Bibliometrics study: article usage and citation counts metric in trade liberalization

This paper examined the relationship between article usage count and citation count metric for published studies in trade liberalization. Data were extracted from Thomson Reuters Web of Science, Social Science Citation Index Expanded database a hub for markedly prominent journals. The data covers articles that are published from 1980 to 2015. Our study grouped articles published in trade liberalization according to their total citations into 4 categories. These are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th top 50 cited articles. Kruskal-Walis test was used to analyze the total citation and citation per year data. While Spearman’s correlation was used to analyze prospective relationship between total citations received by articles and the length of abstract and article title word counts at 95% confidence interval. Based on the aforementioned arrangement, the usage count in the last 180 days and since from January 2013 to December, 2015 showed that 1st top 50 cited articles retained their position for both usage counts in the last 180 days and since 2013. Surprisingly, 4th top cited articles usage count since 2013 became second ranked to that of 1st top 50 articles. Thereby, surpassing 2nd and 3rd top 50 cited articles. Research and publication interest in the field of trade liberalization in the study period had grown remarkably. These research activities also attract huge usage counts especially from 2013 as acknowledged by this study. Moreover, this trend suggests that trade liberalization may have high impact on future research focus and on economic policies.Keywords: Bibliometric, Web of Science, article usage count, citation count metric, research tren

A 20-year Bibliometric analysis of Hepatitis B Virus Research and African researchers’ visibility

AbstractPurpose: According to World Health Organization, Africa occupies the second highest position in the prevalence of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) with 6.1% of its adult population infected. However, little is known about HBV research on Africa and the extent of involvement of African scholars. This study is a bibliometric analysis of HBV literature on Africa published between 1999 and 2018.Methodology: A total of 866 articles were retrieved from PubMed. Article and journal details were extracted from each article, while citations were extracted from Harzing Publish and Perish and Google scholar.Findings: There was an increase in HBV literature during the period and over 65% were by Africans. About 60% of the journals were located in USA and UK, and only 12.8% in Africa. Only 15.7% of articles by African authors were published in African journals. Linear regression result shows the probability of articles increasing yearly (β = 4.672, p = 0.000) as positive. Chi square results also show a moderate association between number of authors and author’s affiliation (X2 (5, N = 866) = 46.558, p = .000) and a weak association between citations received and author’s affiliation (X2 (6, N = 866) = 13.154, p = .041).Originality/Value: The study showed that African researchers are visible in HBV research on Africa, however, most African authors preferred to publish in foreign journals which are mostly not accessible to Africans

Visibilidad mediática-social de las revistas académicas iberoamericanas de artes y humanidades en Emerging Source Citation Index: una aproximación altmétrica

Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) as new Web of Science product database, grows remarkably every year. It currently has more than 8,000 journals across different academic disciplines. This work aims to analyze visibility from Iberoamerican journals in Art and Humanities (A&H) areas based on characterization of research sub-categories, publishers, publication languages and impact activity in social media. Descriptive analysis methods were carried out on data from Altmetric.com platform to social mediatic impact assessment of 442 scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. It is concluded that more than half of A&H sub-categories (17 of 26) include journals of Ibero-American origin. 2 of them standing out, with significant global coverage of over 55%: Literature, Romance (71.79%) and Classics (56.25%) and 3 of theover 40%: Architecture (43.75%); History (46.72%) and Medieval & Renaissance Studies (45.94%). The presence of English as a possible publication language in more than half of the analyzed journals indicates the degree of visibility of the same. A large number of the journals analyzed are found on social networks, with Facebook and Twitter being the most active, where interactions and comments by countries outside Ibero-America related to the content of the journals studied contribute to affirm the acceptable visibility of A&H Ibero-Americanajournals