Bibliometric analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related research in the beginning stage

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Title:	Bibliometric analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related research in the beginning stage
Authors:	Chiu, W.T.;Huang, J.S.;Ho, Y.S.
Contributors:	Department of Biotechnology
Date:	2004
Issue Date:	2009-12-15 05:24:36 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	Asia University
Abstract:	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has become the major of health issues since its outbreak early 2003. No analyses by bibliometric technique that have examined this topic exist in the literature. The objective of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of all SARS-related publications in Science Citation Index (SCI) in the early stage. A systematic search was performed using the SCI for publications since SARS outbreak early 2003. Selected documents included ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ or ‘SARS’ as a part of its title, abstract, or keyword from the beginning stage of SARS outbreak, March till July 8, 2003. Analysis parameters included authorship, patterns of international collaboration, journals, language, document type, research institutional address, times cited, and reprint address. Citation analysis was mainly based on impact factor as defined by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) issued in 2002 and on the actual citation impact (ACI), which has been used to assess the impact relative to the whole field and has been defined as the ratio between individual citation per publication value and the total citation per publication value. Thirty-two percent of total share was published as news features, 25% as editorial materials, 22% as articles, 13% as letters, and the remaining being biographic items, corrections, meeting abstracts, and reprints. The US dominated the production by 30% of the total share followed closely by Hong Kong with 24%. Sixty-three percent of publication was published by the mainstream countries. The SARS publication pattern in the past few months suggests immediate citation, low collaboration rate, and English and mainstream country domination in production. We observed no associations of research indexes with the number of cases.
Relation:	Scientometrics 61(1): 69-77
Appears in Collections:	[生物科技學系] 期刊論文

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