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ArticleMedicine2020

Whether productive authors using the national health insurance database also achieve higher individual research metrics: A bibliometric study.

Wan-Ting Hsieh, Tsair-Wei Chien, Shu-Chun Kuo, Hung-Jung Lin

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Article in Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wan-Ting HsiehDepartment of Family Medicine.
Tsair-Wei ChienMedical Research Department, Chi-Mei Medical Center.
Shu-Chun KuoDepartment of Optometry, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology.
Hung-Jung LinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Chi Mei Medical Center · TW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMany researchers use the National Health Insurance Research Database (HIRD) to publish medical papers and gain exceptional outputs in academics. Whether they also obtain excellent citation metrics remains unclear.

methodsWe searched the PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed) using the terms Taiwan and HIRD. We then downloaded 1997 articles published from 2012 to 2016. An authorship-weighted scheme (AWS) was applied to compute coauthor partial contributions from the article bylines. Both modified x-index and author impact factor (AIF) proved complementary to Hirsch's h-index for calculating individual research achievements (IRA). The metrics from 4684 authors were collected for comparison. Three hundred eligible authors with higher x-indexes were located and displayed on Google Maps dashboards. Ten separate clusters were identified using social network analysis (SNA) to highlight the research teams. The bootstrapping method was used to examine the differences in metrics among author clusters. The Kano model was applied to classify author IRAs into 3 parts.

resultsThe most productive author was Investigator#1 (Taichung City, Taiwan), who published 149 articles in 2015 and included 803 other members in his research teams. The Kano diagram results did not support his citation metrics beyond other clusters and individuals in IRAs.

conclusionThe AWS-based bibliometric metrics make individual weighted research evaluations possible and available for comparison. The study results of productive authors using HIRD did not support the view that higher citation metrics exist in specific disciplines.

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AuthorshipBibliometricsHumansJournal Impact FactorNational Health ProgramsPeriodicals as TopicTaiwan

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PMCPMC6959956
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