Evaluation of Moroccan research using a bibliometric-based approach: investigation of the validity of the h-index

Bouabid, H.; Martin, Ben R.

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“…Moreover, most cited papers with a significant influence in related fields have been investigated in recent bibliometric literatures (Hannerz, 2010;Ponce & Lozano, 2010, Shadgan, Roig, Hajghanbari, & Reid, 2010; and a bibliometric analysis can help to classify/suggest new research institutes in the country. Besides, analyses of the scientific research production of countries belonging to all continents have been studied using bibliometric indicators, such as those from Serbia (Ivanović & Ho, 2015), Russia (Markusova, Jansz, Libkind, Libkind, & Varshavsky, 2009), Netherlands (Moed et al, 1995), Morocco (Bouabid & Martin, 2009), Republic of South Africa (Jeenah & Pouris, 2008), Panama (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2015), Costa Rica (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2012), Taiwan (Chuang & Ho, 2015), and Czech Republic (Fiala & Ho, 2015).…”

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Cameroon publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: Bibliometric analysis

Tchuifon

2017

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Abstract:Cameroon is one of the six countries of Central Africa with more than 20 000 000 residents. To characterize the Cameroon research performance, Cameroonians publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded during the period of 1936-2015, indexed in the Thomson Reuters SCI-EXPANDED database, were studied in this work. All documents of that period with Cameroon in the address field were included in the study. The document type, language, trend and collaborations were analyzed, as well as the output of different subject categories. Performances of countries, institutions and authors, including total, single, collaborative, first author, and corresponding author publications were also analyzed. Articles were analyzed by the scientific output and research performances of individuals, institutions and collaborative countries with Cameroon. Analyses included 8 457 articles (85 % of 10 591 Cameroonian publications). These bibliometric analyses of Cameroonian publications provided interesting insights concerning authors, institutions and collaboration patterns. Results showed that research in Cameroon was highly dependent on foreign collaborations, and the international collaboration was responsible for the increasing number of publications over the years. It was found that the articles with either first authors or corresponding authors from outside Cameroon got more citations than the others, and that the articles without any international collaboration had lower citations. The number of articles indexed by SCI-EXPANDED has seen an increase in terms of Cameroonian articles that is considerably greater that the increase in number of all articles in SCI-EXPANDED. Articles were more frequent than other types of publication and they were mostly in English. The University of Yaoundé I ranked top one in inter-institutionally collaborative articles, the rank of the total inter-institutionally collaborative articles, and the rank of first author articles and corresponding author articles. The University of Yaoundé I also was in an absolute leading position from 1970s to 2015, followed far away by the other institutions. The categories of tropical medicine, plant sciences, environmental and occupational public health, and infectious diseases, represented the largest number of published articles. Even though physics and chemistry dominated the ranking of the top 20 best Cameroonian authors, an independent mathematics article was the most cited, with 60 citations in 2015 to a Cameroonian author. The top three productive researchers were T. C. Kofane, B. T. Ngadjui, P. Woafo, all from University of Yaoundé I. France and the USA dominated the ranking of countries with strong scientific collaboration with Cameroon. Rev. Biol. Trop. 65 (4): 1582-1591. Epub 2017 December 01.

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Cameroon publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: Bibliometric analysis

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2017

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“…With 40% of total publications, chemistry preceded physics: 38%, biology: 14%, mathematics and computer sciences: 6% and geology: 2%, of total publications of these professors. The field breakdown of the publishing contribution of this group followed broadly the general field-weighted publications at the national level (Bouabid and Martin 2009) where the physics and chemistry shared respectively 30 and 22% of the total number of publications followed by mathematics and computer with 10% and biology with 9%.…”

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“…Furthermore, it had affected the national top-ranked authors: 2 out of the top ten researchers in term of publications (Bouabid and Martin 2009).…”

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“…Conventional metrics are used since their origin after the World War II and have then evolved to include derived and composite metrics which are almost unanimously useful and accurate in performing research-evaluation of either public policies (Jimenez- Contreras et al 2003;Van Leeuwen et al 2001), institutions (Bourke and Butler 1998;Charlton and Andras 2007), programs (Narin 1987;Hicks et al 2004;Granadino et al 2005), fields (Martin and Irvine 1983;Katz 2000;Vilibic 2009) or researchers themselves (Hirsch 2005;Czarnitzki et al 2007;Bouabid and Martin 2009;Ventura and Mombru 2006). This evaluation outlined the usefulness and accuracy of scientometric in providing clear insight for decision makers into the impact of earlier retirement government policy on the Moroccan faculties of science research-system.…”

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Impact evaluation of the voluntary early retirement policy on research and technology outputs of the faculties of science in Morocco

Bouabid

Dalimi²,

Elmajid³

2010

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Scientometric indicators or science metrics, conventional and derived ones, are used in ex-post evaluating of a government policy with impact on research system. Publications, citations, h-index, Glänzel model, and patents are applied in both micro and meso levels. This provides useful insight into the impact of the voluntary early retirement policy on research and technological outputs of the faculties of science in Morocco and consequently on the overall Morocco's research system. The use of these metrics showed that the effect of the initiative was quite limited by affecting an average of 8% of the professor staffs of these institutions. Furthermore, each professor benefiting from this initiative had produced an average of 3.7 publications indexed in SCI in all his (her) career. The few number of the publications attributed to these professors had been gradually decreasing even 6 years before the initiative. No specific scientific field had intensively been struck. The findings also support that these professors were in general more 'author' than 'inventor'. Inventor-professor institutions were likely more affected by the initiative. By means of these metrics, even if the initiative had not contributed to rejuvenate the professor-staffs of the faculties of science in Morocco, would nevertheless be a stimulus of their research system with respect to their scientometric indicators.

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“…In most cases, however, peer review process were occured before the paper has published. The database of the ISI [5] has lay much emphasis upon whether with or without peer review system when they select publications. In the majority review system of the database of the SCI.…”

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Analysis of Peer Review System Based on Fewness Distribution Function

Zhou¹,

Cai

Li³

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)

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Abstract. For dealing with randomness characteristic of the paper submitted and accepted, a probability arithmetic of reliability analysis for peer review system is presented on basis of skewed normal distribution and in combination with Monte Carlo simulation algorithm. The Approximate Probability and Mathematical Expectation indices can be obtained by Matlab simulation and M-C method. Based on the randomness analysis of the paper submitted and accepted principles. It is verified that this probability arithmetic is feasible. It is easier to figure out that we can have a more clear and objectives acknowledge for peer review system.

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Evaluation of Moroccan research using a bibliometric-based approach: investigation of the validity of the h-index

Cited by 21 publications

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Cameroon publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: Bibliometric analysis

Cameroon publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: Bibliometric analysis

Impact evaluation of the voluntary early retirement policy on research and technology outputs of the faculties of science in Morocco

Analysis of Peer Review System Based on Fewness Distribution Function

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