bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2022–06–19
48 papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society
  1. Research Hotspots and Trends of Exercise on Parkinson's Disease: A Global Bibliometric Analysis From 2012 to 2021.
  2. The Research Landscape of Ferroptosis in Cancer: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  3. Bibliometric analysis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) studies published between 1980 and 2020.
  4. Mapping theme trends and recognizing hot spots in viral pneumonia: a bibliometric analysis of global research.
  5. Klebsiella pneumonia and Its Antibiotic Resistance: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  6. A 10-year bibliometric analysis of publications in emergency medicine.
  7. A Bibliometric Analysis of the International Dental Journal (2011-2020).
  8. Bibliometric network analysis of thirty years of islamic banking and finance scholarly research.
  9. Women's Footprint in Anti-Doping Sciences: A Bibliometric Approach to Research Impact.
  10. Mapping pedestrian safety studies between 2010 and 2021: A scientometric analysis.
  11. Commentary: the first twelve years of the Journal of chemoinformatics.
  12. Emerging Trends and Research Foci in Artificial Intelligence for Retinal Diseases: Bibliometric and Visualization Study.
  13. Macro-level literature analysis on pedestrian safety: Bibliometric overview, conceptual frames, and trends.
  14. Waste heat recovery research - a systematic bibliometric analysis (1991 to 2020).
  15. Preprint citation practice in PLOS.
  16. Evaluation of the quality and subsequent performance of manuscripts rejected by Clinical Rheumatology: a research report.
  17. Do radiation oncologists publish what they present? An observational analysis of abstracts presented at the radiation oncology congresses in Turkey: A young radiation oncologists group study.
  18. Research Priorities on One Health: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  19. Global bibliometric mapping of the frontier of knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence for the period 1990-2019.
  20. Scientometric analysis and scientific trends on microplastics research.
  21. Transanal total mesorectal excision for the rectal cancer: A novel bibliometric analysis.
  22. Spotlight on Early COVID-19 Research Productivity: A 1-Year Bibliometric Analysis.
  23. Research output of artificial intelligence in arrhythmia from 2004 to 2021: a bibliometric analysis.
  24. The Relative Citation Ratio: A Brief Primer on the National institutes of Health-Supported Bibliometric.
  25. Detecting latent topics and trends in blended learning using LDA topic modeling.
  26. Pancreatic cancer in the MENA region, a bibliometric review.
  27. Effect of Altmetric score on manuscript citations: A randomized-controlled trial.
  28. Is Psychological Science Self-Correcting? Citations Before and After Successful and Failed Replications.
  29. A Review on the 40 Years of Existence of Data Envelopment Analysis Models: Historic Development and Current Trends.
  30. Between panic and motivation: did the first wave of COVID-19 affect scientific publishing in Mediterranean countries?
  31. Authorship Distribution and Under-Representation of Sub-Saharan African Authors in Global Oncology Publications.
  32. Evaluation of retracted publications in Dentistry: A systematic review.
  33. Knowledge Diffusion of the Internet of Things (IoT): A Main Path Analysis.
  34. The scientific publication of the Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1909-2020): a history of contribution to the biomedical sciences.
  35. Sex Disparity Persists in Pain Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study of Chairpersons Within ACGME-Accredited Chronic Pain Fellowship Programs in the United States.
  36. Feature extraction and classification of climate change risks: a bibliometric analysis.
  37. Investigation of Fellowship Leadership in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Oncology.
  38. Dynamics of cross-platform attention to retracted papers.
  39. Gaps and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence Applications for Pediatric Oncology in European Research: A Systematic Review of Reviews and a Bibliometric Analysis.
  40. Clinical studies that initiated the use of spinal opioids for the treatment of pain: A new approach to historical review.
  41. Latin American Scientific Production on COVID-19 Vaccines.
  42. Identifying global trends and gaps in research on pesticide fipronil: a scientometric review.
  43. Women in Behavior Analysis: A Review of the Literature.
  44. Data Velocity in HIV-Related Implementation Research: Estimating Time From Funding to Publication.
  45. Identifying the Knowledge Structure and Trends of Nursing Informatics: A Text Network Analysis.
  46. Publication bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Dentistry. What factors affect statistical significance of outcomes?
  47. The assessment of interprofessional practice in mental health nursing with ethnographic observation and social network analysis: a confirmatory and bibliometric network study using VOSviewer.
  48. Tracing the Trends of General Construction and Demolition Waste Research Using LDA Modeling Combined With Topic Intensity.
  1. Front Hum Neurosci. 2022 ;16 908049
    Research Hotspots and Trends of Exercise on Parkinson's Disease: A Global Bibliometric Analysis From 2012 to 2021.
    Ji-Wei Chen, Shu-Hao Du, Tian-Cong Chen, Kun Zhu.
       Background: Parkinson's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, which can be alleviated in drug treatment, but with evident side effects. At the same time, increasing evidence shows that exercise can significantly improve the symptoms of patients with Parkinson's disease, with an effect that cannot be achieved by drug treatment. The related research on exercise on Parkinson's disease increases rapidly with the passage of time. However, the research analysis on Parkinson's disease by means of bibliometrics is rare. The purpose of this study is to perform a bibliometric analysis of the research hotspots and development trends of the global movement on Parkinson's disease from 2012 to 2021.
    Methods: The literature was derived from the Web of Science core collection database, and the social science citation index was set as SCI-EXPANDED. The language was set to English, and the literature category was set as article and review and published from 2012 to 2021. CiteSpace and other software were used to analyze the relationship among published documents, countries, institutions, journals, authors, references, disciplines, and keywords.
    Results: A total of 2,222 articles were included in the analysis. The analysis showed that the publication volume increased with the increase in years, with a total of 76 countries and 546 academic journals published; the largest number was that of the United States. The journals are mainly concentrated in the fields of neurology, sports, and ophthalmology. Rush University and Movement Disorders journals are the main institutions and journals. The cited keywords show that trial, cognition, and interference are the research hotspots and development trends in recent years.
    Conclusion: The number of published articles on Parkinson's disease by exercise has increased rapidly in the past 10 years, and the bibliometric analysis can provide useful information for future research teams and researchers.
    Keywords:  Parkinson's; bibliometric analysis; exercise; hotspot; trend; visual analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.908049
  2. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 ;10 841724
    The Research Landscape of Ferroptosis in Cancer: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Guoli Li, Yumei Liang, Hongyu Yang, Weiru Zhang, Tingting Xie.
      Background: Ferroptosis is a novel mechanism of programmed cell death coined in 2012, which has been found to play important roles in human health and disease. In the past decade, ferroptosis research has seen booming growth worldwide. The aim of this study was to visualize the scientific outputs and research trends of ferroptosis in the field of cancer. Methods: The raw data of publications were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection on 19 December 2021. The information on the impact factor (IF) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR) division were obtained from the website of Web of Science. Two kinds of software (CiteSpace and VOSviewer) were used to perform visualized analysis. Results: From 2012 to 2021, a total of 1833 publications related to ferroptosis in cancer were identified for final analysis. The annual number of citations and publications grew exponentially over the past decade. China (1,092) and United States (489) had the highest number of publications; Central South University and Guangzhou Medical University were the most productive institutions. Daolin Tang and Scott J Dixon were the most active authors ranked by most productive and co-cited, respectively. The journals with the highest output and co-citation frequency were Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications and Cell, respectively. Among the 1833 publications, four were identified with citations more than 1000 times. Six co-cited references had a citation burst duration until 2021. Analysis of keywords suggested the current research of ferroptosis in cancer clusters in 9 hotspots and newly emerging frontier may be "multidrug resistance". Conclusion: Cancer research is the major area of active research in ferroptosis. Our results provide a global landscape of the ferroptosis research in cancer from 2012 to 2021, which serves as a reference for future studies in this field.
    Keywords:  VOSviewer; bibliometric analysis; cancer; citespace; ferroptosis; visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2022.841724
  3. Adv Clin Exp Med. 2022 Jun 14.
    Bibliometric analysis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) studies published between 1980 and 2020.
    Fatma Yildirim, Pinar Yildiz Gulhan, Irem Karaman, Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan.
       BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), an acute respiratory failure caused by noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, was first defined by Ashbaugh et al. in 1967. The number of publications increased enormously after the Berlin definition of ARDS was first described in 2012.
    OBJECTIVES: This article intends to provide the physicians and the scientists with a reference guide to assess the most influential publications written about ARDS.
    MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed an exhaustive bibliometric analysis to identify publication trends by year, and the most influential research articles, authors, co-authors, journals, and countries. Articles on ARDS published in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) journals between 1980 and 2020 were examined. On December 20, 2020, the keywords "ARDS" and "acute respiratory distress syndrome" were searched using the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database, and data including titles, author information, abstracts, journals, and references were analyzed.
    RESULTS: A total of 4564 articles related to ARDS published between 1980 and 2020 were identified. After excluding 192 proceedings papers, 19 early access papers, 1 book chapter, 1 research paper, and 1 retracted article, 4350 articles published in SCI and ESCI journals were analyzed. The largest number of articles (n = 557, 12.8%) appeared in 2020. The average citations per article was 38.21, and 4350 articles were cited 166,885 times altogether. The USA was at the top of the list of the most productive countries with 5025 articles. Harvard University was the most contributing institution with 244 articles. M.A. Matthay ranked as the most productive author in ARDS research with 87 published publications.
    CONCLUSION: The present study provided a comprehensive, illustrative analysis of ARDS articles published in SCI and ESCI journals over the past 40 years.
    Keywords:  acute respiratory distress syndrome; bibliometric analysis; intensive care
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17219/acem/150555
  4. Am J Transl Res. 2022 ;14(5): 2972-2987
    Mapping theme trends and recognizing hot spots in viral pneumonia: a bibliometric analysis of global research.
    Lixue Wu, Hao Wu, Tianle Ou, Hao Huang, Liwei Duan, Wenfang Li, Weiwei Jiang.
       BACKGROUND: The challenges that viral pneumonia poses to the global public health system remain daunting. In this study, an analysis of publications on viral pneumonia over the past two decades was conducted. Through this work, we hope to provide inspiration for future research on viral pneumonia.
    METHODS: We extracted all of the English publications relevant to viral pneumonia published during 1999-2019 from Web of Science. GraphPad Prism, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer were used to collect and analyze the publication trends in related fields.
    RESULTS: We identified 2,006 publications with 62,155 citations as of February 16, 2021. The United States accounted for the largest number of publications (34.2%), with the highest number of citations (27,616) and the highest h-index (78). China ranked second in the number of publications. Ctr Dis Control & Prevent proved to be the center of research cooperation. Clinical Infectious Diseases included the most papers published relating to the topic of viral pneumonia. Chan KH published the most papers in this field (25), while an article from Fouchier RAM presented the highest citation frequency (1,275).
    CONCLUSIONS: According to the bibliometric analysis database and related software results, the United States dominates the field of viral pneumonia research. The key term extracted by VOSviewer has shifted to "Diagnosis and management", indicating a new trend for viral pneumonia research.
    Keywords:  Publications; bibliometrics; citation frequency; viral pneumonia
  5. Biomed Res Int. 2022 ;2022 1668789
    Klebsiella pneumonia and Its Antibiotic Resistance: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Yanping Li, Suresh Kumar, Lihu Zhang, Hongjie Wu.
      The rapid development of antibiotic resistance in K. pneumonia has led to a major concern. In order to analyze the hotspots and develop trends in this field through visual the analysis, this study used CiteSpace software to summarize the available data in the literature to provide insights. A total of 9366 research articles were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection, and the number of published papers is increasing year by year. The country with the most articles was the USA, followed by China and India. The institution with the highest number of publications was LERU. The author with the highest number of articles was Li. The journal with the highest citation rate was Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. In addition, based on keyword coword analysis and cited literature prominence analysis by CiteSpace, the current research focus in the field was therapy, CRKP, and resistance genes. This paper provides a new quantitative visualization way for the development of the field in the recent ten years. The results show global trends that researchers can use to determine future directions.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1668789
  6. Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Jun 09. pii: S0735-6757(22)00383-7. [Epub ahead of print]58 215-222
    A 10-year bibliometric analysis of publications in emergency medicine.
    Murat Cetin, Brit Long, Michael Gottlieb.
       OBJECTIVE: Emergency medicine (EM) research is growing at a rapid pace. It is important to understand the scope and trends over time in order to identify gaps and future areas for growth. This study aimed to describe trends in scientific publications within EM over the past decade.
    METHODS: We searched the Web of Science database's Emergency Medicine category for all scientific publications published between 2010 and 2019. Data were presented via descriptive statistics. Inferential bibliometric analyses included clustering of the selected parameters of keywords, Keyword Plus, titles, and abstracts; Bradford's law to evaluate core journals, and the Sankey diagrams to evaluate the flows between research themes over time.
    RESULTS: We identified 32,858 articles written by 85,693 authors. The mean citations per document were 11. The top five countries with the highest number of publications were the United States (n = 42,221), Turkey (n = 6595), Canada (n = 6545), Australia (n = 5867), and China (n = 5322). The journals with the highest number of publications: the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation, and Pediatric Emergency Care. The most frequent topics were cardiovascular emergencies, resuscitation, mortality, patient outcomes, emergency imaging, triage, education, and management.
    CONCLUSION: This bibliometric study is a quick snapshot of research in the EM field in the last decade and may provide insights into the scientific agendas of the EM professionals.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Bibliometrix; Emergency medicine; Literature; R language
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.06.016
  7. Int Dent J. 2022 Jun 14. pii: S0020-6539(22)00105-8. [Epub ahead of print]
    A Bibliometric Analysis of the International Dental Journal (2011-2020).
    Frank Mayta-Tovalino, Carlos Quispe-Vicuña, Miguel Cabanillas-Lazo, Arnaldo Munive-Degregori, Maria Eugenia Guerrero, Roman Mendoza.
       INTRODUCTION: Bibliometrics is an area that allows for the evaluation of scientific publications by means of different indicators. The aim of this research was to perform a bibliometric study of the scientific production of the International Dental Journal (IDJ) between 2011 and 2020.
    METHODS: All publications of the journal between 2011 and 2020 extracted from the Scopus database were included. The number of publications, most productive institutions, type of collaboration, most productive countries, most cited articles, and authors with the highest academic production were used as bibliographic indicators. It was exported to the SciVal tool for analysis.
    RESULTS: A total of 630 documents published in IDJ by 1947 authors were collected, with a total of 7212 citations (11.4 citations per document). The United States was the country with the highest number of documents (100). The University of Adelaide (Australia) was the institution with the highest scientific production (16 publications), whilst the institution with the highest impact was the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), with 12.2 citations per paper. Marc Luiz Tennant was the author with the highest number of published manuscripts (13). Finally, most of the publications had international collaboration (146 documents).
    CONCLUSIONS: IDJ is a high-quality journal and, in the dental field, it has a high impact worldwide, which allows for a greater number of citations of its articles and placing it in the forefront of future research.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Scholarly output; Scopus
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.identj.2022.05.003
  8. Qual Quant. 2022 Jun 04. 1-29
    Bibliometric network analysis of thirty years of islamic banking and finance scholarly research.
    Ahmed Hassanein, Mohamed M Mostafa.
      This study utilizes bibliometric analyses to map and visualize the development, conceptual structure, and thematic evolution of the Islamic Banking and Finance (IB&F) scholarly research. It analyses 464 WoS IB&F research publications of 921 authors comprising 58 countries published over three decades from 1990 to 2019. The results reveal that (i) collaboration among countries is limited and institutional collaboration can be described as a "locally concentrated and globally isolated," (ii) the IB&F research is a type of "small-world-network" where few authors and journals dominate the networks and play a central role in the diffusion of knowledge and the "homophily impact" is present among the leading authors of the IB&F research, (iii) the networks in IB&F research reflects the "Matthew Effect," implying that few authors have a more significant number of networks compared to the rest of authors. The study has also identified the conceptual structure and thematic trends in the IB&F research and provides avenues for future research.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Co-citation networks; Conceptual structure maps; Islamic Banking and Finance; Keyword co-occurrence networks; Thematic maps
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01453-2
  9. Front Sports Act Living. 2022 ;4 866648
    Women's Footprint in Anti-Doping Sciences: A Bibliometric Approach to Research Impact.
    Anna Kiss, Zoltán Lakner, Sándor Soós, Andrea Petróczi.
      Bibliometrics, via the exploitation of large-scale publication data, is a facile approach to explore gender-related trends, especially gender equality in academic publishing and authorship. For the first time, this study aims to investigate the gender-related trends in anti-doping sciences to (1) explore the relational structure of gender aspects of authorial, topical, and methodological features, (2) give recognition to women's contribution to anti-doping research, and (3) identify unique "gendered" potentials for advancing anti-doping research. To deliver on these aims, we employed bibliometric tools to publication records in anti-doping. After constructing a database containing academic publications on any aspect of anti-doping with at least one woman among the authors, we applied state-of-the-art methods from bibliometric science mapping and network analysis. The Lotka distribution model showed that the anti-doping research is a closed community with only 70 authors appearing more than once. Male authors being the majority (66.2%), women are under-represented in this field. The most important authorship position in the academic articles is mainly occupied by men, publications with male corresponding authors were in 774 out of 991 anti-doping related papers. The close connection of the top twenty most influential authors, men and women, to the World Anti-Doping Agency in some professional capacity suggest that the Agency have an influence on the anti-doping research beyond directly providing funding. In terms of geographical regions, publications with female authors were dominated anti-doping research in Italy, Romania, and Spain. In research networks to date, women have outperformed male authors in information centrality, which means that women in anti-doping research have had higher level of control over the information flow in the field than their male counterparts. The results of this study confirm the potential of bibliometric approach in the identification of emerging research topics and quantifying gender differentiation in the field of anti-doping. Due to their higher information centrality, women are better positioned for problem-focused multidisciplinary research both within anti-doping community, and with researchers in cognate fields. Bibliometric analyses have proved to be a powerful tool for monitoring and advancing anti-doping research impact via identifying new avenues for multidisciplinary work, better gender representation, and diversity.
    Keywords:  anti-doping; bibliometric mapping; gender equality; research impact; sport
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.866648
  10. Accid Anal Prev. 2022 Jun 14. pii: S0001-4575(22)00180-4. [Epub ahead of print]174 106744
    Mapping pedestrian safety studies between 2010 and 2021: A scientometric analysis.
    Wanjing Ma, Philip Kofi Alimo, Ling Wang, Mohamed Abdel-Aty.
      Pedestrian deaths constitute 23% of road traffic deaths globally. Although several research papers have contributed to pedestrian safety analysis, they did not provide a comprehensive overview of the progress in the research domain and publication trends. This makes it difficult to identify trends and insights into the pedestrian research domain in light of the voluminous number of papers. This study fills this gap with a scientometric analysis of research on pedestrian safety analysis indexed in the Web of Science. The scope covers 2594 papers published between 2010 and 2021 in English. This study analyzed the annual publications and citation trends, top ten most cited papers, influential papers in their first three years after publication, contributing authors, funding agencies, and contributing journals. The regional gaps between the proportion of pedestrian deaths and research were also analyzed. The results showed low research productivity from low and middle-income countries although they have a high incidence of pedestrian deaths. Subsequently, the main keyword clusters or frontier topics were identified and topic analysis was employed to identify the evolution of studies. Four keyword clusters were identified, i.e., "vehicle-to-pedestrian crash and injury severity analysis", "pedestrian movement and decision simulation experiments", "improving the vehicle system towards reducing body region impact injuries", "pedestrian behavior in crosswalks and signalized intersections". This study contributes an integrated knowledge map of pedestrian safety analysis, publication trends, the evolution of studies, and under-researched topics to guide future research work in pedestrian safety analysis.
    Keywords:  Knowledge map; Pedestrian safety analysis; Scientometric analysis; Topic analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106744
  11. J Cheminform. 2022 Jun 13. 14(1): 38
    Commentary: the first twelve years of the Journal of chemoinformatics.
    Peter Willett.
      This commentary provides an overview of the publications in, and the citations to, the first twelve volumes of the Journal of Cheminformatics, covering the period 2009-2020. The analysis is based on the 622 articles that have appeared in the journal during that time and that have been indexed in the Clarivate Web of Science Core Collection database. It is clear that the journal has established itself as one of the most important publications in the field of cheminformatics: it attracts citations not only from other journals in its specialist field but also from biological and chemical journals more widely, and moreover from journals that are far removed in focus from it but that are still able to benefit from the articles that it publishes.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric profile; Citations; Journal of Cheminformatics; Knowledge export
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-022-00617-4
  12. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jun 14. 24(6): e37532
    Emerging Trends and Research Foci in Artificial Intelligence for Retinal Diseases: Bibliometric and Visualization Study.
    Junqiang Zhao, Yi Lu, Yong Qian, Yuxin Luo, Weihua Yang.
       BACKGROUND: Patients with retinal diseases may exhibit serious complications that cause severe visual impairment owing to a lack of awareness of retinal diseases and limited medical resources. Understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) is used to make predictions and perform relevant analyses is a very active area of research on retinal diseases. In this study, the relevant Science Citation Index (SCI) literature on the AI of retinal diseases published from 2012 to 2021 was integrated and analyzed.
    OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to gain insights into the overall application of AI technology to the research of retinal diseases from set time and space dimensions.
    METHODS: Citation data downloaded from the Web of Science Core Collection database for AI in retinal disease publications from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2021, were considered for this analysis. Information retrieval was analyzed using the online analysis platforms of literature metrology: Bibliometrc, CiteSpace V, and VOSviewer.
    RESULTS: A total of 197 institutions from 86 countries contributed to relevant publications; China had the largest number and researchers from University College London had the highest H-index. The reference clusters of SCI papers were clustered into 12 categories. "Deep learning" was the cluster with the widest range of cocited references. The burst keywords represented the research frontiers in 2018-2021, which were "eye disease" and "enhancement."
    CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a systematic analysis method on the literature regarding AI in retinal diseases. Bibliometric analysis enabled obtaining results that were objective and comprehensive. In the future, high-quality retinal image-forming AI technology with strong stability and clinical applicability will continue to be encouraged.
    Keywords:  artificial intelligence; bibliometric; citespace, VOSviewer; data visualization; eye; retinal; retinal disease; visual impairment
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2196/37532
  13. Accid Anal Prev. 2022 Jun 11. pii: S0001-4575(22)00156-7. [Epub ahead of print]174 106720
    Macro-level literature analysis on pedestrian safety: Bibliometric overview, conceptual frames, and trends.
    Ali Mirhashemi, Saeideh Amirifar, Ali Tavakoli Kashani, Xin Zou.
      Due to the high volume of documents in the pedestrian safety field, the current study conducts a systematic bibliometric analysis on the researches published before October 3, 2021, based on the science-mapping approach. Science mapping enables us to present a broad picture and comprehensive review of a significant number of documents using co-citation, bibliographic coupling, collaboration, and co-word analysis. To this end, a dataset of 6311 pedestrian safety papers was collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database. First, a descriptive analysis was carried out, covering whole yearly publications, most-cited papers, and most-productive authors, as well as sources, affiliations, and countries. In the next steps, science mapping was implemented to clarify the social, intellectual, and conceptual structures of pedestrian-safety research using the VOSviewer and Bibliometrix R-package tools. Remarkably, based on intellectual structure, pedestrian safety demonstrated an association with seven research areas: "Pedestrian crash frequency models", "Pedestrian injury severity crash models", "Traffic engineering measures in pedestrians' safety", "Global reports around pedestrian accident epidemiology", "Effect of age and gender on pedestrians' behavior", "Distraction of pedestrians", and "Pedestrian crowd dynamics and evacuation". Moreover, according to conceptual structure, five major research fronts were found to be relevant, namely "Collision avoidance and intelligent transportation systems (ITS)", "Epidemiological studies of pedestrian injury and prevention", "Pedestrian road crossing and behavioral factors", "Pedestrian flow simulation", and "Walkable environment and pedestrian safety". Finally, "autonomous vehicle", "pedestrian detection", and "collision avoidance" themes were identified as having the greatest centrality and development degrees in recent years.
    Keywords:  Bibliomertix R-package; Bibliometrics; Pedestrian safety; Science mapping; Scientometric; VOSviewer
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106720
  14. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jun 18.
    Waste heat recovery research - a systematic bibliometric analysis (1991 to 2020).
    Chuen Tse Kuah, Qi Yun Koh, Srithar Rajoo, Kuan Yew Wong.
      Human usage of non-renewable energy resources has caused many environmental issues, which include air pollution, global warming, and climate irregularities. To counter these issues, researchers have been seeking after alternative renewable energy sources and ways to manage energy more efficiently. This is where energy recovery technologies such as waste heat recovery (WHR) come into play. WHR is a form of waste to energy conversion. Waste heat can be captured and converted into usable energy instead of dumping it into the environment. In the more recent years, the WHR research field has gained great attention in the scientific community as well as in some energy-intensive industries. This article presents a bibliometric overview of the academic research on WHR over the span of 30 years from 1991 to 2020. A total of 5682 documents from Web of Science (WoS) have been retrieved and analyzed using various bibliometric methods, including performance analysis and network analysis. The analyses were performed on different actors in the field, i.e., funding agencies, journals, authors, organizations, and countries. In addition, several network mappings were done based on co-citation, co-authorship, and co-occurrences of keywords analyses. The research identified the most productive and influential actors in the field, established and emergent research topics, as well as the interrelations and collaboration patterns between different actors. The findings can be a robust roadmap for further research in this field.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; Energy efficiency; Energy recovery; Waste heat recovery; Waste heat utilization; Waste to energy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21377-6
  15. Scientometrics. 2022 May 25. 1-18
    Preprint citation practice in PLOS.
    Marc Bertin, Iana Atanassova.
      The role of preprints in the scientific production and their part in citations have been growing over the past 10 years. In this paper we study preprint citations in several different aspects: the progression of preprint citations over time, their relative frequencies in relation to the IMRaD structure of articles, their distributions over time, per preprint database and per PLOS journal. We have processed the PLOS corpus that covers 7 journals and a total of about 240,000 articles up to January 2021, and produced a dataset of 8460 preprint citation contexts that cite 12 different preprint databases. Our results show that preprint citations are found with the highest frequency in the Method section of articles, though small variations exist with respect to journals. The PLOS Computational Biology journal stands out as it contains more than three times more preprint citations than any other PLOS journal. The relative parts of the different preprint databases are also examined. While ArXiv and bioRxiv are the most frequent citation sources, bioRxiv's disciplinary nature can be observed as it is the source of more than 70% of preprint citations in PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Pathogens. We have also compared the lexical content of preprint citation contexts to the citation content to peer-reviewed publications. Finally, by performing a lexicometric analysis, we have shown that preprint citation contexts differ significantly from citation contexts of peer-reviewed publications. This confirms that authors make use of different lexical content when citing preprints compared to the rest of citations.
    Keywords:  Citation contexts; Correspondence analysis; IMRaD; PLOS; Preprint
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04388-5
  16. Clin Rheumatol. 2022 Jun 13.
    Evaluation of the quality and subsequent performance of manuscripts rejected by Clinical Rheumatology: a research report.
    Aldo Barajas-Ochoa, Antonio Cisneros-Barrios, Cesar Ramos-Remus.
       OBJECTIVES: To assess the quality and performance of manuscripts previously rejected by a rheumatology-focused journal.
    METHODS: This was a cross-sectional, audit-type, exploratory study of manuscripts submitted to Clinical Rheumatology (CLRH) and rejected by one associate editor in 2019. We used a 36-item quality assessment instrument (5-point ordinal scale, 1 being worst). Performance variables included whether a rejected manuscript was published in another PubMed-listed journal, impact factor of the publishing journal (Scimago), number of citations (Web of Science), and social media attention (Altmetrics). Exploratory variables included authors' past publications, use of reporting guidelines, and text structure. Exploratory variables were assessed using non-parametric tests.
    RESULTS: In total, 165 manuscripts were rejected. Reporting guidelines were used in only five (4%) manuscripts. The mean overall quality rating was 2.48 ± 0.73, with 54% of manuscripts rated 2; 40-80% were rated < 3 on crucial items. Over a 26-month follow-up, 79 (48%) rejected manuscripts were published in other journals, mostly with lower impact factors; 70% of these had at least one citation, compared with 90.5% for manuscripts published in CLRH. Altmetrics was significantly lower for manuscripts published elsewhere than for those published in CLRH. As for text structure, the methods and results sections were shorter and the discussion longer than suggested. The corresponding authors' past experience and text structure were not associated with quality or acceptance.
    CONCLUSIONS: Research report quality is an area for improvement, mainly for items critical to explaining the research and findings. The use of reporting guidelines should be encouraged by journals. Key Points • The quality of research reports (in rejected manuscripts) is insufficient. • Guidelines for reporting are seldom used in rejected manuscripts. • A manuscript rejected by Clinical Rheumatology may subsequently be published in another journal with a lower impact factor and have fewer citations and less social media attention than accepted manuscripts.
    Keywords:  Editorial policies; Journal impact factor; Manuscripts, medical as topic*; Peer review, research; Publishing/statistics & numerical data*; Rheumatology/statistics & numerical data
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-022-06238-4
  17. Niger J Clin Pract. 2022 Jun;25(6): 817-824
    Do radiation oncologists publish what they present? An observational analysis of abstracts presented at the radiation oncology congresses in Turkey: A young radiation oncologists group study.
    M F Eren, A A Eren.
       Background: The publication rate of abstracts is a measure of the quality of scientific meetings.
    Aims: The present study aimed to determine the radiation oncologists' publication rates of abstracts presented at the National Radiation Oncology Congresses (UROK) and National Cancer Congresses (UKK) and identify the top journals that published these studies.
    Materials and Methods: We reviewed the abstracts presented at UROK and UKK, held between 2013 and 2017. To retrieve any publications originating from the presented abstracts, we searched the match terms in the public databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, The Turkish Academic Network, and Information Center (ULAKBIM). We evaluated the articles' publication dates and peer-review history and noted the journals' impact factors.
    Results: Three thousand seven hundred six abstracts were accepted for presentation; 1178 papers met the study criteria and were included in the analyses. There were 297 oral and 881 poster presentations. The overall publication rate was 18.9%. The median time to publication was 12 months. The studies were published in 94 scientific journals with a median impact factor of 1.28. Breast cancer and lung cancer studies had the highest publication rates among all subspecialties (15.2%). Retrospective studies had higher publication rates than those with other study designs (P < 0.0001).
    Conclusion: Almost 20% of abstracts presented at UROK and UKK were converted into full-text publications. Most of the abstracts achieved publication within 2 years from the presentation. Oral presentations had a significantly higher publication rate than poster presentations, reflecting their higher quality. The authors' affiliations and the study designs were among the significant factors that determine publication success.
    Keywords:  Abstract; annual congress; impact factor; publication rate; radiation oncology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4103/njcp.njcp_1794_21
  18. Front Public Health. 2022 ;10 889854
    Research Priorities on One Health: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Liyuan Miao, Hao Li, Wei Ding, Shenning Lu, Shuning Pan, Xiaokui Guo, XiaoNong Zhou, Duoquan Wang.
       Objective: One Health is an emerging research area that has received increasing attention globally. In this study, we aimed to explore the global research trend and hotspots of One Health and provide a reference for potential future research and practices.
    Methods: This was a bibliometric descriptive study of publications on One Health in four directions, including zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and vector-borne infections. Publications from 2003 to 2021 were retrieved using the Scopus database on One Health, which were screened based on the PRISMA guidelines. Keywords were analyzed and visualized using VOSviewer software.
    Results: A total of 12,815 publications were included. The annual number of publications and those on each topic showed a gradual increase from 181 in 2003 to 1,647 in 2020, with an average annual growth rate of about 20.2%; the top three countries in terms of the number of publications were the United States of America (n=3,588), the United Kingdom (n=1,429) and China (n=1,233); the major research subjects were mainly in the natural sciences, with fewer social sciences subjects involved (n = 312; 1%). The main research directions within the area of zoonotic diseases included viral, bacterial, parasitic zoonotic diseases, and vector-borne diseases, with a small amount of antimicrobial resistance research. The major research interests within antimicrobial resistance were Enterobacteriaceae drug-resistant bacteria, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and antimicrobial resistance gene detection; research on food safety clustered around agronomy research, aquaculture research as well as a small amount of antimicrobial resistance research in food; and research on vector-borne diseases focused on mosquito-borne infectious diseases, tick-borne infectious diseases, and vectors.
    Conclusions: The scientific literature on One Health has witnessed a rising global trend. Most research has focused on the human-animal health interface, while environmental health is often neglected. Research subjects mainly fall within natural science disciplines, with less social science research. More support needs to be given to interdisciplinary and intersectoral cooperation and research in the future.
    Keywords:  One Health; bibliometric analysis; research hotspots; research priority; research status
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.889854
  19. Artif Intell Rev. 2022 Jun 08. 1-31
    Global bibliometric mapping of the frontier of knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence for the period 1990-2019.
    Iván Manuel De la Vega Hernández, Angel Serrano Urdaneta, Elias Carayannis.
      Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a field of knowledge that is displacing and disrupting technologies, leading to changes in human life. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to scientifically map this topic and its ramifications, in order to analyze its growth. The study was developed under the bibliometric approach and considered the period 1990-2019. The steps followed were (i) Identification and selection of keyword terms in three methodological layers by a panel of experts. (ii) Design and application of an algorithm to identify these selected keywords in titles, abstracts, and keywords using terms in Web of Science to contrast them. (iii) Performing data processing based on the Journals of the Journal Citation Report during 2020. Knowing the evolution of a field of knowledge such as AI from a bibliometric study and subsequently establishing the ramifications of new research streams is in itself a relevant finding. Addressing a broad field of knowledge as AI from a multidisciplinary approach given the convergence it generates with other disciplines and specialties is of high strategic value for decision makers such as governments, academics, scientists, and entrepreneurs.
    Keywords:  Artificial intelligence; Bibliometric mapping; Big Data; Deep learning; Knowledge networks; Machine learning; Radical changes; WoS
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10206-4
  20. Chemosphere. 2022 Jun 14. pii: S0045-6535(22)01830-6. [Epub ahead of print] 135337
    Scientometric analysis and scientific trends on microplastics research.
    Ming Li, Yang Wang, Honghai Xue, Lei Wu, Ying Wang, Chunqing Wang, Xingai Gao, Zhonghe Li, Xi Zhang, Mudassir Hasan, Mansoor Alruqi, Awais Bokhari, Ning Han.
      In recent years, the environmental pollution of microplastics has attracted much attention. To date, there have been a lot of researches on microplastics and a series of studies published. In this study, by bibliometric analysis method to evaluated the development and evolution on microplastics research trends and hot spots. A total of 2872 literature information was collected from the Web of Science (2004-2020), which was used for bibliometric visual analysis by CiteSpace. It was possible to see the contributing countries, institutions, authors, keywords, and future study directions in the microplastics sectors by looking at the visual representation of the results. (1) Since 2004, scientific advancements in this sector have advanced significantly, with a significant increase in speed since 2012. (2) China and the United States are the world's leading researchers in microplastics. (3) The study of microplastics was multidisciplinary, comprising researchers from the fields of ecology, chemistry, molecular biology, environmental science, and oceanography. (4) In recent years, researchers have concentrated their attention on the distribution and toxicity of microplastics in the environment, as well as their coupled pollution with heavy metal contaminants. In conclusion microplastics study in environmental science has become increasingly popular in recent years. Topics include dispersion, toxicity, and coupled pollution with heavy metal pollutants. Researchers in a wide range of fields are involved in microplastics research. Furthermore, policies and regulations about microplastics in global were summarized, and membrane technology has potential to remove microplastics from water. The above findings help to clearly grasp the content and development trend of microplastics research, point out the future research direction for scholars, and promote microplastics research and pollution prevention and control.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; CiteSpace; Microplastics; Visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135337
  21. Asian J Surg. 2022 Jun 09. pii: S1015-9584(22)00689-3. [Epub ahead of print]
    Transanal total mesorectal excision for the rectal cancer: A novel bibliometric analysis.
    JianBo Lyu, ZhaoHui Xu, XiaoFeng Qu.
      
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Learning curve; Outcome; Transanal total mesorectal excision
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asjsur.2022.05.132
  22. Front Public Health. 2022 ;10 811885
    Spotlight on Early COVID-19 Research Productivity: A 1-Year Bibliometric Analysis.
    Panagiotis Giannos, Konstantinos S Kechagias, Konstantinos Katsikas Triantafyllidis, Matthew E Falagas.
      Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), one of the most serious public health crises in over a century, has led to an unprecedented surge of publications across all areas of knowledge. This study assessed the early research productivity on COVID-19 in terms of vaccination, diagnosis, treatment, symptoms, risk factors, nutrition, and economy. The Scopus database was searched between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 to initially examine the research productivity on COVID-19, as measured by total publications by the 20 highest-ranked countries according to gross domestic product. The literature search was then refined, and research productivity was assessed across seven major research domains related to COVID-19: vaccination, diagnosis, treatment, symptoms, risk factors, nutrition, and economy. The initial literature search yielded 53,348 publications. Among these, 27,801 publications involved authorship from a single country and 22,119 publications involved authorship from multiple countries. Overall, the United States was the most productive country (n = 13,491), with one and a half times or more publications than any other country, on COVID-19 and the selected domains related to it. However, following adjustment for population size, gross domestic product, and expenditure for research and development, countries of emerging economies such as India along countries of lower population density such as Switzerland, Indonesia, and Turkey exhibited higher research productivity. The surge of COVID-19 publications in such a short period of time underlines the capacity of the scientific community to respond against a global health emergency; however where future research priorities and resource distribution should be placed on the respective thematic fields at an international level, warrants further investigation.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; bibliometrics; collaborations; coronavirus; international; research productivity; scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.811885
  23. J Thorac Dis. 2022 May;14(5): 1411-1427
    Research output of artificial intelligence in arrhythmia from 2004 to 2021: a bibliometric analysis.
    Junlin Huang, Yang Liu, Shuping Huang, Guibao Ke, Xin Chen, Bei Gong, Wei Wei, Yumei Xue, Hai Deng, Shulin Wu.
       Background: With the advancement in machine learning (ML) and artificial neural networks as well as the development of portable electrocardiogram devices, artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasing in popularity over the years. In this study, we aimed to provide an overview of the research regarding the utilization of AI techniques to improve the diagnosis of arrhythmia.
    Methods: We extracted data published 2004 to 2021 from Web of Science database. The online analytic platform, Literature Metrology (http://bibliometric.com), was used to analyze publication trends, including information about journals, authors, institutions, collaborations between countries, citations, and keywords.
    Results: Keywords, such as deep learning, electrocardiogram (ECG), and convolutional neural network, have been increasing in frequency over the years. The analysis outcomes demonstrated that topics associated with AI, robotic prosthesis, and big data analysis for arrhythmia have become increasingly popular since 2016. Our study also found that atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular arrhythmia were the two ECG signal sharing the most interest.
    Conclusions: The utility of deep learning in diagnostics and the prognostication of arrhythmia has been gaining traction over the years, covering areas from electrocardiogram detection to atrial arrhythmogenesis model construction. Our study revealed the trend of topics from 2004 to 2021, which may help researchers to monitor future trends.
    Keywords:  Artificial intelligence (AI); arrhythmia; artificial neural network (ANN); bibliometric analysis; electrocardiogram
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd-21-1767
  24. Semin Ophthalmol. 2022 Jun 13. 1-2
    The Relative Citation Ratio: A Brief Primer on the National institutes of Health-Supported Bibliometric.
    Parth A Patel, Mohammad Javed Ali.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/08820538.2022.2088981
  25. Educ Inf Technol (Dordr). 2022 Jun 06. 1-24
    Detecting latent topics and trends in blended learning using LDA topic modeling.
    Bin Yin, Chih-Hung Yuan.
      With the rapid application of blended learning around the world, a large amount of literature has been accumulated. The analysis of the main research topics and development trends based on a large amount of literature is of great significance. To address this issue, this paper collected abstracts from 3772 eligible papers published between 2003 and 2021 from the Web of Science core collection. Through LDA topic modeling, abstract text content was analyzed, then 7 well-defined research topics were obtained. According to the topic development trends analysis results, the emphasis of topic research shifted from the initial courses about health, medicine, nursing, chemistry and mathematics to learning key elements such as learning outcomes, teacher factors, and presences. Among 7 research topics, the popularity of presences increased significantly, while formative assessment was a rare topic requiring careful intervention. The other five topics had no significant increase or decrease trends, but still accounted for a considerable proportion. Through word cloud analysis technology, the keyword characteristics of each stage and research focus changes of research were obtained. This study provides useful insights and implications for blended learning related research.
    Keywords:  Blended learning; Flipped classroom; Hybrid course; LDA topic modeling; Topic trends; Word cloud
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11118-0
  26. Ecancermedicalscience. 2022 ;16 1380
    Pancreatic cancer in the MENA region, a bibliometric review.
    Hasan Nassereldine, Hussein Awada, Adel Hajj Ali, Mohammad Zeineddine, Zahy Abdul Sater, Yasser Shaib.
       Background: Most Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries record pancreatic cancer incidence rates that are above the world's average. Reducing this burden requires evidence-based policies. This bibliometric review aims to examine the status of pancreatic cancer research in the MENA world, while systematically categorising publications across cancer care pathways.
    Methods: We searched Scopus, Medline and PubMed for peer-reviewed publications related to both pancreatic cancer and MENA countries by using controlled vocabulary and keywords. The results were screened for duplicates and later included in the analysis based on preset eligibility criteria. A structured data extraction form was used to collect data related to each article, its methodology, its cancer care pathway, funding status and authorship.
    Results: A total of 5,848 publications resulted from our search, from which 1,098 articles remained after applying the eligibility criteria. Trends show a steady increase in pancreatic cancer research by MENA. Case reports are the most common, whereas a lack in high-evidence clinical studies as well as public health and epidemiological research was evident. Most studies were not funded and had no female contributions. Funding, if present, came mostly from foreign states. There exists a much greater focus in research on diagnosis and treatment among other cancer care pathways. Most MENA-based studies did not involve collaborations with other countries. Country gross domestic product and population are both correlated to the research output.
    Conclusion: This bibliometric analysis identified significant gaps and limitations in pancreatic cancer research in MENA countries. Vital domains requiring research investment have also been highlighted as a first step towards evidence-based health policies.
    Keywords:  MENA region; bibliometrics; oncology; pancreatic cancer; research
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2022.1380
  27. Cephalalgia. 2022 Jun 14. 3331024221107385
    Effect of Altmetric score on manuscript citations: A randomized-controlled trial.
    Mario Fp Peres, Mark Braschinsky, Arne May.
       BACKGROUND: Alternative metrics to traditional, citation-based metrics are increasingly being used. These are complementary to traditional metrics, like downloads and citations, and give information on how often a given journal article is discussed and used in professional (reference managers) and social networks, such as mainstream media and Twitter. Altmetrics is used in most journals and is available in all indexed headache medicine journals. Whether Altmetrics have an input on traditional, citation-based metrics or whether it is a stand-alone metric system is not clear. Actively promoting a paper through media channels will probably increase the Altmetric score but the question arises whether this will also increase citations and downloads of this individual paper.
    METHODS: Focusing on this point we performed a randomized study in order to test the hypothesis that a promotion intervention would improve citations and other science metric scores. We selected 48 papers published in Cephalalgia from July 2019 to January 2020 and randomized them to either receive an active promotion through social media channels or not. The primary outcome used was the difference between mean article citations with versus without intervention 12 months after the intervention period.
    RESULTS: The results show that the alternative metrics significantly increased for those papers randomly selected to receive an intervention compared to those who did not. This effect was observed in the first 12 months, right after the boosting strategy was performed. The higher promoted paper diffusion in social media lead to a significantly higher number of citations and downloads.
    CONCLUSION: Further promotion strategies should be studied in order to tailor the best cost-benefit intervention.
    Keywords:  Altmetric; Twitter, article promotion, metrics ; headache medicine; scienceometry
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/03331024221107385
  28. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2022 Jun 17. 17456916211072525
    Is Psychological Science Self-Correcting? Citations Before and After Successful and Failed Replications.
    Paul T von Hippel.
      In principle, successful replications should enhance the credibility of scientific findings, and failed replications should reduce credibility. Yet it is unknown how replication typically affects the influence of research. We analyzed the citation history of 98 articles. Each was published by a selective psychology journal in 2008 and subjected to a replication attempt published in 2015. Relative to successful replications, failed replications reduced citations of replicated studies by only 5% to 9% on average, an amount that did not differ significantly from zero. Less than 3% of articles citing the original studies cited the replication attempt. It does not appear that replication failure much reduced the influence of nonreplicated findings in psychology. To increase the influence of replications, we recommend (a) requiring authors to cite replication studies alongside the individual findings and (b) enhancing reference databases and search engines to give higher priority to replication studies.
    Keywords:  citation; goals; history; motivation; replicability; replication; reproducibility; reward; scientific methodology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211072525
  29. Arch Comput Methods Eng. 2022 Jun 10. 1-30
    A Review on the 40 Years of Existence of Data Envelopment Analysis Models: Historic Development and Current Trends.
    Ankita Panwar, Maryam Olfati, Millie Pant, Vaclav Snasel.
      DEA, incepted in 80s, has emerged as a popular decision-making technique, for determining the efficiency of similar units. Due to its simplicity and applicability, DEA has gained the attention of scientists and researchers working in diverse areas, which has contributed towards a rich literature both in terms of theoretical development as well as different applications. This paper tries to bring together the near 40 years of existence of DEA in a concise format by discussing the popular DEA models, their advantages and shortcomings, and different applications of DEA. It also provides a brief bibliometric analysis to highlight the development of DEA over the years in terms of publication trends, highly cited papers, journal citation, etc.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-022-09770-3
  30. Scientometrics. 2022 ;127(6): 3083-3115
    Between panic and motivation: did the first wave of COVID-19 affect scientific publishing in Mediterranean countries?
    Mona Farouk Ali.
      Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that began in the winter of 2020, all communities and activities globally have been positively or negatively affected. This scientometric study raises an interesting question concerning whether the volume and characteristics of scientific publishing in all disciplines in 23 Mediterranean countries have been impacted by the pandemic and whether variations in the cumulative totals of COVID-19 cases have resulted in significant changes in this context. The Scopus database and SciVal tool supplied the necessary data for the years targeted for comparison (2019 and 2020), and the annual growth rates and differences were computed. The study used the Mann-Whitney test to examine the significance of the differences between the two years and the Spearman and Kendall correlation tests to evaluate the effect of the number of infections on these differences for all aspects of scientific performance. The findings demonstrated that the COVID-19 pandemic served as a powerful incentive, and the Mediterranean region experienced considerable differences in the volume and features of publications during this crisis. The most substantial implications were the significant growth from 3.1 to 9.4% in productivity and the increases in the annual growth rates of international collaboration, by 12% for the collaboration among Mediterranean countries and 10% for collaboration with the top ten epidemic countries. It was also proven that some characteristics of the publications were positively correlated with the total number of infections. This investigation can help university leaders and decision-makers in higher education and research institutions in these countries make decisions and implement measures to bridge the gaps and motivate researchers in all fields to conduct more research during this ongoing pandemic.
    Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11192-022-04391-w.
    Keywords:  Bibliometrics; COVID-19; Crisis; Mediterranean countries; Research analysis; Research performance; Scientific publishing; Scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04391-w
  31. JCO Glob Oncol. 2022 Jun;8 e2200020
    Authorship Distribution and Under-Representation of Sub-Saharan African Authors in Global Oncology Publications.
    Hubert Tuyishime, Paula Hornstein, Nwamaka Lasebikan, Fidel Rubagumya, Miriam Mutebi, Temidayo Fadelu.
       PURPOSE: Local researchers must be engaged in research conducted in their populations. However, local authors from low- and middle-income countries are often under-represented in global health journals. This report aims to assess and describe the representation of authors in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Global Oncology (JCO GO).
    METHODS: This retrospective cross-sectional study describes data from JCO GO articles published between October 2015 and March 2020. Data were collected on studied countries, authorship position, classified as first, middle, or last, and country of authors' institutional affiliations. Countries were then categorized on the basis of their World Bank region and income classifications. We describe aggregate authorship distribution and distribution by region and income classification. Additionally, we explore the relationships between author's country and studied country.
    RESULTS: Of the 608 articles identified, 420 (69.1%) studied a single country population. Although articles represented studies from all World Bank regions, the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region accounted for the highest number (n = 145; 34.5%). In all other regions except SSA, most of the first (66.7%-100%) and last authors (56.6%-95.2%) had primary institutional affiliations based in the same region as the studied country. However, among articles about SSA countries, SSA first authors (n = 65; 44.8%) and last authors (n = 59; 40.7%) were under-represented. In fact, there were more North American first (n = 74; 51.0%) and last authors (n = 72; 49.6%) than SSA authors. There was higher SSA representation among middle authors (n = 97; 68.8%) in studies from the region. A similar trend was also noted with the under-representation of authors from low-income compared with high-income countries.
    CONCLUSION: SSA authors are under-represented in global oncology articles. Concerted strategies are needed to build local capacity, promote meaningful engagement, and foster equity.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1200/GO.22.00020
  32. Indian J Med Ethics. 2022 Mar 15. -(-): 1-7
    Evaluation of retracted publications in Dentistry: A systematic review.
    Umesh Wadgave, Mahesh R Khairnar.
       BACKGROUND: The objective of retracting flawed publications is to maintain the integrity of scientific literature. Retractions in the dental literature have been on the rise in recent years. Hence, we aimed to review retracted articles related to dentistry.
    METHODS: A search was conducted of the MEDLINE database for retracted articles in the dental literature published between April 1, 1993 and March 31, 2020. The retracted articles and the notices of retraction were reviewed, and the findings are presented.
    RESULTS: During the selected period, 143 articles were retracted. Redundant publication (n=50, 35%) was the most common reason for retraction, followed by plagiarism (n=43, 30.1%) and data manipulation (n=42, 29.4%). Around 70.6% (n=101) of retracted articles were original articles. Eight (5.6%) of the articles were single authored. The retracted articles have been cited by about 1300 publications, after the date of publication of the retraction notice. The gap between publication and retraction was longer for funded articles than for non-funded articles, and for articles retracted for data manipulation than for articles retracted for other types of misconduct. Twenty-one journals and nine authors retracted two or more papers. The majority of authors of retracted articles (224, 37%) were from India.
    CONCLUSION: Our study showed that the retraction of publications due to misconduct such as duplicate publication, plagiarism, data manipulation is a matter of concern and calls for strict measures to curb the menace of research misconduct.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2022.021
  33. Wirel Pers Commun. 2022 Jun 06. 1-31
    Knowledge Diffusion of the Internet of Things (IoT): A Main Path Analysis.
    Abderahman Rejeb, Karim Rejeb, Suhaiza Hanim Mohamad Zailani, Alireza Abdollahi.
      The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that has attracted significant attention since the emergence of wireless technology. The knowledge diffusion of IoT takes place when an individual disseminates his knowledge of IoT to the persons to whom he is directly connected, and knowledge creation arises when the persons receive new knowledge of IoT, which is combined with their existing knowledge. In the current literature, several efforts have been devoted to summarising previous studies on IoT. However, the rapid development of IoT research necessitates examining the knowledge diffusion routes in the IoT domain by applying the main path analysis (MPA). It is crucial to update prior IoT studies and revisit the knowledge evolution and future research directions in this domain. Therefore, this paper adopts the keyword co-occurrence network and MPA to identify the research hotspots and study the historical development of the IoT domain based on 27,425 papers collected from the Web of Science from 1970 to 2020. The results show that IoT research is focused on IoT applications for smart cities, wireless networks, blockchain technology, computing technologies, and AI technologies. The findings from the MPA address the need to explore the knowledge evolution in the IoT domain. They also provide a valuable guide to disseminate the knowledge of IoT among researchers and practitioners, assisting them to understand the history, present and future trends of IoT development and implementation.
    Keywords:  Co-occurrence cluster; Internet of Things; Knowledge diffusion; Main path analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-09787-8
  34. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2022 ;pii: S0074-02762022000101108. [Epub ahead of print]117 e210376
    The scientific publication of the Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1909-2020): a history of contribution to the biomedical sciences.
    Fabio Batista Mota, Luiza Amara Maciel Braga, Bernardo Pereira Cabral, Renato Matos Lopes, Luiz Anastácio Alves.
       BACKGROUND: The Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (MIOC) is one of the first scientific journals created in Brazil and currently one of the most important biomedical journals in South America. Knowledge of the main themes disseminated over time and its main contributors can contribute towards a better understanding of its trajectory and future.
    OBJECTIVES: Map the journal's scientific publication between 1909 and 2020.
    METHODS: Data from three scientific databases was combined, alongside bibliometrics and network analysis to analyse publication records between 1909 and 2020.
    FINDINGS: Publications increased substantially since the 1980s. The main publishing organisations are Brazilian. Excluding Brazil, the main publishing countries are the USA, Argentina, and Colombia. During the entire investigated period, the main themes refer to Chagas disease, schistosomiasis, and Leishmaniasis. During some periods, publications followed disease outbreaks in Brazil (e.g., dengue fever and yellow fever).
    MAIN CONCLUSIONS: Since its foundation in 1909, the MIOC has focused on infectious and parasitic diseases. The editorial changes implemented from the 1980s onwards led MIOC to a relevant growth concerning annual publications and its transformation into an important communication vehicle for researchers from several Brazilian organisations besides Fiocruz, as well as organisations from other countries, especially within Latin America.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-02760210376
  35. J Educ Perioper Med. 2022 Jan-Mar;24(1):24(1): E680
    Sex Disparity Persists in Pain Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study of Chairpersons Within ACGME-Accredited Chronic Pain Fellowship Programs in the United States.
    Ryan S D'Souza, Roderick King, Natalie Strand, Ross Barman, Oludare Olatoye.
       Objective: To compare the representation of female and male chairpersons and evaluate their respective demographic, academic, and program-related characteristics in academic chronic pain institutions.
    Methods: We identified all chronic pain fellowship programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) on April 19, 2021. We queried institutional websites or contacted programs directly to identify the respective departmental/divisional program chairperson. We abstracted data on program chairpersons from public databases and performed statistical comparisons of demographic, academic, and program-related characteristics between female and male program chairpersons.
    Results: Of the 111 ACGME-accredited chronic pain fellowship programs, we identified the current chairperson at 87 programs (78.4%). There were 17 female chairpersons (19.5%) and 70 male chairpersons (80.5%). A higher proportion of female chairpersons reported an academic rank of assistant professor compared with male chairpersons (35.3% vs 11.4%, P = .027). Male chairpersons published more peer-reviewed articles compared with female chairpersons (median 32.0 vs 10.0 publications, P = .001). Concordantly, male chairpersons achieved a higher H-index score compared with female chairpersons (median 10.0 vs 3.0, P = .001). No differences were identified in other academic or program-related characteristics.
    Conclusion: This cross-sectional study illuminates important details on sex-related differences in the chronic pain program chair role. Women chairpersons are underrepresented, have fewer peer-reviewed publications, and achieved a lower H-index score compared with male chairpersons. Establishing these baseline associations provides a reference for future studies to evaluate changes over time.
    Keywords:  Chronic pain; academic advancement; chairperson; education; leadership
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.46374/volxxiv_issue1_dsouza
  36. Environ Monit Assess. 2022 Jun 12. 194(7): 495
    Feature extraction and classification of climate change risks: a bibliometric analysis.
    Bingsheng Liu, Yufeng Fan, Bin Xue, Tao Wang, Qingchen Chao.
      Risks brought by climate change are inevitable obstacles to global development. Clarifying the features of climate change risks helps us to further understand and cope with climate change. There lacks a systematic review of climate change risks in terms of feature extraction and classification. The bibliometric analysis can be used to analyze and extract climate change risk features. The literature in the field of climate change was searched in the Web of Science database. Coauthors, citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations, and keyword co-occurrence were analyzed. From five dimensions including nature, politics, economy, society, and culture, the risk features of climate change were extracted and summarized. Through text mining and cluster analysis, the climate change risk feature system was established, which is embodied in five different aspects: ecosystem and sustainability; uncertainty, vulnerability, and efficiency; behavior and decision-making; governance and management; and adaptation and mitigation. The feature system reflects that the current climate change risk presents strong variability and that the risk boundary is gradually blurred. The areas affected by risk are expanding and deepening. The strategies and governance for addressing risks are gradually diversified. This research contributes to the domain of climate change risk identification and assessment. The features of climate change indicate that we need to adjust policymaking and managerial practices for climate change in the future. Interdisciplinary cooperation, human cognition and preferences, public participation in global governance, and other unnatural factors related to climate change should be strengthened with a more positive attitude.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; Climate change; Feature system; Governance and management; Risk management
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10074-z
  37. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev. 2022 Jun 01. 6(6):
    Investigation of Fellowship Leadership in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Oncology.
    M Lane Moore, Muhammad Ali Elahi, Matthew K Doan, Jordan R Pollock, Justin L Makovicka, Jeffrey D Hassebrock, Joseph C Brinkman, Karan A Patel.
       INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to determine the objective characteristics of orthopaedic musculoskeletal oncology fellowship directors (FDs) by concentrating on the demographics, academic background, institutional history, research experience, and professional affiliations of these leaders.
    METHODS: Data were collected for each FD through institutional biographies or publicly available curriculum vitae. The data collected for each FD included demographic, professional, and research information.
    RESULTS: Of the 19 FDs, 15 (78.9%) were male, and 4 (21.1%) were female. The mean age for all FDs was 49.2 ± 9.1 years. Most FDs were White (n = 16; 84.2%). The mean Scopus H-index, total number of citations, and total number of publications among all 19 FDs were 21.6 ± 13.8, 2,290.6 ± 2,709.0, and 84.0 ± 54.7, respectively. The mean number of years serving in the FD role was 7.1 ± 9.1 years, and the mean number of years that the FD was employed at his/her current institution was 11.1 ± 8.1 years.
    CONCLUSION: This study shows that orthopaedic musculoskeletal oncology FDs were mainly White (84.2%), male (78.9%), and in their late 40s; have filled their role as FD for an average of 7.1 years; and are very productive in research.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/e22.00039
  38. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jun 21. 119(25): e2119086119
    Dynamics of cross-platform attention to retracted papers.
    Hao Peng, Daniel M Romero, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát.
      Retracted papers often circulate widely on social media, digital news, and other websites before their official retraction. The spread of potentially inaccurate or misleading results from retracted papers can harm the scientific community and the public. Here, we quantify the amount and type of attention 3,851 retracted papers received over time in different online platforms. Comparing with a set of nonretracted control papers from the same journals with similar publication year, number of coauthors, and author impact, we show that retracted papers receive more attention after publication not only on social media but also, on heavily curated platforms, such as news outlets and knowledge repositories, amplifying the negative impact on the public. At the same time, we find that posts on Twitter tend to express more criticism about retracted than about control papers, suggesting that criticism-expressing tweets could contain factual information about problematic papers. Most importantly, around the time they are retracted, papers generate discussions that are primarily about the retraction incident rather than about research findings, showing that by this point, papers have exhausted attention to their results and highlighting the limited effect of retractions. Our findings reveal the extent to which retracted papers are discussed on different online platforms and identify at scale audience criticism toward them. In this context, we show that retraction is not an effective tool to reduce online attention to problematic papers.
    Keywords:  collective attention; retraction; science of science; scientific misinformation
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119086119
  39. Front Oncol. 2022 ;12 905770
    Gaps and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence Applications for Pediatric Oncology in European Research: A Systematic Review of Reviews and a Bibliometric Analysis.
    Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Francesco Fabozzi, Megan Eckley, Ileana Croci, Vito Andrea Dell'Anna, Erica Colantonio, Angela Mastronuzzi.
      The application of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is emerging in many fields in recent years, due to the increased computing power available at lower cost. Although its applications in various branches of medicine, such as pediatric oncology, are many and promising, its use is still in an embryonic stage. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the state of the art regarding the AI application in pediatric oncology, through a systematic review of systematic reviews, and to analyze current trends in Europe, through a bibliometric analysis of publications written by European authors. Among 330 records found, 25 were included in the systematic review. All papers have been published since 2017, demonstrating only recent attention to this field. The total number of studies included in the selected reviews was 674, with a third including an author with a European affiliation. In bibliometric analysis, 304 out of the 978 records found were included. Similarly, the number of publications began to dramatically increase from 2017. Most explored AI applications regard the use of diagnostic images, particularly radiomics, as well as the group of neoplasms most involved are the central nervous system tumors. No evidence was found regarding the use of AI for process mining, clinical pathway modeling, or computer interpreted guidelines to improve the healthcare process. No robust evidence is yet available in any of the domains investigated by systematic reviews. However, the scientific production in Europe is significant and consistent with the topics covered in systematic reviews at the global level. The use of AI in pediatric oncology is developing rapidly with promising results, but numerous gaps and challenges persist to validate its utilization in clinical practice. An important limitation is the need for large datasets for training algorithms, calling for international collaborative studies.
    Keywords:  CNS tumors; artificial intelligence; childhood cancer; deep learning; machine learning; pediatric oncology
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.905770
  40. Curr Rev Clin Exp Pharmacol. 2022 Jun 09.
    Clinical studies that initiated the use of spinal opioids for the treatment of pain: A new approach to historical review.
    Igor Kissin.
      Opioids administered into the spinal space by intrathecal or epidural routes can provide potent and prolonged selective analgesia. Compared to the systemic administration of opioids, spinal administration can bring about analgesia with fewer central and systemic adverse effects. For the past 40 years, spinal opioid analgesia has achieved great popularity in various fields of pain treatment. The aim of this work is to identify clinical studies that initiated the use of spinal opioids for the treatment of pain. To determine the historical role of each of the review's studies we used the combination of two factors: the study priority in terms of the time of its publication and the degree of its acknowl-edgement in the form of citation impact. The date of publication was regarded as the primary factor, but only if the count of citations indicated a sufficient acknowledgement by the other authors. The citation impact was assessed as the initial citation count - for period of five years after the year of article publication - and the total count. The selection of studies most important for the introduction of spinal opioids to clinical practice was based on two factors - the study priority in terms of the time of its publication and the degree of acknowledgement in the form of citation impact. The date of publication was regarded as the primary factor, but only if the citation count was indicative of sufficient acknowledgement by other authors. Analysis of the related data shows that the clinical studies initiating the use of spinal opioids for the treatment of pain belong to two groups of authors - Wang et al. and Behar et al. Both studies were published in 1979 and described delivery of morphine into the spinal space, although the techniques of administration were different: Wang et al. injected morphine intrathecally, Behar et al. administered morphine epidurally. The response to these studies was overwhelming -- close to a dozen reports on this topic were published in 1979 and more than a hundred - in 1980-1981. The total citation response to the Wang et al. article reached 699, and that to Behar et al. - 518. Two earlier records (1900-1901) of the use of intrathecal morphine, by Nicolae Racoviceanu-Pitesti and Otojiro Kitagawa, found no following in medical literature for more than three quarters of a century.
    Keywords:  Citation impact; Clinical trials; Epidural analgesia; Intrathecal analgesia; Opioids; Priority rules
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2174/2772432817666220609093243
  41. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2022 Mar;32(2): 235-242
    Latin American Scientific Production on COVID-19 Vaccines.
    Ronald M Hernández, Renzo Felipe Carranza Esteban, Oscar Mamani-Benito, Josué Edison Turpo Chaparro, Miguel A Saavedra-López, Xiomara M Calle-Ramirez, Margarita Wong-Fajardo, Osmer Campos-Ugaz.
       Background: Currently, there is a worldwide health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic; consequently, it is necessary to find effective vaccines in order to immunize the population and prevent the transmission of the disease. Likewise, it is important to know vaccine progress and efficacy research, mainly in Latin American countries where no studies have been conducted yet to know the scientific production on COVID-19.
    Methods: A retrospective and descriptive study was carried out and COVID-19 vaccine publications in Scopus-indexed journals were considered as a unit of analysis for the period between 2020 and June 2021, with authors affiliated to Latin American institutions.
    Results: We found 141 published Scopus-indexed COVID-19 vaccine articles with authors affiliated to Latin American institutions. Brazil has the highest scientific production with 33.33%, followed by Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Chile. Regarding productivity by institution, 137 international institutions have participated in the Latin American COVID-19 vaccine production. The journals with the highest number of published articles are Vaccines and Vaccine. Both journals are located in Q1 of the SJR. The most frequently used descriptor was coronavirus disease 2019.
    Conclusion: The Latin American scientific production on COVID-19 vaccines included 141 published Scopus-indexed articles. Likewise, Brazil is the Latin American country with the highest scientific production.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Latin America; Scientific production; Vaccine
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i2.3
  42. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jun 15.
    Identifying global trends and gaps in research on pesticide fipronil: a scientometric review.
    Sandrieli Gonçalves, Marina Wust Vasconcelos, Thaís Fernandes Mendonça Mota, Juliana Marceli Hofma Lopes, Larissa Juliane Guimaraes, Karina Silvia Beatriz Miglioranza, Nédia de Castilhos Ghisi.
      Fipronil is a broad potent insecticide that belongs to the phenylpyrazole chemical family. Its action mode acting in the presynaptic and postsynaptic blocking the chlorine ions by the neurotransmitters GABA. It is considered highly toxic, and in some countries, its use has been prohibited. The objective of this review is to perform a scientometric analysis for global measurement of the research on the insecticide fipronil. All information in this study was searched in the Web of Science (WoS) database in December 2021. The search was carried using the term "fipronil." Thus, 2362 studies were selected. Most selected articles showed toxicity effects of fipronil on non-target organisms, analytical methods to detect the insecticide, environmental degradation processes, and efficiency in reducing insects through its use. The H index for this dataset was 91. The cooperation network of the authors among countries showed the USA as the most notorious, with 30.6% of studies, followed by China (15.7%) and Brazil (10.9%). There are many studies on the toxicity of fipronil in bees, forms of degradation, and effectiveness of this insecticide. The present work presents suggestions pointed out in the articles for further research and highlights the importance of studies involving fipronil, as well as studies of alternative pest control.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; Environment risk; Insecticide; Phenylpyrazoles; Toxicity. Bibliometrix
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21135-8
  43. Behav Anal Pract. 2022 Jun;15(2): 592-607
    Women in Behavior Analysis: A Review of the Literature.
    Katarina Rotta, Anita Li, Emily S L Curiel, Hugo Curiel, Alan Poling.
      Women have played, and continue to play, an important role in behavior analysis. Their participation as authors of journal articles and as journal editors was first quantified in 1983 and has been the topic of several subsequent articles. Other articles have addressed other aspects of women's participation in the discipline, but no review of articles concerned with women in behavior analysis has appeared. The present review (a) describes articles that quantified the participation of women, (b) presents a novel data set providing an updated overview of women's participation in eight behavior-analytic journals, (c) reviews suggestions from prominent female behavior analysts, (d) discusses other topics that pertain to the participation of women, (e) presents data describing the gender of authors who have written about women in behavior analysis, and (f) makes suggestions for future research. Women's participation in behavior analysis has increased greatly over the past half-century. The articles we review clearly document that increase and may have contributed to it, although that contribution is speculative.
    Keywords:  authors; behavior analysis; editors; gender; women
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-021-00642-z
  44. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 Jul 01. 90(S1): S32-S40
    Data Velocity in HIV-Related Implementation Research: Estimating Time From Funding to Publication.
    Sheree R Schwartz, Joel Chavez Ortiz, Justin D Smith, Laura K Beres, Aaloke Mody, Ingrid Eshun-Wilson, Nanette Benbow, Deepthi P Mallela, Stephen Tan, Stefan Baral, Elvin Geng.
       BACKGROUND: Given available effective biomedical and behavioral prevention and treatment interventions, HIV-related implementation research (IR) is expanding. The rapid generation and dissemination of IR to inform guidelines and practice has the potential to optimize the impact of the Ending the Epidemic Initiative and the HIV pandemic response more broadly.
    METHODS: We leveraged a prior mapping review of NIH-funded awards in HIV and IR from January 2013 to March 2018 and identified all publications linked to those grants in NIH RePORTER through January 1, 2021 (n = 1509). Deduplication and screening of nonoriginal research reduced the count to 1032 articles, of which 952 were eligible and included in this review. Publication volume and timing were summarized; Kaplan-Meier plots estimated time to publication.
    RESULTS: Among the 215 NIH-funded IR-related awards, 127 of 215 (59%) published original research directly related to the grant, averaging 2.0 articles (SD: 3.3) per award, largely in the early IR phases. Many articles (521 of 952, 55%) attributed to grants did not report grant-related data. Time from article submission to publication averaged 205 days (SD: 107). The median time-to-first publication from funding start was 4 years. Data dissemination velocity varied by award type, trending toward faster publication in recent years. Delays in data velocity included (1) time from funding to enrollment, (2) enrollment length, and (3) time from data collection completion to publication.
    CONCLUSION: Research publication was high overall, and time-to-publication is accelerating; however, over 40% of grants have yet to publish findings from grant-related data. Addressing bottlenecks in the production and dissemination of HIV-related IR would reinforce its programmatic and policy relevance in the HIV response.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000002963
  45. Comput Inform Nurs. 2022 May 13.
    Identifying the Knowledge Structure and Trends of Nursing Informatics: A Text Network Analysis.
    Jinah Park, Jinkyung Park.
      With the advent of the information age and technological development, the importance of digital health technologies has increased. Subsequently, nursing informatics has been developed to enhance the effectiveness of healthcare information management and communication. This study aimed to identify the nursing informatics knowledge structure and research trends through quantitative analysis using text network analysis. Here, we analyzed 14 225 studies published by 2020. The knowledge structure of nursing informatics and changes therein were clarified by identifying and analyzing the core keywords, topics, and changes in the topics of related studies over time. We identified "patient," "health," "system," and "information" as core keywords connecting other keywords. Over time, the networks between "information," "communication," and "technology" strengthened, and "patient safety" and "quality" have recently emerged as research keywords. This change indicates an increase in the importance of nursing education on technology. Similar changes appeared in the topic analysis, showing an increased proportion of research related to system and technology and nursing education. These results can broaden a systematic understanding of nursing informatics research. Furthermore, given these findings, the importance of nursing informatics on patient safety and nursing education-based on the development of systems and technology-can be expected to continue growing.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000000919
  46. J Dent. 2022 Jun 08. pii: S0300-5712(22)00239-1. [Epub ahead of print] 104183
    Publication bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Dentistry. What factors affect statistical significance of outcomes?
    Filippos Mikelis, Giorgos N Tzanetakis, Theodore Eliades, Despina Koletsi.
       OBJECTIVES: To record the proportion of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) reporting significant (versus non- significant) primary outcomes, published across 12 high impact journals in Dentistry, covering 6 specialty domains. Associations with certain journal, publication and outcome characteristics were examined.
    METHODS: We identified and included all RCTs published from January 1st, 2017 to December 31st, 2021 in the two journals with the highest impact factors (Clarivate Analytics, 2020) from each of the following domains: Periodontology, Endodontics, Restorative Dentistry/ Prosthodontics, Orthodontics, Paediatric Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The primary outcome was the proportion of significant/ non- significant findings reported for the primary outcomes under study, while a range of characteristics such as: journal, year of publication, impact factor, funding, registration and others, were tested for associations.
    RESULTS: A total of 474 RCTs were identified and included, with the majority reporting statistically significant outcomes (321/474; 67.7%). The multivariable model revealed significant effects of predictors related to specialty domain (p=0.01), continent (p=0.003) and registration (p=0.004). Compared to Periodontology, RCTs published in Endodontics (OR= 0.40; 95%CIs: 0.22, 0.76) and Orthodontics (OR= 0.41; 95%CIs: 0.23, 0.74) were less likely to present statistically significant effects. There was strong evidence that registered trials presented lower odds of reporting statistically significant findings (OR= 0.52; 95%CIs: 0.34, 0.81).
    CONCLUSIONS: The entirety of dentistry domains demonstrated preferential publication practices of outcomes considered as "successful" and statistically significant, with domains such as Orthodontics and Endodontics being more balanced. Trial non- registration is still prevalent and associated with reporting of statistically significant effects.
    CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The findings of this empirical report bring attention to the interpretation of Systematic Reviews (SRs) conclusions. These largely depend on the availability and nature of outcomes of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on a topic, which may impact on the synthesized estimate of a pooled effect and its direction.
    Keywords:  RCT; Randomized controlled trials; dentistry; publication bias; statistical significance
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdent.2022.104183
  47. Riv Psichiatr. 2022 May-Jun;57(3):57(3): 115-122
    The assessment of interprofessional practice in mental health nursing with ethnographic observation and social network analysis: a confirmatory and bibliometric network study using VOSviewer.
    Carlo Lazzari, Sean McAleer, Marco Rabottini.
       INTRODUCTION: Despite numerous techniques for assessing mental health nursing abilities and accomplishments, most practice in psychiatric wards is based on observable clinical behaviours and actions. VOSviewer can perform bibliographic network analysis (BNA), extracting all central topics that identify core behavioural skills in mental health nursing and essential elements in interprofessional practice (IPP).
    AIM: The current study captures the critical concepts in mental health nursing assessment by performing a BNA of essential topics on ethnography, social network analysis, and interprofessional care.
    METHODS: A qualitative BNA with a VOSviewer extracted relevant topics from a total of 542 articles obtained from Microsoft API. A subsequent confirmatory quantitative analysis with NVIVO weighed the percentages of the relevant issues and words extracted by the VOSviewer. Boolean keywords searched were 'ethnography,' 'social network analysis,' 'interprofessional', 'psychiatry' and 'hospital'.
    RESULTS: Major themes identified in ethnography, IPP, and social network analysis for nursing assessment were those of 'communication' (11.63%), 'whole' (9.29%), 'knowledge' (7.66%), 'person' (7.52%), 'activity' (6.31%) and 'collaboration' (6.10%).
    DISCUSSION: The current study has proven the value of BNA in extracting relevant topics in target literature. VOSviewer captured salient issues in mental health nursing assessment, including ethnographic observations, social network analysis, and IPP. The results confirmed the value of focusing on collaborative care, reciprocity, knowledge management, and information sharing in assessing mental health nursing performances.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1708/3814.37989
  48. Front Public Health. 2022 ;10 899705
    Tracing the Trends of General Construction and Demolition Waste Research Using LDA Modeling Combined With Topic Intensity.
    Zezhou Wu, Peiying Xie, Jinming Zhang, Baojian Zhan, Qiufeng He.
      The study of construction and demolition waste (CDW) has attracted more and more attentions with the increasing CDW pollution caused by the large-scale infrastructure construction. This study used the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) combined with topic intensity to discover hot topics and development trends in the study area of CDW. First, the LDA was used for topic modeling to extract the existing topics from textual data. Second, the topic intensity was calculated for the extracted topics and the numerical values of the topic intensity represented the popularity of the topics. In this study, 4 topics were extracted from 1,849 relevant articles through the LDA modeling and topic intensity calculation. The results showed that the topic of "CDW management" had an upward trend. Topics such as "recycled aggregate," "environmental impact," and "study of CDW on soil" all showed a downward trend. The methods of this study can dig into the topics of CDW study and help scholars to engage in this field for better understanding the prevalence and evolution trends of these topics.
    Keywords:  construction and demolition waste; linear discriminant analysis; research trend; topic intensity; topic modeling
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.899705
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