Genre is considered to be an important element in scholarly communication and in the practice of scientific disciplines. However, scientometric studies have typically focused on a single genre, the journal article. The goal of this study is to understand the role that handbooks play in knowledge creation and diffusion and their relationship with the genre of journal articles, particularly in hi...

BACKGROUND Publications related to scoliosis have increased enormously. A differentiation between publications of major and minor importance has become difficult even for experts. Scientometric data on developments and tendencies in scoliosis research has not been available to date. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the scientific efforts of scoliosis research both quantitatively and...

BACKGROUND Drowning is a constant global problem which claims approximately half a million victims worldwide each year, whereas the number of near-drowning victims is considerably higher. Public health strategies to reduce the burden of death are still limited. While research activities in the subject drowning grow constantly, yet there is no scientometric evaluation of the existing literature ...

We advocate a scientometric, top-down, and institution-based research assessment methodology that is based on total citations accumulated from all publications associated-with a specific university during the survey period. The exercise could be done every year using a rolling 7 year retrospective sample and should be performed by at least two independent auditors. Identification of elite ‘revo...

What is the ‘level of excellence’ of a scientist and the real impact of his/her work upon the scientific thinking and practising? How can we design a fair, an unbiased metric – and most importantly – a metric robust to manipulation? Quantifying an individual’s scientific merit The evaluation of the scientific work of a scientist has long attracted significant interest, due to the benefits by ob...

This article presents an analysis of Brazilian research on High Energy Physics (HEP) indexed by Web of Science (WoS) from 1983 to 2013. Scientometric indicators for output, collaboration and impact were used to characterize the field under study. The results show that the Brazilian articles account for 3% of total HEP research worldwide and that the sharp rise in the scientific activity between...

Caesarean section (CS) is a common surgical procedure. Although it has been performed in a modern context for about 100 years, there is no concise analysis of the international architecture of caesarean section research output available so far. Therefore, the present study characterizes the global pattern of the related publications by using the NewQIS (New Quality and Quantity Indices in Scien...