Modeling the relationship between an emerging infectious disease epidemic and the body of scientific literature associated with it: The case of <scp>HIV</scp>/<scp>AIDS</scp> in the <scp>U</scp>nited <scp>S</scp>tates

Naidoo, Jeff; Huber, Jeffrey T.; Cupp, Pamela K.; Wu, Qingliu

doi:10.1002/asi.22737

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“…Bibliometric studies have been on the rise in HIV/AIDS literature stemming from monitoring and evaluating research by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) (Onyancha and Ocholla, 2004). There are a number of studies that have adopted bibliometric approaches to study HIV/AIDS literature in various countries, including Iran (Rahimi-Movaghar et al, 2012), Kenya and Uganda (Onyancha and Ocholla, 2004), USA (Naidoo et al, 2013), sub-Saharan Africa…”

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Lotka’s Law and productivity patterns of authors in biomedical science in Nigeria on HIV/AIDS

Adigwe

2016

The Electronic Library

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Purpose -This study aims to analyze the productivity patterns of authors in Nigeria using publications indexed in Medline from 2008 to 2012 based on Lotka's Law. Lotka's Law of scientific productivity provides a platform for studying inequality in authors' productivity patterns in a given field and over a specified period. Design/methodology/approach -This study covers all the journal articles on HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria over a period of five years (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) in Medline, of which 512 articles were reported to have been published during this period. In this paper, 306 articles that had HIV/AIDS in the title, published in 20 journals, and articles that had HIV/AIDS as author keywords were analyzed. Because no local database that indexed biomedical literature from Nigeria was available, Medline was used, which is not only a robust and flexible database that includes articles from Nigeria but is also the largest medical database that indexes over six-and-a-half million articles from 3,400 biomedical journals. Findings -While HIV/AIDS can be considered a global pandemic, Nigeria has the second highest number of new infections reported each year, and an estimated 3.7 per cent of the population is living with the dreaded disease. This study presents a general picture of the distribution of papers as single-author papers, multiple-author papers and the measures of co-authorship. The findings of the study reveal that in the productivity distribution for authors on the subject of HIV/AIDS, only co-authors and non-collaborative authors' categories fit in the Lotka's Law, whereas all-authors and first-author categories differ from the distribution of Lotka's inverse square law. Research limitations/implications -The empirical evidence used in this paper was based on only articles of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria that had HIV/AIDS the title. Therefore, the findings of this study might not be the generalized to other biomedical research studies. Originality/value -The originality of this paper lies in the fact that the productivity pattern of each of the different author categories on the subject of HIV/AIDS is a first of its kind in the Nigerian context.

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Section: Bibliometric Studies On Hiv/aids Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Lotka’s Law and productivity patterns of authors in biomedical science in Nigeria on HIV/AIDS

Adigwe

2016

The Electronic Library

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The current state of library open source software research

Palmer

Choi²

2014

Library Hi Tech

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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess the current state of research on open source software (OSS) in the library context. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs a descriptive literature review. It categorizes library OSS research according to a classification scheme developed for the study, and analyzes the research based on year published, publication outlet, type of software discussed, type of article, type of library, and article topic. Findings – The authors found significant research attention devoted to open source repository applications, online public access catalog (OPAC) software, and integrated library systems (ILS). The majority of article types employed were case studies and discussion pieces. When articles were focused on a specific library, it was dominantly an academic library. Article topics centered around OSS adoption, development, provision of foundational or introductory information, and OSS performance. Originality/value – The authors are not aware of any other study that surveys and synthesizes the literature on OSS in the library context. Not only does this study provide a reference source and classification scheme for those conducting future research in this area to utilize, but it also identifies areas in this field that have received the most research attention, as well as areas that could benefit from future studies. This study will prove helpful to scholars looking for directions to take their research.

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Modeling the relationship between an emerging infectious disease epidemic and the body of scientific literature associated with it: The case of HIV/AIDS in the United States

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Lotka’s Law and productivity patterns of authors in biomedical science in Nigeria on HIV/AIDS

Lotka’s Law and productivity patterns of authors in biomedical science in Nigeria on HIV/AIDS

The current state of library open source software research

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