Does Bradford's Law of Scattering predict the size of the literature in Cochrane Reviews?

Nash-Stewart, Charlotte E; Kruesi, Lisa; Mar, Chris Del

doi:10.3163/1536-5050.100.2.013

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“…The same phenomenon was found for publication patterns that showed a high concentration of articles and citations in a few journals, which is consistent with former studies [16,25,26]. The Ocular Surface is the journal that by far publishes the highest percentage of articles related to DED (31.87%) and should be considered as the most specialized journal in DED.…”

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confidence: 89%

International publication trends in dry eye disease research: A bibliometric analysis

2018

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Purpose: To perform a bibliometric analysis in the field of dry eye disease (DED) research to characterize the current international status of DED research and to identify the most effective actors (journals, countries, authors) involved in this field Methods: Scientometric methods were used to evaluate global scientific production and development trends in DED research using the Web of Science Core Collection Results:The growth of the literature related to DED averaged 12.18% over the last 10 years. A total of 5522 original and review articles, published in 821 different journals, were identified. The USA was the most productive country with 34.53% of the overall articles studied and 46.10% of the overall citations. The Ocular Surface published a very high percentage of articles related to DED relative to the total number of articles published (31.87%). The most productive institutions and the most frequently cited articles were from the USA and Japan. A network visualization map for country collaboration revealed that most European countries developed most of their collaborations with countries belonging to their own continent, which was not the case for the USA or Japan. A total of 41,956 KeyWords Plus were found with an average of 7.6 (SD = 3.15) KeyWords Plus per article Conclusions:This study provides a broad view of the current status and trends in DED research and may help clinicians, researchers and policy makers better understand this research field and predict its dynamic directions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

International publication trends in dry eye disease research: A bibliometric analysis

2018

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“…The number of journals in each group will be proportional to 1: n: n 2 . Although Bradford’s Law is not statistically accurate, librarians commonly use it as a guideline in the research of core journals [ 33 ].…”

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Mapping Publication Trends and Identifying Hot Spots of Research on Internet Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Quantitative and Co-Word Biclustering Analysis

Fan¹,

Li²,

Guan³

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J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundThe Internet has become an established source of health information for people seeking health information. In recent years, research on the health information seeking behavior of Internet users has become an increasingly important scholarly focus. However, there have been no long-term bibliometric studies to date on Internet health information seeking behavior.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to map publication trends and explore research hot spots of Internet health information seeking behavior.MethodsA bibliometric analysis based on PubMed was conducted to investigate the publication trends of research on Internet health information seeking behavior. For the included publications, the annual publication number, the distribution of countries, authors, languages, journals, and annual distribution of highly frequent major MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms were determined. Furthermore, co-word biclustering analysis of highly frequent major MeSH terms was utilized to detect the hot spots in this field.ResultsA total of 533 publications were included. The research output was gradually increasing. There were five authors who published four or more articles individually. A total of 271 included publications (50.8%) were written by authors from the United States, and 516 of the 533 articles (96.8%) were published in English. The eight most active journals published 34.1% (182/533) of the publications on this topic. Ten research hot spots were found: (1) behavior of Internet health information seeking about HIV infection or sexually transmitted diseases, (2) Internet health information seeking behavior of students, (3) behavior of Internet health information seeking via mobile phone and its apps, (4) physicians’ utilization of Internet medical resources, (5) utilization of social media by parents, (6) Internet health information seeking behavior of patients with cancer (mainly breast cancer), (7) trust in or satisfaction with Web-based health information by consumers, (8) interaction between Internet utilization and physician-patient communication or relationship, (9) preference and computer literacy of people using search engines or other Web-based systems, and (10) attitude of people (especially adolescents) when seeking health information via the Internet.ConclusionsThe 10 major research hot spots could provide some hints for researchers when launching new projects. The output of research on Internet health information seeking behavior is gradually increasing. Compared to the United States, the relatively small number of publications indexed by PubMed from other developed and developing countries indicates to some extent that the field might be still underdeveloped in many countries. More studies on Internet health information seeking behavior could give some references for health information providers.

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“…This could be acceptable at a broad-picture level, but recent analyses have demonstrated that it is not true at the topic-specific level. 24 These analyses reinforce the Long Tail principle, which states that in new markets, selling many small-volume items can be more profitable than selling a reduced number high-volume items. 25 Is pharmacy practice research a ‘new market’?…”

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Bradford’s law, the long tail principle, and transparency in Journal Impact Factor calculations

Fernández-Llimós¹

2016

Pharm Pract (Granada)

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Beyond the commonly mentioned limitations of the Journal Impact Factor, we discuss the obsolete principle of selecting journals to create a fake-representative sample of ‘journals that matter’ and the opacity around the calculation and listing of Impact Factors. We use the example of Pharmacy Practice: in 2015 for illustration. We hypothesize that a business-oriented system of measuring the science and quality of scholarly journals may not be the best option to avoid biases and conflicts of interest.

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Does Bradford's Law of Scattering predict the size of the literature in Cochrane Reviews?

Cited by 67 publications

References 40 publications

International publication trends in dry eye disease research: A bibliometric analysis

International publication trends in dry eye disease research: A bibliometric analysis

Mapping Publication Trends and Identifying Hot Spots of Research on Internet Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Quantitative and Co-Word Biclustering Analysis

Bradford’s law, the long tail principle, and transparency in Journal Impact Factor calculations

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