United Nations Publications Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher United Nations Publications 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.

United Nations Publications has published 126849 documents so far, receiving a total of 36132 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.10% and 0.00% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. United Nations Publications has a score of 0.28 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by United Nations Publications. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Dataset, Other, Book, Report, Report Series, and Book Series a with the total document number of 9050, 102955, 12, 5701, 8147, 7, 587, and 390 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 7.13%, 81.16%, 0.01%, 4.49%, 6.42%, 0.01%, 0.46%, and 0.31% of the total documents published in United Nations Publications so far, respectively. United Nations Publications has been an active publisher from 1947-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of United Nations Publications 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 United Nations Publications documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. United Nations Publications has the highest annual number of publications in 2019, with 9758 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2020, with 142 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 United Nations Publications are presented by document type, including Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports.

The number of published documents by United Nations Publications are 102955, 9050, 8147, 587, 390, 12, and 7 for Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.65%, 0.01%, 0.92%, 3.63%, 12.80%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the whole published Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports of United Nations Publications are 5787, 8396, 20634, 447, 131, 9, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.04%, 0.00%, 0.27%, 1.19%, 1.79%, 0.01%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports by United Nations Publications are 16, 23, 68, 8, 5, 2, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 588, 3201, 793, 55, 33, 98, and 253, respectively.

The g-index value for published Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports by United Nations Publications are 6, 7, 17, 4, 3, 2, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 48, 129, 60, 11, 10, 20, and 29, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports by United Nations Publications are 0.056, 0.928, 2.533, 0.761, 0.336, 0.750, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 1.016, 11.521, 8.593, 2.317, 2.404, 0.070, and 1.416, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports by United Nations Publications are 8205, 736, 536, 135, 249, 9, and 7, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports are 2019, 2020, 2020, 2020, 2016, 2018, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports published in United Nations Publications are 571, 598, 1903, 33, 118, 5, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports are 2014, 2010, 2014, 2012, 2016, 2015, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports published in United Nations Publications are 0.11, 2.67, 4.94, 1.32, 0.47, 5.00, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Chapters, Journal Articles, Books, Report Seriess, Book Seriess, Datasets, and Reports are 2014, 2010, 2014, 2012, 2016, 2015, and 2020, 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 United Nations Publications.

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 United Nations Publications, are 71, 53, and 29, 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 United Nations Publications are 17, 12, 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 United Nations Publications, are 513, 198, 107, 48, 18, 0, 0, 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 United Nations Publications 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 United Nations Publications 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 United Nations Publications based on the number of published documents are Revista de la CEPAL, CEPAL Review, Africa Renewal, Afrique Renouveau, and UN Chronicle. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 1351, 1319, 656, 637, and 565, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.065%, 1.040%, 0.517%, 0.502%, and 0.445% of the total documents published by United Nations Publications so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of United Nations Publications are Revista de la CEPAL, CEPAL Review, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Transnational Corporations, and Asia-Pacific Development Journal. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 1351, 1319, 521, 184, and 175, respectively. These numbers are equal to 3.739%, 3.651%, 1.442%, 0.509%, and 0.484% of the total citations received by United Nations Publications publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of United Nations Publications are Transnational Corporations, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Revista de la CEPAL, and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Working Papers. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 4.679, 3.298, 3.617, 1.543, and 1.472, 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 United Nations Publications. 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 United Nations Publications are united nations, international agreements, united states, united states of america, international development, international development association, the united nations, international bank, united kingdom, and great britain, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 5800, 5252, 3568, 3470, 3231, 3205, 3032, 2821, 1395, and 1313, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher United Nations Publications are the state, united nations, development goals, america latina, latin america, food and agriculture, sustainable development, the united nations, climate change, and the caribbean, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 241, 5800, 137, 478, 765, 194, 337, 3032, 199, and 416, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher United Nations Publications are the state, development goals, food and agriculture, america latina, sustainable development, climate change, latin american, latin america, czech republic, and the pacific, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 8.320, 6.044, 2.876, 1.525, 1.297, 1.196, 0.963, 0.824, 0.585, and 0.509, respectively.