Institution bias in the New England Journal of Medicine? A bibliometric analysis of publications (1997–2016)

Yaoyu Wei and Lei Lei ()
Additional contact information
Yaoyu Wei: Huazhong Agricultural University
Lei Lei: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Scientometrics, 2018, vol. 117, issue 3, No 21, 1775 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study is a partial replication of Delgado and Delgado (Scientometrics 115(1):607–611, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2584-7 ) that intends to examine the issue of institution bias in New England Journal Medicine with all its articles published across two decades (1997–2016). Normalized citations of Harvard based and non-Harvard based articles were compared and the effect size of the difference was found very small. That is, no home institution bias was found with a larger sample of data across a longer span in this study, which serves as a complement to Delgado and Delgado’s (2018) findings. Important issues such as how to define intitution bias and home authors are discussed, and suggestions for future research are provided.

Keywords: Institution bias; New England Journal Medicine; Harvard; Normalized citation; Mann–Whitney Wilcox test; Effect size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-018-2948-7 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:scient:v:117:y:2018:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-018-2948-7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11192

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2948-7

Access Statistics for this article

Scientometrics is currently edited by Wolfgang Glänzel

More articles in Scientometrics from Springer, Akadémiai Kiadó
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().