Cascajares Mila, Alcayde Alfredo, Salmerón-Manzano Esther, Manzano-Agugliaro Francisco
Department of Engineering, University of Almeria, ceiA3, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
Faculty of Law, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Av. de la Paz, 137, 26006 Logroño, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 29;18(11):5851. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115851.
In a broad sense, science can be understood as the knowledge contained in scientific manuscripts published in scientific journals. Scientific databases index only those journals that reach certain quality standards. Therefore, research and dissemination of scientific knowledge are essential activities for the growth of science itself. The aim of this manuscript is to assess the situation of medicine and environmental sciences among the bibliometric literature and to put it in perspective with the overall bibliometric publications in all scientific fields. The main countries publishing bibliometric manuscripts are China, USA and Spain. The latter country is ranked three out of the top five institutions according to the Scopus and WoS databases. In both databases, the average scientific collaboration of the top 20 institutions offers the same result, 41%. According to Scopus, the main subject categories in which this research falls are social sciences (38%), computer science (26%) and medicine (23%), while the environmental sciences category has 8%. In the analysis of the Medicine category alone, it has been observed that 136 countries have contributions in this field. The main countries are the United States, China and the United Kingdom. In the field of medicine, the main areas studied were: Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Psychiatry. With respect to environmental sciences, less international dissemination has been found, with only 83 countries having worked in this field. The main ones are China, Spain and the United States. Regarding the top 10 institutions, it can be stated that only Spain and China are relevant. Spain focuses on sustainability and China on the environment. The result of an independent keyword analysis of all published bibliometric manuscripts has shown that the main clusters are: Mapping Science (29%), Research Productivity (23%), Medicine (20%), Environmental Sciences (12%), Psychology (7%), Nursing (6%) and Engineering (4%). In short, medicine and environmental sciences are the most relevant areas in the field of bibliometrics after social sciences and computer sciences.
从广义上讲，科学可以理解为发表在科学期刊上的科学手稿中所包含的知识。科学数据库仅索引那些达到一定质量标准的期刊。因此，科学知识的研究与传播是科学自身发展的重要活动。本手稿的目的是评估医学和环境科学在文献计量学文献中的状况，并将其与所有科学领域的总体文献计量学出版物进行对比。发表文献计量学手稿的主要国家是中国、美国和西班牙。根据Scopus和WoS数据库，后一个国家在排名前五的机构中位列第三。在这两个数据库中，排名前20的机构的平均科研合作率相同，均为41%。根据Scopus的数据，本研究所属的主要学科类别为社会科学（38%）、计算机科学（26%）和医学（23%），而环境科学类别占8%。仅在医学类别的分析中就发现，有136个国家在该领域有贡献。主要国家是美国、中国和英国。在医学领域，研究的主要领域包括：流行病学、儿科学、矫形外科学、心脏病学、神经外科、放射学、眼科学、肿瘤学、整形外科学和精神病学。关于环境科学，其国际传播较少，只有83个国家在该领域开展过研究。主要国家是中国、西班牙和美国。关于排名前十的机构，可以说只有西班牙和中国具有相关性。西班牙侧重于可持续性，而中国侧重于环境。对所有已发表的文献计量学手稿进行的独立关键词分析结果表明，主要聚类为：科学测绘（29%）、研究生产力（23%）、医学（20%）、环境科学（12%）、心理学（7%）、护理学（6%）和工程学（4%）。简而言之，医学和环境科学是继社会科学和计算机科学之后文献计量学领域最相关的领域。
