University of Arkansas Food Science Faculty Publications and the Characteristics of Their Cited References: A Bibliometric Study

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In the allocation of collection resources, it is important to have a good understanding of the teaching, instruction and research needs of faculty and graduate students. Data related to the use of electronic databases, journals, books, etc. is helpful; however, this data does not reflect the nature and impact of the information retrieved, but merely provides a general idea of the number of times items have been searched, retrieved or borrowed. By identifying and analyzing faculty and graduate students' publications and grant proposals to determine where researchers are publishing and what sources they are citing in their research, the Library can assess how well it is supplying a core of literature to meet research needs. To this end, this study analyzes the publication and citation patterns of food science faculty at the University of Arkansas for a fourteen-year period, 1990–2003. The findings show that faculty are using and citing materials ranging from 1 to 22 years old and that 85 titles account for only 13.67% of the total journals cited but for 77.75% of the citations. It is assumed that these 85 titles constitute the core journal titles for food science research.     

Current Awareness Delivery Options in Food Science and Technology: Their Coverage,Timeliness and Characteristics

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This study seeks to (1) identify the most productive source for current awareness information for the faculty and graduate students in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Arkansas, (2) identify the update frequency and, hence, currency of information, and (3) identify effectiveness in retrieval. It is also hoped that this research will provide evidenced-based information for subscribing to a particular current awareness database for University of Arkansas food science and technology patrons and will allow us to direct patrons in this subject area to the best and most relevant resource for their current information needs. This paper reports the results of our evaluation of four current awareness sources on three search interfaces. These include Article 1st (First Search); Ingenta Connect; ISI Current Contents: Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences (ABES); and ISI Current Contents: Life Sciences (LS). A listing of journals cited by faculty and graduate students in the Department of Food Science at the University of Arkansas for the period 1987–2003 was used to check against these databases. The extent of coverage of the journals and timeliness of update were used as criteria for the evaluation. The characteristics of the three interfaces are highlighted with respect to their effectiveness in providing a current awareness service.     

Mapping the Literature of Food Science Using Co-Citation Analysis

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This study mapped the scholarly literature in the discipline of food science using co-citation analysis and explored the relationships found within this literature. Using the Journal of Food Science, an examination of a random sample of its articles published from 2000 to 2002 yielded a ranked list of frequently-cited journals. The top thirteen most frequently-cited journals formed a core set for further analysis. Using the SciSearch online database and a standard statistical package (SPSS), a two-dimensional map was created, relationships between the journals were studied, and the discipline of food science was explored. Food science journals tended to be either industry-specific (e.g., dairy science) or industry-general. The journals also tended to focus on either “pure” science (e.g., chemistry) or on applied science and technology. Of the thirteen journals mapped, six fell within the area of pure science, while four were in the area of applied science. Interestingly, three journals fell on the axis line dividing the two. At the same time, seven journals had the characteristics of being industry-general, while six were more industry-specific. The results are consistent with previous indications of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of food science, drawing as it does from many fields such as chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and agricultural science.     

Data Practices in the Crop Sciences: A Review of Selected Faculty Publications

This bibliographic study gathered information about the data practices of crop scientists from their publications. Two recent articles were reviewed from each faculty member in the Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The goals of this study were to learn the common data types used in crop sciences research, to describe data reuse and sharing practices in the literature, and to highlight resources for acquiring and sharing data, especially repositories with an agricultural emphasis.     

Identifying the Core Periodical Literature of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center

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“Agricultural communications” is an emerging field which is naturally both part of the “agriculture” and “communications” literature. However, it is much broader than just a subset of each. The coverage of standard databases such as CAB Abstracts and Communication Abstracts, while a good start, does not sufficiently cover the field. The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has, over the last quarter century, worked to help define and collect this literature, by identifying relevant documents and entering them into a Web-searchable Microsoft Access database. An analysis of this database reveals important clues concerning the literature of agricultural communications. Of the nearly 30,000 documents within the ACDC collection, periodical articles comprise a little over one half, from a core list of 45 periodicals within the ACDC collection. More than one half of these core periodicals are outside the traditional agriculture and life science literature; approximately one third are scholarly journals.     

基于引文分析的农业科研人员外文文献需求与保障研究

利用引文分析方法对中国农科院科研人员引用外文文献的类型进行了统计分析,并对引用量最大的外文期刊的品种数量、学科、语种、出版机构及保障情况也进行了分析。结果表明：科研人员引用的外文文献以期刊比例最高,其次为图书及会议录;引用外文期刊的数量符合布拉德福定律;引用外文期刊的学科非常广泛,主要以生物科学、农业为主,基础医学等也占有较高的比例;科研人员的外文期刊品种数满足率达90%,NSTL印本保障率为95.5%,网络版全文保障率,本馆与NSTL订购之和为60.1%。     

Scholarly Journals in Agricultural Economics Libraries/Reference Rooms: A Survey

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The purpose of this study was to develop a core list of journals for the field of agricultural economics. For this study, the holdings of members of the Agricultural Economics Reference Organization who represent agricultural economics libraries in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed. The resulting list of titles is compared to four similar lists, three in agricultural economics and the fourth in economics. Using any one list of journals is inadequate for collection development in agricultural economics. This survey list, along with other similar lists, can be used for decision making in selection and management of journal titles in the field.     

Thematic Evolutionary Analysis of Core Agricultural and Natural Resource Academic Journals in Iran

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For a core journal to be developed, fruitful research articles, diversity, and continuity of research topics are essential. The main goal of this study was to trace the thematic evolution (historical development) of agricultural and natural resource academic journals (ANAJs) published by public academic institutions in Iran. To this end, the study analyzed 2,961 articles published from 1905–2003 in all publicly-funded ANAJs in all contributing agricultural and natural resource academic majors (subfields), examining the scientific domain, research subject, research method, citations, impacts, and the aggregation level of journals on academic majors and academic majors on journals. Less than 5% of the articles were qualitative and cited theoretical frameworks. Over 95% were quantitative articles as their publications progressed. Thematically, agronomy and plant breeding, with 31.68%, had the highest aggregation level among academic majors; whereas, agricultural extension and education, with 2.08%, had the lowest.     

The Current Core Literature of the Agricultural Sciences

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A five year project to identify the most vital or core literature of the agricultural sciences was undertaken with results for the advanced countries as well as the Third World countries. Citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques were used to identify the most valuable literature for university-level instruction and research. Monographs in seven sub-disciplines of agriculture were evaluated by researchers resulting in a composite list of 8,400 volumes and in 363 core journals. Methods of analysis, evaluation techniques, and end products are described. Four of seven books describing the literature of agriculture have been published. A final product will be the transfer of the full text of the monographs and the journals for a five year period onto compact disk for use in the Third World. Because of copyright and other restrictions, the estimated 280 disk library will not be available to developed countries.     

Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature on Giant Ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.)

Giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.) has become one of the most persistent and problematic weeds to farmers and allergy sufferers in North America over the last decades. This study aims to identify and assess the scholarly literature using a bibliometric analysis approach. Based on bibliographic records retrieved from the Web of Science database, the study describes the periodic growth of literature, scientific fields and journals, author productivity and collaborations, institutions and countries, and topical focus and uses article citation analysis to identify the most influential works in this research field during the period of 1903 to 2012.     

Research Support Services for the Field of Agriculture: Ithaka S+R Interviews and Themes for Libraries

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As part of a larger, national survey, we performed an in-depth qualitative analysis using semistructured interviews and a standard set of questions. We wished to examine the research practices of faculty in agriculture, to understand what they need to be successful in their teaching and research. We plan to use this information to make improvements to research support services. The national survey results should help pinpoint opportunities for developing new research support services for agriculture. This study adds to library and information sciences by examining the specific needs of faculty members in agriculture and agricultural extension, groups that have been previously underrepresented in the library literature.     

Mapping the Literature of Food Science Revisited: 2003–2005

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After reviewing previously published literature in citation analysis and literature mapping, this study mapped the literature of food science and explored the relationships found within it. Using articles published in the Journal of Food Science from 2003 through 2005, a stratified random sample of citations was studied to yield a ranked list of the thirteen most frequently cited journals, which formed a core set for further analysis. Using the Science Citation Index and a standard statistical package (SPSS₁₃), a two-dimensional map was created, relationships between the journals were studied, and the discipline of food science was explored. The study is an extension of previously published research covering the years 2000–2002 and attempts to analyze and compare the results across time frames.     

科技论文外流文献经济损失估算模型建立及其应用(转载)

科技论文体现科研成果的价值,其产出成本由文献、实验设备购置以及科研人员的人力成本投入等方面组成。该文针对外流论文的发表与回购环节引起的经济损失,即外流文献经济损失进行研究。为了解我国科技论文外流造成的文献经济损失,该文提出了论文外流造成的文献经济损失估算模型,先估算单篇论文损失当量,包括发表费、外流论文回购费和翻译费3部分,总损失量等于单篇论文损失当量乘以论文外流总数。通过经济损失估算模型计算得出:单篇论文外流损失当量为3348元;选2012年农业工程领域论文外流为案例,分析论文外流造成的文献经济损失,该年农业工程领域论文外流总数为1991篇,造成的文献经济损失总计为667万元。粗略估计,仅考虑文献,2012年一年,我国110个学科论文外流造成的文献经济总损失量为7.33亿元,其经济损失主要来源于国家科研项目资金,造成国有资产外流。因此,鼓励适当的国际学术交流,但不能盲目地追求SCI论文。     

Investigating the Research Practices of Agriculture Scholars: Findings From the University of Florida

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The University of Florida (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries is one of 19 institutions that participated in an Ithaka S+R Research Support Services investigation of agricultural sciences. The authors conducted a qualitative analysis of research support services based on one-on-one semistructured interviews with 15 faculty of the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in 2016. A number of core themes emerged from the analysis of research practices in the local study at UF. Core themes included finding appropriate literature, data management issues and tools, repositories for sharing research products, and research dissemination. This report summarizes a subset of these results, focusing on themes related to academic library services that support agricultural scholars research needs.     

贯流式水轮机转轮叶片的多学科优化设计

为了变革传统的转轮优化设计方法,在缩短转轮研发周期的同时能确保转轮安全、高效的运行,有必要开展转轮的多学科优化设计方法研究。该文基于多学科可行性优化策略(multidisciplinary feasible method,MDF)提出了一种能兼顾水力性能和强度应力的贯流式转轮叶片多学科优化设计方法。该方法以转轮叶片的几何形状参数作为优化变量,以转轮叶片的水力效率以及叶片上的最大静应力值作为优化目标,并通过MDF策略构建整个多学科优化求解系统,同时引入NSGA-II算法作为寻优算法开展了贯流式叶片的多学科优化设计。优化过程中,采用弱耦合方法完成每个优化个体的多学科性能分析以缩减整个优化流程的计算时间,提升了该方法的工程实用性。采用该方法对某电站的贯流式水轮机模型转轮进行优化,优化后水轮机的水力效率提高了0.3%,转轮叶片的最大应力值降低了16.3%,表明该方法是有效的,并具有实际的工程应用价值。     

基于文献计量学的小麦氮素监测研究进展分析

为提高小麦氮素监测领域研究的科学性、精准性、交叉性和前沿性，该文通过可视化分析探寻领域研究现状和内容演变，以期了解最新研究动态和未来发展方向。利用文献计量学方法，借助VOSviewer、HistCite等工具，挖掘1990—2022年间发文趋势、学科领域、国家、机构、期刊和高被引论文、研究热点、主题演变等，并对学科交叉和文献集中度等进行分析。对检索得到的14 091篇有效文献研究发现，全球发文量总体呈上升趋势，中国是近年来发展最快的国家，累计发文量达3 300篇，以23.42%的占比位居全球第一，但在本地引文次数和总被引次数方面还有待提升。小麦氮素监测领域从原先以农学、植物科学为代表的单一学科引领，逐步向农学、植物科学、环境科学与生态学、化学、计算机科学、遥感等多学科交叉融合转变；研究热点从早期的氮素营养、氮素循环、光合作用等单一生理过程解析，逐步向遥感监测、作物模型、生长模拟等数字农业方向演变，形成了以中国和美国为代表的全球两大主要研究节点。全球发文量前十作者中有6人来自中国，全球发文量前十机构中国占据6席，中国在高被引论文4项指标中均位居前列。随着时间的推移，研究人员的团队性和国际化合作倾向越发明显，中国与全球发文量前十国家的合作发文量占比为31.48%，且与不同国家合作重点不尽相同。农学类期刊是该领域主要发文刊物，其中以《Field Crops Research》最具代表性。结果表明，小麦氮素监测领域学科交叉态势已日渐显现，国家、机构、作者等文献集中度日趋明显，研究热点及领域发展趋势越发清晰，未来，跨国别、跨学科、跨团队的深度合作将带来更大、更深远的发展契机。     

基于文献计量的中国耕地保护补偿研究进展分析

健全耕地保护补偿机制是当前深化农村改革的重要内容之一。总结归纳中国耕地保护补偿研究文献的主要研究内容、特点与研究趋势,为后续研究提供清晰的方向和思路,对推动中国耕地保护补偿机制研究的系统和深化具有重要意义。基于1985—2016年中国知识资源总库(CNKI)收录的有关耕地保护补偿研究的中文文献,运用文献资料法、网络检索法和对比分析法,对中国耕地保护补偿研究的主要特征及问题进行量化分析。结果表明:耕地保护补偿相关文献数量呈逐渐增加的趋势,研究领域的核心作者群体已初步形成,但核心期刊载文量不多,学术水平总体上还有待进一步提高;耕地保护补偿研究仍处于理论分析和方法初探阶段,以定性研究为主,定量研究不足,还未形成完善的理论体系;实证研究空间分布不均衡,研究尺度与空间范围分布不协调;补偿标准的研究方法和模型构建还未形成一致意见。最后对需要进一步研究的重点方向与内容进行了展望。     

Agricultural Energy Crops and the Search for Alternative Energy: Analysis of the Current Research and Core Journal Literature on Biofuels and Bioenergy

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This paper analyzes the agricultural research output on energy crops and bioenergy for the period 2000–2005. Seven hundred eighty-three (783) articles gathered from CAB Abstracts from this period were analyzed to determine which disciplines have been publishing the most on this subject. The findings show that engineering-related research is most prevalent but that twelve distinct agricultural disciplines produced research on the subject during the study period, with varying degrees of productivity for each discipline. The actual agricultural energy resources being researched were determined by examining the 783 articles. The resources were divided into woody crops, non-woody crops, and animal-based resources, and the number of articles for each was tabulated. The three resource types were further examined to create a list of the individual crops or animal-based resources under investigation, along with the number of articles for each individual crop or resource. The core journal literature dealing with energy crops and bioenergy was determined by doing searches in both CAB Abstracts and Web of Science and tabulating the number of articles appearing in each journal. This allowed for the creation of a core journal list, ranked by the number of appropriate articles appearing in each journal.     

From Their Mouths to Our Ears: Research Practices and Needs of Agricultural Scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries was one of 19 participants in a national study of the research practices and needs of agricultural researchers. Two UNL Libraries faculty members interviewed 11 UNL scholars during the summer of 2016. The ethnographic research approach revealed four core themes: interdisciplinarity and collaborations, scientific communication practices, scientific research data issues and practices, and challenges and opportunities. Illustrated by the sample of faculty comments presented here, the themes have direct implications for the UNL Libraries, while in other cases these point to concerns and opportunities for the university, the academy, and the nation.