A study on the productivity review for Pneumonology related publications

Author

Hsu, Heigen ; Hou, Oliver C L ; Yang, Jiann-Min

Author_Institution

MIS Dept., Nat. Chengchi Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

11-13 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In comparison with the commercial medical grid service, this paper is mainly focusing on the publications productivity review which subjects as renowned "Pneumonology" related papers on Science Citation Index (SCI)-expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) database. The result indicated that the publication productions with topic as "Pneumonology or Respiratory Medicine or Pulmonary Medicine" are still increasing tremendously. The publications of pneumonology are usually generating by multi-authors (1011 out of 5818 are either single or anonymous author publications). Both complete and complete-normalized counting methods are used in this paper and the distribution of contribution indexes of author productivity could not be held by Lotka\´s Law for the matter of co-authorship and interdisciplinary publishing.

Keywords

Art; Biomedical imaging; Chemistry; Databases; Frequency; Indexes; Inspection; Production; Productivity; Publishing; Lotka´s law; Pneumonology; Pulmonary; Respiratory; co-authorship; interdisciplinary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networked Computing (INC), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gyeongju, Korea (South)

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6986-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-89-88678-20-6

Type

conf

Filename

5484802