Elsevier BV Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher Elsevier BV 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.

Elsevier BV has published 19437920 documents so far, receiving a total of 287672770 citations. These numbers are equal to 15.85% and 26.02% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. Elsevier BV has a score of 14.80 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by Elsevier BV. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Proceedings Article, Dataset, Other, and Book a with the total document number of 18161003, 1237854, 659, 1, 288, and 38115 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 93.43%, 6.37%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.20% of the total documents published in Elsevier BV so far, respectively. Elsevier BV has been an active publisher from 1619-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of Elsevier BV 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 Elsevier BV documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. Elsevier BV has the highest annual number of publications in 2020, with 914017 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 10776477 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 1.41.

Document Types

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

The number of published documents by Elsevier BV are 18161003, 1237854, 38115, 659, and 1 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets, respectively. These numbers are equal to 19.81%, 7.84%, 4.30%, 0.01%, and 0.00% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets of Elsevier BV are 283414105, 4237348, 21266, 30, and 3, respectively. These numbers are equal to 26.83%, 26.39%, 0.28%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets by Elsevier BV are 1748, 469, 56, 2, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 793, 615, and 98, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets by Elsevier BV are 86, 43, 12, 2, and 1, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, 50, and 20, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets by Elsevier BV are 15.606, 3.423, 0.558, 0.046, and 3.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 8.593, 2.540, and 0.070, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets by Elsevier BV are 870213, 42973, 1567, 25, and 1, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets are 2020, 2018, 2020, 2012, and 2011, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets published in Elsevier BV are 10697390, 77491, 1725, 4, and 3, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets are 2010, 2010, 2013, 2012, and 2011, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets published in Elsevier BV are 21.33, 2.14, 2.18, 1.00, and 3.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Datasets are 2010, 2011, 2011, 2011, 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 Elsevier BV.

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 Elsevier BV, are 1764, 856, and 484, 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 Elsevier BV are 87, 53, and 40, 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 Elsevier BV, are 6074324, 3043201, 1342717, 464801, 89697, 23546, 5801, 876, 206, and 48, 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 Elsevier BV 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 Elsevier BV 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 Elsevier BV based on the number of published documents are SSRN Electronic Journal, The Lancet, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Gastroenterology, and Tetrahedron Letters. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 505924, 467066, 201476, 130424, and 103113, respectively. These numbers are equal to 2.603%, 2.403%, 1.037%, 0.671%, and 0.530% of the total documents published by Elsevier BV so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of Elsevier BV are Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Lancet, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Brain Research, and Journal of Molecular Biology. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 201476, 467066, 94593, 63771, and 35599, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.070%, 0.162%, 0.033%, 0.022%, and 0.012% of the total citations received by Elsevier BV publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of Elsevier BV are Journal of Molecular Biology, Analytical Biochemistry, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of Power Sources, and Brain Research. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 53.694, 41.028, 40.241, 36.216, and 33.138, 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 Elsevier BV. 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 Elsevier BV are in vitro, breast cancer, lung cancer, the impact, x ray, case report, systematic review, case study, high performance, and thin films, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 112311, 62497, 53780, 52024, 51499, 51044, 50197, 48496, 44351, and 44022, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Elsevier BV are in vitro, meta analysis, growth factor, systematic review, high performance, breast cancer, liquid chromatography, gene expression, x ray, and mass spectrometry, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 112311, 43434, 35363, 50197, 44351, 62497, 35622, 32971, 51499, and 35813, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher Elsevier BV are carbon nanotubes, protein kinase, alzheimer’s disease, alzheimer’s disease, oxidative stress, growth factor, stem cells, controlled trial, nitric oxide, and gene expression, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 33.558, 33.195, 30.916, 30.907, 29.914, 29.217, 28.832, 28.822, 26.621, and 25.797, respectively.