Browsing by Subject "Authorship trends"

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    Characterization of the highly cited articles published by a genetics research department: an exploratory study.
    (2021-05-24) Ramirez, Mirian; Whipple, Elizabeth C.
    OBJECTIVES: To identify and assess highly cited papers included in the Web of Science Essential Science Indicators, this study looked at authors affiliated with a specific department at a School of Medicine from 2010-2019. For this study, we examined authorship characteristics, including female authorship trends, subject trends, and intramural and extramural co-authorship networks. This approach aims to highlight research impact trends to inform the department's leaders in decision-making for future publication and research strategy development directions. METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric analysis of publications from faculty in a specific department at a School of Medicine over the last ten years (2010-2019). The searches were conducted in June 2020. We used a three-phase approach to find those departmental articles ranked as "highly cited papers" in the Web of Science (WoS) "Essential Science Indicators" database: Phase 1. We queried Scopus to gather publications listing the author's departmental affiliation; Phase 2. Queried the WoS Core Collection for all the citations resulted in the Scopus search and limited the search to return only the publications identified as "Highly Cited" papers; Phase 3. Used PubMed to compile funding information due to its more standardized format of reported funding support. We utilized the OpenRefine tool to perform cleanup and cluster the author name lists and Excel to work with datasets of bibliometric data. CONCLUSIONS: For the 2010-2019 time frame, a total of 1,077 articles (original articles and review articles) were published by this department, with 37 documents identified as Highly Cited, categorized by WoS Essential Indicators. Identified documents were categorized under ten research fields and were published in 17 journals, from diverse WoS subject categories, including Neuroscience, Oncology, and Genetics research fields. The results show that Highly cited articles were published in 17 high-impact journals ranked in Q1 and Q2. Indicative of that, the highly cited papers have a strong relationship between the impact factors. 38% of the documents correspond to case-control studies. Topics covering "Genome-wide Association Study", "Genetic predisposition to disease," and Polymorphism, single nucleotide" are among the most used MeSH terms ."
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    Comparative analysis of authorship trends in the Journal of Hand Surgery European and American volumes: A bibliometric analysis
    (Elsevier, 2020-05-24) Peters, Alexander W.; Savaglio, Michael K.; Gunderson, Zachary J.; Adam, Gremah; Milto, Anthony J.; Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Loder, Randall T.; Kacena, Melissa A.; Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine
    Background The purpose of this study was to better understand the authorship publishing trends in the field of hand surgery. To accomplish this, a comparative analysis was completed between the European and American volumes of the Journal of Hand Surgery (JHSE and JHSA) over the past three decades. Well-established bibliometric methods were used to examine one representative year from each of the past three decades. The focus of the study was to examine changes in author gender over time as well as to compare authorship trends across the two volumes. Materials and methods All JHSA and JHSE publications from 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015 were placed into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Data was collected for each publication including the gender of first and corresponding authors, corresponding author position, corresponding author country of origin, number of credited institutions, authors, printed pages, and references. Countries were grouped by regions. Results A total of 450 and 763 manuscripts from JHSE and JHSA, respectively, met inclusion criteria. JHSE and JHSA both showed increases in most variables analyzed over time. Both journals showed an increase in female first and corresponding authors. JHSE and JHSA displayed a rise in collaboration between institutions and countries. Conclusions Both JHSE and JHSA display increasing female inclusion in the hand surgery literature, which has traditionally been a male dominated field. The observed increase in collaboration between institutions and countries is likely linked to advances in technology that allow sharing of information more conveniently and reliably than was previously possible. As further advances are made socially and technologically, hopefully these trends will continue, leading to faster and higher quality research being generated in the field of hand surgery.