Bibliometric Research in Occupational Health

Density-Equalizing Mapping and Scientometric Benchmarking in INDUSTRIAL HEALTH

“…Smith et al and Sawada et al recently addressed the issue of bibliometric research in occupational health 1,2) . It was elegantly demonstrated that bibliometrics -which is defined as the use of mathematical techniques to investigate publishing and communication patterns in the distribution of information -has been an established approach in occupational and industrial health for about two decades.…”

“…While the gain of knowledge concerning these studies was recently summarized by Smith et al 1) and there are also reports on publishing trends and citation indexing available 10,11) , novel scientometric techniques in combination with visualizing techniques have not been implemented so far. Therefore, the present study was designed to visualize research activity using INDUSTRIAL HEALTH articles and density equalizing procedures in combination with classical bibliometric techniques in accordance to the NewQIS protocols 12,13) .…”

Highly Cited Articles in Environmental and Occupational Health, 1919–1960

“…Counting the number of times that an individual article, author, or journal has been cited by others, and who has been cited more than who, now represents one of the largest subdisciplines of bibliometrics. 1 Increasing academic interest, and perhaps general curiosity, has also been focused on papers in a particular journal or field that have attracted an unusually high proportion of all citations, the so called highly cited articles. Another term commonly used to describe the same thing, citation classics, was coined by Eugene Garfield in the late 1970s.…”

Creating Environmental and Occupational Health: A Journal and the Field it Shaped, 1919–2009

“…21 Citations are now seen as the "currency" of modern science, 22 and as such, the third article of this supplement 23 examines the most highly cited articles published during the journal's early days, between 1919 and 1960. Given the rise of bibliometric indicators in assessing longitudinal journal performance, 24 the fourth article describes a citation-based analysis of the longest-running and perhaps most famous incarnation of the AEOH, the Archives of Environmental Health (AEH), which ran between 1960 and 2004. 25 This complements a previous paper from the AEOH, 26 where a bibliometric analysis of 5 contemporary EOH journals between 1985 and 2006 was described in detail.…”

“…32 The reverse is now true, with modern scientific articles being increasingly tailored to "human-readable aliquots," 33 and bibliometric research now a firmly entrenched part of EOH. 24 On the other hand, it is important to remember that scientific achievement cannot always be evaluated by numbers alone, and for this reason it is important to view citation analysis in a wider context. As Albert Einstein was reputed to have said: "not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."…”