Graphical interface of the <i>SCImago Journal and Country Rank</i>: an interactive approach to accessing bibliometric information

Abstract

Yusef Hassan-Montero has a PhD in Documentation from the University of Granada and works for SCImago Lab in the design and development of interfaces for scientific visualization. He directs nosolousabilidad.com online magazine, is co-organizer of UXSpain, the most important national event on user experience in Spain, and teaches about interaction design in graduate courses of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) AbstractA graphical interface designed to access the bibliometric indicators database of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal (http://scimagojr.com/shapeofscience) is described. The map was generated from the relational matrix based on the citation, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling formed by the nearly 20,000 publications (journals and conference proceedings) registered in Scopus. The map layout is based on a variant of a force-directed algorithm using Noack's proposal of an edge-repulsion energy model. The interface allows the publications' bibliometric indicators and the cluster structures that they form to be displayed based on their shared use by the authors of the documents. To facilitate navigation, the interface automatically positions the reference areas and subject categories which are viewable via zoom-and-pan. The interface may be found to constitute a useful tool for analyses of the Scopus publications' presence in different scientific domains, and of the global distribution of the publishing capacity of different countries and regions. It uses the method of overlaying maps to locate subsets of selected publications in the context of the global publication structure. KeywordsMaps of scientific publications, Graphical interfaces, Bibliometric information, Science maps, Science analysis tools, Citations, Scopus, SCImago. Título: Interfaz gráfica del ResumenDiseño de una interfaz visual para el acceso a la base de datos de indicadores bibliométricos del portal SCImago Journal & Country Rank. El mapa se genera a partir de la matriz relacional basada en citación, cocitación y bibliographic coupling que forman las casi 20.000 publicaciones (revistas y actas de congreso) registradas en Scopus. El layout del mapa se basa en una variante de un algoritmo force-directed mediante el modelo de energía edge-repulsion propuesto por Noack. La interfaz permite la visualización de los indicadores bibliométricos de las publicaciones y la estructura de clusters que forman en función de su uso compartido por los autores de los trabajos. Para facilitar la navegación la interfaz incluye la referencia de áreas y categorías temáticas mediante posicionamiento automático y visibles mediante zoom+pan. La interfaz puede ser una herramienta útil para analizar la presencia de las publicaciones Scopus en los diferentes dominios científicos, así como la distribución mundial de la capacidad editorial de los diferentes países o regiones. La interfaz utiliza la metodología de mapas overlay para situar los subconjuntos de publicaciones seleccionadas en el contexto de la estructura global de publicaciones. Palab...

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