The Effect of Religious Beliefs on the Publication Productivity of Countries in Circumcision: A Comprehensive Bibliometric View

Circumcision is one of the most common surgical operations in newborns, babies, and children due to cultural, religious, and medical reasons. Religious beliefs are known to have an important role in circumcision. Although bibliometric analyses have been performed about several topics with a lot of publications in literature, no studies in the literature were found to focus on male circumcision. This study aims to make a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of circumcision and investigate the relationship between publication productivity and religious beliefs of the countries. Web of Science was utilized to obtain the documents needed for bibliometric analyses. “Circumcision” keyword was used for search. The search included studies published between 1980 and 2018. The literature review indicated that there were 3694 publications about circumcision published between 1980 and 2018. Of these publications, 1770 (47.9%) were articles. This study provided a bibliometric summary of 1770 articles. The top five active countries about circumcision were the USA, England, South Africa, Turkey, and Kenya. The present study found that the religious beliefs of a country were directly related to publication productivity about circumcision. The top-cited study was the article entitled “Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomized controlled trial” written by Bailey et al. and published in the journal of Lancet. The keyword analysis results showed that HIV was the top keyword used in all articles about circumcision. This study is believed to help researchers interested in circumcision topic to access a summary of the literature, see contemporary and more important topics, and discover new ideas about the issue.

     

A comparative view of the new journal: Assessment

The reference sections from all articles in the 1997 volumes of Assessment, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Psychological Assessment were entered into a database and analyzed. An article published in Assessment averaged almost 31 references. An article published in Journal of Personality Assessment contained an average of 33 references. Psychological Assessment averaged 38 references per article. The median age of the references in the three journals was 8 years with an interquartile range of 4 to 14 years. The Journal of Personality Assessment had the largest number of citations in this database of 5,316 references. Each of these received a relatively large number of their citations from articles published in the same journal (self-citations). Randomly selected articles from the 1997 volume of Assessment received fewer citations in the Social Science Citation Index than a similar set of articles from the other two journals. However, the data on Assessment, when compared with data available on other new scientific publications, suggests that Assessment is doing as well as other fledgling journals.     

A Study on Journal Self-Citations and Intra-Citing within the Subject Category of Multidisciplinary Sciences

For academic research outcomes, there is an increasing emphasis on the bibliometric scorings like the journal impact factor and citations when the assessment of the scientific merits of research or researchers is required. Currently, no known study has been conducted to explore the bibliographical trends of the subject category of multidisciplinary sciences as indexed by the annual Journal Citation Reports of the Thomson Scientific. The effect of journal self-citations and intra-citing within a discipline to the bibliometric data computation can be confounding. In this study, six journals were selected from the multidisciplinary sciences subject category where the trend of self-citations and intra-citing were analysed. These journals were chosen as they published more than 450 citable articles in the year 2007 and had available bibliometric data for a 10-year period. The results showed that self-citations rose as much as +23.98% while intra-citing declined up to ?5.80% over the observed period. The retrospective impacts and influences of these observations were also discussed in this study.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

Classic articles in Psychology in the Science Citation Index Expanded: A bibliometric analysis

Who today are the most highly cited psychologists listed in the Web of Science? This paper reports answers to this question by using the Science Citation Index Expanded to find out. This index covers over 280,350 documents in the Psychology category of the Web of Science from 1900 to 2013 and lists the most highly cited papers published between 1927 and 2012. For example, in 2013, an article published by Jacob Cohen in 1992 obtained (1) the highest ranking with 1,068 citations, (2) the highest for total citations per year, and (3) was ranked 3rd for the total number of citations since publication by 2013. New technology thus provides a seismic shift in the ways that we can obtain and analyse data like these. Indeed, the results for the top 10 articles indicate that practical and methodological papers now receive more citations than the more theoretical papers usually found in earlier surveys.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A guide to the literature on aggressive behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information∥, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.     

A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior

The Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior is based on Source Publications provided by ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) from the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Telephone (215) 386–0100. The following key words are used in weekly computer searches of nearly 5,800 science, technical, and social science journals from around the world: Attack, Fight, Dominant, Aggression, Violence, Agonistic, Hostility, Anger Articles are drawn from ISI Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Current Contents. Journals surveyed include the following general areas: Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Science Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Medical and Life Sciences Physical and Chemical Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Full texts of articles may be obtained from ISI's Genuine Article, which supplies tear sheets or photocopies.