Abstract Background In 2015, The Lancet Commission on Global surgery (LCoGS) published a report highlighting the growing burden of surgical disease worldwide. need for research was emphasised in developing high-quality care, especially lower and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aim to assess current state global research, illuminate trends within discuss impact report. Methods A literature s...

INTRODUCTION Cancer is an important and growing public health burden in South Africa (SA). Over the past few decades, there has been considerable scientific activity in cancer in SA. However, there has been limited analysis of cancer scientific publications. In this paper, we present a protocol for bibliometric analysis of cancer research conducted in SA. METHODS AND ANALYSIS A comprehensive ...

Recently, Social Cognitive theory (SCT) has been widely adapted across various disciplines in business and management as well as Information Systems (IS) research. In IS, the use of SCT remains in its early stages. Few bibliometric analyses have been published on mapping theories across previous literature. However, to date factors related to literature review mapping in relation to SCT in IS h...

The predictive validity of peer review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet been demonstrated empirically. It might be assumed that the most efficient and expedient test of the predictive validity of NIH peer review would be an examination of the correlation between percentile scores from peer review and bibliometric indices of the publications produced from funded projects. T...

Introduction Bibliometrics, and scientometrics in general, have been enjoying what seems to be an endless party. Far from stopping, the demand for bibliometric indicators from governmental bodies, administrators and researchers, is continuously growing. During this “give me the indicators” phase several solutions have been provided by the community, let say new and more sophisticated indicators...

The Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) was introduced in 2010 as part of a major reform of the national university system. Under the new regulation, the scientific qualification for a specific role (associate or full professor) and field of study is required to apply for a permanent professor position. The ASN is peculiar since it makes use of bibliometric indicators with associate...

OBJECTIVE To identify the elite of authors about the subject adherence to antiretroviral therapy; to identify the journals turned to publishing articles about adherence to antiretroviral therapy; and to identify and analyze the most commonly used words in abstracts of articles about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. METHOD A bibliometric study conducted through the Scopus base. We used art...