Bibliometric analysis of Thai journals indexed in Scopus
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Bibliometric, Thai journals, Scopus, Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), VisualizationAbstract
The purposes of this study were; (1) to provide statistical data of the top 20 Thai scientific journals in terms of historical data from The Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) scores, (2) to analyze the bibliometric data of the journal whose report as best practices identified by the SJR 2021, and (3) To visualize the best practices identified by the SJR 2021 in terms of keyword co-occurrences as well as authorship network at author and country level. The data included citations, number of publications, author's affiliation and cooperation. Quantitative instruments used were timeline analysis and descriptive statistics, e.g. percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Pearson correlation was used to find the relationship between SJR and citations. Further, the VOS viewer was used to illustrate the co-authorship network and keyword co-occurrence.
The results showed that (1) distribution of Thai-owned journals comprised journals in the field of environmental and agricultural sciences and in engineering. Most of these journals were indexed in the Scopus database after 2010, and (2) the bibliographic analysis of best practice journals according to the SJR Ranking 2021, the Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology shows that the two outstanding researches about COVID-19 contributed to the journal ranking in 2021. Additionally, VOS viewer visualization also illustrates the most prominent countries in each cluster were from Thailand. Furthermore, the data exhibited six clusters of word co-occurrence, and the term "Human" appeared prominently in several clusters.
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