Accountability in Research: A Decadal Bibliometric Review

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the publication trends and citation patterns of the “Accountability in Research” journal. 455 documents have been published in this journal during the last decade, i.e., 2015-2024. The data for this study has been extracted from the Scopus database, and a bibliometric approach was applied to identify the type of documents, year-wise publication distribution, citation pattern, most prolific authors, institutions and countries, highly cited publications, thematic patterns, and the most frequently used keywords. The findings from this study revealed that these 455 publications received a total of 4029 citations with an average citation of 8.85 per publication. D.B. Resnik and A. Marušic were the top contributing authors, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences followed by the National Institute of Health were the top contributing institutions. The United States stands at the top of the list in terms of top contributing countries, both in terms of number of publications and the number of citations grabbed. The keyword co-occurrence analysis revealed that the most frequently used keywords were “research integrity”, “research ethics”, and “responsible conduct of research”.