CAIRN Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher CAIRN 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.

CAIRN has published 355823 documents so far, receiving a total of 199736 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.29% and 0.02% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. CAIRN has a score of 0.56 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by CAIRN. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Book, and Monograph a with the total document number of 322809, 18895, 2489, and 11630 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 90.72%, 5.31%, 0.70%, and 3.27% of the total documents published in CAIRN so far, respectively. CAIRN has been an active publisher from 1905-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of CAIRN 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 CAIRN documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. CAIRN has the highest annual number of publications in 2014, with 19682 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2020, with 126 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.01.

Document Types

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

The number of published documents by CAIRN are 322809, 18895, 11630, and 2489 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.35%, 0.12%, 2.00%, and 0.28% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books of CAIRN are 162093, 2399, 32575, and 2669, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.02%, 0.01%, 0.59%, and 0.04% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books by CAIRN are 54, 12, 62, and 19, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 760, and 793, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books by CAIRN are 10, 5, 13, and 7, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, and 60, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books by CAIRN are 0.502, 0.127, 2.801, and 1.072, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 9.566, and 8.593, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books by CAIRN are 18027, 1671, 646, and 151, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books are 2017, 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books published in CAIRN are 11715, 183, 2392, and 161, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books are 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2011, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books published in CAIRN are 0.73, 0.14, 3.70, and 1.22, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, and Books are 2010, 2010, 2013, and 2011, 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 CAIRN.

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 CAIRN, are 75, 44, and 14, 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 CAIRN are 14, 10, and 5, 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 CAIRN, are 3278, 671, 167, 38, 9, 2, 1, 0, 0, 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 CAIRN 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 CAIRN 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 CAIRN based on the number of published documents are Revue économique, Commentaire, Vingtième Siècle Revue d histoire, Alternatives Économiques, and Sciences Humaines. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 8815, 7399, 6007, 5320, and 4224, respectively. These numbers are equal to 2.477%, 2.079%, 1.688%, 1.495%, and 1.187% of the total documents published by CAIRN so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of CAIRN are Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Revue française de science politique, Revue économique, Réseaux, and Politique africaine. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 1983, 2826, 8815, 1815, and 1102, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.993%, 1.415%, 4.413%, 0.909%, and 0.552% of the total citations received by CAIRN publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of CAIRN are Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Revue française de science politique, Politique africaine, Réseaux, and Revue d’Économie Régionale & Urbaine. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 6.402, 3.058, 2.960, 2.589, and 1.422, 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 CAIRN. 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 CAIRN are xixe siècle, xixe siecle, prise en charge, travail social, personnes âgées, développement durable, xviiie siècle, xviiie siecle, in memoriam, and politiques publiques, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 882, 882, 625, 568, 548, 534, 522, 522, 471, and 424, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher CAIRN are sciences sociales, développement durable, politiques publiques, représentations sociales, representations sociales, sciences humaines, côte d’ivoire, cote d’ivoire, côte d’ivoire, and cote d’ivoire, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 401, 534, 424, 158, 158, 200, 262, 262, 262, and 262, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher CAIRN are représentations sociales, representations sociales, sciences humaines, mouvements sociaux, capital social, afrique de l’ouest, afrique de l’ouest, côte d’ivoire, cote d’ivoire, and côte d’ivoire, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 3.937, 3.937, 2.640, 2.634, 2.568, 2.356, 2.356, 2.008, 2.008, and 2.008, respectively.