Questionnaires mentioned in academic research 1996–2019: Rapid increase but declining citation impact

Fairclough, Ruth; Thelwall, Mike

doi:10.1002/leap.1417

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“…These abstracts typically include copyright statements and sometimes only a copyright statement is present in the abstract field. As in previous papers from the authors' research group (e.g., Fairclough & Thelwall, 2021), a heuristically chosen 500 character minimum (about 80 words) was set as indicative of a reasonably substantial abstract that is unlikely to be purely a copyright statement.…”

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Scopus 1900–2020: Growth in articles, abstracts, countries, fields, and journals

Thelwall

Sud

2022

Quantitative Science Studies

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Scientometric research often relies on large-scale bibliometric databases of academic journal articles. Long term and longitudinal research can be affected if the composition of a database varies over time, and text processing research can be affected if the percentage of articles with abstracts changes. This article therefore assesses changes in the magnitude of the coverage of a major citation index, Scopus, over 121 years from 1900. The results show sustained exponential growth from 1900, except for dips during both world wars, and with increased growth after 2004. Over the same period, the percentage of articles with 500+ character abstracts increased from 1% to 95%. The number of different journals in Scopus also increased exponentially, but slowing down from 2010, with the number of articles per journal being approximately constant until 1980, then tripling due to megajournals and online-only publishing. The breadth of Scopus, in terms of the number of narrow fields with substantial numbers of articles, simultaneously increased from one field having 1000 articles in 1945 to 308 in 2020. Scopus’s international character also radically changed from 68% of first authors from Germany and the USA in 1900 to just 17% in 2020, with China dominating (25%). Peer Review https://publons.com/publon/10.1162/qss_a_00177

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Thelwall

Sud

2022

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“…It is worth noting that there are some problems that can be associated with data collected from a questionnaire. For instance, response and non-response biases are two common issues that need to be considered when using such methods [ 58 ]. Response bias occurs when participants give systematically misleading answers.…”

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Comparison between two asynchronous teaching methods in an undergraduate dental course: a pilot study

Alharbi

Alwadei

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BMC Med Educ

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Background Properly designed and implemented eLearning can lead to improvement of dental teaching quality. Various strategies have been proposed to increase the effectiveness of eLearning in dental education, however, there is a lack of research to assess the effectiveness of these strategies. Objective To investigate dental students’ learning performance and perception of a virtual flipped learning format compared to a virtual traditional learning method. Methods A crossover pilot study was conducted at the College of Dentistry, Princes Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Computer-generated randomization, blinded from researchers who analyzed the results, was performed to allocate 32 participants (aged 23.27 ± 0.86 years) to one of two groups. Participants in the control group were taught through the virtual traditional learning method (VTL) using live video lectures. In contrast, participants in the intervention group were taught through the virtual flipped learning method (VFL) using recorded online lectures and post-lecture virtual discussions. Learning gain and preference were measured by pre- and post-test average score differences and a modified validated survey, respectively. Results There was no significant difference in learning performance between VFL and VTL groups (P > 0.05). However, students preferred VFL over VTL and the differences were significant among all survey items, except for the opportunity to ask questions. Conclusion Health professions educators are encouraged to carefully design online curricula with efficient learning strategies that help students improve learning performance and foster self-directed learning skills while valuing active learning in an online environment. Trial registration NCT04692142, 31/12/2020.

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“…Individual methods may be more cited than average, including questionnaires (Fairclough & Thelwall, 2022), structural equation modeling (Thelwall & Wilson, 2016) and interviews, focus groups and ethnographies, although the degree has changed over time (Thelwall & Nevill, 2021). For biomedical research, methods-focused papers are heavily overrepresented (90%) in the top 100 cited papers (Small, 2018).…”

Section: Article Methodsmentioning

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Factors associating with or predicting more cited or higher quality journal articles: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Kousha

Thelwall

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Identifying factors that associate with more cited or higher quality research may be useful to improve science or to support research evaluation. This article reviews evidence for the existence of such factors in article text and metadata. It also reviews studies attempting to estimate article quality or predict long‐term citation counts using statistical regression or machine learning for journal articles or conference papers. Although the primary focus is on document‐level evidence, the related task of estimating the average quality scores of entire departments from bibliometric information is also considered. The review lists a huge range of factors that associate with higher quality or more cited research in some contexts (fields, years, journals) but the strength and direction of association often depends on the set of papers examined, with little systematic pattern and rarely any cause‐and‐effect evidence. The strongest patterns found include the near universal usefulness of journal citation rates, author numbers, reference properties, and international collaboration in predicting (or associating with) higher citation counts, and the greater usefulness of citation‐related information for predicting article quality in the medical, health and physical sciences than in engineering, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Questionnaires mentioned in academic research 1996–2019: Rapid increase but declining citation impact

Cited by 10 publications

References 56 publications

Scopus 1900–2020: Growth in articles, abstracts, countries, fields, and journals

Scopus 1900–2020: Growth in articles, abstracts, countries, fields, and journals

Comparison between two asynchronous teaching methods in an undergraduate dental course: a pilot study

Factors associating with or predicting more cited or higher quality journal articles: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

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