Institution bias in the New England Journal of Medicine? A bibliometric analysis of publications (1997–2016)

2018 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 1771-1775
Author(s):  
Yaoyu Wei ◽  
Lei Lei
Author(s):  
Waseem Hassan ◽  
Amina Ara

The objective of the study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. For this purpose Scopus database was used. As of 13th May 2021, one hundred and seventy-three (n=173) research documents are published about it. We used Vosviewer and Biblioshiny (Bibliometrix) in the present report. In all publications, 1160 authors have significantly contributed. The documents per author was 0.119, while authors per document was 8.41. Collaborative Index (CI) was found to be 9.47. By biblioshiny we also applied Lotka’s law to depict the author's frequency. 1097 authors were involved in only one (n=1) publication. Based on the Scopus record, the highest documents are published by Dormitzer, P.R. (n=6). In universities and countries categories, Tel Aviv University (n=7) and USA (48) are the most productive. By Vosviewer the collaboration pattern among authors, institutes, and countries is graphically presented. For example, 28 authors, 17 departments and 7 countries directly contributed to one publication. The research documents (133) are published in 102 sources or journals. The highest documents are published in Vaccines (n=8), while the highest citations were recorded for the New England Journal of Medicine (n=838). We also applied co-words analysis to understand the main focus of these publications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 09 (05) ◽  
pp. 242-243
Author(s):  
Dr. Susanne Krome

Zehntausende nichtproteinkodierende RNAs haben die Kenntnisse über die normale Physiologie sowie die Entstehung und Behandlung von Krankheiten auf den Kopf gestellt, schreibt Prof. Frank Slack, Harvard Medical School, Boston/USA, im New England Journal of Medicine über den überwiegenden Teil unseres Genoms. Diese RNA-Sub typen regulieren Wachstum, Entwicklung und Organfunktion. Ihre Gewebespezifität eröffnet neue, unerwartete Möglichkeiten in der Onkologie. Der größte Teil ihrer Funktionen ist allerdings noch nicht erforscht.


BMJ ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 319 (7211) ◽  
pp. 662-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Tanne
Keyword(s):  

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1016-1022
Author(s):  
Saul Krugman ◽  
Robert Ward

Dr. Krugman: Since 1953 approximately 400 cases of infectious hepatitis with jaundice have been observed at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. The studies to be described were carried out in collaboration with Dr. Robert Ward and Dr. Joan Giles of our staff, Dr. A. Milton Jacobs of Willowbrook State School and Dr. Oscar Bodansky of Sloan-Kettering Institute. I should like to present a progress report of our investigations which have been concerned with the prevention and natural history of infectious hepatitis at Willowbrook. (A report of these studies has recently appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine (248:407, 1958) to which the reader may refer for further details.) It had been previously reported by Stokes and associates that the administration of gamma-globulin was followed by not only a lower incidence of hepatitis but also a prolongation of the protective effect. Stokes postulated that "passive-active" immunity was responsible for this phenomenon. The epidemic of hepatitis at Willowbrook provided us with an opportunity to test this hypothesis. Effect of Gamma-globulin on the Frequency of Infectious Hepatitis. Figure 1 illustrates the course of the outbreak at Willowbrook beginning in January, 1955. As can be seen, hepatitis continued to occur at a rate of about two to three cases per week. The cases, predominantly in children, occurred in 18 buildings in the institution. In June of 1956 gamma-globulin, 0.01 ml/lb, was administered to approximately a third of the inmates of each building. The control and inoculated groups were comparable as to age and time of admission to Willowbrook.


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