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We examined the international scientific productivity on auditing between 2002, when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was published, and the end of 2013, based on a bibliometrics/scientometrics analysis of scientific articles included in the Web of Science from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). A database was created including 2,394 publications. As a contribution it was possible to systematically identify the main features of the auditing publications in the extended literature through bibliometrics and scientometrics analysis for the creation of its state of art in auditing. It is important that other researchers study the reason for the growth in auditing publications and identify relevant concepts, theories, methodologies, and emerging issues that have arisen in the field of auditing considering that there is a transactional empirical gap for future studies in the literature. Key words: Bibliometrics, scientometrics, scientific production, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), literature review.
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The article traces main trends of the scientific research development on the Northern Sea Route using the international database Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics and Scopus by Elsevier. Using a scientometric analysis and analytical tools of DBs, the author shows countries, institutions and organizations that study this problem, as well as funds financing them; names productive periodicals and authors with high publication activity. In conclusion, the author notes that the study of the Northern sea Route development is an urgent problem for the entire world society, not only for the northern countries.
Objective – to carry on a scientometric analysis of information arrays (IA) in the international scientific citation indices devoted to studying the Northern Sea Route development.
Methods: scientometric analysis.
Results: countries, institutions and organizations that study this problem are represented, as well as funds financing them; productive periodicals and authors with high publication activity are designated; the main research fields are revealed.
Practical implications: the study should be used as an information base for further research of scientists and specialists on various aspects of the Northern Sea Route development.
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Bibliometrics, the statistical analysis of written publications, is an increasingly popular approach to the assessment of scientific activity. Bibliometrics allows researchers to assess the impact of a field, or research area, and has been used to make decisions regarding research funding. Through bibliometric analysis, we hypothesized that a bibliometric analysis of difficult airway research would demonstrate a growth in authors and articles over time.Using the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases, we conducted a search of published manuscripts on the difficult airway from January 1981 to December 2013. After removal of duplicates, we identified 2412 articles. We then analyzed the articles as a group to assess indicators of productivity, collaboration, and impact over this time period.We found an increase in productivity over the study period, with 37 manuscripts published between 1981 and 1990, and 1268 between 2001 and 2010 (P < .001). The difficult airway papers growth rate was bigger than that of anesthesiology research in general, with CAGR (cumulative average growth rate) since 1999 for difficult airway >9% for both WoS and Scopus, and CAGR for anesthesiology as a whole =0.64% in WoS, and =3.30% in Scopus. Furthermore, we found a positive correlation between the number of papers published per author and the number of coauthored manuscripts (P < .001). We also found an increase in the number of coauthored manuscripts, in international cooperation between institutions, and in the number of citations for each manuscript. For any author, we also identified a positive relationship between the number of citations per manuscript and the number of papers published (P < .001).We found a greater increase over time in the number of difficult airway manuscripts than for anesthesiology research overall. We found that collaboration between authors increases their impact, and that an increase in collaboration increases citation rates. Publishing in English and in certain journals, and collaborating with certain authors and institutions, increases the visibility of manuscripts published on this subject.
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Although the main bibliometric databases (Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus) claim to includejournals on the basis of scientific and publication standards, there have long been concerns thatits coverage is biased in favour of journals from industrialised countries and towards topicsrelevant to these countries. In this article, we investigate this claim for research on rice,comparing the database CAB Abstracts with the mainstream databases. We find clear evidencethat for a field such as rice, statistics based on WoS and Scopus strongly under-represent thescientific production by developing countries, and over-represent production by industrialisedcountries. More importantly, we also find a substantial bias in coverage of different researchtopics. WoS and Scopus have a ~75% coverage of publications in molecular biology and issuesrelated to consumption, but a much lower coverage (20-30% in WoS and 30-50% in Scopus) forresearch more directly related to rice production such as plant nutrition, diseases andcharacteristics. CAB Abstracts coverage is above 80% for all topics except consumption. Thestudy suggests that statistics based on mainstream databases provide a significantly distortedview of the amount of research and diversity of agendas in most countries. Given thatbibliometric statistics are often used for benchmarking and evaluation purposes, the databasebiases may translate into policy framings that undervalue domestic capabilities and researchagendas more attuned to local needs in the global south.
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To analyze the number of articles of Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc) in the Scopus database and describe principal quantitative bibliometric indicators of scientific publications during the period between 2005 to 2013.Scopus database was used limited to the period between 2005 to 2013. The analysis cover mainly title of articles with the title of Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social and its possible modifications. For the analysis, Scopus, Excel and Access were used.864 articles were published during the period between 2005 to 2013 in the Scopus database. We identified authors with the highest number of contributions including articles with the highest citation rate and forms of documents cited. We also divided articles by subjects, types of documents and other bibliometric indicators which characterize the publications.The use of Scopus brings the possibility of analyze with an external tool the visibility of the scientific production published in the Revista Médica del IMSS. The use of this database also contributes to identify the state of science in México, as well as in the developing countries.Objetivo: analizar la visibilidad de la Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc) en la base de datos Scopus y describir los principales indicadores bibliométricos cuantitativos de la producción científica publicados durante el periodo 2005-2013. Métodos: para el análisis se utilizó la base de datos Scopus y se limitó el periodo de búsqueda a los años 2005-2013. La estrategia de búsqueda se ejecutó en los campos específicos de Título de la Publicación (Source Title) con el término Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social y sus posibles variantes, asícomo el número ISSN de la revista. Para el análisis de los datos obtenidos se utilizaron las herramientas de Scopus y los programas Excel y Access. Resultados: se encontraron 864 trabajos publicados durante el periodo 2005-2013 que fueron incluidos en Scopus. Se identificaron los autores con mayor producción científica y mayor número de citas acumuladas a sus trabajos, asícomo las principales revistas que citan a la Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc. Se describen las principales áreas temáticas, tipos de documentos y otros indicadores bibliométricos que caracterizan a la publicación. Conclusiones: el uso de Scopus brinda la posibilidad de analizar con una herramienta externa al IMSS la visibilidad de la producción científica publicada en la Revista Médica del IMSS, además de que contribuye a identificar el estado de la ciencia en México y de los países en vías desarrollo.
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Background: The two main bibliometric databases, namely Web of Science and Scopus, are not available for free, whereas the Dimensions is one of the new freely available bibliometric databases and is considered to be an alternative to Scopus in particular. Objectives: To compare the information on citations to articles published in European Science Editing as available in the Dimensions to that available in Scopus. Methods: Information on articles published in European Science Editing that were cited in sources published between 2020 and 2022 was analysed to compare the relevant data as given by Dimensions and Scopus. Results: Both databases were similar in terms of the number of cited articles, the number of citing articles, and the number of citations. Of the total of 35 cited articles, 3 were unique to each of the 2 databases. Of the total of 93 citing articles, 74 were found in Scopus and 75 in the Dimensions. Conclusions: Scopus and Dimensions shared an overlap of 84% in articles cited but of only 60% in the citing articles. Information on individual citing articles strongly suggests that Dimensions takes data on citing articles from CrossRef. Unfortunately, these metadata contain errors. Data on citations in the Dimension database could be made more accurate if the references appended to the citing articles listed in the Crossref database were under an open license.
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