The goal of this study is to stimulate a broader and deeper application of scientometric theory in information systems (IS) research, specifically to emphasize the benefits of scientometrics in the conceptual development of the IS field. The study reviews the underlying theories of scientometrics, specifically how they combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches towards research evalua...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conduct a meta-analysis of prior scientometric research of the knowledge management (KM) field. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 108 scientometric studies of the KM discipline were subjected to meta-analysis techniques. Findings – The overall volume of scientometric KM works has been growing, reaching up to ten publications per year by 2012, but...

INTRODUCTION Awareness of the latest scientific research and publishing articles in top journals is one of the major concerns of health researchers. In this study, we first introduced top journals of obstetrics and gynecology field based on their Impact Factor (IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator indexed in Scopus databases and then the scientometric features of...

In contrast to our previous study (Barth & Marx, 2008) dealing with a currently decreasing research field (high-temperature superconductors) we analyzed here a topic which has raised a strongly increasing interest among researchers: research activities around carbon nanotubes (CNTs or NTs). Carbon nanotubes (often named only nanotubes) are graphite sheets rolled up into cylinders with diameters...

This study examines one dimension of the evolution of the information systems (IS) field through a scientometric study of three major global, regional and national conferences: ICIS, PACIS and ASAC. The findings suggest that IS has matured and diversified over the years, since the number of publications and the average number of collaborators per publication have been growing. Using well-establ...

the present research is an attempt to describe the quantity and quality of publication trends of media literacy based on scopus reports. the population under study was composed of 510 documents on media literacy published through 2011. the results were analyzed based on date of publication, type of document, language of the documents, source of publications, subject areas, authors and their aff...

This paper presents a scientometric study about information management. Both the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index were used to analyse the literature about information management by various criteria like journal subject category, origins of the authors, publication languages, chronological distribution. Furthermore, a citation analysis was conducted. On the basis of ...

There is mounting interest among scientists regarding the use of scientometric social network analysis, or quantitative analysis of the evolution of science as defined by individual researchers and the networks they form. Given that geographers have seldom used this approach compared to researchers in other fields, its implications for research and policy need to be assessed. We applied sciento...