scholarly journals Editorial: Operations Management Research in Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Olhager ◽  
Scott Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Science Citation ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Web Of Knowledge ◽  
Science Citation Index Expanded

scholarly journals Cameroon publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: Bibliometric analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Raoul Tchuifon Tchuifon ◽  
Hui-Zhen Fu ◽  
Yuh-Shan Ho
Keyword(s):  
International Collaboration ◽  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Science Citation ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Citation Index Expanded

Cameroon is one of the six countries of Central Africa with more than 20 000 000 residents. To characterize the Cameroon research performance, Cameroonians publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded during the period of 1936-2015, indexed in the Thomson Reuters SCI-EXPANDED database, were studied in this work. All documents of that period with Cameroon in the address field were included in the study. The document type, language, trend and collaborations were analyzed, as well as the output of different subject categories. Performances of countries, institutions and authors, including total, single, collaborative, first author, and corresponding author publications were also analyzed. Articles were analyzed by the scientific output and research performances of individuals, institutions and collaborative countries with Cameroon. Analyses included 8 457 articles (85 % of 10 591 Cameroonian publications). These bibliometric analyses of Cameroonian publications provided interesting insights concerning authors, institutions and collaboration patterns. Results showed that research in Cameroon was highly dependent on foreign collaborations, and the international collaboration was responsible for the increasing number of publications over the years. It was found that the articles with either first authors or corresponding authors from outside Cameroon got more citations than the others, and that the articles without any international collaboration had lower citations. The number of articles indexed by SCI-EXPANDED has seen an increase in terms of Cameroonian articles that is considerably greater that the increase in number of all articles in SCI-EXPANDED. Articles were more frequent than other types of publication and they were mostly in English. The University of Yaoundé I ranked top one in inter-institutionally collaborative articles, the rank of the total inter-institutionally collaborative articles, and the rank of first author articles and corresponding author articles. The University of Yaoundé I also was in an absolute leading position from 1970s to 2015, followed far away by the other institutions. The categories of tropical medicine, plant sciences, environmental and occupational public health, and infectious diseases, represented the largest number of published articles. Even though physics and chemistry dominated the ranking of the top 20 best Cameroonian authors, an independent mathematics article was the most cited, with 60 citations in 2015 to a Cameroonian author. The top three productive researchers were T. C. Kofane, B. T. Ngadjui, P. Woafo, all from University of Yaoundé I. France and the USA dominated the ranking of countries with strong scientific collaboration with Cameroon.

Referencing practices in physical geography

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Suzette Haussmann ◽  
Trevor McIntyre ◽  
Adam John Bumby ◽  
Michael John Loubser
Keyword(s):  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Science Citation ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Citation Practices ◽  
Web Of Knowledge ◽  
Clear Support

Accurate citation practices are important, from both an ethical and a scientific point of view. Using an easily reproducible, previously published method, we assess citation accuracy in 120 articles published in the first half of 2011 and listed under ‘Physical Geography’ in Thomson Reuters’ ISI Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index. Our results indicate that at least 19% of citations in physical geography do not provide clear support for the statements they are meant to support. These results are in line with previously published findings for ‘field-orientated’ sciences. We propose that both authors and editors help remedy this problem, by employing more rigorous writing and editing practices.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Ghana Publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Osei Boamah ◽  
Yuh-Shan Ho
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Science Citation ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Science Citation Index Expanded

Ghana is a West African country for which apparently there are limited scientometric studies. The objective of this study was to analyze the Ghanaian contribution to knowledge captured in the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) database from 1936 - 2016. The following data were analyzed: document type, the language of publication, publication trend, Web of Science Subject Categories, Journals, international collaboration, institutions, authors, and highly cited articles. Indicators such as the total number of articles, first author articles, and corresponding author articles were applied to compare publication performance for collaborative countries and institutions. Also, number of single institute articles: number of nationally collaborative articles: number of internationally collaborative articles (S : N : I) were also used to compare publication characteristics of institutions in Ghana. Results showed that publication trend increased from 1998 to 2015, with researches focusing on health and medicine. PLoS One was the top productive journal, and the most collaborative country for Ghana articles was the USA. Contributions from the University of Ghana were ranked the top one institution for Ghana articles, and higher citation papers were found in international collaborations. In conclusion, the contribution to knowledge of Ghanaian authors is massive in the areas of public, environmental and occupational health and tropical medicine but the impact factor is higher for immunology, infectious diseases, and microbiology articles. Therefore, Ghanaian authors are encouraged to publish more articles in high impact factor journals with Thomson Reuters Scientific indexing in order to have their researches recognized by the existing international databases.

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