Bibliometric analysis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related research in the beginning stage

Chiu, Wen Ta; Huang, Jiejie; Ho, Yuh‐Shan

doi:10.1023/b:scie.0000037363.49623.28

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“…Of these documents, 70% were research articles, 10% reviews, 7.8% news items, 4.7% meeting abstracts, 4.5% editorial material, 3.9% proceedings papers, 1.6% letters, 0.62% corrections, 0.49% notes, 0.43% reprints, 0.12% book chapters and 0.062% biographical-items. The percentage of articles related to Ebola was lower than general medically-related fields, such as asthma in children 14 and Japanese lung cancer research 15 , but was much higher than special infection research of severe acute respiratory syndrome 16 and Helicobacter pylori 17 . It was also noticeable that the document type, 'news items', took the third position.…”

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bibliometric analysis of research on Ebola in Science Citation Index Expanded

Pouris¹,

Ho²

2017

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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An unprecedented outbreak of the Ebola virus in 2014 claimed more than 1000 lives in West Africa and the World Health Organization declared a global public health emergency. This outbreak will undoubtedly promote additional research related to the Ebola virus and will create debate related to experimental drugs. This article identified the quantum of research in the field since 1991; the scientific disciplines that contributed to the field; the countries, organisations and authors that supported such research and the most cited articles. An increasing trend in annual production during 1991–2013 was observed. Journal of Virology, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Virology were the three most productive journals in the field. Similarly, the field of virology dominated the 73 categories in which the Ebola research was classified. A total of 63 countries contributed to Ebola-related research, led by the USA. The most productive institutions were the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. African countries were more likely to be involved in international collaboration than independent research. The most influential article exhibited a notable citation pattern and presented global trends in emerging infectious diseases.

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“…It was also noticeable that the document type, 'news items', took the third position. A high percentage of news items could also be found in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) research 16 , which was studied after its outbreak in 2003 18 .…”

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bibliometric analysis of research on Ebola in Science Citation Index Expanded

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Ho²

2017

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“…Tian et al (2008) used the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database to measure scientific output of the field of Geographic Information System (GIS) using keywords. Similar approaches have been made to map knowledge evolution in other fields, such as software engineering (Coulter et al 1998), chemistry (Callon et al 1991), scientometrics (Courtial 1994), neural network research (Noyons and Van Raan 1998;Van Raan and Tijssen 1993), biological safety (Cambrosio et al 1993), optomechatronics (Noyons and Van Raan 1994), bioeletronics (Hinze 1994), adverse drug reactions (Rikken et al 1995;Clarke et al 2007), biotechnology (Rip and Courtial 1984;De Looze and Lemarié 1997), environmental science (Ho 2007), condensed matter physics (Bhattacharya and Basu 1998), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), tsunami (Chiu et al 2004;Chiu and Ho 2007), and Parkinson's disease (Li et al 2008).…”

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Mapping knowledge structure by keyword co-occurrence: a first look at journal papers in Technology Foresight

2010

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This study proposes an approach for visualizing a knowledge structure, the proposed approach creates a three-dimensional ''Research focused parallelship network'', a ''Keyword Co-occurrence Network'', and a two-dimensional knowledge map to facilitate visualization of the knowledge structure created by journal papers from different perspectives. The networks and knowledge maps can be depicted differently by choosing different information as the network actor, e.g. author, institute or country keyword, to reflect knowledge structures in micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, respectively. Technology Foresight is selected as an example to illustrate the method proposed in this study. A total of 556 author keywords contained in 181 Technology Foresight related papers have been analyzed. European countries, China, India and Brazil are located at the core of Technology Foresight research. Quantitative ways of mapping journal papers are investigated in this study to unveil emerging elements as well as to demonstrate dynamics and visualization of knowledge. The quantitative method provided in this paper shows a possible way of visualizing and evaluating knowledge structure; thus a computerized calculation is possible for potential quantitative applications, e.g. R&D resource allocation, research performance evaluation, science map, etc.

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“…Bibliometric analyses can reveal temporal dynamics of scholarly outputs, spatial and institutional distributions of publications, scientific collaborations, and major research directions [30][31][32]. The traditional bibliometric methods usually focus on the citation and content analysis.…”

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