Background: Citation metrics and total publications in a field has become the gold standard for rating researchers
and viability of a field. Hence, stimulating demand for citation has led to a search for useful strategies to improve performance
metric index. Meanwhile, title, abstract and morphologic qualities of the articles attract researchers to scientific
publications. Yet, there is relatively little understanding of the citation trend in disability related fields. We aimed
to provide an insight into the factors associated with citation increase in this field. Additionally, we tried to know at
what page number an article might appear attractive to disability researchers needs. Thus, our focus is placed on the
article page count and the number of authors contributing to the fields per article.
Methods: To this end, we evaluated the quantitative characteristics of top cited articles in the fields with a total citation
(50) in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Using one-way independent ANOVA, data extracted spanning a
period of 1980-2015 were analyzed, while the non-parametric data analysis uses Kruskal-Walis test.
Results: Articles with 11 to 20 pages attract more citations followed by those within the range of zero to 10. Articles
with upward 21 pages are the least cited. Surprisingly, articles with more than two authors are significantly (P<0.05)
less cited and the citation decreases as the number of authors increased.
Conclusion: Collaborative studies enjoy wider utilization and more citation, yet discounted merit of additional pages
and limited collaborative research in disability field is revealed in this study.
Nader
Ale Ebrahim holds a PhD degree in Technology Management from the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Tehran with distinguished honors. He also has over 19 years of
experience in the establishment of the R&D departments in different
companies, heading projects as the project director and project coordinator and
implementing knowledge based system in the R&D department. His current
research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools, Bibliometrics and
managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. His papers/articles have
published and presented in the several journals and conferences.
Disability,
Number of authors
Bibliometric,
Citation counts
Article page count
527.5
k
Patents
6.6
k
Conferences
1.9
k
Events
3.3
k
Jobs
6.7
k
Notes
3.4
k
Authors
253
Publishers
2.7
k
Users
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