Analysis of influencing factors of the potential discipline entering the top 1％in ESI ranking:A case study of the Environment/ecology in Wenzhou Medical University
Objective:To explore the influencing factors of entering the top 1％globally in ESI ranking so as to provide reference for Wenzhou Medical University and other universities to carry out more pertinent discipline construction.Methods:The correction factor was introduced to identify the potential disciplines of Wenzhou Medical University.Environment/ecology taken as an example,after comparing corrected cited frequency with the ESI threshold,6 878 universities retrieved from InCites database were divided as the group of universities either entering or not entering the ESI Top 1％.The differences in the number of documents,citation impact,cooperation structure,JIF quartile structure and institutional profile were compared between the two groups by Mann-Whitney U test.The correlation between the indicators and the corrected cited frequency within the group of universities entering the ESI Top 1％was studied by Spearman Correlation Analysis.The influence of the number of documents and citation impact on the corrected cited frequency was compared by multiple linear regression.Results:Environment/ecology was the discipline with the greatest potential to enter the ESI Top 1％at Wenzhou Medical University as per ESI data updated on September 15th,2023 and InCites data updated on August 25th.Wenzhou Medical University was equivalent to or even better than the universities entering the ESI Top 1％in most of indicators.The number of documents(b=0.930,P＜0.001)was an influencing factor more important for entering the top 1％of ESI compared with citation impact(b=0.069,P＜0.001).There was a significantly positive relationship between corrected cited frequency and'Web of Science papers'(r=0.906,P＜0.001),'citation impact'(r=0.515,P＜0.001),'percentage of international collaborations'(r=0.203,P＜0.00 1),'percentage of industry collaborations'(r=0.275,P＜0.001),'percentage of papers in Q1 journals'(r=0.478,P＜0.001),'Acad staff int/Acad staff'(r=0.389,P＜0.001),'doctoral degree/undergrad degree'(r=0.338,P＜0.00 1),'Res income/Acad staff'(r=0.385,P＜0.001),and a significantly negative relationship with the'percentage of domestic collaborations'(r=-0.148,P＜0.001),'percentage of organization only collaborations'(r=-0.149,P＜0.001),'percentage of papers in Q2-Q4 journals'(r=-0.394,-0.339,-0.315,P＜0.001).Conclusion:There are obvious differences between the group entering the ESI Top 1％and the group not entering.The number of documents has a greater influence on entering the top 1％of ESI than the citation impact.Web of Science papers,citation impact,percentage of international or industry collaborations,percentage of articles published by high-quality journals,percentage of international teachers,percentage of doctoral degree and the ability to attract research fundings have positive effect on entering the ESI Top 1％.
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