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Scientometric review and analysis
Published in Emmanuel Manu, Julius Akotia, Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment, 2021
Timothy O. Olawumi, Abdullahi B. Saka, Daniel W.M. Chan, Nimesha S. Jayasena
Understanding the dynamics of knowledge in the various disciplines is vital not only to expanding the knowledge base but also to identifying the diverse aspects of such disciplines. Research techniques, such as scientometrics, bibliometrics, and informetrics, provide avenues through which to study and reflect on the dynamics of a discipline. There are significant overlaps between these three techniques in terms of their methodologies, theories, and applications, but they differ in their subject background (Mooghali et al., 2011). Bibliometrics was designed to analyse books and articles statistically and other forms of communication, while scientometric, as its name implies, is focused on scientific publications (otherwise known as the science of science) with the motive being to guide decision-making or policy formulation. However, informetrics has been streamlined for the domain of information science and, thus, has found limited application across disciplines. Brookes (1990) and Hood and Wilson (2001) provided a further in-depth discussion on the history, inter-relationships, and differences between these three statistical record techniques. An application of bibliometric research in the built environment can be seen in the study of Olawumi et al. (2017). Owing to word limitations, readers interested in the similarities and differences of the scientometric, bibliometric, and informetric analyses can refer to Mooghali et al. (2011) and Qiu et al. (2017).
Link analysis
Published in Catherine Dawson, A–Z of Digital Research Methods, 2019
Link analysis, within the second approach, has its roots in the discipline of information science, in particular in bibliometrics (the quantitative study of books and other media of communication), scientometrics (the quantitative study of scientific activity and the history of science) informetrics (the quantitative study of information and retrieval) and citation analysis (the quantitative study of citations in documents). Link analysis (or link impact analysis), within this approach, is concerned with the analysis of links, hyperlinks and the graph structure of the Web (see Figuerola and Berrocal, 2013 for an example of a research paper that discusses the analysis of web links). This type of link analysis is a data analysis method that is used in webometrics, which is discussed in Chapter 59. A closely related technique is link mining (the application of data mining techniques to linkage data), which is discussed in Chapter 12. Another closely related area is information retrieval, including web and blog retrieval, which is discussed in Chapter 23.
Bibliometric analysis on cardiovascular disease treated by traditional Chinese medicines based on big data
Published in International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2020
Junnan Liu, Xing Zhai, Xianfu Liao
Citation analysis refers to an informetric research method in which the researchers use logical methods, such as mathematics and statistics, to conduct comparison, induction, summary and abstract so as to analyse the condition of citing and cited scientific journals, papers and authors, and by doing it to uncover its quantitative characteristics and inherent laws [13]. In this study, the author used bibliometrics to carry out statistical analysis of citation amount, quotation frequency, h-index and other indexes of literature on cardiovascular diseases treated by TCM and ranked nations/regions and organisations. Meanwhile, papers with a high cited frequency of a specific field are important research bases of the field, and analysing the content and its co-cited relationship of these papers could help us get a better understanding of the development direction of the field [14]. The papers with a high cited frequency were selected according to Price Law (Mp is the minimal value of the paper with a high cited frequency, and Npmax is the cited frequency of the paper with the highest cited frequency).
Top cited research over fifteen years in Sports Biomechanics
Published in Sports Biomechanics, 2020
The fields of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics focus on the statistical evaluation of science through examination of publications and citations. A wide variety of citation metrics are available that provide information on the impact or influence of journals, specific publications and authors (Bornmann & Leydesdorff, 2013; Tahira, Abdullah, Alias, & Bakri, 2016; Wildgaard, Schneider, & Larsen, 2014). Bibliometric analyses of citation metrics have been used to evaluate the influence of research in disciplinary fields (e.g. Khoo, Li, & Ansari, 2018; Shadagan, Roig, HajGhandari, & Reid, 2010), movement activities (e.g. Knudson, 2012; Marquez-Lara et al., 2017) and specific journals (e.g. Coronado, Wurtzel, Simon, Riddle, & George, 2011).