Comparative analysis of Dimensions and Scopus bibliographic data sources: an approach to university research productivity

<p>This paper shows a significant comparison of two primary bibliographic data sources at the document level of Scopus and Dimensions. The emphasis is on the differences in their document coverage by institution level of aggregation. The main objective is to assess whether Dimensions offers at the institutional level good new possibilities for bibliometric analysis as at the global level. The results of a comparative study of the citation count profiles of articles published by faculty members of Prince of Songkla University (PSU) in Dimensions and Scopus from the year the databases first included PSU-authored papers (1970 and 1978, respectively) through the end of June 2020. Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis of 19,846 articles indexed in Dimensions and 13,577 indexed in Scopus. The main finding was that the number of citations received by Dimensions was highly correlated with citation counts in Scopus. Spearman’s correlation between citation counts in Dimensions and Scopus was a high and mighty relationship. The findings mainly affect Dimensions’ possibilities as instruments for carrying out bibliometric analysis of university members’ research productivity. University researchers can use Dimensions to retrieve information, and the design policies can be used to evaluate research using <br />scientific databases.</p>

Mapping the quantity, quality and structural indicators of Asian (48 countries and 3 territories) research productivity on cloud computing

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to map the quantity (frequency), quality (impact) and structural indicators (correlations) of research produced on cloud computing in 48 countries and 3 territories in the Asia continent.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve the objectives of the study and scientifically map the indicators, data were extracted from the Scopus database. The extracted bibliographic data was first cleaned properly using Endnote and then analyzed using Biblioshiny and VosViewer application software. In the software, calculations include citations count; h, g and m indexes; Bradford's and Lotka's laws; and other scientific mappings.FindingsResults of the study indicate that China remained the most productive, impactful and collaborative country in Asia. All the top 20 impactful authors were also from China. The other most researched areas associated with cloud computing were revealed to be mobile cloud computing and data security in clouds. The most prominent journal currently publishing research studies on cloud computing was “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing.”Originality/valueThe study is the first of its kind which identified the quantity (frequencies), quality (impact) and structural indicators (correlations) of Asian (48 countries and 3 territories) research productivity on cloud computing. The results are of great importance for researchers and countries interested in further exploring, publishing and increasing cross country collaborations related to the phenomenon of cloud computing.

RETRATO GEOGRÁFICO E DE GÊNERO DOS CURSOS DE JORNALISMO NO BRASIL: metodologia para análise da produção científica = GEOGRAPHIC AND GENDER PORTRAIT OF JOURNALISM COURSES IN BRAZIL: methodology for the analysis of scientific production

O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar uma proposta metodológica de avaliação dos fenômenos da colaboração científica e da sua coautoria, reconhecendo asmotivações que direcionam os pesquisadores a cooperar em suas atividades deprodução científica. A metodologia é de natureza quanti-qualitativa, exploratória e documental. Como suporte, utilizam-se ferramentas do aparato tecnológico dos softwares: scriptLattes e Excel, com a finalidade de contribuir na coleta e análise dos dados da produção científica. Como objeto de análise aplicada, foi realizado o levantamento do número de pesquisadores/professores efetivos, com o título acadêmico de doutor, em 42 cursos de Jornalismo de universidades federais do Brasil, com o uso do software scriptLattes. Como resultado, a equipe de pesquisa constatou 769 docentes (386 pesquisadoras e 383 pesquisadores), além de 84 pesquisadores (44 pesquisadores e 40 pesquisadoras) de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq pertencentes a esse universo amostral nas cinco regiões brasileiras.AbstractThe purpose of this study is to present a methodological proposal for evaluating the phenomena of scientific collaboration and its co-authorship, recognizing themotivations that direct researchers to cooperate in their scientific productionactivities. The methodology is quantitative and qualitative, explotory and documentar. As a support, the tools of the technological apparatus of the following software´s are used: script Lattes and Excel, with the purpose of contributing to the collection and analysis of scientific production data. As an object of applied analysis, a survey of the number of effective researchers / professors, with the academic title of doctor, in 42 journalism courses at federal universities in Brazil, using the script Lattes software. As a result, the research team found 769 professors (386 researchers and 383 researchers); in addition to 84 researchers (44 researchers and 40 researchers) of CNPq research productivity belonging to this sample universe in the five Brazilian regions.

Global research mapping on reproductive health: a bibliometric visualisation analysis

Purpose This study aims to examine the research productivity and network visualisation on reproductive health (RH) domain with several bibliometric indicators and applied visualisation approach in co-authorship, citation, co-occurrence of keywords and bibliographic coupling analysis in the area of RH. Design/methodology/approach This study used bibliometric indicators to determine the highly productive authors, source title, documents and organisations. This study used Web of Science database and retrieved a total of 18,186 scientific publications on the domain of RH published during the period of 2010–2020. Data analysis was also performed using VOS viewer software and RStudio. Findings The findings discovered the increasing trends of research publications in reproductive health in past ten years. The USA UK, China and Australia were the top four productive countries in terms of publishing research in the arena, and “Kishsin DM” and “Hauser R” have secured in top two positions under highly prolific authors category. University of California, Harvard University and University of London were observed under the top three productive institutions in the domain. This study also revealed association and collaboration among authors, country and institutions in the visualisation analysis. The core findings of co-occurrence of keywords emphasised that “RH,” “assisted reproductive technology,” “women,” “pregnancy” and “in-vitro fertilization” were established frequently used keywords and have robust link strength. Practical implications The findings will be helpful to the researchers to know about the status of latest trends and development of the domain. This study is also helpful to the library authority for collection development in the specific subject domain. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there was no past study found on the evaluation of research productivity and network visualisation in the domain of RH, which is a globally important issue.