Using chord diagrams to explore article themes in 100 top-cited articles citing Hirsch’s h-index since 2005: A bibliometric analysis

Author:

Lee Yei-Soon1,Chow Julie Chi23,Chien Tsair-Wei4ORCID,Chou Willy56ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

2. Department of Pediatrics, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

3. Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

4. Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

5. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chiali Chi-Mei Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

6. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chung San Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.

Abstract

Background: The h-index is increasingly being used as a measure of individual research achievement (IRA). More than 4876 citing articles have been published and indexed in Web of Science. The articles citing the h-index that have made the greatest contribution to scientific academics are still unknown. It is also unclear which subject categories (SCs) can be classified based on their keywords. Methods: These 4976 citing articles have been collected from the Web of Science since 2005. SCs were classified using chord diagrams to visualize their associations of SCs and documents in 100 top-cited articles (T100hciting). In addition to chord diagrams, 6 visualizations were used to illustrate study results: choropleth maps were used to depict the geographical distribution of publications across countries, network diagrams were created by using coword analysis, box plots were created to complement the network diagrams, Sankey diagrams highlighted the 5 most important elements in each article entity, the dot plot was used for displaying T100hciting, and a radar plot was used to present the top 10 high-IRA elements of countries, institutes, departments, and authors based on category, journal impact factor, authorship, and L-index scores. Results: A coword cluster analysis indicates that the majority of articles come from the US (918, 18%) and China (603, 12%), the top 2 SCs are h-index and bibliometric analysis, and the top 5 countries account for 55% in T100hciting, such as the US (25%), Spain (10%), Netherlands (9%), China (6%), and Belgium (5%). In T100hciting, 4 SCs are included, namely, the h-index (72%), bibliometric analysis (24%), physics & multidisciplinary (3%), and infectious diseases (1%). Conclusion: A total of 7 visualizations were used to display the results in this study. Chord diagrams are suggested as a tool for future bibliographical studies to classify SCs Future bibliometrics with chord diagrams should not be limited to the topic of h-index-citing articles, as we did in this study.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

General Medicine

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