An examination of data reuse practices within highly cited articles of faculty at a research university

Importance. COVID-19 has resulted in massive production, publication and wide dissemination of clinical studies trying to identify effective treatments. However, several widely touted treatments failed to show effectiveness in large well-done randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Objective. To evaluate for COVID-19 treatments that showed no benefits in subsequent large RCTs how many of their most-cited clinical studies had declared favorable results for these interventions. Methods. Scopus (last update December 23, 2021) identified articles on lopinavir-ritonavir, hydroxycholoroquine/azithromycin, remdesivir, convalescent plasma, colchicine or interferon (index interventions) that represented clinical trials and that had received >150 citations. Their conclusions were assessed and correlated with study design features. The ten most recent citations for the most-cited article on each index intervention were examined on whether they were critical to the highly-cited study. Altmetric scores were also obtained. Findings. 40 articles of clinical studies on these index interventions had received >150 citations (7 exceeded 1,000 citations). 20/40 (50%) had favorable conclusions and 4 were equivocal. Highly-cited articles with favorable conclusions were rarely RCTs while those without favorable conclusions were mostly RCTs (3/20 vs 15/20, p=0.0003). Only 1 RCT with favorable conclusions had sample size >160. Citation counts correlated strongly with Altmetric scores, in particular news items. Only 9 (15%) of 60 recent citations to the most highly-cited studies with favorable or equivocal conclusions were critical to the highly-cited study. Conclusion. Many clinical studies with favorable conclusions for largely ineffective COVID-19 treatments are uncritically heavily cited and disseminated. Early observational studies and small randomized trials may cause spurious claims of effectiveness that get perpetuated.

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Bibliometric Analysis of Interventional Literature on Mobile Health: The Most Highly Cited Articles

Frontiers in Health Informatics ◽

10.30699/fhi.v10i1.262 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 66

Author(s):

Arefeh Ameri ◽

Farzad Salmanizadeh ◽

Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Treatment Adherence ◽

Mobile Health ◽

Text Messaging ◽

Mental Health Disorders ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Health Disorders ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

Introduction: Advances in mobile health have led to numerous relevant studies in diagnosis, treatment, and controlling of various diseases. One of the criteria indicating the quality of the previously published studies is the number of citations. Therefore, investigating the features of highly cited articles and identifying the most frequently used mobile technological interventions can affect future research ideas. This study aimed at identifying 100 highly cited interventional studies on mobile health, type of used mobile technologies, and effect of these technologies in various diseases in top-cited articles.Methods: The database employed in this study was the Web of Science, which without limitations was analysed in April 2020 to identify 100 highly cited interventional studies in the field of mobile health. The identified studies were classified based on the number of citations, year of publication, country of the first author, type of disease, and use of mobile technology.Results: A great majority of the studies in the field of interventional mobile health focused on obesity (n=18), addiction (n=15), diabetes (n=13) and mental health disorders (n=12), respectively. Many studies employed mobile technologies to promote lifestyle (weight loss and increased physical activity) (n=20), disease controls (n=20), and treatment adherence (n=18). The mean number of citations per study was 146±97. The most cited study was in the category of viral disease treatment adherence (n=703), and the most cited articles were published in 2012.Conclusions: Among the reviewed 100 studies, many of the interventional studies regarding mobile health focused on obesity, addiction, diabetes and mental health disorders. Promotion of lifestyle, disease controls, and treatment adherence were effects of mobile technologies in top-cited articles. Text messaging service was used as intervention in most of the studies. Thus, future studies may focus on the use of various mobile applications on different diseases’ prevention, control, and treatment.

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Methodological diversity in Russian sociology: An analysis of research on values

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Sociology ◽

10.21638/spbu12.2021.201 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 107-123

Author(s):

Marina A. Kashina ◽

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Sergey Tkach ◽

Keyword(s):

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Research Question ◽

Quantitative Methodology ◽

Outer Contour ◽

Qualitative Design ◽

External Contour ◽

Empirical Base ◽

Methods And Techniques ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

Methodological diversity is a condition for the development of sociology since the complexity of social reality does not allow adhering to one universal scientific paradigm. At the same time, the nature of methodological diversity in research is an indicator of the alignment of forces of agents in the field of science. Hence the research question arises — how is the influence of the external contour of science (business, public organizations, media, politicians, etc.) manifested in the methodology used by the authors of highly cited articles on values? The work is of qualitative design and the empirical base was formed by the texts of 42 of the most cited Russian articles on the issues of values posted on the RSCI platform in 2016–2019 and indexed by international scientometric databases (Scopus, Wos CC). The choice of articles on the study of values as an empirical object for assessing the nature of methodological diversity in sociology is explained by the complexity and multilevel nature of this phenomenon, and the existence of various approaches to its study, which provides ample opportunities for various methods and techniques. The research optics was the structuralist concept of the inner and outer contours of science. Analysis of the texts of articles showed that the quantitative methodology dominates (29 out of 42). In these studies, the signs of the pressure of the outer contour of science are most pronounced. The least pressure is experienced by authors of works in qualitative design, but there are very few studies in the sample of highly cited articles (2 out of 42), and the topic of values in them is optional. Promising areas for the continuation of the research are related to the analysis of the phenomenon of imitation in the process of producing scientific knowledge and its impact on methodological diversity.

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Geometric journal impact factors correcting for individual highly cited articles

Journal of Informetrics ◽

10.1016/j.joi.2015.02.004 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 263-272 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Mike Thelwall ◽

Ruth Fairclough

Keyword(s):

Impact Factors ◽

Journal Impact ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

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Do altmetrics correlate with citations? A study based on the 1,000 most-cited articles

Information Discovery and Delivery ◽

10.1108/idd-07-2019-0050 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 192-202 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ali Ouchi ◽

Mohammad Karim Saberi ◽

Nasim Ansari ◽

Leila Hashempour ◽

Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam

Keyword(s):

Biological Sciences ◽

Social Media ◽

Statistical Correlation ◽

Microsoft Excel ◽

Content Type ◽

News Stories ◽

Editorial Boards ◽

The Usa ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the presence of highly cited papers of Nature in social media websites and tools. It also tries to examine the correlation between altmetric and bibliometric indicators. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive study was carried out using altmetric indicators. The research sample consisted of 1,000 most-cited articles in Nature. In February 2019, the bibliographic information of these articles was extracted from the Scopus database. Then, the titles of all articles were manually searched on Google, and by referring to the article in the journal website and altmetric institution, the data related to social media presence and altmetric score of articles were collected. The data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and SPSS. Findings According to the results of the study, from 1,000 articles, 989 of them (98.9 per cent) were mentioned at least once in different social media websites and tools. The most used altmetric source in highly cited articles was Mendeley (98.9 per cent), followed by Citeulike (79.8 per cent) and Wikipedia (69.4 per cent). Most Tweets, blog posts, Facebook posts, news stories, readers in Mendeley, Citeulike and Connotea and Wikipedia citations belonged to the article titled “Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search”. The highest altmetric score was 3,135 which belonged to this paper. Most tweeters and articles’ readers were from the USA. The membership type of the tweeters was public membership. In terms of fields of study, most readers were PhD students in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Finally, the results of Spearman’s Correlation revealed positive significant statistical correlation between all altmetric indicators and received citations of highly cited articles (p-value = 0.0001). Practical implications The results of this study can help researchers, editors and editorial boards of journals better understand the importance and benefits of using social media and tools to publish articles. Originality/value Altmetrics is a relatively new field, and in particular, there are not many studies related to the presence of articles in various social media until now. Accordingly, in this study, a comprehensive altmetric analysis was carried out on 1000 most-cited articles of one of the world's most reliable journals.

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Landmark Paper Index: Definition and Application to Rheological (η-) Journals

Applied Rheology ◽

10.1515/arh-2006-0023 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. 329-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M. Kröger

Keyword(s):

Impact Factor ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Impact Factor Journal ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

The Impact ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

Abstract We define a Landmark Paper Index (LPI), calculate and analyze indices for all papers published in rheological journals (‘η-journals’) between 1990 and 2006. This paper offers some information about the criteria influencing the impact of publications on the (scientific) community. In opposite to the well known Impact Factor (journal sensitive) or the number of citations (article sensitive, publication year insensitive) the LPI helps to identify established and potential breakthrough contributions by considering the number of citations per year after publication, in a way which does not overestimate the few, highly cited, articles when performing averages. We discuss the effect of formal criteria on the LPI.

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Bibliometric Analysis of Literature Published on Antibacterial Dental Adhesive from 1996–2020

Polymers ◽

10.3390/polym12122848 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 2848

Author(s):

Abdul Samad Khan ◽

Shafiq Ur Rehman ◽

Yara Khalid AlMaimouni ◽

Shakil Ahmad ◽

Maria Khan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Quantitative Measurement ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Authorship Pattern ◽

Bibliometric Method ◽

Current State ◽

The Usa ◽

State Of Research ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

This study aimed to investigate the current state of research on antibacterial dental adhesives. The interest in this field can be drawn from an increasing number of scholarly works in this area. However, there is still a lack of quantitative measurement of this topic. The main aim of this study was to consolidate the research published on the antibacterial adhesive from 1996 to 2020 in Web of Science indexed journals. The bibliometric method, a quantitative study of investigating publishing trends and patterns, was used for this study. The result has shown that a gradual increase in research was found, whereby a substantial increase was observed from 2013. A total of 248 documents were published in 84 journals with total citations of 5107. The highly cited articles were published mainly in Q1 category journals. Most of the published articles were from the USA, China, and other developed countries; however, some developing countries contributed as well. The authorship pattern showed an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach among researchers. The thematic evaluation of keywords along with a three-factor analysis showed that ‘antibacterial adhesives’ and ‘quaternary ammonium’ have been used commonly. This bibliometric analysis can provide direction not only to researchers but also to funding organizations and policymakers.

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