Abstract
The emergence of new networking research organisations is explained by the need to promote excellence in research and to facilitate the resolution of specific problems. This study focuses on a Spanish case, the Biomedical Research Networking Centres (CIBER), created through a partnership of research groups, without physical proximity, who work on common health related issues. These structures are a great challenge for bibliometricians due to their heterogeneous composition and virtual nature. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to assess different approaches based on addresses, funding acknowledgements and authors to explore which search strategy or combination is more effective to identify CIBER publications. To this end, we downloaded all the Spanish publications from the Web of Science databases, in the subject categories of Gastroenterology/Hepatology and Psychiatry during the period 2008–2011. Our results showed that, taken alone, the dataset based on addresses identified more than 60 % of all potential CIBER publications. However, the best outcome was obtained by combining it with additional datasets based on funding acknowledgements and on authors, recovering more than 80 % of all possible CIBER publications without losing accuracy. In terms of bibliometric performance, all the CIBER sets showed scores above the country average, thus proving the relevance of these virtual organisations. Finally, given the increasing importance of these structures and the fact that authors do not always mention their connection to CIBER, some recommendations are offered to develop clear policies on how, when and where to specify this relationship.
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http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/04/19/pdfs/A17366-17372.pdf. Accessed 3 Dec 2014.
In 2014, CIBER conducts research in eight different research fields: bioengineering, biomaterials and nanomedicine (CIBERBBN), diabetes and metabolic disease (CIBERDEM), hepatic and digestive diseases (CIBEREHD), rare diseases (CIBERER), respiratory diseases (CIBERRES), epidemiology and public health (CIBERESP), obesity and nutrition (CIBEROBN) and mental health (CIBERSAM).
For such type of study see, for example, Méndez Vásquez et al. (2009), commissioned by the direction of the CIBERESP structure.
The samples are composed by 61 articles for Gastroenterology/Hepatology and 107 for Psychiatry.
The samples are composed by 115 articles for Gastroenterology/Hepatology and 132 for Psychiatry.
For a discussion on these field-normalised indicators check Waltman et al. (2011).
e.g. for Gastroenterology/Hepatology, the CIBER_address set includes articles retrieved through the address field, whether alone (89) or in combination with (a) the funding field (7), (b) CIBER authors and collaborators (487), (c) these two sets together (50). All these numbers sum 633 articles.
It should be noted that authors and affiliations are not always clearly connected in WoS publications (Reijnhoudt et al. 2013).
http://www.ciberisciii.es/media/5281/estatutos_ciber_boe-a-2014-2026.pdf. Accessed 3 Dec 2014.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/acknow.htm. Accessed 3 Dec 2014.
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This work is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant CSO2011-25102). We would like to thank the anonymous reviewer for the valuable and constructive comments on this paper.
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Morillo, F., Costas, R. & Bordons, M. How is credit given to networking centres in their publications? A case study of the Spanish CIBER research structures. Scientometrics 103, 923–938 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1564-z
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