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Bibliometric studies on single journals: a review
This paper covers a total of 82 bibliometric studies on single journals (62 studies cover unique titles) published between 1998 and 2008 grouped into the following fields; Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (12 items); Medical and Health Sciences (19 items); Sciences and Technology (30 items) and Library and Information Sciences (21 items). Under each field the studies are described in accordance to their geographical location in the following order, United Kingdom, United States and Americana, Europe, Asia (India, Africa and Malaysia). For each study, elements described are (a) the journal’s publication characteristics and indexation information; (b) the objectives; (c) the sampling and bibliometric measures used; and (d) the results observed. A list of journal titles studied is appended. The results show that (a)bibliometric studies cover journals in various fields; (b) there are several revisits of some journals which are considered important; (c) Asian and African contributions is high (41.4 of total studies; 43.5 covering unique titles), United States (30.4 of total; 31.0 on unique titles), Europe (18.2 of total and 14.5 on unique titles) and the United Kingdom (10 of total and 11 on unique titles); (d) a high number of bibliometrists are Indians and as such coverage of Indian journals is high (28 of total studies; 30.6 of unique titles); and (e) the quality of the journals and their importance either nationally or internationally are inferred from their indexation status
Proposed methods for reviewing the outcomes of health research: the impact of funding by the UK's Arthritis Research Campaign
Background: External and internal factors are increasingly encouraging research funding bodies
to demonstrate the outcomes of their research. Traditional methods of assessing research are still
important, but can be merged into broader multi-dimensional categorisations of research benefits.
The onus has hitherto been on public sector funding bodies, but in the UK the role of medical
charities in funding research is particularly important and the Arthritis Research Campaign, the
leading medical charity in its field in the UK, commissioned a study to identify the outcomes from
research that it funds. This article describes the methods to be used.
Methods: A case study approach will enable narratives to be told, illuminating how research
funded in the early 1990s was (or was not) translated into practice. Each study will be organised
using a common structure, which, with careful selection of cases, should enable cross-case analysis
to illustrate the strengths of different modes and categories of research. Three main
interdependent methods will be used: documentary and literature review; semi-structured
interviews; and bibliometric analysis. The evaluative framework for organising the studies was
previously used for assessing the benefits from health services research. Here, it has been
specifically amended for a medical charity that funds a wide range of research and is concerned to
develop the careers of researchers. It was further refined in three pilot studies. The framework has
two main elements. First, a multi-dimensional categorisation of benefits going from the knowledge
produced in peer reviewed journal articles through to the health and potential economic gain. The
second element is a logic model, which, with various stages, should provide a way of organising the
studies. The stock of knowledge is important: much research, especially basic, will feed into it and
influence further research rather than directly lead to health gains. The cross-case analysis will look
for factors associated with outcomes.
Conclusions: The pilots confirmed the applicability of the methods for a full study which should
assist the Arthritis Research Campaign to demonstrate the outcomes from its funding, and provide
it with evidence to inform its own policies
Quantifying the consistency of scientific databases
Science is a social process with far-reaching impact on our modern society.
In the recent years, for the first time we are able to scientifically study the
science itself. This is enabled by massive amounts of data on scientific
publications that is increasingly becoming available. The data is contained in
several databases such as Web of Science or PubMed, maintained by various
public and private entities. Unfortunately, these databases are not always
consistent, which considerably hinders this study. Relying on the powerful
framework of complex networks, we conduct a systematic analysis of the
consistency among six major scientific databases. We found that identifying a
single "best" database is far from easy. Nevertheless, our results indicate
appreciable differences in mutual consistency of different databases, which we
interpret as recipes for future bibliometric studies.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, 4 table
Mergers & acquisitions research: A bibliometric study of top strategy and international business journals, 1980–2010
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important modes through which firms carry out their domestic and international strategies and have been noted as the CEOs favorite strategy. As a significant field of study, M&Aresearch has accumulated substantial knowledge. This bibliometric study examines the extant strategy and international business literature on M&As. Methodologically, we examined a sample of 334 articles published in sixteen leading management/business journals, during a 31 year period — from 1980 to 2010. The results provide a global perspective of the field, identifying the works that have had the greater impact, the intellectual interconnections among authors and works, the main research traditions, or themes, delved upon on M&Arelated research. Structural and longitudinal analyses reveal the changes in the intellectual structure of the field over time. A discussion on the accumulated knowledge and future research avenues concludes this paper.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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