Bibliometric Analysis of Ghana Publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded

Boamah, Peter Osei; Ho, Yuh‐Shan

doi:10.15517/rbt.v66i1.29250

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“…Relationship between percentage of publications and number of journals in productive Web of Science categories follows a proposal for search performances in tropical countries like Ghana (Boamah & Ho, 2018), Guatemala (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2018), and Brunei (Ho, Lim, & Monge-Nájera, 2018).…”

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Ecuador publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: institutions, subjects, citation and collaboration patterns

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Mónge-Nájera

Wang

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Introduction: Ecuador, a country of 17 million inhabitants with a medium human development index of 0.75, has a small scientific productivity in relation to its size and population. Objective: To analyze Ecuador publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded, focusing on productivity, subjects, institutions, citations, and trends. Methods: We analyzed scientific publications by authors from Ecuador from 1900 to 2017 in the Science Citation Index Expanded and compared it with other tropical countries. Results: We found 16 document types (7 806 articles). The three most productive institutions were Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and Escuela Politécnica Nacional. USA and Spain were the most frequent collaborating countries. Most articles were in English and ecology, botany, and zoology were common, but no field produced over 8 % of articles. However, ecology represents 11.3 % of the total citations. The most cited papers in the database were from large international biology and physics projects with minimal participation of Ecuadorean scientists. Article citations occurs mostly after the SCI stops counting. Conclusion: Science in Ecuador is growing but needs to greatly increase collaboration among Ecuadorean institutions to reduce its dependence on foreing projects. However, this study did not include articles published by the hundreds of Ecuadorean journals not covered by the SCI Expanded.

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Ecuador publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: institutions, subjects, citation and collaboration patterns

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Wang

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“…The increase in the number of publications, in all fields of science, is a general trend of tropical countries in the last decade, the same trend has been found in Asia (Ho et al, 2018), Africa (Boamah & Ho, 2018;Bah et al, 2019), and Latin America Calahorrano et al, 2020).…”

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“…Vietnam was colonized by France and for many years French was a second language in the country, but its publications in this database are 99 % in English, closer to countries like Gambia (Bah et al, 2019), Ghana (Boamah & Ho, 2018), and Brunei (Ho et al, 2018) which were colonized by the British. A probable reason is that journals covered by this particular index publish mostly in English.…”

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“…A series studies were presented for Latin America including Costa Rica (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2012), Panama (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2015), Nicaragua (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2017a), Honduras (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2017b), El Salvador (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2017c), Guatemala , and Ecuador (Calahorrano, Monge-Nájera, Wang, & Ho, 2020). Similar investigations were also done in Africa, including Gambia (Bah, Fu, & Ho, 2019), Cameroon (Tchuifon Tchuifon, Fu, & Ho, 2017) and Ghana (Boamah & Ho, 2018). A compared bibliometric study of Brunei (an Asian country) and Neotropical countries was also recently published (Ho et al, 2018).…”

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Bibliometrics of Vietnam Publications in the Science Citation Index: general trends and comparison with other tropical countries

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Mónge-Nájera

2020

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Introduction: The economy of Vietnam, a highly populated tropical country with a per capita gross domestic product of $ 8 000, is growing rapidly, but there are few recent studies of general scope about its scientific productivity and how it compares with other tropical countries. Objective: To identify trends in Vietnamese science and compare them with trends in other tropical countries. Methods: We extracted data about scientific papers, in all disciplines that had Vietnam as country in the Science Citation Index Expanded for the period 1991 to 2018, focusing on type of publication, language, subject, authorship, collaboration, , and citations. Results: Vietnam publishes more document types than other tropical countries, and those in this particular database are mostly in English, albeit most Vietnamese science is published in Vietnamese and not covered by the index. The primary categories were multidisciplinary materials science, mathematics, and applied mathematics. Most collaboration was done with the USA, Japan, South Korea, and France. A large number of articles were published by the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and the most frequent foreign collaboration was with University of Oxford. Conclusion: the tropical countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia studied in our project have some similarities but also crucial differences. Science is developing rapidly in Vietnam and the production of articles in Vietnamese, which represent the vast majority of research in the country but is not included in this database, should also be studied.

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“…The study drew upon the SCI-E dataset, produced by the ISI, which includes more than 33,000 notable and significant journals. This resource is considered the authoritative dataset because of a rigorous selection process [24][25][26][27]. The research literature is fully indexed by authors, author affiliations, countries, publication year, times cited, and other factors [28,29].…”

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Imbalances between the Quantity and Quality of China’s Solar Energy Research

Wang

2019

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China's solar energy industry is developing rapidly and China's solar energy research is experiencing a high speed of development alongside it. Is China's solar energy research growth quantity-driven (paper-driven) or quality-driven (citation-driven)? Answering this question is important for China's solar research field and industrial sector, and has implications for China’s other renewable research programs. Applying statistical methods, the citation analysis method, and web of science data, this study investigated China’s solar energy research between 2007 and 2015 from two perspectives: quantity (numbers of papers) and quality (number of paper citations). The results show that the number of Science Citation Index Expanded（SCI-E）papers on solar energy in China has grown rapidly, surpassing the United States to become the world leader in 2015. However, the growth rate in scientific production was consistently higher than the growth rate of the number of times cited. When considering the average number of times a paper was cited among the top ten countries researching solar energy, China was in last place from 2007 to 2015. Further, the impact and effectiveness of China’s papers were below the world average from 2010 to 2015, and experienced a sharp decreasing trend. These results suggest that China's solar energy research is a quantitatively driven model, with a mismatch between quantity and quality. New policies should be introduced to encourage high-quality research and achieve a balance between quantity and quality.

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Bibliometric Analysis of Ghana Publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded

Abstract: Ghana is a West African country for which apparently there are limited scientometric studies.

Cited by 7 publications

References 44 publications

Ecuador publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: institutions, subjects, citation and collaboration patterns

Ecuador publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: institutions, subjects, citation and collaboration patterns

Bibliometrics of Vietnam Publications in the Science Citation Index: general trends and comparison with other tropical countries

Imbalances between the Quantity and Quality of China’s Solar Energy Research

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