Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia : A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends

Changes over 50 years of research on antipsychotics in schizophrenia have occurred. A scientometric synthesis of such changes over time and a measure of researchers' networks and scientific productivity is currently lacking. We searched Web of Science Core Collection from inception until November 5, 2021, using the appropriate key. Our primary objective was to conduct systematic mapping with CiteSpace to show how clusters of keywords have evolved over time and obtain clusters' structure and credibility. Our secondary objective was to measure research network performance (countries, institutions, and authors) using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and Bibliometrix. We included 32,240 studies published between 1955 and 2021. The co-cited reference network identified 25 clusters with a well-structured network (Q=0.8166) and highly credible clustering (S=0.91). The main trends of research were: 1) antipsychotic efficacy; 2) cognition in schizophrenia; 3) side effects of antipsychotics. Last five years research trends were: 'ultra-resistance schizophrenia' (S=0.925), 'efficacy/dose-response' (S=0.775), 'evidence synthesis' (S=0.737), 'real-world effectiveness' (S=0.794), 'cannabidiol' (S=0.989), and 'gut microbiome' (S=0.842). These results can inform funding agencies and research groups' future directions.Peer reviewe

Study on open science: The general state of the play in Open Science principles and practices at European life sciences institutes

Nowadays, open science is a hot topic on all levels and also is one of the priorities of the European Research Area. Components that are commonly associated with open science are open access, open data, open methodology, open source, open peer review, open science policies and citizen science. Open science may a great potential to connect and influence the practices of researchers, funding institutions and the public. In this paper, we evaluate the level of openness based on public surveys at four European life sciences institute

Bibliometric Studies and Worldwide Research Trends on Global Health

Global health, conceived as a discipline, aims to train, research and respond to problems of a transboundary nature, in order to improve health and health equity at the global level. The current worldwide situation is ruled by globalization, and therefore the concept of global health involves not only health-related issues, but also those related to the environment and climate change. Therefore, in this Special Issue, the problems related to global health have been addressed from a bibliometric approach in four main areas: environmental issues, diseases, health, education and society

Past performance does not guarantee future results: lessons from the evaluation of research units in Portugal

Research units in Portugal undergo a formal evaluation process based on peer review which is the basis for distributing funding from the national research council. This article analyzes the evaluation results and asks how good they are at predicting future research performance. Better research evaluations mean the institution receives more funding, so the key question is to what extent research evaluations are able to predict future performance as measured by bibliometric indicators. We use data from the peer evaluation of units in 2007–08, and analyze how well it is able to predict the results of a bibliometric study of the units’ Web of Science publications in the period 2007–10. We found that, in general, units that had better peer ratings, and thus more funding, as well as an increased capacity to attract extra funding, were not necessarily those that ended up producing more excellent research. The results provide an empirical contribution to the discussion regarding whether science can be measured and how, and reinforce the importance of evaluations where the use of quantitative data is defined and the differences between areas are accounted for. This analysis provides a snapshot of Portugal's recent scientific performance. Chemistry and physics are among the subfields with higher output and impact, which agrees with a traditional preferential funding of these areas. Institutions also excel in areas that may be assuming an increased relevance (Plant Sciences, Food Science and Technology, Neurosciences and other health-related subfields), which should be taken into account when implementing future science policies.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Congress UPV Proceedings of the 21ST International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators

This is the book of proceedings of the 21st Science and Technology Indicators Conference that took place in València (Spain) from 14th to 16th of September 2016. The conference theme for this year, ‘Peripheries, frontiers and beyond’ aimed to study the development and use of Science, Technology and Innovation indicators in spaces that have not been the focus of current indicator development, for example, in the Global South, or the Social Sciences and Humanities. The exploration to the margins and beyond proposed by the theme has brought to the STI Conference an interesting array of new contributors from a variety of fields and geographies. This year’s conference had a record 382 registered participants from 40 different countries, including 23 European, 9 American, 4 Asia-Pacific, 4 Africa and Near East. About 26% of participants came from outside of Europe. There were also many participants (17%) from organisations outside academia including governments (8%), businesses (5%), foundations (2%) and international organisations (2%). This is particularly important in a field that is practice-oriented. The chapters of the proceedings attest to the breadth of issues discussed. Infrastructure, benchmarking and use of innovation indicators, societal impact and mission oriented-research, mobility and careers, social sciences and the humanities, participation and culture, gender, and altmetrics, among others. We hope that the diversity of this Conference has fostered productive dialogues and synergistic ideas and made a contribution, small as it may be, to the development and use of indicators that, being more inclusive, will foster a more inclusive and fair world

Institutional Assessment of Health Research Capacity in Uzbekistan : Research Productivity, Organizational Capacity and Research use in Policy

Health research continues to be an important policy instrument in improving population’s health and building a more resilient health system. As developing countries are unable to meet their national health-research needs, many foreign aid actors have concentrated on improving health research system (HRS) of low-income countries since 1990s. While there is growing interest, there is a gap in the literatures in understanding health research system in the framework of institutions and its actors in a developing country context, which affects the knowledge production and research performance. In light of this argument, the thesis focuses on Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan was ranked as one of the lowest health research producers in the world in 2016. This raises the following question: Has post-soviet political and economic transition brought changes to health research system in Uzbekistan? If so, what was the outcome of change from these reform pressures? To answer this question, this thesis combines elements of neo-institutional theories to analyze the processes of institutional modification in health research system over the past twenty years in Uzbekistan. The results from both quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed that the slow progress in any institutional change in the health sector was due to path dependent traits dating back to more than 60 years of Soviet science management. Basic incentive structures or forced regulatory reforms, which reinforce path-dependent behavior, often failed to create significant change in Uzbek health research performance. Further analysis revealed that causes of (under)performance in Uzbek health research system are complex and deeply rooted, reaching beyond the current circumstances and resources. The institutionalist approach proved useful in understanding transformations in post-soviet countries taking into account the particularities of local/national research institutions

Research-Productivity at Engineering-School: Number of Publications per Faculty-Member

Research-productivity has-been attracting a-lot of attention, globally, among scientists, researchers, administrators, and policy-makers. The-present-study was conducted at-micro-level (sample-size 15), to-evaluate total and average annual-research-productivity, of individual-academicians, in an-Engineering school, over their-publication-career (from the-year of their-first-publication, through 2017). Moreover, research-productivity was-evaluated against: academic-rank, teaching-experience, age, gender, and the-field of engineering. Publications, in-peer-reviewed-scientific-journals, were used, as a-proxy, for research- productivity. Questionnaires, interviews, and document-analysis were the-main-instruments, for this-study. Descriptive-statistics was-used, to-analyze both; qualitative and quantitative-data, via EasyCalculation- software. The-obtained-data was analyzed, by SPPS-17(version 22). Moreover, to-bridge knowledge-gaps, the-following-issues were looked-into: The-role of universities in-research and development; Trends of scientific-publications; Challenges in-research and publishing, at the-African, and local-context; Basic-concepts and measurements of Research-productivity; and Reading-culture. The-study, revealed, that the-sample-faculty published, cumulatively, 230 papers, over their-productive-publishing-career. The-most-productive, with the-highest-average-number of total-publications, were: (1) Associate-professors, with 31.5; (2) Faculty-members, between 51 and 60 years-old, with 37; (3) Female-faculty, with 41; (4) Faculty, having over 25 years of teaching-experience, with 33; and (5) Faculty-members, from Civil and Structural department, with 33 publications. The-analysis also-revealed, that the-identified-average-number of 2.1 publications, per-faculty, per-year, compares-favorably with-estimations, of several-previous-authors; however, examination of research-productivity, at-individual-level, showed great-variations, e.g., the-most-productive-faculty-member (based on-both; total-number of publications, and average-number of publication, per-year), a-female associate-professor,  reported 41 articles, published-over 4-year-period (2012-2016), giving the-max individual average-number of 10.3 publications, per-year. The-min-number of publications was 8, in-the-period of 9 years (2006-2015), giving the-min individual-average of 0.9 publications, per-year. Besides, if individual-faculty is evaluated, for 70 % of the-respondents, their-average-number of publications, per-year, exceeds the-estimations, of one-publication, per-capita. The-study also-identified lack of any-international, or national-guidance, or institutional-policy, on how-many-publications, an-average-faculty-member should-produce, per-year, to-provide a-reliable-benchmark, for-comparison. In-addition, several-recommendations were given, for future-research. Keywords: academic staff, measurement research productivity, reading culture, university

Investigating the delay times in academic publishing: An empirical study on publishing delay times in academic journals

Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Data Science and Advanced Analytics, specialization in Data ScienceThe aim of this study is to analyze the differences in article publishing delay times from different perspectives. Previous works on the topic suggest there are significant differences between article publication times, which has a direct effect on the author’s personal and professional life. However, as the required dates for the analysis are not available in article databases, the works on the topic are limited to certain publishers/databases. Using the entire Scimago Journal Ranking Q1 journal pool, this study creates a representative and comprehensive article dataset, containing submittance, acceptance and publication dates for over 200,000 sampled articles from 27 different subject areas between 2010-2020. This allows publishing delay times to be analyzed from different perspectives and offers a baseline for any future studies. The study shows clear delay time differences between subject areas. The shortest delay time occurs in Life Sciences articles, with an average delay of 6 months, three times quicker overall than Social Sciences articles. Publication year analysis shows that while delay times are improving over time, this improvement is coming from acceptance to publication time delay, driven by the increase of digital publications. Delay times do not show the same improvement for the more problematic submission to acceptance delay, highlighting the reviewing process. Open Access journals offer an alternative to the traditional publications, and are faster overall, however their performances started to stagnate as number of publications increased each year. Author affiliated country data is not balanced, and the dataset is dominated by submissions from certain countries, namely United States, China, United Kingdom, and Germany, indicating these countries’ overall dominance on the scientific domain. However, matching analysis shows that an affiliated county’s “Global North vs. South”, “English as first language”, and “G7 membership” status do not play a significant role in their subsequent delay times, indicating a fair refereeing

Nursing on the edge: nursing identity in liminal spaces

This contextual statement is focussed on nursing in clinical practice and higher education encapsulated in a selected body of published work, illustrating a career of over thirty years. This journey spans a political and policy context that includes the expansion of higher education in the 1970s, the closure of the Victorian psychiatric hospitals in the 1990’s, the move of nursing from apprentice-style training into higher education in 1995, and the partial decoupling of nurse education from the NHS. Drawing on theories of liminality and Michael Lipsky’s Street Level Bureaucracy, the statement proposes innovative approaches to raising the profile of nursing, beyond a liminal position. The public works are produced from liminal spaces in clinical practice to the liminal space occupied by nursing in higher education. Whilst accepting the essence of nursing as a caring profession, the statement suggests how societal views about nursing are stereotyped and heavily influenced by the position of women generally. This is compounded by the reluctance of feminism to embrace nursing, and nostalgic views about the profession portrayed in the media and articulated at all levels, including in government. The works indicate how this has contributed to nursing occupying a liminal space in higher education. Focussing on nursing at the margins of society, early papers cover the period of deinstitutionalisation from the large psychiatric hospitals. Further papers focus on influencing the education, identity, and values of nurses, including how the rise of service user involvement can transform curricula. Later papers consider the views and experiences of nurse academics and students about professional identity and how this is expressed in learning and teaching; with insight into how identity and values are shaped by both clinical and educational experiences. The liminal experience of nursing in higher education is explored, alongside the dual identity experienced by nurses who move from clinical practice to the academy. The final group of papers examine the place of work-based learning in higher education, with the paradoxical discovery that although learning in healthcare is abundant, identifying learning opportunities can be elusive. Produced on the margins of clinical and academic practice, the works illuminate hidden areas that are not sufficiently valued. The statement and works provide a platform to raise the position and profile of nursing overall