Study of scientific schools of the university by means of bibliometric mapping

• Дудко Виктория Валерьевна

  Victoriia V. Dudko, Vladivostok State University. Vladivostok. Russia

• Evgeny D. Patarakin, Moscow City Pedagogical University Moscow. Russia

  Evgeny D. Patarakin, Moscow City Pedagogical University. Moscow. Russia

bstract. The paper investigates methodology used to analyze academic research areas and to
describe university research output in a more objective manner. The analysis of bibliometrics
presented in the study covers Vladivostok State University (VVSU) publications that were ob-
tained from the Scopus database in January 2023. VOSviewer is used as a bibliometric mapping
tool. The paper concludes that bibliometric data may include inconsistencies in authors' names
and initials and explains how to create thesaurus files in VOSviewer to eliminate possible in-
consistencies. Differences are revealed in research output mapping depending on whether full
or fractional counting was applied in order to evaluate authors' contributions to scientific pub-
lications. The authors con-clude that counting methods employed are of utmost importance
when it comes to data visuali-zation. The bibliometric mapping has helped to identify 8 out of 9
VVSU major research areas, which can be looked upon as a network and temporally which re-
flects the continuity of research. Data on the number of academic articles and references, the
relations between authors or au-thor clusters have helped to achieve greater objectivity of the
research. Four maps have been made available online to show a vast potential bibliometric
mapping can offer for evaluation of aca-demic research areas and to emphasize the importance
of the methodology employed. Links were given for downloading datasets which allow research-
ers to trace and follow the steps of the re-search.
Keywords: scientific school, bibliometrics, VOSviewer, executable publication