Forest habitats are critical for biodiversity,ecosystem services,human livelihoods,and well-being.Capacity to conduct theoretical and applied forest ecology research addressing direct(e.g.,deforestation)and indirect(e...Forest habitats are critical for biodiversity,ecosystem services,human livelihoods,and well-being.Capacity to conduct theoretical and applied forest ecology research addressing direct(e.g.,deforestation)and indirect(e.g.,climate change)anthropogenic pressures has benefited considerably from new field-and statistical-techniques.We used machine learning and bibliometric structural topic modelling to identify 20 latent topics comprising four principal fields from a corpus of 16,952 forest ecology/forestry articles published in eight ecology and five forestry journals between 2010 and 2022.Articles published per year increased from 820 in 2010 to 2,354 in 2021,shifting toward more applied topics.Publications from China and some countries in North America and Europe dominated,with relatively fewer articles from some countries in West and Central Africa and West Asia,despite globally important forest resources.Most study sites were in some countries in North America,Central Asia,and South America,and Australia.Articles utilizing R statistical software predominated,increasing from 29.5%in 2010 to 71.4%in 2022.The most frequently used packages included lme4,vegan,nlme,MuMIn,ggplot2,car,MASS,mgcv,multcomp and raster.R was more often used in forest ecology than applied forestry articles.R software offers advantages in script and workflow-sharing compared to other statistical packages.Our findings demonstrate that the disciplines of forest ecology/forestry are expanding both in number and scope,aided by more sophisticated statistical tools,to tackle the challenges of redressing forest habitat loss and the socio-economic impacts of deforestation.展开更多
Purpose:Recently,global science has shown an increasing open trend,however,the characteristics of research integrity of open access(OA)publications have rarely been studied.The aim of this study is to compare the char...Purpose:Recently,global science has shown an increasing open trend,however,the characteristics of research integrity of open access(OA)publications have rarely been studied.The aim of this study is to compare the characteristics of retracted articles across different OA levels and discover whether OA level influences the characteristics of retracted articles.Design/methodology/approach:The research conducted an analysis of 6,005 retracted publications between 2001 and 2020 from the Web of Science and Retraction Watch databases.These publications were categorized based on their OA levels,including Gold OA,Green OA,and non-OA.The study explored retraction rates,time lags and reasons within these categories.Findings:The findings of this research revealed distinct patterns in retraction rates among different OA levels.Publications with Gold OA demonstrated the highest retraction rate,followed by Green OA and non-OA.A comparison of retraction reasons between Gold OA and non-OA categories indicated similar proportions,while Green OA exhibited a higher proportion due to falsification and manipulation issues,along with a lower occurrence of plagiarism and authorship issues.The retraction time lag was shortest for Gold OA,followed by non-OA,and longest for Green OA.The prolonged retraction time for Green OA could be attributed to an atypical distribution of retraction reasons.A comparative study on characteristics of retracted publications across different open access levels Research limitations:There is no exploration of a wider range of OA levels,such as Hybrid OA and Bronze OA.Practical implications:The outcomes of this study suggest the need for increased attention to research integrity within the OA publications.The occurrences offalsification,manipulation,and ethical concerns within Green OA publications warrant attention from the scientific community.Originality/value:This study contributes to the understanding of research integrity in the realm of OA publications,shedding light on retraction patterns and reasons across different OA levels.展开更多
BACKGROUND East Asia is the most dynamic region in the world and includes three major countries:Japan,South Korea and China.Due to rapid economic growth,orthopedics research in East Asia has achieved great advances du...BACKGROUND East Asia is the most dynamic region in the world and includes three major countries:Japan,South Korea and China.Due to rapid economic growth,orthopedics research in East Asia has achieved great advances during the past 10 years.However,the current status of orthopedic research in Japan,South Korea and China is still unclear.AIM To understand the current status of orthopedic research in Japan,South Korea,and China.METHODS Journals listed in the“Orthopedics”category of Science Citation Index Expanded subject categories were included.The PubMed and Web of Knowledge electronic databases were searched to identify scientific publications from the selected journals written by researchers from Japan,South Korea and China.A systematic analysis was conducted to analyze orthopedic research articles published in the three countries based on the number of articles,study design,impact factors(IFs)and citations.Furthermore,we also ranked the top 10 countries worldwide with the highest publications in the past 10 years.Additionally,we ranked the top 10 countries with the highest number of publications in the world in the past 10 years.Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 20.0 software(SPSS Inc.,Chicago,IL,United States),and statistical results are given in Tables and Figures.The Kruskal-Wallis test and the Mann-Whitney test were used to detect differences between countries.The tendency regarding the number of articles was analyzed by curvilinear regression.A two-tailed P<0.05 was considered significant.RESULTS From 2012-2021,a total of 144518 articles were published in the 86 selected orthopedic journals.During this period,the number of worldwide published orthopedic articles has shown an annual increasing trend.A total of 27164 orthopedic research articles were published by Japan,South Korea and China during the past 10 years;44.32%were from China,32.98%were from Japan,and 22.70%were from South Korea.From 2012 to 2021,the annual number of articles markedly increased in each of the three countries.Over time,the worldwide share of articles increased substantially in South Korea(3.37%to 6.53%,P<0.001)and China(5.29%to 9.61%,P<0.001).However,the worldwide share of articles significantly decreased in Japan(5.22%to 3.80%,P<0.001).The annual total IFs of articles from China were well above those of articles from Japan and South Korea(36597.69 vs 27244.48 vs 20657.83,P<0.05).There was no significant difference among the articles in the top 10 high-IF orthopedics journals published from those three countries[South Korea(800)>China(787)>Japan(646),P>0.05].CONCLUSION Over the past 10 years,China’s scientific publications in orthopedic journals have shown an increasing trend.Considering the relative scale of the populations,Japan and South Korea have outpaced China with respect to quality.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971541).
文摘Forest habitats are critical for biodiversity,ecosystem services,human livelihoods,and well-being.Capacity to conduct theoretical and applied forest ecology research addressing direct(e.g.,deforestation)and indirect(e.g.,climate change)anthropogenic pressures has benefited considerably from new field-and statistical-techniques.We used machine learning and bibliometric structural topic modelling to identify 20 latent topics comprising four principal fields from a corpus of 16,952 forest ecology/forestry articles published in eight ecology and five forestry journals between 2010 and 2022.Articles published per year increased from 820 in 2010 to 2,354 in 2021,shifting toward more applied topics.Publications from China and some countries in North America and Europe dominated,with relatively fewer articles from some countries in West and Central Africa and West Asia,despite globally important forest resources.Most study sites were in some countries in North America,Central Asia,and South America,and Australia.Articles utilizing R statistical software predominated,increasing from 29.5%in 2010 to 71.4%in 2022.The most frequently used packages included lme4,vegan,nlme,MuMIn,ggplot2,car,MASS,mgcv,multcomp and raster.R was more often used in forest ecology than applied forestry articles.R software offers advantages in script and workflow-sharing compared to other statistical packages.Our findings demonstrate that the disciplines of forest ecology/forestry are expanding both in number and scope,aided by more sophisticated statistical tools,to tackle the challenges of redressing forest habitat loss and the socio-economic impacts of deforestation.
基金the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.22CTQ032).
文摘Purpose:Recently,global science has shown an increasing open trend,however,the characteristics of research integrity of open access(OA)publications have rarely been studied.The aim of this study is to compare the characteristics of retracted articles across different OA levels and discover whether OA level influences the characteristics of retracted articles.Design/methodology/approach:The research conducted an analysis of 6,005 retracted publications between 2001 and 2020 from the Web of Science and Retraction Watch databases.These publications were categorized based on their OA levels,including Gold OA,Green OA,and non-OA.The study explored retraction rates,time lags and reasons within these categories.Findings:The findings of this research revealed distinct patterns in retraction rates among different OA levels.Publications with Gold OA demonstrated the highest retraction rate,followed by Green OA and non-OA.A comparison of retraction reasons between Gold OA and non-OA categories indicated similar proportions,while Green OA exhibited a higher proportion due to falsification and manipulation issues,along with a lower occurrence of plagiarism and authorship issues.The retraction time lag was shortest for Gold OA,followed by non-OA,and longest for Green OA.The prolonged retraction time for Green OA could be attributed to an atypical distribution of retraction reasons.A comparative study on characteristics of retracted publications across different open access levels Research limitations:There is no exploration of a wider range of OA levels,such as Hybrid OA and Bronze OA.Practical implications:The outcomes of this study suggest the need for increased attention to research integrity within the OA publications.The occurrences offalsification,manipulation,and ethical concerns within Green OA publications warrant attention from the scientific community.Originality/value:This study contributes to the understanding of research integrity in the realm of OA publications,shedding light on retraction patterns and reasons across different OA levels.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81860406Guangxi Natural Science Foundation,No.2023GXNSFAA026339Medical Excellence Award Funded by the Creative Research Development Grant from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University.
文摘BACKGROUND East Asia is the most dynamic region in the world and includes three major countries:Japan,South Korea and China.Due to rapid economic growth,orthopedics research in East Asia has achieved great advances during the past 10 years.However,the current status of orthopedic research in Japan,South Korea and China is still unclear.AIM To understand the current status of orthopedic research in Japan,South Korea,and China.METHODS Journals listed in the“Orthopedics”category of Science Citation Index Expanded subject categories were included.The PubMed and Web of Knowledge electronic databases were searched to identify scientific publications from the selected journals written by researchers from Japan,South Korea and China.A systematic analysis was conducted to analyze orthopedic research articles published in the three countries based on the number of articles,study design,impact factors(IFs)and citations.Furthermore,we also ranked the top 10 countries worldwide with the highest publications in the past 10 years.Additionally,we ranked the top 10 countries with the highest number of publications in the world in the past 10 years.Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 20.0 software(SPSS Inc.,Chicago,IL,United States),and statistical results are given in Tables and Figures.The Kruskal-Wallis test and the Mann-Whitney test were used to detect differences between countries.The tendency regarding the number of articles was analyzed by curvilinear regression.A two-tailed P<0.05 was considered significant.RESULTS From 2012-2021,a total of 144518 articles were published in the 86 selected orthopedic journals.During this period,the number of worldwide published orthopedic articles has shown an annual increasing trend.A total of 27164 orthopedic research articles were published by Japan,South Korea and China during the past 10 years;44.32%were from China,32.98%were from Japan,and 22.70%were from South Korea.From 2012 to 2021,the annual number of articles markedly increased in each of the three countries.Over time,the worldwide share of articles increased substantially in South Korea(3.37%to 6.53%,P<0.001)and China(5.29%to 9.61%,P<0.001).However,the worldwide share of articles significantly decreased in Japan(5.22%to 3.80%,P<0.001).The annual total IFs of articles from China were well above those of articles from Japan and South Korea(36597.69 vs 27244.48 vs 20657.83,P<0.05).There was no significant difference among the articles in the top 10 high-IF orthopedics journals published from those three countries[South Korea(800)>China(787)>Japan(646),P>0.05].CONCLUSION Over the past 10 years,China’s scientific publications in orthopedic journals have shown an increasing trend.Considering the relative scale of the populations,Japan and South Korea have outpaced China with respect to quality.
