Empirical relationship between the number of review and research articles.
Quadratic relationship
Research articles
Review articles
Journal
Scientometrics
ISSN: 0138-9130
Titre abrégé: Scientometrics
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 7901197
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
21
02
2022
accepted:
01
02
2023
medline:
24
2
2023
pubmed:
24
2
2023
entrez:
23
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In this contribution, an empirical relationship between the number of review and research articles published per year was searched. The simple idea based on proportionality (linearity) between the numbers of both kinds of articles was expressed in terms of a quadratic relationship, in which the quadratic member can reflect negative or positive deviations from the assumed linearity. The quadratic relationship was able to describe beginning periods of research fields as well as their mature phases and to detect the unpredictably high number of review articles. It was verified by the articles published in 20 various research fields taken from the Web of Science during different time spans. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11192-023-04654-0.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36818050
doi: 10.1007/s11192-023-04654-0
pii: 4654
pmc: PMC9919734
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
2201-2209Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2023.