scholarly journals A science mapping analysis of ‘Communication’ WoS subject category (1980-2013)

Comunicar ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (55) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Montero-Díaz ◽  
Manuel-Jesús Cobo ◽  
María Gutiérrez-Salcedo ◽  
Francisco Segado-Boj ◽  
Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Subject Category ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
The Web ◽  
Journal Citation

Communication Research field has an extraordinary growth pattern, indeed bigger than other research fields. In order to extract knowledge from such amount, intelligent techniques are needed. In such a way, using bibliometric techniques, the evolution of the conceptual, social and intellectual aspects of this research field could be analysed, and hence, understood. Although the communication research field has been widely analysed using bibliometric techniques and science mapping tools, a conceptual analysis of the whole communication research field is still needed. Therefore, this article introduces the first science mapping analysis in the communication research field based on the Web of Science Subject Category "Communication," showing its conceptual structure and scientific evolution. SciMAT, a bibliometric science mapping software tool based on co-word analysis and h-index, is applied using a sample of 33.627 research documents from 1980 to 2013 published in 74 main communication journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports of the Web of Science. The results show that research conducted in the communication research is concentrated on the following sixteen disconnected thematic areas: “children”, “psychological aspects”, “news”, “audience”, “surveys”, “advertising”, “health”, “relationship”, “gender”, “discourse”, “telephone communication”, “public relation”, “telecommunications”, “public opinion”, “activism” and “internet”. These areas have progressively disconnected among them, which drives to a Communication field relatively fragmented. El campo científico de la comunicación ha experimentado un enorme crecimiento a lo largo de los años, superando incluso a algunas áreas científicas consagradas. Mediante el uso de técnicas bibliométricas, podemos analizar la evolución conceptual, social e intelectual de esta área, así como comprenderla. En particular, el área de «Comunicación» ha sido ampliamente estudiada desde un punto de vista bibliométrico, pero no se ha realizado un análisis conceptual global del área englobado en un marco longitudinal. En este sentido, este artículo muestra el primer análisis de mapas científicos del área de investigación de la comunicación basándose en la Categoría de la Web of Science «Communication», centrándose en la estructura conceptual y cómo esta ha evolucionado. El estudio se ha realizado mediante la herramienta de análisis de mapas científicos SciMAT, basada en los mapas de co-palabras y en el índice-h. Un conjunto de 33.627 artículos científicos, publicados entre 1980 y 2013 en las 74 principales revistas del Journal Citation Reports de la Web of Science, han sido estudiados. Analizando los resultados, podemos destacar que la investigación llevada a cabo en el área de la comunicación se ha centrado en dieciséis áreas temáticas: «infancia», «aspectos psicológicos», «noticias», «audiencias», «sondeos», «publicidad», «salud», «relaciones», «género», «discurso», «comunicación telefónica», «relaciones públicas», «telecomunicaciones», «opinión pública», «activismo» e «Internet». Estas áreas se han desconectado entre ellas progresivamente, lo que conduce a un campo relativamente fragmentado.

scholarly journals Influence of open access journals on the research community in Journal Citation Reports

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Sang-Jun Kim ◽  
Kay Sook Park
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Continue Monitoring ◽  
The Web ◽  
Journal Citation

Purpose: The number of open access (OA) journals is rapidly increasing, and it is very important for librarians to understand the influence of OA journals on the research community. This study investigated the influence of the OA journals listed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) based on various indicators.Methods: The data for this study were prepared by combining the JCR 2014 to 2019 journal list with the number of hybrid OA articles obtained by searching the Web of Science. Each journal’s JCR indicators and article processing charge were added. The influence of OA journals was compared according to OA type, whether they were published by large publishers, and whether they were top gold OA journals.Results: Gold OA journals remained weaker in terms of JCR indicators than hybrid journals. However, the top 20 gold OA journals, accounting for 27.0% of all OA articles in JCR 2014 to 2019, were superior in all JCR indicators. The top three OA publishers (MDPI, BioMed Central, and Public Library of Science) showed potential for development despite concerns regarding poor journals. The top three subscription publishers were very active in OA publishing, but their actual share of hybrid OA articles (Elsevier, 5.1%; Springer, 10.1%; and Wiley, 12.4% in JCR 2019) was still insufficient.Conclusion: Some gold OA journals showed high competitiveness and even the possibility for development beyond traditional journals. The transition of subscription journals to hybrid journals was found to be at the early stage. In light of these findings, librarians should continue monitoring the influence of OA journals.

scholarly journals Menopause and Sustainable Career Outcomes: A Science Mapping Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12559
Author(s):  
Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden ◽  
Karen Pak ◽  
Mónica Santana
Keyword(s):  
Postmenopausal Women ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Menopausal Symptoms ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Women Health ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
The Impact

This paper provides a systematic review of the phenomenon of menopause at the workplace from a sustainable career perspective, by highlighting its major themes along with the evolution and tendencies observed in this field. A conceptual science mapping analysis based on co-word bibliographic networks was developed, using the SciMAT tool. From 1992 to 2020, 185 documents were retrieved from the Web of Science. In the first analyzed time span (1992–2002), postmenopausal women, health, and risk factors appeared to be the motor themes (well-developed and important for the structure of the discipline under focus), and disorder was an emerging or disappearing theme in the phenomenon under research. In the second studied period (2003–2013), risk and health were motor themes, menopausal symptoms was a basic or transversal theme (important for the discipline but not well-developed), coronary heart disease was a specialized theme (well-developed but less important for the structure of the research field), and postmenopausal women was an emerging or disappearing theme (both weakly developed and marginal to the field). In the third studied period (2014–2020), menopause, breast cancer, and menopausal symptoms were motor themes, Anxiety was a specialized theme and risk and body mass index were emerging or disappearing themes. Sustainability of women’s careers in the second half of life is of increasing importance given the increasing equal representation of men and women in working organizations, and the impact of the changing nature of work in the 21st century on older workers.

scholarly journals A science mapping analysis of blood donation behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Iria PAZ-GIL ◽  
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Jessica PAULE-VIANEZ ◽  
Alberto PRADO-ROMAN ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
Donation Behavior ◽  
A Current ◽  
The Web

This study contributes to the existing literature by providing a current picture of research on blood donation behavior. The methodology applied is a bibliometric analysis, based on scientific production and the science mapping analysis. The analysis is applied over a sample of 963 articles published between 1957 and 2017, in the Web of Science (WoS). Most active journals, authors, countries are identified as well as the main topics in this research area.

scholarly journals A Science Mapping Analysis of Sixty-Seven Years of Scientific Evolution about the Transgender Population

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariluza Sott Bender ◽  
Michele Kremer Sott ◽  
Vitória Merten Fernandes ◽  
Mikaela Aline Bade München ◽  
Isadora Ferretti Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Great Magnitude ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Existing Data ◽  
The Web

Gender and identity issues permeate society as a whole. Therefore, the matters involving transgender individuals should be analised in order to understand the difficulties experienced by this population and the social practices implemented. In this sense, the objective of this study was to investigate the strategic themes and their evolution in relation to the theme. For this, a bibliometric performance and network analysis (BPNA) was carried out with the existing data in the Web of Science database between 1954 and march 2021. Twenty-three thousand and four hundred and seventy-one (23,471) articles were identified, which were included in the SciMAT software to perform a bibliometric analysis, resulting in the graph of the thematic evolution structure and the strategic diagram, in which 8 motor themes and a cross-cutting theme of great magnitude are highlighted, which are discussed in depth. The results show the relation between the transgender theme and gender, identity, sexual orientation, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery. It is concluded that, despite the large number of associated researches, some areas of study are still incipient, such as the inclusion of transgender people in the formal labor market and in the prison context, thus opening field for further studies.

scholarly journals Landscape and Tourism: Evolution of Research Topics

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Mercedes Jiménez-García ◽  
José Ruiz-Chico ◽  
Antonio Rafael Peña-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Science Mapping ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Complete Knowledge ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
Landscape Research ◽  
Emerging Themes

Tourism and landscape are broad and complex scientific research fields, as is the synergy between them has given rise to a volume of articles diverse in nature, subject matter and methodology. These difficulties mean that, at present, there is no complete theoretical framework to support this tourism and landscape research, nor complete knowledge of its structure and organization. This motivates the present work, which constitutes the first attempt at mapping this research topic by applying bibliometric techniques using VOSviewer and Science Mapping Analysis Software Tool (SciMAT) software. A total of 3340 articles from journals indexed in Web of Science were analyzed. The results obtained confirm that interest in the study of these concepts has been growing, especially in the last decade. The main contribution of this work lies in the identification of work themes that were basic to the construction of the field but that are currently in decline, such as “cultural heritage” and other themes important to the field that should continue to be dealt with, such as “national parks” or “geotourism”. The transversal nature of sustainability that appears in the network of keywords related to currently emerging themes, such as “planning” and “environment”, is also highlighted and reinforced.

Efecto del ejercicio físico sobre la inflamación en adultos mayores hospitalizados en unidad de agudos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Anel Eduardo Recarey Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Science Journal ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Revisión Sistemática ◽  
Journal Citation

El envejecimiento se asocia con un deterioro del sistema inmunológico, un estado inflamatoriocrónico de bajo grado y una serie de alteraciones metabólicas que desencadenan enfermedades como la sarcopenia, conduciendo progresivamente al deterioro de la capacidad funcional que impacta negativamente en la calidad de vida y el bienestar emocional. Dichas alteraciones se asocian, a su vez, con el incremento de enfermedades crónicas, riesgo de hospitalización, costos de la atención sanitaria, morbilidad y muerte para esta vulnerable población. En este sentido, se ha sugerido que el ejercicio físico supervisado puede contrarrestar los efectos negativos delenvejecimiento al reducir la inflamación y las alteraciones metabólicas, provocando así unproceso de envejecimiento saludable y mejorando la calidad de vida de estos pacientes. Sin embargo, no está claro qué efecto tienen las intervenciones con ejercicios sobre dichas variables en pacientes muy ancianos durante la hospitalización aguda. En esta Tesis Doctoral, presentamos los resultados de dos estudios: una revisión sistemática y un estudio clínico que examina el impacto de las intervenciones con programas de ejercicio físico multicomponente en la mejora den los resultados metabólicos e inflamatorios, previniendo así el deterioro funcional y mejorando el estado cognitivo y la calidad de vida en pacientes adultos mayores durante la hospitalización aguda, en reconocidas revistas científicas internacionales indexadas JCR reconocidas en la Web of Science - Journal Citation Reports.

scholarly journals Citation Accuracy in Obstetrics and Gynecology Journals indexed in the Web of Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 368-373
Author(s):  
Najme Khodabakhshi ◽  
Maryam Shekofteh ◽  
Maryam Kazerani ◽  
Sara Jambarsang
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Journal Citation Report ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Science Major ◽  
The Web ◽  
Journal Citation

The accuracy of the citations is crucial in scientific writing. The present study aims to investigate the accuracy of citations in the obstetrics and gynecology journals indexed in the Web of Science. Major and minor citation errors, type of errors, and citation errors in the Q1 to Q4 journals investigate as the objectives. The journals were retrieved by searching the “Obstetrics & Gynecology” category in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) in the Web of Science, and journals in different quartiles (Q1-Q4) were identified by applying the JIF Quartile filter. Eight hundred forty citations were selected from articles in the first five Q1 to Q4 journals using systematic sampling and article type citations were included in the study (730 citations). Bibliographic elements were assessed for citation errors. Findings show that 554 citations (75.89 %) involved errors. Only 24.1 per cent of the citations had no errors. The highest citation errors were related to the volume and issue, with 582 major errors (79.72 %). The citation accuracy in the Q2 and Q3 journals is higher than in other journals. The high rate of citation errors, especially in volumes and numbers, indicates that the journals need to pay attention to citation accuracy in these sections and the use of valid and complete citation styles.

scholarly journals Análisis de la producción científica sobre enseñanza universitaria virtual y semipresencial en revistas españolas de alto impacto

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-616
Author(s):  
Elisa Lucas Barcia ◽  
Julián Roa González
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios ◽  
Entornos Virtuales ◽  
Journal Citation

Las transformaciones producidas por el desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación han provocado la virtualización total o parcial de los procesos de gestión, comunicación y enseñanza-aprendizaje de la educación universitaria. El 15 % de estudiantes universitarios está matriculado en instituciones no presenciales mientras que las presenciales incluyen entornos virtuales que dan lugar a una generalización de la enseñanza semipresencial. Como consecuencia de ello, los investigadores abordan esta nueva realidad educativa desde múltiples perspectivas. Este estudio presenta una revisión analítica-cuantitativa de la producción científica sobre la educación universitaria virtual y semipresencial publicada entre 2007 y 2020 en las revistas españolas de Educación incluidas en el Journal Citation Reports en 2019. A través del uso comparado de las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus, se detectan 72 estudios que cumplen los criterios establecidos y que son analizados mediante los principales indicadores bibliométricos y de análisis de contenido. Los resultados destacan el impacto de las publicaciones de la UNED, el predominio de los métodos empíricos y el uso habitual de los cuestionarios. A pesar de la escasa representación de las revisiones de la literatura científica, se encuentran entre los artículos con mayor número de citas. Este trabajo permite conocer la evolución de la producción científica, trazar el perfil de los principales autores y de sus instituciones, y analizar en detalle los métodos y técnicas de investigación empleados por los estudios mayor impacto.

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