Scientometrics of Poverty Research for Sustainability Development: Trend Analysis of the 1964–2022 Data through Scopus
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. General Information
3.1.1. Publication Output
3.1.2. Discipline-Wise Analysis
3.1.3. The Leading Countries and Institutions
3.2. Analyses of Bibliometric Performance
3.2.1. The Publication and Citation Trend
3.2.2. The Effect of the Source
3.2.3. The Most Impactful Authors
3.2.4. The Most Impactful Documents
3.2.5. Bibliometric Coupling of Documents
3.2.6. Trend Topics
3.2.7. Thematic Map
3.2.8. Conceptual Framework and Research Foundations
3.2.9. Analyses of Co-Citation Networks
3.2.10. Author Collaboration Network
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Description | Results | Description | Results |
---|---|---|---|
Main Information | DOCUMENT CONTENTS | ||
Timespan | 1964:2022 | Keywords plus (ID) | 805 |
Sources (journals, books, etc.) | 236 | Author’s keywords (DE) | 667 |
Documents | 319 | AUTHORS | |
Average years from publication | 11.2 | Authors | 611 |
Average citations per document | 17.65 | Author appearances | 679 |
Average citations per year per doc | 1.43 | Authors of single-authored documents | 131 |
References | 1 | Authors of multi-authored documents | 480 |
DOCUMENT TYPES | AUTHORS COLLABORATION | ||
Article | 211 | Single-authored documents | 151 |
Book/book chapter | 63 | Documents per author | 0.522 |
Conference paper | 12 | Authors per document | 1.92 |
Editorial/erratum | 2 | Co-authors per document | 2.13 |
Note/review | 31 | Collaboration index | 2.86 |
Affiliations | Documents |
---|---|
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | 10 |
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE | 8 |
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES | 8 |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | 7 |
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL | 6 |
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | 6 |
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM | 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP | 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF YORK | 5 |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 4 |
Element | h-Index | g-Index | m-Index | TC | NP | PY Start |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH | 5 | 7 | 0.238 | 76 | 7 | 2002 |
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY | 4 | 4 | 0.143 | 147 | 4 | 1995 |
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES | 3 | 4 | 0.143 | 42 | 4 | 2002 |
INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT | 3 | 3 | 0.500 | 34 | 3 | 2017 |
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS | 3 | 4 | 0.214 | 26 | 4 | 2009 |
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | 3 | 3 | 0.130 | 265 | 3 | 2000 |
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES | 3 | 4 | 0.052 | 48 | 4 | 1965 |
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY | 3 | 3 | 0.120 | 112 | 3 | 1998 |
POVERTY: A GLOBAL REVIEW | 3 | 4 | 0.111 | 20 | 5 | 1996 |
ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY | 2 | 2 | 0.087 | 80 | 2 | 2000 |
BETWEEN THE SOCIAL AND THE SPATIAL: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION | 2 | 2 | 0.143 | 7 | 2 | 2009 |
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY | 2 | 2 | 0.100 | 96 | 2 | 2003 |
CHILDREN AND SOCIETY | 2 | 2 | 0.095 | 26 | 2 | 2002 |
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW | 2 | 2 | 0.400 | 8 | 2 | 2018 |
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW | 2 | 2 | 0.333 | 4 | 2 | 2017 |
EMPIRICAL POVERTY RESEARCH IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE | 2 | 5 | 0.500 | 76 | 5 | 2019 |
FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | 2 | 2 | 0.100 | 4 | 2 | 2003 |
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH | 2 | 3 | 0.500 | 11 | 3 | 2019 |
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 16 | 2 | 2019 |
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES | 2 | 2 | 0.080 | 20 | 2 | 1998 |
Paper | DOI | Total Citations (TC) | TC per Year | Normalized TC |
---|---|---|---|---|
O’CONNOR A, 2009, POVERTY KNOWL: SOCIAL SCI, SOCIAL POLICY, AND THE POOR IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY U S HIS | NA | 538 | 38.4286 | 13.778 |
KALICHMAN SC, 2007, PREV SCI | 10.1007/s11121-006-0061-2 | 400 | 25 | 5.3537 |
DERCON S, 2000, J DEV STUD | 10.1080/00220380008422653 | 255 | 11.087 | 1.6612 |
CAMFIELD L, 2008, J HEALTH PSYCHOL | 10.1177/1359105308093860 | 196 | 13.0667 | 4.4 |
LAMONT M, 2008, THE COLORS OF POVER: WHY RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES PERSIST | NA | 170 | 11.3333 | 3.8163 |
MORGEN S, 2003, ANN REV ANTHROPOL | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093431 | 147 | 7.35 | 1.905 |
HALLERD B, 1995, J EUR SOC POLICY | 10.1177/095892879500500203 | 134 | 4.7857 | 2.6275 |
ARIZA-MONTOBBIO P, 2010, ECOL ECON | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.05.011 | 130 | 10 | 4.3333 |
FAFCHAMPS M, 2003, RURAL POVERTY, RISK AND DEV | 10.4337/9781781950685 | 126 | 6.3 | 1.6328 |
BRADY D, 2013, AM SOCIOL REV | 10.1177/0003122413501859 | 99 | 9.9 | 5.7713 |
Cluster | Relevant Citations |
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Cluster 1 (Red) | Townsend P. 1979, Mack J. 1985, Ringen S. 1988, Ringen S. 1987, Nolan B. 1996, Sen A. 1976 |
Cluster 2 (Blue) | Wilson W.J. 1987, O’Connor A. 2001, Murray C. 1984, Edin K. 1997, Liebow E. 1967, Stack C. 1974, Wilson W.J. 1996 |
Cluster 3 (Green) | Sen A. 1999, Lister R. 2004 |
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Chansanam W, Li C. Scientometrics of Poverty Research for Sustainability Development: Trend Analysis of the 1964–2022 Data through Scopus. Sustainability. 2022; 14(9):5339. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095339
Chicago/Turabian StyleChansanam, Wirapong, and Chunqiu Li. 2022. "Scientometrics of Poverty Research for Sustainability Development: Trend Analysis of the 1964–2022 Data through Scopus" Sustainability 14, no. 9: 5339. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095339