Scientometric Analysis and Combined Density-Equalizing Mapping of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Research

Vitzthum, Karin; Scutaru, Cristian; Musial-Bright, Lindy; Quarcoo, David; Welte, Tobias; Spallek, Michael; Groneberg‐Kloft, Beatrix

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“…The top three ranking of US, UK, Germany in t1 is not a unique pattern of PH research [53, 54]. It is also visible in numerous other respiratory fields [47] as well as in cardiologic fields [55, 56], in infectious diseases [46, 57], or public health issues [58, 59]. Until 2007 (t1) Japan and France followed the first three countries, whereas in t2 France and China occupied the next places, that means that China replaced Japan in ranking of the top five.…”

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Pulmonary Hypertension: Scientometric Analysis and Density-Equalizing Mapping

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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by the increase of the mean pulmonary arterial pressure in the lung circulation. Despite the large number of experimental and clinical studies conducted on pulmonary hypertension, there is no comprehensive work that analyzed the global research activity on PH so far. We retrieved the bibliometric data of the publications on pulmonary hypertension for two periods from the Web of science database. Here, we set the first investigation period from 1900 to 2007 (t1) due to the cited half life of articles and the relating difficulties to interpret the citation parameters. The second evaluation period (t2) covers the time interval from 2008 onwards including the year 2015. The data were analyzed and processed to density-equalizing maps using the NewQIS platform. A total number of 18,986 publications were identified in t1 that come from 85 countries. The US published the highest number of publications (n = 7,290), followed by the UK, Germany, Japan and France. In t2 19,676 items could be found worked out by 130 countries. The raking started just the same with the USA as most publishing nation with 7,127 publications on PH, followed by the UK and Germany. Japan fell back on 6th place, whereas China came into view on the 5th position. Analyzing the average citation rate as a parameter for research quality, Mexico reached the highest value in t1 and Ireland in t2. While, the country specific h-index underlined the leading position of the US research in both evaluation periods again. The average number of international collaboration items was expanding from none in 1978 to 530 items in 2015 with the USA as the country with the highest number of collaboration articles. The present study is the first large scale density-equalizing mapping and scientometric analysis of global PH research activity. Our data draw a sketch of the global research architecture in this field, indicating a need for specific research programs in countries with a lower human development index.

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Pulmonary Hypertension: Scientometric Analysis and Density-Equalizing Mapping

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“…4 Scientometric analysis of research areas enable studying the growth of a research field and helps in identifying prominent authors, institutes, etc. Such studies have been carried out in many areas [5][6][7] ; however, an analytical study on zebrafish research output has not been carried out so far. A scientometric study of this important organism will enable us to understand the trends in zebrafish research as we use this model organism to explore new research frontiers.…”

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Mapping of Zebrafish Research: A Global Outlook

Kinth

Mahesh²,

Panwar³

2013

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On the basis of analysis of 17,151 records on zebrafish identified from Zebrafish Information Network: the zebrafish model organism database and Web of Science, the research performance on this model organism has been evaluated. The earliest research work on zebrafish as reflected in the databases goes back to 1951. After a rather slow growth till the 1980s, research on zebrafish gained momentum in the 1990s. Analysis shows a rapid and consistent increase in the publication output with 226 publications in the year 1996, to 1929 publications in the year 2012. The prominent areas of zebrafish research, journals, and leading authors as reflected from the research output have been identified. USA is the most productive country with 8196 articles. The most frequently used keywords were also determined to gain insights about the research trends and some of the commonly used keywords other than zebrafish and Danio rerio are development, retina, and gene expression.

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“…I.e. a recent study focussed on a scientometric analysis and combined density-equalizing mapping of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) research [24]. 6,580 ETS-related studies published between 1900 and 2008 were identified in the ISI database and a continuous increase of both quantitative and qualitative parameters was found.…”

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Traffic medicine–related research: a scientometric analysis

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ObjectiveTraffic crashes and related injuries are important causes of morbidity and mortality and impose insofar an important burden on public health. However, research in this area is often under-funded. The aim of this study was to analyse quantity, evolution and geographic distribution of traffic medicine-related research. This multi-sectorial field covers both transport and health care sectors.DesignA scientometric approach in combination with visualizing density equalizing mapping was used to analyse published data related to the field of traffic medicine between 1900 and 2008 within the “Web of Science” (WoS) database.ResultsIn total, 5,193 traffic medicine-associated items were produced between 1900 and 2008. The United States was found to have the highest research activity with a production of n = 2,330 published items, followed by Germany (n = 298) and Canada (n = 219). Cooperation analyses resulted in a peak of published multilateral cooperations in the year of 2003. The country with the highest multilateral activity was the USA. The average number of cited references per publication varied heavily over the last 20 years with a maximum of 27.67 in 1995 and a minimum of 15.08 in 1998. Also, a further in-depth analysis was performed with a focus solely on public health aspects which revealed similar trends.ConclusionsSummarizing the present data it can be stated traffic medicine-related research productivity grows annually. Also, an active networking between countries is present. The data of the present study may be used by scientific organisations in order to gain detailed information about research activities in this field which is extremely important for public health.

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Scientometric Analysis and Combined Density-Equalizing Mapping of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Research

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Pulmonary Hypertension: Scientometric Analysis and Density-Equalizing Mapping

Pulmonary Hypertension: Scientometric Analysis and Density-Equalizing Mapping

Mapping of Zebrafish Research: A Global Outlook

Traffic medicine–related research: a scientometric analysis

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