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Tools for analyzing and mapping scholarly publications not indexed by the Web of Science: the case of fruit and vegetable publications by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2011

Marie Violaine Tatry ,
Dominique Fournier ,
Benoît Jeannequin  and
Françoise Dosba
Marie Violaine Tatry
Affiliation:
INRA, Unité doc. ERIST, F-34060 Montpellier, France
Dominique Fournier
Affiliation:
INRA, Unité doc. ERIST, F-34060 Montpellier, France
Benoît Jeannequin
Affiliation:
INRA, Domaine Exp. INRA SAD, Le Mas Blanc, F-66200 Alénya, France
Françoise Dosba*
Affiliation:
Montpellier SupAgro, INRA, UMR Agap – Amélioration génétique et adaptation de la plante, F-34060 Montpellier, France
*
∗ Correspondence and reprints
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Abstract

Introduction. The fruit and vegetable sector group of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) carried out a bibliometric analysis of INRA publications on fruits and vegetables produced between 2002 and 2006. While a previous study focused on scientific publications indexed by the Web of Science, this study took into account the remaining INRA publications, i.e., gray literature, technical papers and scientific papers not indexed by the Web of Science. Materials and methods. Different steps were taken to constitute and process a corpus of INRA researchers’ publication data. The citation corpus gathering bibliographic data was mainly constituted using the INRA institutional repository (ProdINRA). To ensure exhaustivity, a survey was carried out to collect INRA researchers’ publications. Due to the different types of publications involved, we had to develop an original method to constitute a complete database which could allow bibliometric analysis. The Sphinx Plus2 Survey program was used to analyze publications and Pajek software was used to visualize networks. Results. A total of 2,224 publications were authored by INRA between 2002 and 2006. We analyzed the typology of fruits and vegetables studied at INRA, the INRA research centers and research divisions involved, the main research topics, and the national and international partners of INRA authors. Graphic visualizations allowed an attractive presentation of relationships between authors within and outside INRA. Conclusion. This study led to the mapping of INRA fruit and vegetable research publications. It confirmed that INRA plays an active role in the field of fruit and vegetable research. French research is carried out in the main INRA research centers located in horticultural and/or fruit regions, particularly in South-Eastern France. Despite the fact that the nature of these publications provides less opportunity for co-publication, this study highlights the relationships between INRA and French partners or foreign countries.

Keywords

Francefruitsvegetablesresearch institutionsscientific productiondata collectioninformation scienceinformation processingbibliometricspartnershipsFrancefruitslégumesinstitutions de recherchepublication scientifiquecollecte de donnéesscience de l’informationtraitement de l’informationbibliométriepartenariatFranciafrutashortalizasinstituciones de investigacióninvestigación oficialpublicaciones científicascolección de datosciencia de informaciónprocesamiento de informacióncoparticipación
Type
Technical paper
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Fruits , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , March 2011 , pp. 131 - 140
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© 2011 Cirad/EDP Sciences

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