The Top 100 Most Highly Cited Original Articles on Immune and Gut Microbiota

Abstract BackgroundCrosstalk between the gut microbiota and the host immune system is related to multiple diseases, and in recent years, this crosstalk has gradually become a research hotspot. Because the research involves many diseases, the mechanisms are extremely complicated, so both the screening out of the high-quality articles from the massive amount of literature and the in-depth interpretation of their data are helpful in guiding the direction of research.MethodsIn this study, the top 100 most highly cited original articles were obtained from a total of 43,858 papers. According to the number of citations in the Web of Science database, the results are sorted in descending order. One may download the data obtained by Web of Science into tab-delimited (Win) format and import it into VOSviewer (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands) for subsequent bibliometric analysis. We summarized the country, institution, journal, author and other indicators for all publications. Through the online bibliometric platform, we analyzed the publication volume and growth trends for different countries/regions. VOSviewer was used to classify keywords into different clusters based on co-occurrence analysis and color them according to the time course. ResultsThe number of citations for each article ranged from 914 to 5,460, and the most cited manuscript was written by PJ Turnbaugh and RE Ley. Washington University, the University of Colorado and Harvard University performed well in terms of the quality and quantity of publications. Manuscripts in NATURE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and SCIENCE were the most influential. In addition, we identified six clusters of hotspots in the field of gut microbiota and immunity research.ConclusionsObesity and diabetes are the diseases most related to the gut microbiota, and their pathogenesis may be associated with a change in intestinal wall permeability and an imbalance of Bacteroides and Firmicutes. The balance of energy metabolism plays a key role in the crosstalk between host immunity and intestinal microbiota.

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Factors Influencing Cities’ Publishing Efficiency

Journal of Data and Information Science ◽

10.2478/jdis-2018-0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 43-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Csomós György

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Publication Output ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Highly Cited Papers ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

The Web ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

Abstract Purpose Recently, a vast number of scientific publications have been produced in cities in emerging countries. It has long been observed that the publication output of Beijing has exceeded that of any other city in the world, including such leading centres of science as Boston, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. Researchers have suggested that, instead of focusing on cities’ total publication output, the quality of the output in terms of the number of highly cited papers should be examined. However, in the period from 2014 to 2016, Beijing produced as many highly cited papers as Boston, London, or New York. In this paper, another method is proposed to measure cities’ publishing performance by focusing on cities’ publishing efficiency (i.e., the ratio of highly cited articles to all articles produced in that city). Design/methodology/approach First, 554 cities are ranked based on their publishing efficiency, then some general factors influencing cities’ publishing efficiency are revealed. The general factors examined in this paper are as follows: the linguistic environment of cities, cities’ economic development level, the location of excellent organisations, cities’ international collaboration patterns, and their scientific field profile. Furthermore, the paper examines the fundamental differences between the general factors influencing the publishing efficiency of the top 100 most efficient cities and the bottom 100 least efficient cities. Findings Based on the research results, the conclusion can be drawn that a city’s publishing efficiency will be high if meets the following general conditions: it is in a country in the Anglosphere–Core; it is in a high-income country; it is home to top-ranked universities and/or world-renowned research institutions; researchers affiliated with that city most intensely collaborate with researchers affiliated with cities in the United States, Germany, England, France, Canada, Australia, and Italy; and the most productive scientific disciplines of highly cited articles are published in high-impact multidisciplinary journals, disciplines in health sciences (especially general internal medicine and oncology), and disciplines in natural sciences (especially physics, astronomy, and astrophysics). Research limitations It is always problematic to demarcate the boundaries of cities (e.g., New York City vs. Greater New York), and regarding this issue there is no consensus among researchers. The Web of Science presents the name of cities in the addresses reported by the authors of publications. In this paper cities correspond to the spatial units between the country/state level and the institution level as indicated in the Web of Science. Furthermore, it is necessary to highlight that the Web of Science is biased towards English-language journals and journals published in the field of biomedicine. These facts may influence the outcome of the research. Practical implications Publishing efficiency, as an indicator, shows how successful a city is at the production of science. Naturally, cities have limited opportunities to compete for components of the science establishment (e.g., universities, hospitals). However, cities can compete to attract innovation-oriented companies, high tech firms, and R&D facilities of multinational companies by for example establishing science parks. The positive effect of this process on the city’s performance in science can be observed in the example of Beijing, which publishing efficiency has been increased rapidly. Originality/value Previous scientometric studies have examined cities’ publication output in terms of the number of papers, or the number of highly cited papers, which are largely size dependent indicators; however this paper attempts to present a more quality-based approach.

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Top-100 Most-cited Articles on Esophageal Cancer: A Bibliometric Analysis

10.21203/rs.3.rs-362326/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Wenjie Ni ◽

Li-li Sun ◽

Tong Fang

Keyword(s):

Esophageal Cancer ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Esophagogastric Junction ◽

Scientific Progress ◽

The United States ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Esophagogastric Junction Cancer ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

Citation Classics ◽

Highly Cited

Abstract Background A citation classic is a highly cited work in a field and regarded as an influential contribution to the field’s advancements and literature. Analyzing citation classics and top articles promotes the recognition of research trends within a field. We present the results of the first analysis to identify the 100 most frequently cited research studies on esophageal cancer or esophagogastric junction cancer using the bibliometric analysis method. Method We searched the Web of Science on September 24, 2020. Articles were listed in descending order by the total number of citations, and the top-100 most-cited original articles on esophageal cancer or esophagogastric junction cancer were extracted and evaluated. Results The top-100 citation classics in esophageal cancer were published from 1981 to 2018. A significant increase was found in the number of citation classics from the early 1990s to the late 2000s, which was paralleled by an increase in randomized controlled trials focusing on the clinical treatment of tumors. The medians of the total and annual citations in our analysis were 444.50 (interquartile range [IQR] 346.25-684.50) and 30.08 (IQR 19.10-56.60), respectively. The majority of articles were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (n=26), originated in the United States (n=38) and focused on clinical therapies (n=59). The median impact factor of the journals was 27.603 (IQR 9.727-32.956). Conclusion Our analysis provides a historical perspective on the scientific progress of esophageal cancer and contributes to the recognition of important advances in this specialty.

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Relationship between Altmetrics and Citations A Study on the Highly Cited Research Papers

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology ◽

10.14429/djlit.39.4.14204 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 169-174 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Shabnam Heydari ◽

Maryam Shekofteh ◽

Maryam Kazerani

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Research Papers ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

The Relationship ◽

Spearman’S Correlation ◽

The Web ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

The present study aims to assess highly cited articles using altmetrics and citations and identify the relationship between them. The statistical population consists of all the highly cited articles on surgery indexed on the Web of Science. The number of article citations was measured using the Web of Science and the altmetric score of the articles using the Altmetric Bookmarklet. The analysis of the data was carried out using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Of the 1077 highly cited surgery articles, 62.74 per cent had an altmetric score. The highest number of received citations was 1787, and the highest altmetric score was 2019. A positive and significant correlation was observed between the number of citations and the policy-making documents, Wikipedia citations and CiteULike (P<0.001). A positive but non-significant correlation was also observed between the number of citations and the number of Mendeley readers (r=0.02, P>0.05). A poor, negative and significant correlations were observed between the number of citations and the overall altmetric score of the highly cited surgery articles (r=-0.235, P<0.001). The findings may be due to the different pattern of using social media by the surgery researchers compared to the researchers of other fields. Altmetrics can only be used to complement citations and not replace them.

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Bibliometric analysis of scientific production on academic writing: a study of the last 10 years

LAPLAGE EM REVISTA ◽

10.24115/s2446-6220202173c1516p.200-209 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3C) ◽

pp. 200-209

Author(s):

Julio E. Postigo-Zumarán ◽

Lorena Jessica Nova Revilla ◽

Fanny Esperanza Zavala Alfaro ◽

Dennis Arias-Chávez

Keyword(s):

Academic Writing ◽

Web Of Science ◽

The United States ◽

English For Academic Purposes ◽

Scientific Production ◽

Publish Or Perish ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Subject ◽

Number Of Publications ◽

Number Of Citations

The objective of the study is to characterize the world scientific production on academic writing between the years 2011 to July 2021. A bibliometric study was carried out in five databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic and Crossref). Bibliometric indicators were analyzed in 4117 articles through Publish or Perish v. 7.19 and the same analytical software of the chosen databases. The results indicate that the article entitled “Codemeshing in academic writing: Identifying teachable strategies of translanguaging” is the document with the highest number of citations; Montserrat Castelló Badía, the most cited author; Journal Of English For Academic Purposes stands out as the medium with the largest number of publications on the subject; and among the countries that concentrate the largest production on creative writing, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia and Spain stand out. It is concluded that the rate of publications will increase in the following months, which means continuing to periodically carry out measurements on scientific production to determine the evolution and contributions of the scientific material produced.

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Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Bibliometric Overview

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel9090249 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 249 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Amador Durán-Sánchez ◽

José Álvarez-García ◽

María del Río-Rama ◽

Cristiana Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Growth Stage ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Web Of Science ◽

The United States ◽

Annual Increase ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Advanced Search ◽

Religious Tourism ◽

Number Of Citations

This paper reviews the academic literature related to religious tourism through a bibliometric study and citations of articles indexed in the multidisciplinary database Web of Science (WoS). Through an advanced search by terms, a representative set of 103 documents that form the ad-hoc basis of the analysis were selected. In view of the results, it is concluded that the United States is at the forefront of research, with almost 20% of the articles affiliated to one of its centres, mainly university centres. Publications on religious tourism are currently in an exponential growth stage, supported by the annual increase in the number of citations received. These papers are published in a small number of journals well positioned in their JCR category, classified within the field of Social Sciences Research.

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Document Type Profiles in Nature, Science, and PNAS: Journal and Country Level

Journal of Data and Information Science ◽

10.20309/jdis.201618 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 27-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jielan Ding ◽

Per Ahlgren ◽

Liying Yang ◽

Ting Yue

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

The United States ◽

News Item ◽

National Academy Of Sciences ◽

Document Type ◽

Country Level ◽

Editorial Material ◽

Profile Similarity ◽

Academy Of Sciences

AbstractPurposeIn this contribution, we want to detect the document type profiles of the three prestigious journals Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) with regard to two levels: journal and country.Design/methodology/approachUsing relative values based on fractional counting, we investigate the distribution of publications across document types at both the journal and country level, and we use (cosine) document type profile similarity values to compare pairs of publication years within countries.FindingsNature and Science mainly publish Editorial Material, Article, News Item and Letter, whereas the publications of PNAS are heavily concentrated on Article. The shares of Article for Nature and Science are decreasing slightly from 1999 to 2014, while the corresponding shares of Editorial Material are increasing. Most studied countries focus on Article and Letter in Nature, but on Letter in Science and PNAS. The document type profiles of some of the studied countries change to a relatively large extent over publication years.Research limitationsThe main limitation of this research concerns the Web of Science classification of publications into document types. Since the analysis of the paper is based on document types of Web of Science, the classification in question is not free from errors, and the accuracy of the analysis might be affected.Practical implicationsResults show that Nature and Science are quite diversified with regard to document types. In bibliometric assessments, where publications in Nature and Science play a role, other document types than Article and Review might therefore be taken into account.Originality/valueResults highlight the importance of other document types than Article and Review in Nature and Science. Large differences are also found when comparing the country document type profiles of the three journals with the corresponding profiles in all Web of Science journals.

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O1.4. HOW THE MOST CITED RESEARCH ARTICLES ABOUT SCHIZOPHRENIA IN 2018 DEPICT THE DISEASE?

Schizophrenia Bulletin ◽

10.1093/schbul/sbaa028.003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S2-S2

Author(s):

Gabriela Tonsig ◽

Maria Dino ◽

Bernardo Haguiara ◽

Lais Fonseca ◽

José Orsi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Web Of Science ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Epidemiological Data ◽

Lower Number ◽

Life Goals ◽

Research Papers ◽

The Media ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

Highly Cited

Abstract Background Despite the progress in treatment and clinical outcomes, schizophrenia remains a highly stigmatized disease and imposes a challenge to families and patients towards recovery. Stigma can debilitate individuals as much as the disease itself, representing one of the most relevant obstacles to overcome the illness: it hinders the pursuit of autonomy and achievement of life goals. Stigma is complex and multilayered and its research usually focus on patients and society, but a lower number of studies address health professionals stigma. Even fewer investigate stigma of researchers. Thus, our objective is to analyze how the most cited research papers published in 2018 addressing schizophrenia depict the disease to identify putative stigma among researchers. Methods In this exploratory study, we conducted a search using Web of Science (WoS) with the following terms: (“patients with schizophrenia”) OR (“schizophrenia patients”). We restricted the search to articles published in 2018 and selected the 20 studies with the highest total number of citations. We identified how the authors defined schizophrenia and then categorized the definition in three groups: (1) negative perspective, in which depreciative words were used to define the disease; (2) neutral definition, in which emphasis is given to the description of epidemiological data; and (3) neutral to positive definition, when negative outcomes were listed as possibilities, not certainties. Two independent authors (G.K. and M.M.) categorized each article and eventual conflicts were solved by a third author (A.G.) Results 25% of the studies depicted a clearly negative perspective of schizophrenia. In these studies, the disease was described with words such as “devastating” and “highly disabling”. Most studies (60%) were coded as neutral, being mainly descriptive of current epidemiological data. Only 3 studies (15%) were identified as more favorable, since they acknowledged the possibility of better outcomes among patients with schizophrenia. Discussion In the current schizophrenia scientific literature, negative views of the disease are still largely common. Considering the role of highly cited papers as opinion formers, we suggest that as occurred in other fields, such as the change in address of suicide by the media, some orientation should be adopted to avoid further contributions to the schizophrenia stigma.

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The Rise of “Trade Liberalization”: Bibliometric Analysis of Trade Liberalization Study

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n2p97 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 97-103

Author(s):

Murtala Muhammada ◽

Abubakar Ahmed ◽

Gold Kafilah Lola ◽

Usman Mikail Usman ◽

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Keyword(s):

Trade Liberalization ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Research Trend ◽

Future Research ◽

Thomson Reuters ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

Highly Cited ◽

Number Of Authors

Abstract The purpose of this research is to assess the universal scientific trends and examine the patterns in the intellectual research published on trade liberalization over a period of 35 years (1980-2015). The data were collected from a leading indexing and abstracting database Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The Kruskal-Walis test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation were employed in analyzing the retrieved data. Based on the citation trend of first 100 highly cited published articles with the least number of authors are found to have received the highest number of citations. Our result shows that there is actual statistical significance (p˂ 0.001) between the total citations attracted by articles published by 1 author and those published by 3 and 4 authors. The word trade liberalization has become dominant and consistent in the field of the study. These research trend and interest could provide focus to researchers for future research.

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Highly cited articles in malaria research: a bibliometric analysis

Collection Building ◽

10.1108/cb-10-2016-0028 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 45-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Shankar Reddy Kolle ◽

M.S. Vijayashree ◽

T.H. Shankarappa

Keyword(s):

Science Citation Index ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Citation Index ◽

Science Citation ◽

National Academy Of Sciences ◽

Malaria Research ◽

Content Type ◽

The Usa ◽

Highly Cited Articles ◽

Highly Cited

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal the bibliometric characteristics of highly cited articles in Malaria research for the period of 1991-2015. Design/methodology/approach The data of highly cited articles for the period of 1991 to 2015 were extracted from the Science Citation Index Expended of Web of Science. The keyword “Malaria” was used as topic term to search documents that contained this word in the title or keyword or abstract of the documents that published in 1991 to 2015. A total of 1,614 articles having TC2015 = 100 were retrieved as highly cited articles for further analysis, and Microsoft excel was used for the analysis purpose. Findings A total of 1,614 of highly cited articles were published in the 230 journals for the period of 1991 to 2015, and majority of the articles were appeared in journals that have top impact factor. The articles published in the 2011s have greater average citations and authors per article. Six journals have produced almost a quarter of highly cited articles and remaining articles were published in 224 journals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA was the most productive journal with 154 articles, which accounts for 9.53 per cent of the total articles, followed by Lancet (110; 6.81 per cent). We found degree collaboration value of 0.971 for the articles, which indicates the clear dominance of multiple authors in publication of highly cited articles in Malaria research. In this study, new indictor called P index was applied for the evaluation of the author’s productivity. As per the p-value, the White, NJ has emerged as the most productive author with the p-value of 0.41 (61 articles), followed by Marsh, K (p = 0.33), Nosten, F (p = 0.32) and Snow, RW (p = 0.31). The USA and the UK were the most productive countries. The article entitled as “Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data” contributed by Lopez et al. (2006) was the most cited article with 2,245 citations in 2015. Research limitations/implications The data for the present study was limited to the publications that indexed in Science Citation index Expended of Web of Science. Originality/value This paper would be useful to the researchers to know the trends and achievements in the Malaria research and also to the library and information science professionals in collection building process.

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Bibliometría de la colaboración e impacto de la Revista de Biología Tropical (Web of Science 2003-2012)

Revista de Biología Tropical ◽

10.15517/rbt.v64i1.18241 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 147 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniela De Filippo ◽

Saray Córdoba González ◽

Elías Sanz-Casado

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Scientific Journal ◽

The United States ◽

Tropical Biology ◽

Thomson Reuters ◽

The University ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

The Impact

The activity analysis of a scientific journal is relevant to know the evolution of its characteristics over time. In this paper, results of a bibliometric study of the Revista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation (Costa Rica) are presented. The goal of this study was to describe the main characteristics of its scientific production, and analyze its level of collaboration and its impact between the years 2003-2012. Data was derived from the Web of Science (Thomson-Reuters), and the relationship among authors and coauthors, institutions and countries, and their links with the citations received were analyzed for that period. Descriptive statistics about production (number of documents per year, institution and country), collaboration (authorship index, collaboration among institutions and countries) and impact (IF, position in JCR and number of citations received) were collected. Results showed that the journal has published 1 473 papers in this period, in similar proportions English and Spanish. Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia are the most common countries of origin, with the Universidad of Costa Rica, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico and the University of Puerto Rico as the most common leader institutions. Collaboration between authors, institutions and countries has shown an increasing trend over the last decade. The co-author index was 3.07 per document, 63 % of publications included 2 or more institutions, and 22 % of the papers were product of international collaboration. The most common collaboration link was between Costa Rica and the United States of America. The impact factor has been oscillating during this last decade, reaching a maximum in 2012 (IF JCR = 0.553). Besides, 10 % of the most cited papers concentrated half of the citations received by the journal, and have a very high number of citations, compared with the journal mean. The main countries that cite the journal were USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Costa Rica. Data showed an increasing collaboration between authors, institutions and countries, and a direct relationship between the increase of this collaboration and the received impact.

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