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To improve patient support, it is important to understand how people view and experience Heart Failure (HF) self-care. This systematic review of qualitative studies included all published studies that examine the influence of sex and gender on HF self-care. A systematic search was done for papers (1995–2010) indexed in Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Medline, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid PsycINFO, CSA Sociological s, OVID AARP Ageline, EBSCO Academic Search Complete, EBSCO CINAHL, EBSCO SocINDEX, ISI Web of Science: Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. After screening of 537 citations, six qualitative studies identified that differences existed in perceptions of symptoms with women having less family involvement and psychosocial support around self-care. Moreover, women had considerably more negative views of the future, themselves and their ability to fulfill social self-care roles. Women with HF represent a highly vulnerable population and need more support for psychosocial wellbeing and self-care.

This study uses a bibliometric approach to identify global trends related to the municipal solid waste (MSW). It applies related literature in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH), retrieved from the ISI Web of Science. The data used covers the period from 1997 to 2014. Analyzed aspects included document type, and publication output as well as distribution of journals, subject category, countries, institutions, title-words, author keywords, and keywords plus. An evaluating indicator, citation score, was applied to characterize the MSW publications. The research outputs of MSW had steadily increased in the field of energy fuels, engineering chemical and biotechnology applied microbiology, especially environmental sciences and engineering environmental. The predominance of Chinese institutions in terms of article count and a predominance of industrialized countries’ institutions in terms of citation score were compared. Finally, author keywords, words in title, and keywords plus were analyzed to provide research emphasis, with the developing trends and recent hotspots provided.Implications: A systematic overview of scientific literature dealing with municipal solid waste (MSW) is provided by a bibliometric analysis. The analysis of author keywords helps in drawing the research trends in a special perspective. Research studies on food waste, life cycle assessment (LCA), and renewable energy tend to be a new research focus in the area of MSW. The conclusions could provide a reference to the decision making and policy of MSW management for the government to some extent.

Journal discriminative capacity refers to the degree of difference between the journals in research subjects, and is of great significance for detecting the level of journal differentiation. Current research on journal discrepancies is predominantly focused on the quantitative analysis of journal content, and rarely measures the degree of journal difference. To address this lapse in research, a method from the perspective of difference is proposed in this paper to quantitatively measure and analyze the discriminative capacity of journals. Using the bibliographic of Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) journals from 2015–2017 as the data source, the contents differences of 23 Library and Information Science (LIS) journals are analyzed through hierarchical clustering and journal discriminative capacity (JDC) measurement. The discriminative capacity of disciplines is then calculated and combined with multidimensional scaling analysis to detect the difference characteristics of journals in ten disciplines, and the mean JDC is used to explore the overall differences of disciplines. Results show that the discriminative capacity of LIS journals is obviously stratified, the journals of library science are the most discriminating, and the journals of evaluation and review are the weakest. In addition, the journals of different disciplines have distinct disciplinary characteristics, with the discriminative capacity of SCI journals as the most notable, followed by SSCI journals, and with A&HCI journals displaying the weakest discriminative capacity.

Impact Factors and Other Measures of a Journal's Influence

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), a progressive disease, can lead to decompensation of the right half of the heart and death. Studies on CTEPH have increased in number over the last two decades. This study aimed to perform a bibliometric analysis of the global scientific output on CTEPH in the last 24 years to identify research trends and hot topics. We searched the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) Science Citation Index Expanded (Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index) for literature on CTEPH published from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2024, and recorded their information. The Bibliometrix software package was used for bibliometric indicator analysis, and VOSviewer and CiteSpace were used to visualize trends and hotspots of CTEPH research. Overall, 2,264 publications were included in the bibliometric analysis. The number of annual publications increased drastically from 14 in 2000 to 199 in 2023. The number of publications on CTEPH has increased over the last two decades, with 24.4% (n=553) of the publications published in top academic journals. The United States ranked first in publications and had the best CTEPH-investigating institutions; it also had the highest level of international cooperation. Distinctively, 7 of the top 10 institutions and 7 of the top 10 researchers in the field were from Europe with the most influential scientists. A relatively high percentage of the publications were published in top-rank academic journals, especially in respirology and cardiology journals. Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) was the main therapy during the first decade, while balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-targeted medicine have recently gained interest. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT), right ventricular function, and the role of pulmonary endothelium in microvasculopathy have become the focus of CTEPH research. The number of publications on CTEPH has increased over the last two decades, and CTEPH has become a significant topic in both respirology and cardiology. Our results indicate that future research in this field will continue to focus on elucidating the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this disorder, improving diagnostic accuracy, and developing novel imaging techniques. The integration of existing therapeutic modalities and the elucidation of right ventricular dysfunction are key areas of research.

Over a 35‐year period, Irving H. Sher played a critical role in the development and implementation of the Science Citation Index® and other ISI® products. Trained as a biochemist, statistician, and linguist, Sher brought a unique combination of talents to ISI as Director of Quality Control and Director of Research and Development. His talents as a teacher and mentor evoked loyalty. He was a particularly inventive but self‐taught programmer. In addition to the SCI,® Social Sciences Citation Index,® and Arts and Humanities Citation Index,® Sher was involved with the development of the first commercial SDI system, the Automatic Subject Citation Alert, now called Research Alert,® and Request‐A‐Print Cards. Together we developed the journal impact factor and the Journal Citation Reports.® Sher was also the inventor of the SYSTABAR System of coding references and Sherhand. He was involved in key reports on citation‐based historiography, forecasting Nobel prizes, and served as a referee for JASIS over a 20‐year period.

This bibliometric analysis explores the contributions of Indonesian scholars to global psychology research, providing a comprehensive overview of its growth, trends, and impact in journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). A systematic search of scholarly databases from 1992 to 2023 identified 1,174 documents, including 717 articles with at least one Indonesian author. The analysis covers various indicators: (1) publication types; (2) article and citation count; (3) journal categories; as well as (4) collaborative countries and institutional contributions. Results show that articles are the dominant publication type, with data papers having the highest citation impact. Research output has significantly increased since 2010, peaking at 147 articles in 2022. The citation histories of the top ten most-cited articles reveal varying degrees of impact over time. Multidisciplinary psychology and social psychology are the most published categories. International collaboration plays a vital role, with 81% of articles involving partnerships, particularly with the United States of America (USA). Universitas Indonesia emerges as the most productive state university, while Universitas Bina Nusantara as the most productive private university. While the increase in publications is noteworthy, the situation requires a more nuanced and contextual discussion. The interplay between publication quantity, research quality, and the broader research landscape warrants a deeper examination and wise interpretation. Analyzing titles, abstracts, author keywords, and Keywords Plus uncovers research strengths and enhances our understanding of research trends, collaboration patterns, and publication influence.

This paper deals with the multi-perspective bibliometric analysis of Central European scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science database and covered in the Journal Citation Reports – Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The analysis focuses on the evaluation of the (inter) national orientation of Central European Social Science journals indexed in the period 2012 – 2015. Data were obtained from the Web of Science database on October 20, 2016. The journals are divided in two groups in favour of the scientific discipline identifying the journal in the Web of Science. The first group consists of journals belonged to public health and psychology. The second group includes all social related scientific journals covered in both the SSCI and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) databases. Journals were chosen by language versions of journals in the Web of Science, language versions of articles, authors’ most important institutional affiliations; and other statistically significant indicators provided by Clarivate Analytics. Assessment of the “openness of Central European journals” to foreign authors was analyzed on the basis of the “INO indicator” (Index of National Orientation). Statistical analyses were conducted on the articles which carry the relevant scientific information. Descriptive statistics was used for the data analysis, using frequencies, percentages and means. The results of this research showed a strong orientation towards Slovakian and Czech authors regardless of the two analyzed groups.  Based on INO, most of the Central European journals quality and impact were comparatively low.  A competitive environment has been created for journals in the social science disciplines, especially for those with competitors in neighboring countries in fields such as psychology, economics, geography and sociology. &nbsp

There is little data on the effectiveness of educational interventions in enhancing the moral reasoning of pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers’ moral reasoning is being called upon to address these challenges in future teaching positions due to the current concerns about school violence, high-risk behaviors, student personalization, and rising moral dilemmas. To promote moral thinking and personal growth in higher education, pre-service teachers need a better quality moral education. To that purpose, this study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) on 60 articles to investigate the research trends of teachers’ moral reasoning by looking for relevant publications from 2012 to 2022 in reputable journals listed by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded from the Web of Science (WOS) database, Scopus as well as ERIC databases. Accordingly, moral reasoning education theories bases and strategies are reported, and possible research subjects for further study are suggested.

Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by an impaired ability to understand written and printed words or phrases. Epidemiological longitudinal data show that dyslexia is highly prevalent, affecting 10–20% of the population regardless of gender. This study aims to provide a detailed overview of research status and development characteristics of dyslexia from types of articles, years, countries, institutions, journals, authors, author keywords, and highly cited papers. A total of 9,166 publications have been retrieved from the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) from 2000 to 2021. The United States of America, United Kingdom, and Germany were the top three most productive countries in terms of the number of publications. China, Israel, and Japan led the Asia research on dyslexia. University of Oxford had the most publications and won first place in terms of h-index. Dyslexia was the most productive journal in this field and Psychology was the most used subject category. Keywords analysis indicated that “developmental dyslexia,” “phonological awareness,” children and fMRI were still the main research topics. “Literacy,” “rapid automatized naming (RAN),” “assessment,” “intervention,” “meta-analysis,” “Chinese,” “executive function,” “morphological awareness,” “decoding,” “dyscalculia,” “EEG,” “Eye tracking,” “rhythm,” “bilingualism,” and “functional connectivity” might become the new research hotspots.

The scientific research output of individuals and institutions is commonly evaluated by the number of publications in journals with high impact factor and their corresponding citations. However, the interdisciplinary character of journals reporting advances in conservation science favors their spread over different categories of the Journal Citation Report (JCR). Here we report an analysis of the evolution of the impact factor, the percentile, and the citations on the JCR indexed conservation journals over the last ten years. Our analysis shows that of the 57 conservation journals indexed in the JCR, only eight of them have an impact factor. These journals are distributed across different categories in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and these categories are sometimes not suitable and decrease their metric impact. This analysis was complemented by a worldwide survey of conservation professionals on their opinions about publishing in these journals. The survey showed two different perspectives about conservation science journals in relation to the background and work of the responders. Conservators and restorers prefer conservation journals with case studies; while researchers prefer high-impact journals, even if they lie outside of the conservation area, so the overall impact factor of conservation journals remains low (low JIF, low Q values). This dichotomy could be fixed with the creation of a new category for heritage science journals in JCR.

A Review of: Westphal, A., Kriston, L., Hölzel, L.P., Härter, M., & von Wolff, A. (2014). Efficiency and contribution of strategies for finding randomized controlled trials: a case study from a systematic review on therapeutic interventions of chronic depression. Journal of Public Health Research, 3(2), 177. doi: 10.4081/jphr.2014.177 Abstract Objective – To evaluate the efficiency and contribution of additional searching strategies for finding randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in a systematic review. Design – A methodological case study. Setting – Biomedical literature. Methods – A sensitive search (defined as “the ratio of the number of relevant reports identified to the total number of relevant reports in existence”) was conducted of electronic databases, Cochrane CENTRAL database, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycInfo, CINAHL, BIOSIS, and Web of Science databases (Science and Social Science Citation Indexes). The following additional searching strategies were conducted: hand-searching contents of relevant journals (Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and Journal of Affective Disorders), citation tracking (forwards tracking using Social Science and Science Citation Index and backwards tracking by looking through reference lists of included studies), screening reference lists of relevant systematic reviews, searching clinical trials registers (ClinicalTrials.gov and ICTRP registers), and contacting first authors of included studies to find any similar unpublished studies. The number of articles identified by each of these methods was recorded and screened for inclusion in the systematic review. The authors calculated what they labelled as the ‘efficiency’ of each searching strategy (the number of included studies identified by the search method as a proportion of the full text articles screened) and the ‘contribution’ of the search strategies (the ratio of included studies identified by that method to the final number of included studies in the systematic review). The methodological quality of each included study was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool, which is a critical appraisal checklist used to judge the study’s value in the systematic review. The meta-analysis in the systematic review was conducted with and without the studies identified by the additional searching strategies to assess their impact on the review’s findings. Main Results – In total 50 studies were identified, 42 from electronic database searches and 8 from additional search strategies. As illustrated by the results in Table 1, the most useful additional search strategy was screening reference lists of relevant systematic reviews. Journal hand-searching and contacting authors also contributed to the review. Of the eight studies identified by the additional search strategies none were judged to have a low risk of bias (four had high risk of bias and four were unclear). Of the 42 included studies from electronic searches only 11 were judged to have a low risk of bias, whereas 9 studies had a high risk of bias and 22 were unclear. Excluding the eight studies retrieved from additional search strategies in the systematic review meta-analysis did not influence the results on the effectiveness of the different interventions for chronic depression. These studies were found to be indexed correctly on the electronic databases, but were not identified in the initial search. Conclusion – Additional search strategies, especially screening reference lists of systematic reviews and hand-searching relevant journals, retrieved a substantial number of relevant studies for a systematic review of interventions for treating chronic depression. However, results of the review’s meta-analysis did not differ when these additional studies (rated as either high or unclear risk of bias) were not included and search methods were time consuming. It might be reasonable to rely on electronic searching strategies when resources for conducting a systematic review are limited or when doing a “rapid review.” The benefits and limitations of additional search strategies should be considered particularly when resources or time for conducting a systematic review are limited. If the electronic database search is sensitive and includes the Cochrane CENTRAL database additional search strategies may not be necessary, but these findings should be tested in other research areas.

One of the indicators that symbolize the success of an academic field is its academic publications in well-established citation indices. This article first explored the bibliometric characteristics of publications on “teachers' emotional labor” (TEL) in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), two prestigious citation indices available in the Web of Science (WoS). Search with the term “teacher emotional labor” retrieved 173 publications that included this term in their titles, abstracts, or keywords in the WoS database between 1900 and 2020. The bibliometric characteristics pertaining to numbers of publications, document types, research categories, research areas, authors, journals, universities, and countries were reported. Then, CiteSpace was utilized to visualize TEL research and to obtain insights into its research focuses and its future directions. The findings will contribute to TEL research by informing scholars in the fields of L2 research and psychology and others.

The search strategies looked for information on various aspects of ecohealth, planetary health and the environment, then applied a systematic review filter. The search strategy was compiled in the OvidSP Medline database and refined until the results retrieved reflected the scope of the project. It was decided to remove ‘air pollution’ from the search strategy as the recent WHO report provided adequate evidence for the impact of air pollution on health. 12 databases were searched during September and October 2014. They were: OvidSP Medline, OvidSP Embase, OvidSP Global Health, OvidSP Econlit,, EBSCO Africa-Wide Information, EBSCO GreenFILE, Biosis Citation Index, Web of Science Core Collection (containing Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science and Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities), Scopus, OvidSP FTSA, Ovid SP CAB Abstracts, OvidSP AGRIS, OvidSP Geobase

The three indexes from the Institute for Scientific Information discussed in Chapter 6—the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (and their merged form in the Web of Science)—offer an additional, and unique, way to do subject searches for articles in scholarly journals. This is “related record” searching; it can be done only in the Web or CD-ROM formats of these sources, not in their print versions. When doing this kind of inquiry, you must first start with a keyword search in whichever ISI database you wish to consult. (If you know the names of particular authors writing on your topic, you could also use them as starting points.) Once you have a list of relevant articles rounded up via keywords, you have to call up the full-format version of each record individually; in the Web database, this display will then give you a “Find Related Records” radio button that you can click on. (The display is different in the CD-ROMs.) Clicking here will start a new search that will round up any other articles in the same database that have footnotes in common with your starting-point article. Note that these are not the same as subsequent articles that cite your initial source, which you would get from a citation search.