The Bibliometric Literature on Scopus and WoS: The Medicine and Environmental Sciences Categories as Case of Study
Identifiers
Share
Metadata
Show full item recordAuthor/s
Cascajares Rupérez, Mila; Alcayde García, Alfredo; Salmerón Manzano, Esther María; Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco RogelioDate
2021-05-29Abstract
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 me...
Palabra/s clave
bibliometry
Scopus
Web of Science
medicine
environmental science
sustainability