Project Muse Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher Project Muse including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

Project Muse has published 389892 documents so far, receiving a total of 514467 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.32% and 0.05% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. Project Muse has a score of 1.32 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by Project Muse. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Book, Report, and Monograph a with the total document number of 382312, 4017, 3550, 1, and 12 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 98.06%, 1.03%, 0.91%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in Project Muse so far, respectively. Project Muse has been an active publisher from 1933-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of Project Muse over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of Project Muse documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. Project Muse has the highest annual number of publications in 2016, with 22505 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2020, with 286 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.02.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of Project Muse are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports.

The number of published documents by Project Muse are 382312, 4017, 3550, 12, and 1 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.42%, 0.03%, 0.40%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports of Project Muse are 513071, 249, 1147, 0, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.05%, 0.00%, 0.02%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports by Project Muse are 180, 7, 19, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 793, 760, and 253, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports by Project Muse are 23, 4, 6, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, 60, and 29, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports by Project Muse are 1.342, 0.062, 0.323, 0.000, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 8.593, 9.566, and 1.416, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports by Project Muse are 18775, 3554, 712, 2, and 1, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports are 2016, 2016, 2018, 2015, and 2017, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports published in Project Muse are 22056, 233, 162, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports are 2010, 2016, 2010, 2020, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports published in Project Muse are 1.58, 0.07, 1.50, 0.00, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Monographs, and Reports are 2010, 2016, 2010, 2020, and 2017, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher Project Muse.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by Project Muse, are 180, 75, and 36, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by Project Muse are 23, 13, and 9, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by Project Muse, are 11198, 3910, 1467, 477, 94, 23, 3, 2, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the Project Muse top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by Project Muse is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of Project Muse based on the number of published documents are World Literature Today, Notes, Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books, Hispania, and Language. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 33813, 15107, 14852, 14323, and 12627, respectively. These numbers are equal to 8.672%, 3.875%, 3.809%, 3.674%, and 3.239% of the total documents published by Project Muse so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of Project Muse are American Journal of Mathematics, Language, Journal of Democracy, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 6290, 12627, 2402, 4112, and 3337, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.223%, 2.454%, 0.467%, 0.799%, and 0.649% of the total citations received by Project Muse publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of Project Muse are Journal of Democracy, American Journal of Mathematics, Journal of College Student Development, The Review of Higher Education, and Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 16.461, 15.775, 11.379, 8.173, and 7.506, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in Project Muse. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Project Muse are civil war, early modern, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, the world, united states, twentieth century, the united states, world war, and african american, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 2770, 2131, 2053, 1870, 1720, 1712, 1435, 1387, 1139, and 1134, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Project Muse are human rights, united states, college students, health care, the united states, african american, higher education, the impact, latin america, and sign language, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 997, 1712, 347, 574, 1387, 1134, 762, 457, 572, and 428, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Project Muse are college students, high school, human rights, health care, the impact, community based, sign language, american studies, latin america, and higher education, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 12.196, 7.206, 7.154, 6.956, 6.499, 5.784, 5.640, 5.012, 4.984, and 4.240, respectively.