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Item Altmetrics 101(2016-12-08) Coates, Heather L.Item Analysis of Public Preprint Server Comments on NIH Preprint Pilot Articles(2022-05-04) Sawyer, Amanda; Cruise, Allison; Dolan, Levi; Chatmon, BriannaObjectives: Given the increased prevalence of preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic, this project sought to analyze public comments left on a sample of preprint articles from the NIH Preprint Pilot to determine if they were substantive in nature. Analysis of article titles and qualitative coding of the comments was conducted. This analysis was designed to obtain both quantitative and qualitative measures of comments on a selected group of articles so that the relationship between public commenting and scientific rigor could be explored. Methods: The first 1,000 preprint articles to be indexed in PubMed Central and hosted on two preprint platforms (bioRxiv and medRxiv) were selected. Using the preprint servers’ associated commenting platforms, full text comment threads and Twitter information was obtained, and summary statistics of commenting platforms were produced. From the article sample a total of 494 comments were collected from public commenters using the Disqus platform to provide feedback on the articles. Using the article titles, the authors explored indications of the relationship between article topic and frequency of commenter engagement. Preliminary coding was conducted using a ‘thumbs up/thumbs down’ method and potential categorizations were suggested. Utilizing these suggestions, the authors created and refined a draft codebook. Finally, thirteen categorizations, ten for substantive comments and three for not substantive comments, were created and used to qualitatively code the comment sample. Results: Two rounds of coding were completed to reach sufficient interrater reliability. The authors found that most of the public comments were substantive, with over 28% meeting the criteria for critique, 21.5% as questions for authors, and over 11% having aspects of a formal peer review process. The analysis revealed engagement between commenters and preprint authors, demonstrated through author responses to questions, updates, and feedback. Commenters also provided suggestions for future research (3.6%) and indicated their intent to utilize the preprint findings in future research projects of their own (2.6%). Conclusions: This project provides evidence of the impact of public commenting on scientific rigor. Public commenting was frequently substantive, and provided critique which sometimes led to direct revisions of the preprint article. Commenters also provided responses similar in nature to the formal peer review process, providing authors with feedback faster than the traditional process. Through preprints authors can disseminate their research to a wide audience earlier, and comments indicated that some readers intended to use the preprint findings in their own research, accelerating the potential for scientific discovery. As the prevalence of preprints continues to grow and public engagement with preprints increases, this paper’s methodology can be replicated and refined to further analyze the value of public commenting on preprints.Item Bibliometric analysis of publications on healthcare disparities among sexual and gender minorities: an exploratory study(2020-10-01) Ramirez, Mirian; Craven, Hannah J.Academic and scientific literature related to healthcare disparities among sexual and gender minorities has increased significantly over the past decade. For this study, a bibliometric analysis will be applied to examine the characteristics, as well as the growth and authorship patterns of worldwide research output, addressing issues related to barriers and disparities of the availability or access to medical services for the LGBTQ population. For this exploratory study, we used the Web of Science database, one of the most widely multidisciplinary databases, that provides the analytical tools for bibliometric calculations. For this analysis, we conducted a bibliographic search on the topic of healthcare disparities in order to collect the representative documents about the topic and to identify authors, document types, year of publications, sources, main thematic areas, most productive institutions, languages and most productive countries of research output. We used an open-source Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny R-package to conduct quantitative analysis. This approach aims to inform the development and trends of research outputs to understand what this research is focusing on, identify research productivity and topic trends.Item A Bibliometric Study of Authorship and Collaboration Trends Over the Past 30 Years in Four Major Musculoskeletal Science Journals(Springer, 2019-03) Russell, Arielle F.; Loder, Randall T.; Gudeman, Andrew S.; Bolaji, Peter; Virtanen, Piiamaria; Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Kacena, Melissa A.; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of MedicineThis study explored changes in bibliometric variables over the last 30 years for four major musculoskeletal science journals (BONE®), Calcified Tissue International® (CTI®), Journal of Bone and Mineral Research® (JBMR®), and Journal of Orthopaedic Research® (JOR®), with a specific focus on author gender. Bibliometric data were collected for all manuscripts in 1985 (BONE®, CTI®, JOR®), 1986 (JBMR®), 1995, 2005, and 2015; 2776 manuscripts met inclusion criteria. Manuscripts from Europe were more often published in BONE® or CTI®, while those from North America in JBMR® or JOR®. All journals demonstrated an increase over time in the number of authors (3.67–7.3), number of countries (1.1–1.4), number of institutions (1.4–3.1), and number of references (25.1–45.4). The number of manuscript pages increased (6.6–8.9) except for JOR® which showed a decline. CTI® had the lowest number of authors (4.9 vs. 5.6–6.8). There was a change in the corresponding author position from first to last for all journals; this change was highest for CTI® (35%) and lowest for BONE® (14.0%). All journals demonstrated an increase over time in female authors; however, CTI® was the highest amongst these four journals. The percentage of female first authors rose from 24.6 to 44.3% (CTI® 29.1–52.3%). The percentage of corresponding female authors rose from 17.5 to 33.6% (CTI® 22.9–40.0%). The proportion of female authors is increasing, likely reflecting the increasing number of women obtaining doctorates in science, medicine, and engineering.Item Cracking the Code of Geo-Identifiers: Harnessing Data-Based Decision-Making for the Public Good(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022) Herzog, Patricia SnellThe accessibility of official statistics to non-expert users could be aided by employing natural language processing and deep learning models to dataset lexicons. Specifically, the semantic structure of FIPS codes would offer a relatively standardized data dictionary of column names and string variable structure to identify: two-digits for states, followed by three-digits for counties. The technical, methodological contribution of this paper is a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications based on FIPS code analysis indicated that between 27,954 and 1,970,000 publications attend to this geo- identifier. Within a single dataset reporting national representative and longitudinal survey data, 141 publications utilize FIPS data. The high incidence shows the research impact. Yet, the low proportion of only 2.0 percent of all publications utilizing this dataset also shows a gap even among expert users. A data use case drawn from public health data implies that cracking the code of geo-identifiers could advance access by helping everyday users formulate data inquiries within intuitive language.Item Cross-institutional collaborations for health equity research at a CTSA(2022-04-20) Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Ramirez, Mirian; Dolan, Levi; Hunt, Joe D.Objective/Goals: We were interested in health equity research for each CTSA-affiliated institution, specifically focusing on cross department and cross-campus co-authorship. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of our CTSA-funded papers relating to diversity and inclusion to identify cross department and cross-campus collaborations. Methods/Study Population: We worked with our CTSA’s Racial Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force to conduct an environmental scan of diversity and inclusion research across our CTSA partner institutions. Using the Scopus database, searches were constructed to identify and retrieve the variety of affiliations for each of the CTSA authors, a health equity/health disparities search hedge, and all of our CTSA grant numbers. We limited the dates from the beginning of our CTSA in 2008-November 2021. We used PubMed to retrieve all MeSH terms for the articles. We used Excel to analyze the data, Python and NCBI’s Entrez Programming Utilities to analyze MeSH terms, and VOSviewer to produce the visualizations. Results/Anticipated Results: The results of this search yielded 94 articles overall. We broke these up into subsets (not mutually exclusive) to represent five of the researcher groups across our CTSA. We analyzed the overall dataset for citation count, normalized citation count, CTSA average authors, gender trends, and co-term analysis. We also developed cross department co-authorship maps and cross-institutional/group co-authorship maps. Discussion/Significance of Impact: This poster will demonstrate both the current areas where cross-departmental and cross-institutional collaboration exists among our CTSA authors, as well as identify potential existing areas for collaboration to occur. These findings may determine areas our CTSA can support to improve institutional performance in addressing health equity.Item Defining and Measuring Research Impact in the Humanities(2023-04-05) Coates, Heather L.Research impact is loosely defined as how broadly scholarly research is being read, discussed, and used both inside and outside of the academy. Metrics tools are firmly established in the Sciences, but they are not designed to capture the impact of Humanities research. This talk will review the evidence base for citation-based and alternative research impact metrics for the Humanities (HuMetricsHSS and Metrics Toolkit), and will offer an opportunity to investigate and challenge the biases of Anglophone and science-based ranking systems.Item Evaluating the Impact of Community-Engaged Scholarship: Implications for Promotion and Tenure(2019-02-15) Coates, Heather L.This invited presentation provides an introduction to key concepts of research evaluation, indicators, and research metrics including citation and alt-metrics. Through various examples, it explores considerations for using metrics responsibly in the evaluation of research outputs and scholars.Item Linking Health Information Technology to Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review(http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17538157.2012.678451, 2013-01) Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Dixon, Brian E.; McGowan, Julie J.OBJECTIVE: To assess the scholarly output of grants funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that published knowledge relevant to the impact of health information technologies on patient safety and quality of care outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: We performed a bibliometric analysis of the identified scholarly articles, their journals, and citations. In addition, we performed a qualitative review of the full-text articles and grant documents. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS: Papers published by AHRQ-funded investigators were retrieved from MEDLINE, journal impact factors were extracted from the 2010 Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Report, citations were retrieved from ISI's Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Seventy-two articles met the criteria for review. Most articles addressed one or more of AHRQ's outcome goals and focus priorities. The average impact factor for the journals was 4.005 (range: 0.654-28.899). The articles, and their respective grants, represented a broad range of health information technologies. CONCLUSIONS: This set of AHRQ-funded research projects addressed the goals and priorities of AHRQ, indicating notable contributions to the scientific knowledge base on the impact of information system use in healthcare.Item News coverage of public health research: An exploratory study of topics, coverage, and open access status(2022-04-27) Ramirez, Mirian; Hinrichs, Rachel J.OBJECTIVES: This study aims to identify and analyze the news outlets that mention research published by a School of Public Health at a Midwestern university. We analyzed the overall patterns of news sources, including the content type and overall coverage, the correlation with open access (OA) status (both gold and green OA), and the topics that received the most attention in the news. Our results will contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics of news outlets that disseminate public health information, and the types of research mentioned most often in the news. METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric analysis of publications from authors affiliated with a School of Public Health over five years (2015-2019). The searches were conducted in December 2021. We queried Scopus using an affiliation search to identify and retrieve the publications. Then we queried Altmetric Explorer for all the citations from the Scopus search, using the identifiers and the titles to compile the altmetrics data and identify the titles mentioned in news outlets. We used Excel to aggregate, clean up and analyze the data, and VOSviewer software to generate the topic analysis and visualization map. RESULTS: Between 2015 and 2019, 778 publications were published by the School of Public Health. A total of 144 (18.5%) were mentioned in 2,079 news stories from 643 news sources. We analyzed the overall dataset of news outlets according to the source and content type, subject area, and country of publication. We also determined whether OA articles were discussed more often in the news than subscription access articles. We also performed a co-occurrence analysis of the author and abstract keywords of the articles mentioned in news outlets. CONCLUSIONS: Mentions of scholarly articles in news outlets can identify patterns and trends of attention and interest in research beyond academia. This poster analyzed the top news sources that mentioned the research generated by the faculty of a School of Public Health, and the OA status of articles that received mentioned in the news. These findings may support the decision-making of leaders of the school regarding future publication and research strategy development directions.