Journal of Data Science, Informetrics, and Citation Studies

The Diffusion of the Topic Carbon Nanotube Over the Universe of Subjects: A Statistical Analysis

Swapan Paul — 2024-08-22

The diffusion is basically a physical process, which is essential in many physical, chemical and biological phenomena. The diffusion of knowledge refers to the interchange and propagation of knowledge through different media, or the transfer of knowledge from one subject to another. The concept of diffusion or dissemination of knowledge eventually gave rise to the concept of the diffusion of any specific topic over the universe of subject. In this paper, the growth of literature and the diffusion of the multidisciplinary topic “Carbon Nanotube” have been discussed since the year 1992 to 2022. The analysis of growth of literature shows the topic “Carbon Nanotube” follows logistic growth pattern over the last thirty years, which accords De Solla Price’ theory. The topic “Carbon Nanotube” was born in the subject ‘Physics’ and then gradually became relevant or contextual with other subjects in due course of time like material science, chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental science, engineering etc. The core journals published the papers on ‘Carbon Nanotube’ had also been changed over the stipulated time span of thirty years. The diffusion phenomenon has been proved here by the analysis of correlation coefficients between the ranks of the core journals and the ranks of the associated subjects. The proof of diffusion phenomenon of a specific topic over several broad subjects’ fields by correlation analysis is a new technique introduced here. This technique can be applied for studying diffusion of other multidisciplinary topics over various broad subjects.

A Scientometric Analysis of Highly Cited Papers of Pakistan in COVID-19 Research 2020-2023

Brij Mohan Gupta — 2024-08-22

Highly Cited Papers (HCPs) are influential sources of information that highlight trend-setting areas of research and identify key players within a subject. This study aims to measure the research performance of Pakistan in COVID-19-related research from 2020 to 2023, focusing specifically on HCPs that have received more than 100 citations. A bibliometric approach was employed to analyse COVID-19 research papers from Pakistan, with data sourced from Scopus. The period covered was from 2020 to 2023. The analysis included metrics such as the number of HCPs, citation counts, international collaboration, and funding sources. A total of 7602 COVID-19-related papers were published by Pakistani researchers, of which 164 (1.59%) were classified as HCPs. These HCPs collectively registered 38,244 citations, averaging 233.10 citations per paper. International collaboration was evident in 81.71% of these HCPs, and 32.92% were funded by external agencies. The USA, China, UK, and Saudi Arabia were identified as the leading international collaborating partners. Despite the high collaboration rates, the average productivity per organization in Pakistan was low, with only 6.32 HCPs per organization. Similarly, the average productivity of 31 research authors was 2.48 HCPs per author. International collaboration has positioned Pakistan at the centre stage in COVID-19 research, with external funding significantly enhancing research quality. However, the share of HCPs remains less than 2% of Pakistan's total COVID-19-related publications, indicating a significant gap between the quantity and quality of research output. This suggests that while Pakistan has made notable contributions, there remains substantial potential for add

A Bibliometric Analysis of Jaggery Related Literature Published During 2000-2023

Sachin Kamboj — 2024-08-22

The study proposed to provide a bibliometric analysis of the jaggery-related literature published from 2000 to 2023. The data for this study was retrieved from the Scopus database and analyzed using VOSviewer, Bibliometrix, and word cloud for the following: trend of publications, type of document, h-index, performance of countries and authors, most cited publications and most prolific journals. Further, a co-authorship network of countries and authors, a co-citation network of authors and references, a co-occurrence network, word clouds of keywords, and a thematic map were also analyzed to find research hot spots and current and future directions of research. Results showed that India, Colombia, and Pakistan are the leading producers of scientific literature while Sugar Tech and Journal of Food Science and Technology are the most influential journals in this field. A Co-authorship network indicates a low level of cooperation among the countries and the researchers, which is not conducive to the progress of research in the field. Word cloud and thematic map show that research related to jaggery is moving in a diversified direction. It is anticipated that this bibliometric study will be crucial to the researchers' understanding of research trends, hotspots, advancements, and current and future directions.

“Highly Read and Poorly Cited?” A Critical Perspective on Academic Social Networks

Mario Pagliaro — 2024-08-22

On the occasion of 300,000 reads of our team’s studies archived on ResearchGate, an Academic Social Network (ASN), this study offers a critical perspective on academic social networks from the perspective of research and educational dimensions of scholarly work. Findings of previous studies for which poor correlation between reads of articles archived in ASNs and citations exists are confirmed by this investigation. Academic social networking, however, provides unique benefits that deserve to be clearly identified to fulfil the potential of these digital resources available since 2009.

A Bibliometric Study of Community Resilience Research in G20 Countries

Sudip Banerjee — 2024-08-22

The present bibliometric study examines the publication outputs on community resilience among G20 countries as cited in the Scopus database over the last 10 years, 2013-2022. Research in community resilience among G20 countries and other allied areas was analyzed in terms of their year wise growth, authorship pattern, collaborations, relative research effort, citation impact, document type preference, most productive authors and most popular journals Beside this, the study tried to rank top ten prolific authors and popular journals according to their Citations per Publication. The study revealed that from 2013 to 2022 the publication outputs on community resilience among G20 countries showed consistent growth and resulted in 3570 publications. Initially, in 2013, only 143 publications were published and in 2022 it had increased to 661 publications. The USA is the leader in Community Resilience Research with 1351 publications but their CPP and impact are not so higher compare to the average. The degree of collaboration displayed its strength in multi-authored collaborative publications. Articles are the most preferred type of document. 81.46% of publications remain cited and only 18.54% of publications remain uncited till now. A total of 52146 citations have been received by 3570 publications and CPP is 14.61. In terms of p-index, the top three countries are USA, UK and Australia. Being the world's leading economies, the G20 countries can take leadership in future research on community resilience. This work can provide valuable insights into research trends and help identify key themes and topics in the field.

Mapping Global Assessment of Green Technology Research: A Scientometric Analysis Based on Web of Science

Ravi S — 2024-08-22

The present study aimed to evaluate global research assessment of green technology using web of science database. Bibliometric tools were employed to explore annual growth and radio growth rate of publication, documents type, language, relative growth rate and doubling time, author productivity, degree of collaboration, institutions, Bradford’s law, keywords, country and journals etc., Hiscite, Bibexcel, Biblioshiny and Vosviewer software were utilized to process and analyse the data. The result shows that green technology contributed 5902 publications, the highest number of publications 1504 (16.72%) were published in 2022, the maximum number of 4773 (80.87%) published were article-type documents, most of the publications are published in English language 5854 (99.1%), The mean doubling time for publication is 10.07 years. Finally, the most cited references in the field of green technology research. In this paper, we analyse the Scientometric of green technology research globally. It will help researchers in future.

Dr. Tony Dhillon, a British-Born Medical Oncologist of Indian Origin, the Pioneer of Recent Innovation of Bowel Cancer Vaccine: A Medicometric Portrait

Susanta Koley — 2024-08-22

Dr. Perminder Tony Singh Dhillon, popularly known as Dr. Tony Dhillon, is a celebrated medical oncologist and pioneer of recently (first) developed bowel cancer vaccine, under whose headship groundbreaking global trial of the vaccine is going on. This medicometric study covers his 29 publications during 2003-2023 with 269 co-authors. He has one single authored and 28 multi-authored paper. His highest number of publication is 6 in 2005. Using his biographical data and bibliographic-information, this study draws a short life history and journey of the Britain-born medical scientist of Indian origin (Punjab) in cancer research and identifies his year wise growth of research publications, authorship patterns, author productivity, research team and co-authors, leading collaborative authors, scattering of publications in several communication channels. His most notable journal is Journal of Clinical Oncology, a high impact UK journal for his paper publication. In all, degree of collaboration is 0.96. It counts Citation Growth Rate according to citation received in different Abstracting and Indexing Journals (GS, PM and RG) including citation analysis, Citation received patter, Relative Un-cited Index (RUI) and Relative Citation Impact (RCI), etc. The RUI values for the study period ranged from 0.01 to 0.03 in three databases. The highest RCI value is 2.74 in RG in 2006. Among highest frequency keywords, Colorectal (Colon+rectum) cancer, that is, bowel cancer, the prime theme of this study along with other nine has been appeared 3 times each. It also examines whether the data set follows Lotka’s Law and Bradford’s Law or not.

Scientometric Portrait of Dr. Raghuram Rajan: An Economist and 23rd RBI Governor

Mukesh Behera — 2024-08-22

The purpose of the current research is to summarize the many characteristics of Dr. Raghuram Rajan's research output as one of the outstanding Indian economists. The study is based on publication data from the years 1991 to 2022 those were indexed in the Scopus database. Bradford’s law, the degree of partnerships, authorship patterns, bibliographic coupling, citation analysis, co-authorship authors, and top sources, publishers, and keywords are all aspects covered in this study. In addition to using research topic network parameters, the authors also consider using an open source, one-of-a-kind tool for logical bibliometrics visualisation analysis that was created using the R language, RStudio, and VOSviewer. Dr. Rajan has produced 100 publications in total, with a 4.5 annual growth rate. Out of a total 38 journals and 23 publishers, he has published his papers most frequently in the Finance and Development journals (15 documents). Dr. Rajan's average number of citations per document is 265.8 and his Degree of Collaboration (DC) with other researchers is 0.61. The United States is the primary partner, and Dr. Rajan's study on economic growth appears most frequently in this cooperation.

Research Performance Analysis of Five Key Parameters of Top 20 Indian Universities: An Evaluation

Debdas Mondal — 2024-08-22

NIRF by the Ministry of Education, formerly MHRD ranks all these institutions, on five parameters, namely, (i) Metric for Quantitative Research (QNR), (ii) Metric for Qualitative Research (QLR), (iii) Metric for Students' & Faculty Contribution (SFC), (iv) Outreach & Inclusivity (OI), (v) Peer Perception (PR). The article reveals the evaluation information in the year 2021, the contributions of 20 highest Universities among 50 HEIs and their scores of parameters and sub-parameters under the “Research” category. It is a well-accepted fact that an increase in high-quality publications by a university would invariably result in the growth of its ranking. This study reflects that ranking has influenced the performance of universities positively. The study underscores that quality publications positively impacted rankings, highlighting the significance of research investment for overall university ranking enhancement. Furthermore, it found that the parameters set for assessing Indian institutions under NIRF align with those of other world university-ranking agencies. Universities scoring high for research productivity under NIRF also featured prominently in global rankings. Notably, universities from South India excelled in NIRF, indicating a close relationship between scholarly productivity and institutional ranking.

Citation and Altmetric Attention Score of Top 100 Highly Cited Articles in Health Information Management Journals: A Correlation Study

Venkatesh G — 2024-08-22

The study investigates the cross relationship between Citation and Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) of top 100 articles according to the highest citation in Health Information Management (HIM) journals. This article main goal is to check the relationship of the Citation, Altmetric Attention Score, Mendeley Readership Counts and Twitter score in highly cited articles in Health Information Management Journals. Data extraction was performed online, focusing on HIM topics using the Dimensions.ai database. The primary components of the study include citation counts, Altmetric Attention Score, Mendeley Reader Counts and Twitter Counts. The top 10 journals in HIM, ranked by h-index in the SCImago Journal Rank, were identified. From each of these top 10 journals, the top 10 highest cited articles were selected, constituting total of 100 articles. Microsoft Excel was used for data organization and table plotting. The Sperman Correlation test was conducted using SPSS version 23 software. The most important finding of the study indicates a low degree of positive correlation (rho=0.433) between citation counts and Altmetric attention scores, with statistical significance (p=0.000). The relation of Citations and Mendeley reader counts show a strong and statistically significant positive association (rho=0.628, p=0.000). Citation counts and Twitter scores display a moderate degree of positive correlation (rho=0.363), which is statistically significant (p=0.001).

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: Benefits and Drawbacks

Nabi Hasan — 2024-08-22

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising the different areas of life and libraries and information centres are no exceptions. Many libraries are now looking for new ways to improve their services, enhance library activities and meet the changing needs of their patrons. Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning can help achieve these objectives. This article talks about Artificial Intelligence and its major components and presents a review of literature trying to determine what is happening in this domain. It further discusses AI applications in different areas of library information services, especially cataloguing, acquisition, reference services, circulation, indexing, robotics, etc. It further compares the benefits Vs drawbacks, as nothing comes without limitations or challenges. This basic exploration of AI applications in libraries could benefit a beginner or someone who has just started exploring the same.

She Research Network in India (SheRNI): A Review

Snehasish Paul — 2024-08-22

SheRNI is a web-based Research Information Management (RIM) service that showcases the research contributions of learned Indian women. It is an Initiative of the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre. The paper outlines a critical analysis of the leading role played by SheRNI in empowering the female fraternity within academics and research through collaboration, knowledge sharing and resource access to resources among women professionals in STEM and other broad fields of discipline. SheRNI would fill that void and become the most important platform for Research Information Management (RIM) in the country; SheRNI is a leading interdisciplinary database that connects women scientists, researchers and faculty with interdisciplinary collaboration and network opportunities, serving the global research community. The initiative aims to help deepen knowledge democracy by clustering open-access publishing and sharing women's research contributions. It points to the possible future course SheRNI empowers women professionals from India to excel in their domain and proactively contribute to making a positive difference in helping to create an inclusive research ecosystem.

Truth and Fake in the Post-Factual Digital Age: Distinctions in the Humanities and IT Sciences

Sanjoy Kar — 2024-08-22

The book “Truth and Fake in the Post-Factual Digital Age: Distinctions in the Humanities and IT Sciences,” edited by Peter Klimczak and Thomas Zoglauer, presents a comprehensive exploration of the challenges posed by the surge in fake news and disinformation in the era of digitalization. Published by Springer in 2023, this work is a translation of the original German edition titled “Wahrheit und Fake im postfaktisch-digitalen Zeitalter,” published in 2021 by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH. Read More . . .