Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics is the quantitative analysis of large bodies of text, such as a collection of published academic articles. Here is a collection of my thoughts, links and rough and ready analysis using this approach.
Who publishes in journals like Sustainability? A bibliometric analysis
Recently Khrono reported that the journal “Sustainability” has been removed from the list of journals that give publication points in Norway. The decision cited several issues, including inconsistent and superficial review and editing practices, as well as a vast...
How to build a search in Web of Science
While it is fast and simple to conduct a basic search on Web of Science (WoS), to build a corpus for a bibliometric analysis, the search needs to be precise, with as many relevant articles as possible included, while excluding irrelevant ones, that will just create...
Mapping the literature on parents with mental illness, across psychiatric sub-disciplines: a bibliometric review
Research on parental mental illness is often carried out in disorder specific research silos. Drawing on the different research areas, it is possible to leverage and combine existing knowledge, and identify insights that can be transferred across research areas. In...
Tweet to increase our citation scores?
Citation scores are berated as being a poor predictor of article quality.. but still the best one available. Scholars are also often judged on citation scores. So the question of how to increase ones citation score is salient. The most important is of course to...
Analysis of how integrated Eysenck’s articles, deemed “unsafe”, are with the rest of his published research
My second peer-reviewed publication, this time on Eysenck's body of research, where we both look at how it evolved, and how central the articles deemed as "unsafe" by his own college, is to the rest of his work. We also note how he continually renewed the pool of...
Bibliometrix and biblioshiny – R packages
Bibliometric analysis is taking off, fueled by increasingly easy to use software. While R can have a daunting learning curve, there are some great packages available for those interested. One is Bibliometrix. The command line side of it offers some great flexibility...
Mapping the expatriate literature: a bibliometric review of the field from 1998 to 2017 and identification of current research fronts
My first publication in a peer reviewed journal is now online 🙂 The last version of the manuscript, before final submission can be downloaded here; Mapping the expatriate literature: a bibliometric review of the...
Sharing data in repositories
An increasing number of journals encourage researchers to share their data, for a variety of reasons. In years past, it was common to have to write to the authors asking for access or supplementary statistics; making your data available, ensures more have access to...
Workshop on “The possibilities in Bibliometric Analyses for Researchers”
Bibliometrics is the statistical analysis of written publications, based on content and / or metadata. Although bibliometric methods are often applied to evaluate institutions scholarly impact, it can also be applied differently and offer insights to topics of more...
Google Scholar Citation Profiles: the good, the bad, and the better (link)
Great software to calculate a myriad citation stats https://harzing.com/blog/2018/11/google-scholar-citation-profiles-the-good-the-bad-and-the-better?fbclid=IwAR0Tg5Hz4kKY25ngABM6HoZJ3GrPgt2nTsexrwCjs01tGW_Bbe6PuLP5VEo
EMR at 15: Reflecting Back on a Journal’s Journey
An editorial of the European Management Journal https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/emre.12339
SNA measures are not like other measures
There is a multitude of measures in social network analysis (SNA). In other social sciences, great lengths are gone to develop robust and valid measures, with discrete validity, which means there are relatively few overlapping constructs; and some remain standard for...
Bibliometric analysis of a department
Bibliometric analysis has range of applications, a practical application is analyzing a research institution or department; such as in terms of topics, collaborations (both internal and external) and impact (in the form of citations) in the scientific community. To...
What topics does your favorite journal publish?
Another day, another use for bibliometric analysis. I was recently at a conference where the editor of AMJ strongly recommended to read the mission statement of a journal before submitting; hitting the target is key to get it considered, and published. There is no...
Publishing in top tier outlets: some insights from bibliometric analysis
I was discussing with a friend what it takes to get published in the very top journals. The established answers include: need excellent data (eg. multiple sources and time points), a novel and interesting idea, and well written work. . . Is this really it? I think...
Academic mobility and impact
Two articles in Nature was nicely summarized in an Economist article recently. The key point is: The more open countries are and internationally mobile and connected researchers in a country are, the more artices with high citation are produced. It is worth noting...
Bibliometric review
NOTE: this post is very much under development, and is largely just notes for myself. What is a bibliographic reveiw? An effective way to synthesize a large body of research, using quantitative analysis, with network logic underpinning much of it. What types of...