How to measure productivity, quality, collaboration and innovation in Health Networks? A bibliometric study of the University of Lisbon

Maria Carolina Manique Bento Florindo da Conceição

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Authors:

Maria Carolina Manique Bento Florindo da Conceição (Maria Carolina Manique Bento Florindo da Conceição)

Supervisors:

Mónica Duarte Correia de Oliveira (Mónica Duarte Correia de Oliveira); Paulo Jorge de Morais Zamith Nicola (Paulo Jorge de Morais Zamith Nicola)

Published in

November 16, 2021

Abstract

Scientific research plays a fundamental role in the development of society. Bibliometrics, the use of analytical and mathematical methods to study publications, has been developed to examine this research. The purpose of this thesis is to characterize the scientific production of the University of Lisbon, between 2014 and 2019, mainly in the health domain. To accomplish this goal, the data of the publications of the institution were retrieved from the Web of Science. These data were then standardized and publications from the health domain were selected. After that, publication and citation counts, co-authorship relationships and keywords co-occurrences networks were obtained. Production in the health domain grew in the periods in study from 4102 in 2014 and 2015 to 5947 in 2018 and 2019. The impact of publications of the health domain, as measured by the average number of citations per document per year, also increased regarding the first time period. Collaboration, as measured through co-authorship, has increased. Finally, innovation, as measured through the number of unique keywords and using the keywords' co-occurrence network, also presented a growing trend. The scientific production of the University of Lisbon seems to be in ascension. More bibliometric studies should be performed to analyse this evolution, as well as to inform policy making.