TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schöffel, Norman
A1  - Vitzthum, Karin
A1  - Mache, Stefanie
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Quarcoo, David
T1  - The role of endocarditis, myocarditis and pericarditis in qualitative and quantitative data analysis
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - The current study is the first scientometric analysis of research activity and output in the field of inflammatory disorders of the heart (endo-, myo- and pericarditis). Scientometric methods are used to compare scientific performance on national and on international scale to identify single areas of research interest. Interest and research productivity in inflammatory diseases of the heart have increased since 1990. The majority of publications about inflammatory heart disorders were published in Western Europe and North America. The United States of America had a leading position in terms of research productivity and quality; half of the most productive authors in this study came from American institutions. The analysis of international cooperation revealed research activity in countries that are less established in the field of inflammatory heart disorder research, such as Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. These results indicate that future research of heart inflammation may no longer be influenced predominantly by a small number of countries. Furthermore, this study revealed weaknesses in currently established scientometric parameters (i.e., h-index, impact factor) that limit their suitability as measures of research quality. In this respect, self-citations should be generally excluded from calculations of h-index and impact factor.
KW  - endocarditis
KW  - myocarditis
KW  - pericarditis
KW  - scientometrics
KW  - h-index
KW  - self-citation
KW  - impact factor
KW  - coauthor ship
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25353
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-253535
SN  - 1660-4601
SN  - 1661-7827
VL  - 6
IS  - 12
SP  - 2919
EP  - 2933
PB  - Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
CY  - Basel
ER  -