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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
Most Prolific Authors
Table 7 focused that the Brigo F (University of Verona,
UK) was the most successful author of 10 articles
published in 2014, followed by Bragazzi NL (University
of Genoa, Italy) in 2015 and Brownstein JS (Harvard
Medical School, USA) in 2008 both authors published 14
articles each. Moreover, Nardone R (University of Genoa,
Italy) published ten articles in 2014.
Brownstein JS ranked first with 956 citations in 2008.
Conway M (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
ranked second with 311 citations in 2010, and Brigo F
ranked third with 223 citations in 2014. On the author's
quality parameters h_index and g_index, Brownstein JS
ranked first with h_index value ten and g_index value 14.
Brigo F ranked second with h_index value 9, and g_index
value 14, and Nardone R ranked third with h_index value
6, and g_index value 10. Besides, the authors are
concerned with the m_index. With 1.667 m_index, Wang
Y (Fudan University, China) ranked first. Brigo F was
second with the m_index of 1.286, and Mavragani A
(University of Stirling, Scotland) was third-ranked with
the m_index of 1.000.
Three journals published with seven articles each, with
two journals, ACM International Conference Proceeding
Series, published by Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), the USA with six articles, and
American Journal of Public Health Publisher of American
Journal of Public Health Association, the USA with five
articles, while two journals published of 4 each of the total
articles on infodemic research. "Journal of Medical
Internet Research" with 3117 was the most cited paper.
One thousand four hundred fifty-three citations from
"PLOS One followed this." In addition, there are 134
citations from the "American Public Health Journal."
The journal's quality parameters h index and g index,
Journal of Medical Internet Research ranked first with
h_index value 30 and g_index value 52 PLOS One ranked
second with h_index value 14 and g_index value 26.
American Journal of Public Health ranked third with
h_index value five and g_ index value 7 of each of the
three journals.
For IF, among the top productive journals, the American
Journal of Public Health had the highest IF (IF2019 =
6.464) with Q1, followed by the Journal of Medical
Internet Research of Canada (IF2019 = 5.034) with Q1 and
the Scientific Reports (IF2019 = 3.998 with Q1) (see table
8).
Author
Brigo F
Bragazzi
NL
Brownstein
JS
Nardone R
Wang Y
Mavragani
A
Yom-Tov
E
Conway M
Affiliation
and
Country
University
Of
Verona,
UK
University
Of Genoa,
Italy
Harvard
Medical
School,
USA
University
Of Genoa,
Italy
Fudan
University,
China
University
Of
Stirling,
Scotland
Microsoft
Research,
USA
John
Hopkins
University,
USA
TP TC PYS H
index
G
index
M
index
19 223 2014 9 14 1.286
14 143 2015 5 11 0.833
14 956 2008 10 14 0.769
10 163 2014 6 10 0.857
9 80 2018 5 8 1.667
8 64 2016 5 8 1
8 149 2013 6 8 0.75
7 311 2010 6 7 0.545
Emery S N/A 6 70 2013 3 6 0.375
Igwe SC N/A 6 106 2014 4 6 0.571
Table 7 Most Prolific Authors
Note: [TP=Total Publication, TC=Total Citation, PY= Year
Published, PYS=Publication Year Start]
Highly Influential Research Journals
Journal of Medical Internet Research, JMIR Publications,
Canada (IF2018 = 4.945) published the highest number of
articles on infodemic research with 134 (TC = 3117),
followed by PlosOne, Public Library of Science, USA (14
articles). The third most productive source of publication
was the International Journal of Environmental Research
and Public Health, published from MDPI Multidisciplinary
Digital Publishing Institute, Switzerland, with 14 articles.
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Table 8 Highly Influential Research Journals
Authorship Pattern of Infodemic
Research
Eysenbach G was the most productive author and wrote an
article entitled "Pandemics in the Twitter Age: Content
Analysis of Tweets During the 2009 H1n1 Outbreak"
published by PLOS One journal (649 citations and CPY =
59) in 2010 and his second-most productive article, "Social
Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in
Medicine and Health Care," published by Journal of
Medical Internet Research with 241 citations and CPY is