How to write a bibliometric paper

How to Write a Bibliometric
Paper
aleebrahim@um.edu.my
@aleebrahim
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Nader Ale Ebrahim, PhD
Visiting Research Fellow
Centre for Research Services
Institute of Management and Research Services
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6th September 2017

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Read more: Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013). Effective
Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
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6th SERIES OF INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP ON:
Strategies to Enhance Research
Visibility, Impact & Citations

Abstract
Abstract: Bibliometrics can be defined as the statistical
analysis of publications. Bibliometrics has focused on the
quantitative analysis of citations and citation counts which is
complex. It is so complex and specialized that personal
knowledge and experience are insufficient for understanding
trends and then making decisions. We need tools for analysis
of bibliometrics information to recognize the research trends
and evaluate scientific/institution/country’s research
productivity. This presentation will provide procedure to write
a Bibliometrics paper.
Keywords: H-index, Improve citations, Research tools,
Bibliometrics, Research Visibility, Research Impact
©2017-2018 Nader Ale Ebrahim 3

DATE TIME TOPIC
23 August 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m.
Where to publish? A Journal selection procedure for
receiving the highest citation and impact
6 September 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m. Essential steps to write a Bibliometric paper
13 September 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m. New systems for measuring research impact
20 September 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m
Boosting Research Citation and Visibility through
Online Profile
27 September 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m
Reference management tools for Boosting the
Research Visibility and Impact
4 October 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m
Optimize articles for search engine to improve
research visibility
11 October 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m
Academic Social Network for Enhancement of
Research Visibility and Impact
25 October 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m
Analysis of Bibliometrics information for
selecting the best field of study
1 November 2017 9.00 a.m.—12.00 p.m
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Introduction of bibliometrics
• Bibliometrics can be defined as the quantitative analysis
of science and technology performance and the
cognitive and organizational structure of science and
technology.
• Basic for these analyses is the scientific communication
between scientists through (mainly) journal publications.
• Key concepts in bibliometrics are output and impact, as
measured through publications and citations.
• Important starting point in bibliometrics: scientists
express, through citations in their scientific publications,
a certain degree of influence of others on their own work.
• By large scale quantification, citations indicate influence
or (inter)national visibility of scientific activity, but
should not be interpreted as synonym for ‘quality’.
©2017-2018 Nader Ale Ebrahim
Source: Thed van Leeuwen, (2010) Application of bibliometric analysis: Advantages & pitfalls, Workshop on Research Evaluation in Statistical
Sciences , Bologna, 25th March 2010
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Altmetrics
Webometrics
Cybermetrics
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Informetrics
Science of
Science
Bibliographies –
largely
references
Alternative
metrics – views,
downloads, web
citations, etc
Web presence,
visibility and
impact – links,
pages,
documents
Whole Internet,
cyberspace
Informetrics, scientometrics, bibliometrics,
webometrics, cybermetrics and altmetrics
Source: Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire. "Can informetrics shape biomedical research? A case study of the HIV/AIDS research in sub-Saharan Africa ."
Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 6.1 (2014): 49-65.
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Frequently Used Terms for Research
Evaluation Metrics
Source: Das, A.-K. (2015). Research Evaluation Metrics. 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization.
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Reasons for bibliometric studies
• Understanding of patterns
– discovery of regularities, behavior
– “order out of documentary chaos” [Bradford, 1948]
• Analysis of structures & dynamics
– discovery of connections, relations, networks
– search for regularities - possible predictions
• Discovery of impacts, effects
• relation between entities & amounts of their various uses
– providing support for making of decisions, policies
Source: https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~tefko/Courses/e530/Lectures/Lecture09%20Bibliometric%20searching.ppt
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Use of evaluative bibliometrics
• Academic, research & government institutions for:
– promotion and tenure, hiring, salary raising
– decisions for support of departments, disciplines
– grants decision; research policy making
– visualization of scholarly networks, identifying key contributions
& contributors
– monitoring scholarly developments
– determining journal citation impact
• Resource allocation:
– identifying authors most worthy of support;
– research areas most worthy of funding
– journals most worthy of support or purchase; etc.
Source: https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~tefko/Courses/e530/Lectures/Lecture09%20Bibliometric%20searching.ppt
10

Applications of Scientometrics and
Bibliometrics in Research Evaluation
• For Institution/ Collaborative Research
Group
• For a scientist:
– Mapping of collaborations, collaborating institutions, collaborating countries,
co-authors, highly cited papers, top publishing journals, percentage of cited vs.
uncited papers, percentage of self-citations, author-level indicators such as h-
index, i10-index, etc.
• For a country
• For a journal
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Major Citation Databases
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The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
• The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene
Garfield in 1960. It was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in
1992, became known as Thomson ISI and now is part of the Healthcare &
Science business of the multi-billion dollar Thomson Reuters Corporation.
• ISI offered bibliographic database services. Its speciality: citation indexing
and analysis, a field pioneered by Garfield. It maintains citation databases
covering thousands of academic journals, including a continuation of its long
time print-based indexing service the Science Citation Index (SCI), as well
as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities
Citation Index (AHCI). All of these are available via ISI's Web of Knowledge
database service.

Science Citation
Index
Arts &
Humanities
Citation Index
WOK 4.0
Social
Sciences
Citation
Index
ISI Web of
Knowledge
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2007 2008
SciSearch
Century of
Science TS Innovation
Essential
Science
Indicators
PC-based Indicators
for journals, nations,
institutions
PC-based citation sets
Custom citation projects
and national indicators -
mainframe
Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) has been the
authority on citation data for over 50 years.

Scopus (Launched 2004)
• Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of
peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and
conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive
overview of the world's research output in the fields of
science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts
and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track,
analyze and visualize research.
• As research becomes increasingly global,
interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure
that critical research from around the world is not missed
when you choose Scopus.
Source: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus
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A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature
Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Source: Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Yunus, Melor Md and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim,
Nader, A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (April 7, 2013). Asian Social Science, Vol.
9, No. 5, pp. 18-26, April 27, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2257540 16

Author Level Indicators
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Research Tools Mind Map

Example of Keywords selection

Selecting keywords

Keywords Plus
• KeyWords Plus® are index terms created
by Thomson Reuters from significant,
frequently occurring words in the titles of
an article's cited references.
Source: http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOS/h_fullrec.html

Keywords and Keywords Plus®
Authors sometimes provide a list of keywords or terms that they feel best
represent the content of their paper. These keywords are contained in the ISI
record (1991 data forward, depending on the database) for each article and are
searchable. In addition, ISI generates KeyWords Plus for many articles.
KeyWords Plus are words or phrases that frequently appear in the titles of an
article's references, but do not necessarily appear in the title of the article itself.
KeyWords Plus may be present for articles that have no author keywords, or
may include important terms not listed among the title, abstract, or author
keywords.
Source: http://wos.isitrial.com/help/helpdefs.html

KeyWords Plus- Example
• New Product Development in Virtual
Environment (ISI Indexed)
• Author Keywords: New product Development;
Virtual teams; Concurrent Collaboration; Review
paper
• KeyWords Plus: DEVELOPMENT TEAMS;
PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY;
KNOWLEDGE; COMMUNICATION;
PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATION; INNOVATION;
NETWORK; WORKING

Key Words Selection

Key Words Selection
Source: Ponce, F. A., & Lozano, A. M. (2014). Highly cited works in neurosurgery. Part II: the citation classics A review
(vol 112, pg 233, 2010). Journal Of Neurosurgery 120(5), 1252-1257. doi: 10.3171/2014.2.JNS14358a
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100 top-cited scientific papers in limb
prosthetics

100 top-cited scientific papers in
limb prosthetics

Global scientific production on GIS research
by bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 2006

Global stem cell research trend: Bibliometric analysis
as a tool for mapping of trends from 1991 to 2006

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of solar hydrogen
generation literature from 2001 to 2014

Major trends in knowledge management
research: a bibliometric study

Physical Activity and Aging
Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Evaluating the academic trend of RFID technology
based on SCI and SSCI publications from 2001 to 2014

35Year Research History of Cytotoxicity and
Cancer: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

Impact of Article Page Count and Number of Authors
on Citations in Disability Related Fields: A Systematic
Review Article

My recent publications

Questions?
E-mail: aleebrahim@um.edu.my
Twitter: @aleebrahim
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CENTRE FOR RESEARCH SERVICES
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION COMPLEX (IPPP)
UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA

References
1. Ale Ebrahim, N., Salehi, H., Embi, M. A., Habibi Tanha, F., Gholizadeh, H., Motahar, S. M., & Ordi, A. (2013). Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency.
International Education Studies, 6(11), 93-99. doi: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93
2. Thed van Leeuwen, (2010) Application of bibliometric analysis: Advantages & pitfalls, Workshop on Research Evaluation in Statistical Sciences , Bologna, 25th March 2010
3. Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire. "Can informetrics shape biomedical research? A case study of the HIV/AIDS research in sub-Saharan Africa ." Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities
and Social Sciences 6.1 (2014): 49-65.
4. Das, A.-K. (2015). Research Evaluation Metrics. 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
5. Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Yunus, Melor Md and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, A Comparison
between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (April 7, 2013). Asian Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 18-26, April 27, 2013.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2257540
6. F. A., & Lozano, A. M. (2014). Highly cited works in neurosurgery. Part II: the citation classics A review (vol 112, pg 233, 2010). Journal Of Neurosurgery 120(5), 1252-1257.
doi: 10.3171/2014.2.JNS14358a
7. Ahmed, A., Mastura, A. D. A. M., Ghafar, N. A., Muhammad, M., & Ebrahim, N. A. (2016). Impact of Article Page Count and Number of Authors on Citations in Disability
Related Fields: A Systematic Review Article. Iranian journal of public health, 45(9), 1118.
8. Farghadani, R., Haerian, B. S., Ale Ebrahim, N., & Muniandy, S. (2016). 35-Year Research History of Cytotoxicity and Cancer: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis.
9. Shakiba, M., Zavvari, A., Aleebrahim, N. et al. Scientometrics (2016) 109: 591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2095-y
10. Müller, Andre M and Ansari, Payam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Khoo, Selina, Physical Activity and Aging Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (December 15, 2015). Journal
of Aging and Physical Activity (2015) doi: 10.1123/japa.2015-0188. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2704795
11. Eshraghi, A., Osman, N. A. A., Gholizadeh, H., Ali, S., & Shadgan, B. (2013). 100 top-cited scientific papers in limb prosthetics. Biomedical engineering online, 12(1), 119.
12. Tian, Y., Wen, C., & Hong, S. (2008). Global scientific production on GIS research by bibliometric analysis from 1997 to 2006. Journal of Informetrics, 2(1), 65-74.
13. Li, L. L., Ding, G., Feng, N., Wang, M. H., & Ho, Y. S. (2009). Global stem cell research trend: Bibliometric analysis as a tool for mapping of trends from 1991 to 2006.
Scientometrics, 80(1), 39-58.
14. Maghami, M. R., esmaeil Rezadad, M., Ebrahim, N. A., & Gomes, C. (2015). Qualitative and quantitative analysis of solar hydrogen generation literature from 2001 to 2014.
Scientometrics, 105(2), 759-771.
15. Akhavan, P., Ebrahim, N. A., Fetrati, M. A., & Pezeshkan, A. (2016). Major trends in knowledge management research: a bibliometric study. Scientometrics, 107(3), 1249-
1264.
My recent publication:
1. Jamali, S. M., Nurulazam Md Zain, A., Samsudin, M. A., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2017). Self-Efficacy, Scientific Reasoning, and Learning Achievement in the STEM PjBL Literature. Paper presented at the International Postgraduate
Conference on Research in Education (IPCoRE 2017), School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia
2. Samsudin, M. A., Nurulazam Md Zain, A., Jamali, S. M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2017). Physics Achievement in STEM PjBL: A Gender Study. Paper presented at the International Postgraduate Conference on Research in Education
(IPCoRE 2017), School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia.
3. Muhammad, M., Ahmed, A., Lola, G. K., Mikail Usman, U., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2017). The Rise of “Trade Liberalization”: Bibliometric Analysis of Trade Liberalization Study. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 8(2), 97-104.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2928551
My recent presentations:
1. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): Improving Research Visibility Part 7: Measuring Research Impact. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5081371.v1
2. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): Improving Research Visibility Part 6: Academic Social Networking. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5048413.v1
3. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): Improving Research Visibility Part 5: Blogging and Online Magazines. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5035244.v1
4. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): LITERATURE REVIEWING WITH RESEARCH TOOLS, Part 4: Paper submission & dissemination. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5028152.v1
5. Ale Ebrahim, Nader (2017): LITERATURE REVIEWING WITH RESEARCH TOOLS, Part 3: Writing Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5028140.v1

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