Measuring the Scientific Productivity, Web Visibility of the Nobel Laureate Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi

Abstract

Introduction: Google Scholar is a search engine that solely searches academic resources. It stands out from regular Google searches because of its scholarly and authoritative focus. Purpose: The study made an effort to determine and evaluate the research outputs of Prof. Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi, (a Nobel laureate in chemistry) from 1970 to 2023. Methodology: The data was retrieved from the Google Scholar database. The study uses various scientometric parameters to find top publications, most cited articles, authorship patterns, and the most prolific sources of Prof. C. R. Bertozzi. The collected data was then processed and analysed in various software programs such as publish or perish, open refine, VOSViewer and microsoft excel. Objectives: The study is to examine and assess the different quantitative aspects of publications and citations of Prof. Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi as indexed in the Google Scholar database. Research Problem: No study was undertaken to display the research visibility of nobel lauterate Prof. C. R. Bertozzi. Findings: The study found that during 1970-2023, Prof. Bertozzi produced 922 documents in which she gets an overall 81,269 citations. The highest number of citations and cites per year received by the article “Bioorthogonal chemistry: fishing for selectivity in a sea of functionality”. Highest citations (6468) were received in the year of 2021. Prof. Bertozzi contributed the most 119 publications in the American Chemical society. J. A. Prescher, E. M. Stallen were the most prolific co-authors of Prof. Bertozzi. The collaboration rate was 0.89, which identifies the majority of her writings were written in collaboration. It was also observed that the most number of publications belongs to the group of two authorships (173, 20.86%).

Keywords: Web Visibility, Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi, Citation Metrics

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