Bibliometric Analysis of the Economic Crisis Topic
Anna Bykova
Research Workshop
Perm, 2013
Key Points
• Motivation for research
• Data Sources & Methodology
• Results & Discussion
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Motivation for Investigation
• The purpose of this study is to explore empirically the state and evolution
of the economic crisis for the 2008-2012 period.
• The results offer valuable insights and help understanding the economic
crisis and make predictions (or catch significant research trends) on its
future development.
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Bibliometrics is one of the most pivotal measures for the evaluation of
scientific productions. Macias-Chapula told that "scientometric indicators
have become essential to the scientific community to estimate the stateof-the-art of a given topic" (quoted in Lolis et. al. 2009).
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Scientometrics: basic points
Scientometrics are a set of methods for measuring the production and
dissemination of scientific knowledge for conducting quantitative
analysis of science
Derek de Solla Price and Vasilij Nalimov were the originators of the discipline,
which they developed for the purpose of providing research tools to historians
and sociologists of science.
Different Data Bases for conducting research (next slide)
Methodology was almost taken
from….
Jeevan V. K.J , and Sen B.K. . 2007. A scientometric analysis of publications on
accelerator-based research from nuclear science centre and Tata institute of
fundamental research India, Malaysian Journal of Library &Information
Science, Vol. 12, no. 2, Dec. 2007: 89-97
Jeevan V.K.J., and Gupta B.M. 2001. R&D performance of different
departments of IIT, Kharagpur: a scientometric study based on publications,
(Delhi University) Journal of Library & Information Science, Vol. 26, no. 2: 129143.
Pandalai T.A., Karanjai A., and Sen B.K. 1996. Bibliometrics in the evaluation of
science. Handbook of Libraries, Archives & Information Centres in India, Vol
13: 99-108.
Research Question
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The aim of the study is conducting of bibliometric analysis to economic crisis
publications in journals listed in the four ISI subject categories in the Social Science
Citation Index (SSCI) during 2000 - 2013:
 economics
 finance business
 business,
 and management.
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The objectives of the study are to determine the following:
 research output of the topic
 language and geographical distribution of the literature
 institution distribution of contributors
 authorship pattern
 highly cited authors and papers
 hot topics.
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Data & Methodology
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The study is based on the scientific productions in Scientometrics as reflected in the
online version of the SSCI (Social Science Citation Index), the Web of Science.
The SSCI is a multidisciplinary database generated by Thomson Reuters.
The time period considered in this study is from 2008 to 2012.
The basis for the analysis is the bibliographical descriptions of articles and their
references from academic journals in various subject areas.
The SSCI was searched using the keyword the “crisis” as a part of a title, abstract, or
keyword to compile a bibliography of all manuscript related to this kind of research.
The reported impact factor (IF) of each journal was obtained from the 2011 JCR.
Rank
Category
1
2
3
4
Business
Finance Business
Economics
Management
Total
Cites
230831
100689
401962
309457
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Median IF
Aggregate IF
# Journals
# Articles
1.135
0.799
0.778
1.183
1.594
1.324
1.148
1.662
113
86
321
168
4855
3458
15327
7064
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Distribution of Document Types
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Publication Output
Publication Output: results from Scopus
Publication
Years
Record
Count
(Articles)
% of 3904
2012
1130
29
2011
1047
27
2010
797
20
2009
592
15
2008
338
9
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Authorship & Publication Patterns
Authors
Record Count
(publications)
J. Aizenman
13
0.33
H.S. Shin
12
0.31
V.V. Acharya
C.M. Reinhart
11
11
0.28
0.28
R. Alas
10
0.27
K.S. Rogoff
10
0.27
J.L. Stein
10
0.27
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Source Titles
TP (%)
IF
Subject
Journal of banking finance
120 (3.0)
2.60
Finance
Business
Journal of international money
and finance
98 (2.5)
1.1
Finance
Business
Applied economics letters
72 (1.8)
0.2
Economics
South African journal of business
management
58 (1.5)
0.2
Business,
Economics
Economic modelling
53 (1.4)
0.7
Economics
Applied economics
50 (1.3)
0.5
Economics
Cambridge journal of economics
50 (1.3)
1.4
Economics
Journal of financial economics
50 (1.3)
3.7
Finance
Business
% of 3904
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Distribution of Subject Category
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Countrywide publication
Countries/Territorie
s
Record
Count
% of 3668
USA
1370
37 %
ENGLAND
444
12 %
AUSTRALIA
297
8%
GERMANY
278
8%
FRANCE
187
5%
PEOPLES R CHINA
147
4%
NETHERLANDS
142
4%
CANADA
134
4%
ITALY
128
3%
SOUTH KOREA
118
3%
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Institute-wise publication
Organisations
International Monetary Fund
National Bureau of Economic Research
Harvard University
New York University
World Bank
European Central Bank
Columbia University
Australian National University
Federal Reserve Bank New York
Chicago University
University of California, Berkley
Cambridge University
Michigan University
Pennsylvania University
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Record Count
99
96
65
46
46
45
41
40
40
40
38
36
34
27
% of 3662
3
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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Most frequently-cited articles
TC
123
TC per year
20.50
Authors
Young, Michael N.;
Peng, Mike W.;
Ahlstrom, David;
Bruton, Garry D.;
Jiang, Yi
Year
Title
Journal
IF
2008
Corporate governance in
emerging economies: A
review of the principalprincipal perspective
Journal of
management
studies
4.23
99
16.50
Verhoogen, Eric A.
2008
76
15.20
Mian, Atif; Sufi, Amir
2009
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Trade, quality
upgrading, and wage
Quarterly journal of
inequality in the
3.79
economics
Mexican manufacturing
sector
The consequences of
mortgage credit
Quarterly journal of
expansion: evidence
3.79
economics
from the us mortgage
default crisis
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Total number of citations
for the most-cited article
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Hot issues
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