Citation analysis of scientific categories

Abstract

Databases catalogue the corpus of research literature into scientific categories and report classes of bibliometric data such as the number of citations to articles, the number of authors, journals, funding agencies, institutes, references, etc. The number of articles and citations in a category are gauges of productivity and scientific impact but a quantitative basis to compare researchers between categories is limited. Here, we compile a list of bibliometric indicators for 236 science categories and citation rates of the 500 most cited articles of each category. The number of citations per paper vary by several orders of magnitude and are highest in multidisciplinary sciences, general internal medicine, and biochemistry and lowest in literature, poetry, and dance. A regression model demonstrates that citation rates to the top articles in each category increase with the square root of the number of articles in a category and decrease proportionately with the age of the references: articles in categories that cite recent research are also cited more frequently. The citation rate correlates positively with the number of funding agencies that finance the research. The category h-index correlates with the average number of cites to the top 500 ranked articles of each category (R2=0.997). Furthermore, only a few journals publish the top 500 cited articles in each category: four journals publish 60% (σ=±20%) of these and ten publish 81% (σ=±15%).

Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Thermogravimetric analysis—TGA

“…Most articles were in the category of polymer science with 2036 occurrences followed by multidisciplinary materials science (1743), multidisciplinary chemistry (1499), physical chemistry (1454), and chemical engineering (1153). Coincidentally, these are among the categories that publish the most articles in WoS …”

“…Coincidentally, these are among the categories that publish the most articles in WoS. [23] Of the top 10 000 cited articles, only 1153 were from chemical engineering journals and it was ranked in only 5 of the 112 categories that refer to the technique. VOSViewer software grouped keywords into five clusters based on bibliometric data (Figure 7).…”

Chemical engineering research synergies across scientific categories

“…[18,15] Chemical engineers cite more indexed journals compared to mechanical and civil engineering; WoS indexes 75 % of the documents that they cite. The number of citations an article accrues correlates with N refarticles with the most references are cited most often.…”

“…The number of citations an article accrues correlates with N refarticles with the most references are cited most often. [18,15] Chemical engineers cite more indexed journals compared to mechanical and civil engineering; WoS indexes 75 % of the documents that they cite. It only indexes 40 % of the documents Table 1.…”

Meta‐Analytic Research in Management: Contemporary Approaches, Unresolved Controversies, and Rising Standards

“…Meta-analyses are also read and cited. The average meta-analysis in the Aguinis et al (2011) review was cited 8.47 times per year, which is almost twice the number of annual citations received by the 500 top cited papers in management (see Patience et al, 2017).…”