Environmental health research in Europe bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Major advances have been made during recent years in the understanding of associations between health and environment, and of biological, environmental and social mechanisms involved in this association. More emphasis should be placed on investigations of complex environmental health problems such as complex exposures to different pollutants at different levels and their combined health impact in different populations.

Global biodiversity research during 1900–2009: a bibliometric analysis

“…There were 24,845 single-country articles from these six countries, which were responsible for 40.1% of the total 61,418 articles. As is consistent with other bibliometric analyses (Xie et al 2008;Tarkowski 2007;Zhang et al 2010), economic developments were correlated with the academic outputs: the seven industrialized countries (G7 group: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the USA) and four major developing countries (''BRIC'': Brazil, Russia, India, and China) were all among the top list of thirty countries. Although both single-country and internationally collaborative articles increased in the last three decades, the proportion of single-country articles decreased from 90% in the early 1980s to approximately 70% in 2009.…”

“…Bibliometric analyses have been conducted to reveal the global trends of various research fields (Falagas et al 2006;Tarkowski 2007;Xie et al 2008;Li et al 2008). Whereas conventional bibliometric methods center on citation and content analysis, the newly-developed bibliometric analysis evaluates the scholarly outputs of authors, institutions, and countries, and identifies the temporal evolution of research patterns (Chiu and Ho 2007;Li et al 2009;Zhang et al 2009).…”

Social Media Research, Human Behavior, and Sustainable Society

“…The common network analysis includes co-word analysis [33][34][35], co-citation analysis [36,37], co-authorship analysis [38][39][40], and co-publication analysis [41]. Many disciplines have used bibliometric methods to explore the impact of research themes, such as natural science, engineering, business, social sciences, and humanities [42][43][44][45][46]. However, bibliometric studies have not been performed on the comprehensive social media research literature.…”

Bibliometric trends of South African environmental health articles between 1998 and 2015: Making local research visible and retrievable

“…The absolute number of articles retrieved and that met our inclusion criteria seemed low (n=230) for an 18-year period. We compared our findings with a similar 10-year European bibliometric study [11] in which 6 329 articles were included and found that their total represented articles published by 29 countries, so when this figure is averaged by number of countries, on average each country produced 218 articles over 10 years, which is comparable to our findings (despite the European study using a set of MeSH terms including 'environmental health' , 'environmental exposure' , 'environmental illness' or 'environmental epidemiology'). …”

“…Similarly, the University of Cape Town was also the most prolific institution in Africa in terms of collaborating on article publication with other African countries between 2007 and 2011. [11] The majority of retrieved articles were published in international journals with an impact factor of <4 (and ~45% had impact factors of <2). While the impact factor is only one publication metric expressing the impact of research (other metrics exist, but in the present SA academic climate the impact factor holds as much weight as Department of Higher Education accreditation with regard to subsidy for article publication), these low figures do pose the question whether SA environmental health science is visible and accessible nationally and internationally.…”