Building off my preliminary work to grasp the educational quotation community for noncommunicable ailments and world well being, I began to marvel: how has this tutorial data community modified structurally over time? Were the papers that have been printed earliest within the community those that remained dominant when it comes to citations? What disciplines / areas of scholarship do the dominant papers have a tendency to come back from?
So, I made a decision to run the identical evaluation I did for the final publish for for the cumulative quotation community for every year from 1994 by way of 2016.
A few fascinating observations:
- As was clear in my earlier publish, there appears to be an vital inflection level round 1997. The plot of variety of common citations over time and the variety of articles printed every year reveals that the variety of articles printed every year and the common variety of citations per article strains cross one another round then. Also within the community plots, we see that the community, for the primary time, expands past the preliminary core of about 5 or 6 papers to a brand new area of papers beforehand outdoors of the community. A query: what are these papers? What causes the change within the common variety of citations and causes the speedy improve within the variety of papers printed yearly?
- It seems (although I nonetheless want to check this statistically) that the core group of papers that initially made up the middle of the community, stay centrally positioned and develop a primarily core-periphery construction to this quotation community. Is this true? Are the papers which might be most vital early within the community nonetheless vital afterward within the late 2010’s?
- I ponder what the “framing” of those papers are? Do they have a tendency in direction of the dominant 4×4 framing that the WHO has caught by, even supposing it most likely misses a lot of the NCD expertise of a lot of the very poor individuals around the globe?
There is rather more to be performed, however it’s cool to see these strategies yielding an fascinating story, and maybe clarification to why we see NCDs of the poorest regularly marginalized within the world well being coverage debates.