the interdisciplinary nature of veterinary research as represented in the journal literature greg...
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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Veterinary Research as Represented
in the Journal Literature
Greg YoungenAmy Gullen
UIUC Veterinary Medicine Library
Scope of the Search• Web of Science & Scopus• 2009 publication records • Articles published by authors at eight CVM’s
– Iowa State University– Michigan State University– Ohio State University– Purdue University– University of Illinois– University of Minnesota– University of Missouri– University of Wisconsin
Extracting the Data
• Identifying CVM and affiliated authorship– Vet or vet* in Author Affiliation field– Identifying best geographic identifier
• Urbana more effective than Illinois
– Dealing with false drops• Vet = Veterans (hospital) or Veterinary• Publications from in-practice vets in same town• USDA/APHIS locations (Ames & East Lansing)
• Missed data – CVM authors w/out “vet” in titles
Data Management
• Downloaded into Excel file:– Scopus – 953 records– Web of Science – 843 records– De-duplicated set – 1,368 records
• Fields downloaded:– Au, ti, so (incl. vol, iss, yr), aa, akw,
ikw(Scopus), kw+(WOS), journal subject• Identifying Veterinary vs Non-Veterinary
Titles– VMLS Basic List of Serials
Post Processing of Data
• De-duplication process– Located collaborations and duplicates by
sorting data• Listed all schools affiliated with an article, but
left duplicate listings (one per school)– Removed these duplicates as needed for data
analysis (total number of articles published per journal)
– Ran a Macro on each duplicate (same article from WOS and Scopus) manually
Post Processing of Data, cont.
• Cleanup– Totaled the number of articles per journal title– Formatted text for word clouds so that words
in a phrase would stay together (Escherichia coli)
– Data visualization tools treat different letter cases (“HELLO” vs. "Hello“) as different words
• WOS and Scopus differ in how they provide some fields (journal titles)
• Changed journal titles as needed so they wouldn’t be listed twice in visualizations