To develop search filters and retrieve information estimating the Croatian scientific output (SO) focusing on Public Health (PH) and Preventive Medicine (PM) in MEDLINE. A PubMed search of the MEDLINE database was performed to retrieve articles added to this database between 2000 and 2007. Search filters inspired by previous strategies were applied involving 'geographical', 'place of publicatio...

Bibliometrics offers a particular representation of science (Wouters, 1999; Nicolaisen 2007). Through bibliometric methods a bibliometrician will always highlight particular elements of publications, and through these elements operationalize particular representations of science, while obscuring other possible representations from view. Understanding bibliometrics as representation implies that...

This paper describes the application of data mining techniques for eludicating patterns and trends in technological innovation. Specifically, we focus on the use of bibliometric methods, viz techniques which focus on trends in the publication of text documents rather than the content of these documents. Of particular interest is the relationship between publication patterns, as characterized by...

This work stems from the idea of describing the scientific productivity of Italian statisticians. There are several problems that must be addressed in achieving this goal:What data should be used? Have the data been cleaned?What techniques can be used?We propose the use ofmultiple sources andmultiplemetrics to get a complete information base. We check the correctness of the data using multivari...

BACKGROUND: Neural regeneration following nerve injury is an emerging field that attracts extending interests all over the world. OBJECTIVE: To use bibliometric indexes to track studies focusing on neural regeneration, and to investigate the relationships among geographic origin, countries and institutes, keywords in the published articles, and especially focus on the region distribution, insti...

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Bibliometrics has the ambitious goal of measuring science. To this end, it exploits the way science is disseminated trough scientific publications and the resulting citation network of scientific papers. We survey the main historical contributions to the field, the most interesting bibliometric indicators, and the most popular bibliometric data sources. Moreover, we discuss distributions common...

STUDY DESIGN Descriptive bibliometric analysis. BACKGROUND Content and bibliometric studies are useful for describing the publication patterns of a given profession, such as physical therapy, within the medical and allied health fields. However, few studies have conducted these analyses on specialty physical therapy journals. OBJECTIVES To conduct a content and bibliometric assessment of pu...

Demonstrating scholarly impact is a matter of growing importance. This paper reports on a bibliometric and altmetric analysis conducted on the Journal of Community Informatics (JOCI). Besides the bibliometric analysis the study also looked into JOCI article-level metrics by comparing usage metrics (article views), alternative metrics (Mendeley readership), and traditional citation metrics (Goog...