Journal of Data Science, Informetrics, and Citation Studies

Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Reluctant Plant Physiologist and Physicist

2024-04-23T09:15:22+00:00

While India is celebrating the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav (75th year of Independence), the book titled “Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Reluctant Physicist” is a golden tribute to the Indian scientists who made significant contributions to Swadeshi science. The concept of Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) was imbibed in their ideologies and practice. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was one of the brightest scientists and institutional builders, who developed multidisciplinary interests in experimental science.

A Fair Possibility of Tracking Scientific Retractions through Crossref for Sustainability of Science

2023-10-28T12:50:41+00:00

Crossref's acquisition of the Retraction Watch database, announced on September 12, 2023, heralds a transformative era in research integrity. This commentary highlights the pivotal role played by this acquisition in preserving the trustworthiness of scientific research. By creating the most extensive open-source retraction database, it streamlines the identification of retractions, enhancing transparency and accessibility. Open access ensures global availability, benefiting researchers, publishers, and readers. Financial support secures sustainability, enabling the expansion of investigative journalism on retractions. This acquisition demonstrates the collective commitment to upholding rigorous scientific standards and advancing the future of research.

Unveiling the Status of Open Access Dairy Research in India through Data Carpentry

2024-01-19T01:47:22+00:00

The present study examined the open-access status of dairy research publications published by Indian institutions. The study utilized Scopus to source the required data for a 10-year period (2013-2022) and employed a data carpentry approach for cleaning and processing the data. Data carpentry tools/software such as Open Refine, OpenAlex, Dimensions.ai, and Altmetric.com were utilized in various instances for different purposes. Findings reveal that 35.26% of publications were distributed across various open-access categories and were used in the study to generate the analysis. The study indicates that DOI-based publications increased over time, while Open-Access (OA) publications consistently maintained a share exceeding 30%. Gold OA is prevalent in terms of occurrence, citations, and altmetrics, with other OA categories also significantly present. The CC-BY license is mostly used as an OA license, and among the 10 document types, "Article" is the most prevalent. The "Journal of Food Science and Technology" holds the highest number of OA publications, while Elsevier BV is the highest contributing publication agency. Further study reveals that the three-authorship pattern mostly occurred in open-access publications of dairy research, with a prevalent multiple-authorship pattern. The ratio of citations was found to be higher for open-access publications compared to closed access, and the altmetric attention score was also found to be higher for open access publications than for closed ones. ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute emerged as the top contributor of OA publications in dairy research. Lastly, the study discusses the limitations and future prospects of the research, providing a comprehensive overview of the conducted analysis.

Mapping the World Research Output on Wind Energy: A Scientometric Analysis

2024-02-13T04:47:07+00:00

This scientometric study intends to analyze the number of contributions made by researchers in Wind energy worldwide from 2015 to 2019. The main objectives of the study are to explore the scientometric parameters: Authorship pattern, Degree of collaboration, Relative growth rate, Doubling time, Exponential growth rate, Year-wise contribution, Authors contribution, Keyword-wise contribution, Document-wise contribution, Country-wise contribution, Institute-wise contribution, Language-wise contribution. The required data has been retrieved from the Web of Science database. The retrieved data was analyzed through Histcite, VOSviewer, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel software. Between 2015 and 2019, 6129 records were published, 1463(25.14%) were published in 2019, and 1045(15.78%) were published in 2005. The author Wang ZL has identified the most prolific author who has published 46 articles, and the most productive country USA published 1185(19.3%) records. The relative growth rate value has been calculated with an increasing trend from 0.65 to 1.44, and the doubling time has been calculated with a decreasing trend from 1.07 to 0.49. The Degree of collaboration is computed as 0.93. The results of this study conclude that wind energy publications have gradually increased in the selected years.

A Scientometric Analysis of Research Productivity and Collaboration Patterns of Green Marketing Literature

2023-02-02T10:07:18+00:00

Objectives: The evaluation of the study is a scientometric analysis of research productivity and collaboration patterns of green marketing literature indexed in the core collection of the web of science for a period of 16 years (2006-2021). Methodology: Green marketing is a focused topic of research across national and international levels. To analyse the research productivity in the field, the term green marketing, environmental marketing, ecological marketing, etc. were used for retrieving the articles in advanced search mode of the database Web of science, a core collection covering the period from 2006-2021. The data retrieved were in plain text format for further analysis and interpretation. The data were analyzed by using the Scientometrics indicator to measure the research progress such as main information about the collection, document types, prolific author h-index and g-index, three field plots and country collaboration map. Besides, the Biblioshiny and Microsoft Excel software was used for mapping networks and tabulations. Results: To analyze, the green marketing research output increased trend during 2006-2021, and a total number of (7181) articles were taken from the database. The researcher’s output was in the form of journal articles (6300) followed by reviews (561); article proceedings paper (158), and so on. The top position in the journal of cleaner production with the g-index is (135) and the h-index is (86), then energy policy (99) and (62) on the h-index the last position of the journal index of green marketing in Environmental and Resource Economics the top position of the citation per paper value of 262.07, followed by the second position of citation per paper Chen Y. S value of (181.64). The top three authors, Dangelico RM., Sarkis J., Chen YS., and five subs-area, green marketing, China, environmental sustainability, sustainability, and sustainable development, had a strong relationship with green marketing itself. Furthermore, these authors preferred to publish in three sources, journal of cleaner production, sustainability, business strategy and the environment, international journal of production economics. The top five subject areas, sustainability, green marketing, sustainability development, and renewable energy, had a relationship with five sources, the Journal of cleaner production, sustainability, energy policy, renewable and sustainable energy reviews, business strategies and the environment. Furthermore, these subject areas had a strong relationship with the top two most productive countries USA and China. From China to USA collaboration with (142) frequency and followed by China from Australia collaboration with (57) frequency. Conclusion: This present study is about the scientometric analysis of research productivity and collaboration patterns of green marketing literature based on current literature and will highlight the progress and development of global research in the green marketing field.

Personal Academic Websites Serving Scholarly Work Purpose

2023-10-03T00:34:44+00:00

A personal academic website is a space on the World Wide Web through which a scholar proactively communicates her/his activities in research, education and societal service to the public. Is having such website worth the effort? Does a personal website provide real benefits to the scholarly activities of a researcher and educator? And, if yes, why and how? Referring to selected examples, this study shows how a personal academic website can serve the overall purpose of scholarly work, independently of the disciplinary field.

Assessing the Presence of Library and Information Science Outputs on Social Media Platforms Using Altmetrics

2024-01-06T00:02:52+00:00

The present study is carried out to measure the altmetric presence of Library and Information Science outputs on various social media platforms. Furthermore, the study aimed to determine the correlation between citations and altmetric attention scores. Data for the study were extracted from the Altmetric Explorer. The study findings reported that a total of 31867 LIS outputs were indexed and tracked by Explorer and a total of 24869 (78.03%) outputs were mentioned on various social media platforms. Moreover, LIS outputs were present on 17 major social media platforms with the highest mentions recorded from Mendeley, Twitter and blogs. The journal-wise distribution of attention revealed that outputs published in Scientometrics journal attracted more digital reach as compared to other LIS journals. The highest number of Twitter mentions for the outputs were from the United States with 24420 (15.81%) posts from 10143 (16.93%) profiles followed by the United Kingdom with 16131 (10.45%) posts from 6151 (10.27%) profiles. The study result showed a significant weak positive correlation between citations and altmetric score (rho=0.18, p≤0.001). This is the first of its kind study to explore the altmetrics of LIS in-depth especially with regards to the Dimensions.ai database and the findings of the study give insights to the LIS research community on using altmetrics at par with classic metrics for measuring the instantaneous impact of their research.

Medicometric Portrait of Dr. Subhas Mukherjee, Late Recognized Pioneer of Historic Creation of India’s First and World’s Second IVF Baby

2023-12-26T23:18:19+00:00

Dr. Subhas Mukherjee (Mukhopadhyay), Bengalee Physician cum Medical Scientist, is a pioneer of IVF in India, a late recognized pioneer of Asia’s as well as India’s first and world’s second test tube baby. This bibliometric study draws a painful story of late recognition and of defeat in the competition for the Nobel prize. It also analyses on his biographical facts and his 99-publications published during the period of 1957-1981 with 124 co-authors. He has 22 single authored and 73 multi-authored papers. His highest publication is 10.5 (54.55%) per year during 1972-76 when his age range was 42-46 years and second highest productivity is 21(21.21%) papers per year during 1967-71 when his age was between 37-41 years. He generated the highest papers 16 in collaboration with his closet collaborator D L Podder, during the period 1972-76. He mostly preferred Proc. Ind. Sc. Cong. (25 papers) for his publications. The most frequently used key terms Human (19) times followed by Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG) (12), Rats (10), Infertility (8), Pregnancy (7). Finally, it shows that data set does not follow Bradford distribution.

Scientometric Portrait of Nobel Laureate John F Clauser

2023-09-28T23:52:04+00:00

American experimental physicist John Francis Clauser is renowned for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality. Along with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger, John F Clauser received the Physics Nobel Prize in 2022 "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science". The current study's goal was to look into and evaluate various facets of the research publications of Nobel Prize-winning scientist John F. Clauser. Fundamental Scientometric criteria, such as publication growth patterns, authorship status, most active collaborators, and core journals preferred for publications, were used to evaluate his publications. The Dimensions AI database was used to analyse the publications and citations of the data. Between 1966 and 2023, the John Francis Clauser bibliographic analysis turned up 55 articles. This study looks at a number of factors, including citation, document type, author models, core journals preferred for publications, etc.

Bibliometrics Research in India: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Publications during 2014-23

2024-03-28T06:21:31+00:00

Background: The present study investigates publications characteristics and trends in bibliometrics research in India using bibliometric methods. Materials and Methods: The study is based on quantitative analysis of publications contributed by India in the area of bibliometric research in 2014-23. The data for the purposes has been sourced from the Scopus database using a pre-defined search strategy. The indicators used for publications analysis include type of publication, citation count, author count, institutional affiliation count, country of origin, funding bodies, etc. Data analysis and visualization has been conducted using Microsoft Excel. Results: A total of 3402 publications were published across 1134 journals, with 5954 authors from 1238 organizations contributing to the research. India has shown a significant growth in publications, with an average annual growth rate of 36%, compared to the world's 21.35%. External funding supported 14.17% of India's research output, while international collaboration accounted for 24.98%. The leading organizations include Symbiosis International Deemed University, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur and Banaras Hindu University. The most impactful organizations are Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, South Asian University and National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai. The most prolific authors are S. Kumar, B.M. Gupta and G. Pratap. Core journals in bibliometrics research include Library Philosophy and Practice, Scientometrics and Journal of Scientometric Research. Conclusion: The study concludes that India has the potential to become a global leader in bibliometrics research through increased productivity, collaborations and leveraging diverse expertise.

A Deep Dive into Highcharts Rendering: Optimizing Chart Performance for Complex and Dynamic Visualizations

2024-03-28T06:41:44+00:00

Highcharts is an interactive JavaScript charting library that allows developers to create sophisticated data visualizations and dashboards. The company behind Highcharts, Stockholm-based Highsoft, aims to provide a flexible and customizable solution for business intelligence and data visualization needs. At the core of Highcharts is its JavaScript library, which powers all interactive charts and features. This library can be easily integrated into any web application or dashboard. In addition to the core library, Highcharts offers a range of plugins, themes and solutions to extend its capabilities. The main portal for the Highcharts product is the website www.highcharts.com. Read more. . .