A Bibliometric Analysis of Health and Medical Journals: Issues in Medical Scholarly Communication in Africa

Ezema, Ifeanyi J.; Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire

doi:10.1080/00987913.2016.1182881

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“…The literature reveals that several bibliometric studies have been conducted to evaluate research output in particular subject areas [15][16][17][18][19]. Some other studies are carried out to perform bibliometric analysis on particular journals [20][21][22][23][24]. Further studies are conducted to evaluate the research output of institutions [25][26][27][28].…”

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Research Contribution of the Oldest Seat of Higher Learning in Pakistan: A Bibliometric Analysis of University of the Punjab

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Bibliometric methods are used to access various elements in any data set. Similarly, this study uses a bibliometric method to evaluate the research performance of the University of the Punjab (PU), the oldest university of Pakistan. A peer university from a neighboring country, India, has been selected in this study along with three state-owned universities of Pakistan. The research yield of selected universities was analyzed since their establishment until 2019. The data were retrieved from the Scopus database in February 2020. The guidelines of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education were used to select the peer universities. It has been analyzed that steady progress in research productivity was observed during the 20th century and in the last few years of the 19th century. A focus shift was observed with the onset of the 21st century and a rapid increase in research publications was observed in Pakistani universities. Around 92% of research studies of the University of the Punjab were carried out during the first 20 years of the 21st century and it leads the compared peer universities in terms of the number of research publications and the citations. It is also analyzed that there is a tendency among the authors of studied universities to publish their research articles in subscription-based journals. The authors affiliated with the University of the Punjab are more inclined to publish their research in open access journals as compared to the researchers of other studied universities. It is also observed that publications with single authors received a low average of citations per document while the publications with six or more authors had the highest average citations. The study recommends collaborative efforts for carrying out research and publication in open access journals is encouraged because of greater visibility, access, and impact.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Research Contribution of the Oldest Seat of Higher Learning in Pakistan: A Bibliometric Analysis of University of the Punjab

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“…This is not a good picture concerning the continent’s status in H&M research. Several studies (Ezema, 2010b; Ezema and Onyancha, 2016; Mouton, 2010) have also indicated that Africa’s share of the world’s H&M research is very low.…”

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“…First, journal publishers in Africa, particularly in H&M research, need to create more visibility for their journals through AJO. The number of medical and health journals present in the database is not a fair representation of journals published in Africa when compared with those listed in Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory (Ezema and Onyancha, 2016). In addition, many African journals have not yet adopted online publishing, let alone OA, which results in poor visibility and a lack of wider dissemination as has been reported in a number of articles (Ezema, 2010a; Ezema and Ugwu, 2013).…”

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Citation impact of health and medical journals in Africa: does open accessibility matter?

Ezema

Onyancha

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine whether open accessibility of medical journals published in Africa may influence journals’ citation impact. Design/methodology/approach An evaluative informetric research approach was used to compare 134 health and medical (H&M) journals hosted in the African Journals Online (AJOL) database. Harzing’s Publish or Perish (PoP) software was used to extract the following publication and citation data from Google Scholar: citation counts, number of papers and the h-index of the journals. Three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Findings A total of 65 open access (OA) and 69 non-OA H&M journals of African origin were found in AJOL. Only 20 African countries have journals hosted in AJOL, with more than 53% of them from Nigeria and 13.4% from South Africa. Findings reveal that non-OA H&M journals performed poorly in terms of citations compared with their OA counterparts. The t-test analysis revealed high significant difference in the citations and research impacts of OA and non-OA H&M journals published in Africa. Practical implications The study will assist in collection development in medical and health libraries globally and in Africa particularly. The study will also be a useful guide to journal publishers, health researchers and health workers providing information on where to publish and the journals to subscribe. Social implications Apart from adding to the body of knowledge in scholarly communication in Africa, this study will go a long way in influencing policies in H&M research in Africa. Originality/value AJOL is the only online database hosting journals from all countries in Africa. Unfortunately, the quality and research impact of the journals in the database have not been adequately investigated. The paper adopted an informetric approach to evaluate H&M journals in Africa so as to provide wider insight on the contents and quality of the journals hosted in it.

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“…the early 2000s, the research impacts of journals have been estimated by the citation count which was developed by internationally recognized databases like Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and impact factor and h-index (Hirsch, 2005). Even citations are a globally accepted parameter for the evaluation of research (Ezema and Onyancha, 2016) but now questions have arisen regarding the effectiveness, reliability and perfection of these metrics importantly due to the time lag for accumulation of citations (Priem and Hemminger, 2010; Adie and Roe, 2013; Thelwall et al , 2013). Citation analysis has been used extensively to identify the impact of research quality, particularly the impact analysed for ranking academic institutes at macro levels.…”

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Analysing the relationship between altmetric attention score (AAS) and citation: a correlational study

Borgohain

Yuvaraj²,

Verma³

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the value of altmetrics or other indicators, showcasing the impact of academic output, which is seen too often correlated with the citation count. Design/methodology/approach This study considered three reputed journals of Library and Information Science (LIS) published by Elsevier. A total of 1,164 articles were found in these journals from 2016 to 2020 and the relationships between altmetric attention scores (AAS) and citations were examined. The analysis was extended to compare the grouped data set based on percentile ranks of AAS like top 50%, top 25%, top 10% and top 1%. Findings Using Spearman correlation analysis, the findings reveal a positive correlation between AAS and citations with different significant levels for all articles, and articles with AAS, as well as for normalized AAS in the top 50%, top 25%, top 10% and top 1% data set. For the three journals International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), Journal of Informetrics (JIF) and Library and Information Science Research (LISR), a significant positive correlation is observed across all data sets. But an unexpected result was observed: in the case of the top 50% of articles for the IJIM and JIF showed no significant correlation but the LISR journal showed a positive correlation for the whole data set. This journal though has fewer articles in comparison to the other two. Research limitations/implications A source item that is highly cited may not be having high social media attention as reflected in the findings. This demarcates AAS with citations implying various factors on which these measurements are dependent. The study distinguishes these metrics lucidly. There is not a single guideline or uniformity in assessing the correlation found. But the problem is that the interpretation of the correlation strength affects the conclusion of the study. Moreover, this study will be a role model as a draft for librarians to select relevant journals for their libraries and will facilitate authors in the choice of the publication outlets for their papers, particularly concerning the journals that have both visibility and research impact. Originality/value The study reported devising a comprehensive tool to validate AAS as a measure of scholarly impact to include appropriate social media sources and verify its relationship with other metrics. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to discover the correlation between AAS and citations for the highly impactful LIS journal published by Elsevier. The empirical evidence lies in the citation and altmetric data extracted from the dimension database.

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Health and Medical Journals: Issues in Medical Scholarly Communication in Africa

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Research Contribution of the Oldest Seat of Higher Learning in Pakistan: A Bibliometric Analysis of University of the Punjab

Research Contribution of the Oldest Seat of Higher Learning in Pakistan: A Bibliometric Analysis of University of the Punjab

Citation impact of health and medical journals in Africa: does open accessibility matter?

Analysing the relationship between altmetric attention score (AAS) and citation: a correlational study

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