Bibliometric Analysis of the Joint Diseases and Related Surgery: Part-2: The period after the SCI-E

Aim: The first part of this article, the pre-SCI-E period, was previously published in Acta Medica Alanya as ‘Bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Joint Diseases and Related Surgery (JDRS). In this article, in the second part of the study, the factors affecting citation and the definition of bibliometric data in the post-SCI-E period were investigated by scanning Google Scholar, Scopus and WOS. Methods: This second study was designed as retrospective bibliometric. Articles were reviewed beginning from 2007 when the Journal covered by SCI-E, up to 2020 when it covered by PMC. Both authors scanned one by one the articles published in the JDRS Journal within the above stated time period, according to the Turkish-English or English titles and by using the information available on the journal's website for each article. At the end of year 2021 and in a 3 month period all articles were chronologically scanned in Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. All accessed articles were analyzed according to the characteristics and institutions of the authors, also language, type, topic, and discipline of the article. Results: Scanning for Scopus, Google, and WOS showed that the mean number of citations were 7.69 ± 11.72 for Google Scholar, 5.11 ± 6.88 for Scopus, and 4.36 ± 6.18 for WOS. In the last step of the logistic regression model analysis performed with the backward stepwise method; the article year-volume, male author, foreign author, article subtopic (6), article type (2), article type (1), and article language (1) were found to be variables effective on having a citation. In the linear regression analysis, the male sex variable was found to be significant for citations in all databases. English as the article language was a significant variable in citations, in all databases and subvariables. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that research articles and/or review articles contribute significantly to citations, and having English as the article language is important. Also, acceptance of articles that may call the attention of more than one specialty may increase the number of citations.