Uncitedness in Scientific Publications:A Case Study of Tribology Research

Elango, B.

doi:10.17821/srels/2016/v53i4/86308

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“…Regarding the quality, the proportions of documents that are not cited in the subsequent literature are higher than 50% for Russia, followed by Brazil with 43% and lower than 40% for other BRICS countries. This is due to the fact that a majority of documents (~44%) published by Brazilian and Russian researchers were written in regional languages other than English, which is only readable by a small percentage of researchers globally (Elango, 2016). South Africa (~9) received the most citations per document while Brazil and Russia received the least.…”

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“…The SCImago Journal and Country Rank portal (http://www.scimagojr.com) and Scopus databases were used to gather the data for the current study. The SCImago database is now utilized extensively to evaluate the scientific community’s output (Elango et al, 2021; Elango and Oh, 2022; Frizon and Eugénio, 2022; Vaccaro et al, 2022). The number of documents published between 1996 and 2021 in the field of social sciences and its sub-disciplines along with citable documents, uncited documents, citations per document, h-index, and number of international collaborative documents have been collected for each BRICS country between September and November 2022 and processed in an MS-Excel spreadsheet (Elango, 2019a).…”

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Social science research: An analysis of BRICS countries

Elango

2023

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The purpose of this study is to conduct a quantitative analysis and comparison of social science research output among BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. Data were collected through the open-access SCImago portal and Scopus. The number of documents and citable documents, global share and ranking, the number of citations per document, the h-index, and international collaboration were all analyzed. Except for China, none of the BRICS countries made the top 10 global rankings during the 1996–2021 period, but three of them (China, India, and Russia) did so in 2021. China has the most documents and the greatest h-index score, whereas South Africa has the highest number of citations. For China, on the other hand, more than half of the citations are self-citations. More than 50% of Russian documents are not cited in the subsequent literature. The study’s findings highlight publication trends and collaboration pattern among the BRICS countries in social sciences, which benefit the academic community, decision-makers, and the economy of the BRICS countries.

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Social science research: An analysis of BRICS countries

Elango

2023

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“…In terms of quality of publications, percentage of articles not cited in the subsequent literature is more than 50 per cent for Russia and nearly 50 per cent for China, whereas it is lower than 50 per cent for other BRIC countries. It is because of larger number of articles were published in Russian and Chinese language of which can be read by a minority of researchers worldwide (Elango, 2016). The highest citations per paper are received by Brazil (6.62), and this is because the highest percentage of articles was published in collaboration with international coauthors.…”

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A bibliometric analysis of literature on engineering research among BRIC countries

Elango¹

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make a quantitative analysis and compare the scientific productivity in the area of engineering among the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from SCImago. Various parameters such as number of articles and citable articles, world share and rank, citations per paper and h-index, and international collaboration were analyzed. Findings There was a fluctuation trend in the pattern of international collaboration among the BRIC countries during the period. Among the top countries, China ranked first in the world in terms of number of articles in the field of engineering research, whereas India was at the 8th rank, Russia was at the 12th rank and Brazil was at the 18th rank. Among the BRIC countries, Russia slipped three positions from being at the 7th rank in 1996 to being at the 10th rank in 2016, while others improved their ranks. Originality/value The results of this study reveal publication trends and collaboration pattern of BRIC countries in the field of engineering which may be useful for the academic fraternity and decision makers.

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Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities

Lin,

Cui,

2024

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The uncitedness phenomenon was noticed in the 1960s, and Hamilton’s seminal paper in 1991 on uncitedness provoked debate about uncited scientific work. Uncitedness is usually associated with poor quality and zero-impact papers, but some have argued that the community has been misguided to think uncited papers are intellectually worthless. This study aims to help arts and humanities and social sciences scholars take necessary measures to avoid uncitedness by examining the relationship between uncitedness and document features, including document type, publication language, the number of authors, the length of the document, and the number of references. The study collected publications in information science and library science, economics in social sciences, and history and philosophy in arts and humanities. The publication period was from 1997 to 2016, and the citation window was 5 years. In total, we retrieved 653,796 documents from the Web of Science database. The results show inverse relations between uncitedness and document length, number of authors, and number of references. The findings suggest more uncited papers in arts and humanities than in social sciences. The findings also confirmed that the number of uncited research articles, reviews, and proceeding papers had decreased steadily from 1997 to 2016.

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Uncitedness in Scientific Publications:A Case Study of Tribology Research

Cited by 3 publications

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Social science research: An analysis of BRICS countries

Social science research: An analysis of BRICS countries

A bibliometric analysis of literature on engineering research among BRIC countries

Why aren’t published works cited? Exploring the influences of bibliographic characteristics on uncitedness phenomenon in social sciences and arts and humanities

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