Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology: A Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis from 2005 to 2022
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Abstract
This study aimed to present a bibliometric and altmetric Analyses of the Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (IJAAI).
The citation performance and altmetric data were extracted from Scopus and Altmetric Explorer, respectively. Analyses were done using SPSS 26, Microsoft Excel, VOSviewer, and CiteSpace.
The results of the bibliometric analysis revealed that IJAAI had experienced respectable growth. Among the total citations, 4746 citations belong to the first decade (2005-2014) and 3,035 citations belong to the second (2015-2022). The findings demonstrated the significance of IJAAI among Iranian researchers. Pourpak, Z (66; 6.57%) is the top-producing author in IJAAI. The examination of research institutions reveals that the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) is ranked first. The most highly cited article in IJAAI over the past 18 years is a review article which has received 138 citations. IJAAI is ranked first at the citing source and journal level, with the most citations (249 citations) to IJAAI. Iran has collaborated with 13 other countries. Overall, the analysis of co-occurred keywords indicates that IJAAI authors have used the following three high-frequency and important keywords: Asthma (162), Inflammation (48), and Multiple sclerosis (40). Co-citation analysis results demonstrated that a total of 6,718 sources were cited in this journal. The results of the altmetric analysis show that IJAAI has a reasonably low presence across various social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Mendeley, news and blogs.
This study aids researchers in exploring and identifying emerging trends in the fields of allergy, asthma, and immunology.
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54. Ortega JL. The presence of academic journals on Twitter and its relationship with dissemination (tweets) and research impact (citations). Aslib journal of information management. 2017;69(6):674-687.
55. Zahedi Z, Costas R, Wouters P. How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications. Scientometrics. 2014;101:1491-1513.
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57. Holmberg K, Vainio J. Why do some research articles receive more online attention and higher altmetrics? Reasons for online success according to the authors. Scientometrics. 2018;116(1):435-447.
2. Stvilia B, Hinnant CC, Schindler K, et al. Composition of scientific teams and publication productivity at a national science lab. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2011;62(2):270-283.
3. Baker HK, Kumar S, Pandey N. Thirty years of the Global Finance Journal: A bibliometric analysis. Global Finance Journal. 2021;47:100492.
4. Martínez-López FJ, Merigó JM, Valenzuela-Fernández L, Nicolás C. Fifty years of the European Journal of Marketing: a bibliometric analysis. European Journal of Marketing. 2018.
5. Hoffman DL, Holbrook MB. The intellectual structure of consumer research: A bibliometric study of author cocitations in the first 15 years of the Journal of Consumer Research. Journal of Consumer Research. 1993;19(4):505-517.
6. Zinkhan GM, Leigh TW. Assessing the quality ranking of the journal of advertising, 1986–1997. Journal of Advertising. 1999;28(2):51-70.
7. Sprott DE, Miyazaki AD. Two decades of contributions to marketing and public policy: an analysis of research published in Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. 2002;21(1):105-125.
8. Corrales IE, Reyes JJ, Fornaris Y. Bibliometric analysis of the journal of oral research: period 2012-2015. Journal of Oral Research. 2016;5(5):188-193.
9. Bornmann L, Leydesdorff L. Scientometrics in a changing research landscape: bibliometrics has become an integral part of research quality evaluation and has been changing the practice of research. EMBO reports. 2014;15(12):1228-1232.
10. Wiles L, Matricciani L, Williams M, Olds T. Sixty-five years of Physical Therapy: bibliometric analysis of research publications from 1945 through 2010. Physical Therapy. 2012;92(4):493-506.
11. Wang C, Lim MK, Zhao L, Tseng M-L, Chien C-F, Lev B. The evolution of Omega-The International Journal of Management Science over the past 40 years: A bibliometric overview. Omega. 2020;93:102098.
12. Warren HR, Raison N, Dasgupta P. The rise of altmetrics. Jama. 2017;317(2):131-132.
13. Konkiel SR. What can altmetrics tell us about interest in dental clinical trials? Dental Hypotheses. 2017;8(2):31.
14. Kwok R. Research impact: Altmetrics make their mark. Nature. 2013;500(7463):491-493.
15. Saberi MK, Mokhtari H, Ouchi A, Vakilimofrad H. An Altmetrics Analysis of the Articles Published in the Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1987-2020). Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 2021;35.
16. Ouchi A, Saberi MK, Ansari N, Hashempour L, Isfandyari-Moghaddam A. Do altmetrics correlate with citations? A study based on the 1,000 most-cited articles. Information Discovery and Delivery. 2019;47(4):192-202.
17. Pritchard A. Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics. Journal of documentation. 1969;25:348.
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19. Cobo MJ, López-Herrera AG, Herrera-Viedma E, Herrera F. An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field: A practical application to the Fuzzy Sets Theory field. Journal of informetrics. 2011;5(1):146-166.
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21. Mulet-Forteza C, Genovart-Balaguer J, Merigó JM, Mauleon-Mendez E. Bibliometric structure of IJCHM in its 30 years. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. 2019.
22. Tavakoli R, Wijesinghe SN. The evolution of the web and netnography in tourism: A systematic review. Tourism Management Perspectives. 2019;29:48-55.
23. Zupic I, Čater T. Bibliometric methods in management and organization. Organizational research methods. 2015;18(3):429-472.
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26. Priem J, Costello KL. How and why scholars cite on Twitter. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2010;47(1):1-4.
27. Esmaeilzadeh M, Bonakdaran S, Mokhtari H, Ouchi A. Does Altmetric Attention Score of Articles on Diabetes Mellitus Correlate with their Citations in Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and Dimensions? International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM). 2023;21(2):127-139.
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29. Patthi B, Prasad M, Gupta R, et al. Altmetrics–a collated adjunct beyond citations for scholarly impact: a systematic review. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR. 2017;11(6):ZE16.
30. Robinson-García N, Torres-Salinas D, Zahedi Z, Costas R. New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric. com. arXiv preprint arXiv:14080135. 2014.
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32. Seyyed Hosseini S, Basirian Jahromi R. Iranian Articles in Medical Ethics: An Altmetrics Approach on Social Media Vs. a Bibliometric Study in Scopus Database. International Journal of Information Science and Management. 2021;19(1):15-26.
33. Erfanmanesh M. Highly-alted articles in Library and Information Science. Webology. 2017;14(2).
34. Scarlat MM, Mavrogenis AF, Pećina M, Niculescu M. Impact and alternative metrics for medical publishing: our experience with International Orthopaedics. International Orthopaedics. 2015;39:1459-1464.
35. Abbas M, Monireh M. The role of reactive oxygen species in immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 2008:195-202.
36. Mohsenzadegan M, Mirshafiey A. The immunopathogenic role of reactive oxygen species in Alzheimer disease. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 2012:203-216.
37. Zhu N, Zhang D, Wang W, et al. A novel coronavirus from patients with pneumonia in China, 2019. New England journal of medicine. 2020.
38. Rezaei N, Aghamohammadi A, Moin M, et al. Frequency and clinical manifestations of patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders in Iran: update from the Iranian Primary Immunodeficiency Registry. Journal of clinical immunology. 2006;26:519-532.
39. Kianmeher M, Ghorani V, Boskabady MH. Animal model of asthma, various methods and measured parameters: a methodological review. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 2016:445-465.
40. Aliyali M, Amiri AP, Sharifpoor A, Zalli F. Effects of N-acetylcysteine on asthma exacerbation. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 2010:103-109.
41. Amirghofran Z. Herbal medicines for immunosuppression. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 2012:111-119.
42. Shishehbor F, BEHROU L, GHAFORIAN BM, Namjouyan F, Latifi S-M. Quercetin effectively quells peanut-induced anaphylactic reactions in the peanut sensitized rats. 2010.
43. Hart RL. Collaborative publication by university librarians: an exploratory study. The Journal of academic librarianship. 2000;26(2):94-99.
44. Low WY, Ng KH, Kabir M, Koh AP, Sinnasamy J. Trend and impact of international collaboration in clinical medicine papers published in Malaysia. Scientometrics. 2014;98:1521-1533.
45. Twyman M, Contractor N. Team assembly. Strategies for team science success: Handbook of evidence-based principles for cross-disciplinary science and practical lessons learned from health researchers. 2019:217-240.
46. Abramo G, D’Angelo CA. The relationship between the number of authors of a publication, its citations and the impact factor of the publishing journal: Evidence from Italy. Journal of Informetrics. 2015;9(4):746-761.
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49. Chorus C, Waltman L. A large-scale analysis of impact factor biased journal self-citations. PLoS One. 2016;11(8):e0161021.
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51. Fong EA, Wilhite AW. Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research. PloS one. 2017;12(12):e0187394.
52. Chong AC, Diwakar L, Kaplan CM, et al. Provision of Food Allergy Care in the United Kingdom and United States: Current Issues and Future Directions. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. 2023.
53. Chi P-S, Gorraiz J, Glänzel W. Comparing capture, usage and citation indicators: An altmetric analysis of journal papers in chemistry disciplines. Scientometrics. 2019;120:1461-1473.
54. Ortega JL. The presence of academic journals on Twitter and its relationship with dissemination (tweets) and research impact (citations). Aslib journal of information management. 2017;69(6):674-687.
55. Zahedi Z, Costas R, Wouters P. How well developed are altmetrics? A cross-disciplinary analysis of the presence of ‘alternative metrics’ in scientific publications. Scientometrics. 2014;101:1491-1513.
56. Costas R, Zahedi Z, Wouters P. Do “altmetrics” correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2015;66(10):2003-2019.
57. Holmberg K, Vainio J. Why do some research articles receive more online attention and higher altmetrics? Reasons for online success according to the authors. Scientometrics. 2018;116(1):435-447.
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Zareivenovel M, Nemati-Anaraki L, Ouchi A, Nourizadeh M, Aghashahi M. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology: A Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis from 2005 to 2022. Iran J Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2024;23(1):29-51.
