings suggest that scholars and practitioners should focus on TDABC rather than ABC for addressing cost in health for its simplicity, projection, and research opportunities.
    Keywords:  activity-based costing; health; research impact; time-driven activity-based costing
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091113
  36. Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2021 Sep;46(17): 4555-4562
    [Visualization analysis of traditional Chinese medicine for neurogenesis research based on CiteSpace].
    Li-Hua Xie, Xiao-Yuan Lin, Xin Li, Yan Shang, Jin-Ru Xie, Guo-Heng Hu.
      To analyze the research hotspots and trends of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) for neurogenesis with use of CiteSpace 5.7.R3 software. The bibliometrics analysis on the literatures of TCM for neurogenesis from 1987 to 2020 included in the CNKI database was conducted to visualize the number of papers, authors, institutions and keywords. Totally 736 literatures were included and the volume of annual publications showed an upward in volatility. At present, several stable research teams have been formed, which were represented by DING Fei, ZHOU Chong-jian and ZHOU Yong-hong, but the cooperation was not close among the teams. According to the analysis of research institutions, Institute of Diagnostics of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Research Center of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine produced largest number of literatures. The cooperation among institutions, with universities of TCM and affiliated hospitals as the main research force, was characterized by dominant cooperation among regional institutions and less cross-regional cooperation. Keywords analysis showed that in the field of TCM for neurogenesis, a lot of studies mainly focused on the disease field, treatment and medication, TCM therapy and molecular mechanism. The research on TCM therapy and molecular mechanism for neurogenesis of central nervous system will be the research hotspots in future.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; bibliometrics analysis; neurogenesis; traditional Chinese medicine; visualization analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20210409.501
  37. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 2021 Sep 29. PP
    Gender in 30 Years of IEEE Visualization.
    Natkamon Tovanich, Pierre Dragicevic, Petra Isenberg.
      We present an exploratory analysis of gender representation among the authors, committee members, and award winners at the IEEE Visualization (VIS) conference over the last 30 years. Our goal is to provide descriptive data on which diversity discussions and efforts in the community can build. We look in particular at the gender of VIS authors as a proxy for the community at large. We consider measures of overall gender representation among authors, differences in careers, positions in author lists, and collaborations. We found that the proportion of female authors has increased from 9% in the first five years to 22% in the last five years of the conference. Over the years, we found the same representation of women in program committees and slightly more women in organizing committees. Women are less likely to appear in the last author position, but more in the middle positions. In terms of collaboration patterns, female authors tend to collaborate more than expected with other women in the community. All non-gender related data is available on https://osf.io/ydfj4/ and the gender-author matching can be accessed through https://nyu.databrary.org/volume/1301.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114787
  38. Children (Basel). 2021 Aug 25. pii: 730. [Epub ahead of print]8(9):
    Mapping the Field in Stress, Anxiety, and Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Preterm Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care.
    Delia Cristóbal-Cañadas, Antonio Bonillo-Perales, María Del Pilar Casado-Belmonte, Rafael Galera-Martínez, Tesifón Parrón-Carreño.
      OBJECTIVE: The main aim of this study was to describe and conduct a bibliometric analysis of the state of research on stress, anxiety, and postpartum depression in mothers of preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.BACKGROUND: Women affected by premature births are particularly exposed to mental health difficulties in the postpartum period. The desire to comprehend and the growing interest in research on stress, anxiety, and postpartum depression in mothers of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care have led to a substantial rise in the number of documents in this field over the last years. Thus, it makes it vital to regularly review the state of knowledge on this phenomenon in order to identify progress and constraints, to stimulate reflection, and to encourage progress in future research.
    METHOD: This study examined 366 articles published in the Scopus database (1976-2020). Keyword analysis was also used to identify hot research trends to be developed in future studies. This study complies with the PRISMA-Scr guidelines for quality improvement research in the EQUATOR network.
    RESULTS: Our results reveal that research in this field is in a period of high production and allows this flourishing body of work to be organized into different periods, highlighting the most important themes. In such a way, our research enriches the lively field by presenting a comprehensive understanding of the field.
    DISCUSSION: The key contribution of this study is the development of a conceptual map of research on stress, anxiety, and postpartum depression in mothers of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units.
    Keywords:  anxiety; bibliometric; postpartum depression; preterm infants; state of the art; stress
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/children8090730
  39. PLoS One. 2021 ;16(9): e0258064
    How the scientific community responded to the COVID-19 pandemic: A subject-level time-trend bibliometric analysis.
    Mohammad-Reza Malekpour, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Sina Azadnajafabad, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Negar Rezaei, Sahba Rezazadeh-Khadem, Nazila Rezaei, Arya Aminorroaya, Elham Abdolhamidi, Sahar Mohammadi Fateh, Rosa Haghshenas, Shahin Roshani, Naser Ahmadi, Kosar Jamshidi, Shohreh Naderimagham, Farshad Farzadfar.
      BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has triggered an avalanche of research publications, the various aspects of which need to be assessed. The objective of this study is to determine the scientific community's response patterns to COVID-19 through a bibliometric analysis of the time-trends, global contribution, international collaboration, open-access provision, science domains of focus, and the behavior of journals.METHODS: The bibliographic records on COVID-19 literature were retrieved from both PubMed and Scopus. The period for searching was set from November 1, 2019, to April 15, 2021. The bibliographic data were coupled with COVID-19 incidence to explore possible association, as well as World Bank indicators and classification of economies.
    RESULTS: A total of 159132 records were included in the study. Following the escalation of incidences of COVID-19 in late 2020 and early 2021, the monthly publication count made a new peak in March 2021 at 20505. Overall, 125155 (78.6%) were national, 22548 (14.2%) were bi-national, and 11429 (7.2%) were multi-national. Low-income countries with 928 (66.8%) international publications had the highest percentage of international. The open-access provision decreased from 85.5% in February 2020 to 62.0% in April 2021. As many as 82841 (70.8%) publications were related to health sciences, followed by life sciences 27031 (23.1%), social sciences 20291 (17.3%), and physical sciences 15141 (12.9%). The top three medical subjects in publications were general internal medicine, public health, and infectious diseases with 28.9%, 18.3%, and 12.6% of medical publications, respectively.
    CONCLUSIONS: The association between the incidence and publication count indicated the scientific community's interest in the ongoing situation and timely response to it. Only one-fifth of publications resulted from international collaboration, which might lead to redundancy without adding significant value. Our study underscores the necessity of policies for attraction of international collaboration and direction of vital funds toward domains of higher priority.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258064
  40. Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2021 Jul 21. 11(3): 781-794
    A Bibliometric Review of Research on International Students' Mental Health: Science Mapping of the Literature from 1957 to 2020.
    Quoc-Thai Cao, Quan-Hoang Vuong, Hiep-Hung Pham, Dinh-Hai Luong, Manh-Toan Ho, Anh-Duc Hoang, Minh-Trang Do.
      The mental health of university students is not only a predominant topic for psychology and education researchers but also a source of interest for policymakers and various stakeholders. Although there has been a lot of research on higher education students' mental health, we have little understanding on the mental health of international students (MHIS). Despite their distinctive characteristics compared to native students, the mental health issues of international students only started receiving attention very recently. So far, the literature on this topic lacks a comprehensive overview of its sub-topic and trending issues. By using bibliometric analysis, this research aims to fulfil this gap and provide a review of the extant literature about MHIS. Specifically, this study aims to (i) draw the growth trajectory and geographic distribution of the literature on MHIS; (ii) identify the documents and authors that have the greatest impact, generally and locally, within the major topic clusters of the literature on MHIS; and (iii) identify the most researched keywords in the literature on MHIS over time. The results have shown that academic documents about international students' mental health are increasing in number and becoming more extensive content-wise. The research's findings provide implications for stakeholders and identifies some prominent research avenues for the future.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; bibliometric review; international student; mental health; review; science mapping
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe11030056
  41. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 07. pii: 9435. [Epub ahead of print]18(18):
    Finding the "Heart" in the Green: Conducting a Bibliometric Analysis to Emphasize the Need for Connecting Emotions with Biophilic Urban Planning.
    Christopher Tirri, Hunter Swanson, Mahbubur Meenar.
      Although there is a robust body of literature exploring the relationship between biophilic urban planning (BUP) and public health and well-being, there is a dearth of scholarship on the emotional components of BUP. It is crucial to understand these sentiment-related elements, so planners can assign "human value" to green spaces as a strategy for emphasizing the need to thoughtfully implement and properly maintain them in urban environments. Furthermore, humans' emotional experiences with green spaces may also reveal hidden or unexpected functions of those spaces. To confirm this lack of emphasis on emotions in BUP, we used Scopus to conduct a bibliometric analysis on relevant literature published within the last twenty years (2001-2021), ultimately collecting 589 relevant peer-reviewed articles. We then utilized VOSviewer (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands) to visualize our results and identify thematic, geographic, authorship/co-authorship, publication, and temporal trends. "Green space" appeared as our most frequently occurring keyword and scholars affiliated with institutions located within the United States, the United Kingdom and China were the top producers of relevant results. Our authorship analysis resulted in 67 different clusters and three major but isolated networks. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening was the most prevalent source of publication and 2019-2021 was the most prolific period of activity to date. While the goal of our review is to underscore the dearth of controlled, interdisciplinary research on the emotional components of BUP, we also uncovered additional key gaps in scholarship that could promote future avenues of inquiry. First, by focusing on the emotional value of green spaces, practitioners can ascribe them an intangible "human value" that could, in turn, generate more community-focused designs that provide access across socioeconomic, racial and age brackets. Second, an increase in scholarly representation from developing countries could help address the "human value" of green spaces not simply as a "first-world" phenomenon. Finally, a global focus on the emotional, human connections to green spaces may help scholars and practitioners alike mitigate the growing trend of green gentrification.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; biophilic urban planning; cities; emotion; environmental benefits; green gentrification; green spaces; sentiment
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189435
  42. Account Res. 2021 Sep 27. 1-6
    Authorship commerce: Bylines for sale.
    Francesco Chirico, Katrina Andrea Bramstedt.
      Scholarly authorship confers recognition and prestige and is used for promotion and tenure. In this commentary, the authors discuss a form of guest authorship known as authorship commerce (AC). This is an extreme example of misconduct, linked to bribery, which is potentially underestimated because it is difficult to detect. Pressure to publish in high impact factor open access journals (with often high publishing fees), combined with funding policy constraints, can facilitate AC. Proactive solutions include giving junior researchers more awareness of the unethical behavior, explicit guidelines that forbit it, author declarations, ethical publication incentives and metrics, lower publishing fees, as well as more effective fee discount and waiver programs. Anonymous and protected whistleblowing channels can be used to report AC.
    Keywords:  Inappropriate authorship; authorship for sale; ethics; misconduct; open access; publishing; research integrity
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2021.1982705
  43. Subst Abus. 2021 Oct 01. 1-10
    Increasing evidence-based substance use interventions globally: The National Institute on Drug Abuse postdoctoral fellowships.
    Steven W Gust, Judy McCormally, Nei-Hyun Park.
      As of April 2020, 121 individuals from 47 nations had completed 124 NIDA International Program INVEST Drug Abuse Research Fellowships. This is the first comprehensive effort to assess the fellowships from the combined perspectives of career outcomes, migration patterns, publications, cost per publication, and funding. We searched electronic sources such as university websites, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, PubMed, and NIH databases to find current curriculum vitae, journal articles published in 2018 and 2019, and funding records. We found electronic records for 94.2% of former NIDA INVEST fellows (n = 114); 55.5% were male (n = 67). The majority are at least partially involved in addiction research, prevention, or treatment (85.9%; n = 98), primarily at academic institutions (73.7%, n = 84) as faculty members (65.8%, n = 75) conducting research (86%, n = 98). Nearly three-fourths (74.6%, n = 85) are still working in their home countries; and 74.6% (n = 85) coauthored at least one research article indexed in PubMed during 2018 or 2019. Of the 656 unique research articles, 52.4% (n = 344) were published by multinational groups. The average cost to NIDA for each peer-reviewed publication was $19,677. More than half (53.5%, n = 61) of the fellows received funding through 431 unique grants-led by NIDA (55), other NIH Institutes and Centers (57) and other U.S. funders (55). Using the measures of career outcomes, migration patterns, publications, cost per publication, and funding INVEST fellowships are cost-effective mechanisms to advance scientific knowledge, build addiction research capacity, foster international cooperation, and promote adoption of evidence-based addiction policies and interventions around the world.
    Keywords:  NIDA; Research training; international; postdoctoral fellowships
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2021.1975874
  44. Sensors (Basel). 2021 Sep 15. pii: 6172. [Epub ahead of print]21(18):
    Research Trends of Human-Computer Interaction Studies in Construction Hazard Recognition: A Bibliometric Review.
    Jiaming Wang, Rui Cheng, Mei Liu, Pin-Chao Liao.
      Human-computer interaction, an interdisciplinary discipline, has become a frontier research topic in recent years. In the fourth industrial revolution, human-computer interaction has been increasingly applied to construction safety management, which has significantly promoted the progress of hazard recognition in the construction industry. However, limited scholars have yet systematically reviewed the development of human-computer interaction in construction hazard recognition. In this study, we analyzed 274 related papers published in ACM Digital Library, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus between 2000 and 2021 using bibliometric methods, systematically identified the research progress, key topics, and future research directions in this field, and proposed a research framework for human-computer interaction in construction hazard recognition (CHR-HCI). The results showed that, in the past 20 years, the application of human-computer interaction not only made significant contributions to the development of hazard recognition, but also generated a series of new research subjects, such as multimodal physiological data analysis in hazard recognition experiments, development of intuitive devices and sensors, and the human-computer interaction safety management platform based on big data. Future research modules include computer vision, computer simulation, virtual reality, and ergonomics. In this study, we drew a theoretical map reflecting the existing research results and the relationship between them, and provided suggestions for the future development of human-computer interaction in the field of hazard recognition from a practical perspective.
    Keywords:  bibliometric review; construction; hazard recognition; human-computer interaction
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/s21186172
  45. Ecancermedicalscience. 2021 ;15 1264
    Global cancer research in the era of COVID-19: a bibliometric analysis.
    Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Grant Lewison, Louis Fox, Verna Dnk Vanderpuye, Raúl Murillo, Chris M Booth, Karen Canfell, C S Pramesh, Richard Sullivan, Deborah Mukherij.
      Background: Patients with cancer across the world have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic due to increased risk of infection and disruption to cancer diagnosis and treatment. Widening of healthcare disparities is expected as the gap between health systems with and without adequate resources to mitigate the pandemic become more apparent. We undertook a bibliometric analysis of research related to cancer and COVID-19 to understand (1) the type of research that has been conducted (e.g. patients, services and systems) and (2) whether the pandemic has impacted the state of global cancer research as measured by research outputs to date.Methods: An existing filter for cancer research consisting of title words and the names of specialist cancer journals was used to identify cancer and COVID-19 related articles and reviews in the Web of Science (©Clarivate Analytics) between January 2019 and February 2021.
    Results: One thousand five hundred and forty-five publications were identified. The majority (57%) were reviews, opinion pieces or concerned with modelling impact of delays to diagnosis and treatment. The main research domains focused on managing or estimating COVID-19 risk to cancer patients accounting for 384 papers (25%). High Income countries contributed the largest volume (n = 1,115; 72%), compared to Upper Middle (n = 302; 20%), Lower Middle (n = 122; 8%) and Low Income countries (n = 2.4; 0.2%). No evidence of a reduction in global cancer research output was observed in 2020.
    Conclusions: We observed a shift in research focus rather than a decline in absolute output. However, there is variation based on national income and collaborations are minimal. There has been a focus on pan-cancer studies rather than cancer site-specific studies. Strengthening global multidisciplinary research partnerships with teams from diverse backgrounds with regard to gender, clinical expertise and resource setting is essential to prevent the widening of cancer inequalities.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; cancer; global oncology; socio-technical studies
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1264
  46. Indian J Psychol Med. 2021 Sep;43(5): 464-465
    Comments on "Barriers to Impact Factor Growth in Two Major Psychiatry Journals in India".
    Manik Inder Singh Sethi, Ann Sarah Paul, Thirunavukarasu Manickam.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/02537176211026797
  47. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 13. pii: 9642. [Epub ahead of print]18(18):
    Physical Activity and Exercise: Text Mining Analysis.
    Miquel Pans, Joaquin Madera, Luís-Millan González, Maite Pellicer-Chenoll.
      It is currently difficult to have a global state of the art vision of certain scientific topics. In the field of physical activity (PA) and exercise, this is due to information overload. The present study aims to provide a solution by analysing a large mass of scientific articles using text mining (TM). The purpose was to analyse what is being investigated in the PA health field on young people from primary, secondary and higher education. Titles and abstracts published in the Web of Science (WOS) database were analysed using TM on 24 November 2020, and after removing duplicates, 85,368 remained. The results show 9960 (unique) words and the most frequently used bi-grams and tri-grams. A co-occurrence network was also generated. 'Health' was the first term of importance and the most repeated bi-grams and tri-grams were 'body_mass' and 'body_mass_index'. The analyses of the 20 topics identified focused on health-related terms, the social sphere, sports performance and research processes. It also found that the terms health and exercise have become more important in recent years.
    Keywords:  physical activity; school; students; text mining; university
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189642
  48. East Mediterr Health J. 2021 Sep 21. 27(9): 906-910
    Health research funding and its output in Pakistan.
    Muhammad Arif Nadeem Saqib, Ibrar Rafique.
      Background: Health research is very important for formulating evidence-based policies.Aims: To assess the health research funding and its output in the last 5 fiscal years (2013/14 to 2018) in Pakistan.
    Methods: Information about health research funding was retrieved from 3 major local agencies, the Higher Education Commission, the Pakistan Science Foundation and the Pakistan Health Research Council. Details of funding from international donors were retrieved and the number of publications was estimated from Pubmed and Pakmedinet.
    Results: A total of 1261.6 million Pakistan rupees (Rs) (US$ 8.4 million) was spent on health research in the last 5 fiscal years, the majority from local donors (P < 0.02). Overall funding increased from Rs 104.7 million in 2013-2014 to Rs 349.8 million 2017-2018. In publications data, 24 796 original articles were published, including 16 137 Medline and 8659 non-Medline indexed. Overall there was a gradual increase in the number of publications per year, statistically significant for Medline indexed journals. Research funding had a strong correlation (Cronbach α=0.88) with publications.
    Conclusion: Health research funding directly affects health research output. The funding on health research should be considered an investment rather than expenditure.
    Keywords:  Pakistan; funding; health research; investment
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.26719/emhj.21.038
  49. J Endod. 2021 Sep 22. pii: S0099-2399(21)00650-6. [Epub ahead of print]
    Outcome of endodontic treatment - the most cited publications.
    Bahareh Dadresanfar, Ilan Rotstein.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joen.2021.09.007
  50. Indian J Psychol Med. 2021 Sep;43(5): 466
    Response to the Comments on "Barriers to Impact Factor Growth in Two Major Psychiatry Journals in India".
    Migita D'cruz, Chittaranjan Andrade.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/02537176211028988
  51. BMJ Open. 2021 Sep 28. 11(9): e051839
    Publication practices of sub-Saharan African Cochrane authors: a bibliometric study.
    Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Anel Schoonees, Joy Oliver, Dachi Arikpo, Solange Durão, Emmanuel Effa, Ameer Hohlfeld, Tamara Kredo, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Taryn Young.
      INTRODUCTION: Cochrane Africa (https://africa.cochrane.org/) aims to increase Cochrane reviews addressing high priority questions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Researchers residing in SSA, despite often drawing on Cochrane methods, training or resources, conduct and publish systematic reviews outside of Cochrane. Our objective was to investigate the extent to which Cochrane authors from SSA publish Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews.METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric study of systematic reviews and overviews of systematic reviews from SSA, first by identifying SSA Cochrane authors, then retrieving their first and last author systematic reviews and overviews from PubMed (2008 to April 2019) and using descriptive analyses to investigate the country of origin, types of reviews and trends in publishing Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews over time. To be eligible, a review had to have predetermined objectives, eligibility criteria, at least two databases searched, data extraction, quality assessment and a first or last author with a SSA affiliation.
    RESULTS: We identified 657 Cochrane authors and 757 eligible systematic reviews. Most authors were from South Africa (n=332; 51%), followed by Nigeria (n=126; 19%). Three-quarters of the reviews (71%) were systematic reviews of interventions. The intervention reviews were more likely to be Cochrane reviews (60.3% vs 39.7%). Conversely, the overviews (23.8% vs 76.2%), qualitative reviews (14.8% vs 85.2%), diagnostic test accuracy reviews (16.1% vs 83.9%) and the 'other' reviews (11.1% vs 88.9%) were more likely to be non-Cochrane reviews. During the study period, the number of non-Cochrane reviews increased more than the number of Cochrane reviews. About a quarter of the reviews covered infectious disease topics.
    CONCLUSION: Cochrane authors from SSA are increasingly publishing a diverse variety of systematic reviews and overviews of systematic reviews, often opting for non-Cochrane journals.
    Keywords:  health informatics; human resource management; statistics & research methods
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051839
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