TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerber, Alexander
A1  - Klingelhöfer, Doris
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Bundschuh, Matthias
T1  - Silicosis : geographic changes in research ; an analysis employing density-equalizing mapping
T2  - Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology
N2  - Background: A critical evaluation of scientific efforts is needed in times of modified evaluation criteria for academic personnel and institutions.
Methods: Using scientometric benchmark procedures and density-equalizing mapping, we analysed the global scientific efforts on "silicosis" of the last 92 years focusing on geographical changes within the last 30 years, specifying the most productive authors, institutions, countries and the most successful cooperations.
Results: The USA as the most productive supplier have established their position as center of international cooperation, followed in considerable distance by the United Kingdom, Germany and China. Asian countries, particularly China, catch up and are expected to excel the USA still in this decade.
Conclusion: The combination of scientometric procedures with density-equalizing mapping reveals a distinct global pattern of research productivity and citation activity. Modified h-index, citationrate and impact factor have to be discussed critically due to distortion by bias of self-citation, language and co-authorship.
KW  - Silicosis
KW  - Scientometria
KW  - Density-equalizing mapping
KW  - H-Index
KW  - Citationrate
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32796
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-327966
SN  - 1745-6673
N1  - © 2014 Gerber et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -