An analysis of the Publications Metrics 2018-2022 by the Western Health-Deakin University Partnership was recently published showing the continuing impact of the Chair of Nursing and Chair of Midwifery roles on nurse-led and midwife-led research at Western Health, in terms scholarly output, citation count, reach and publication metrics.
The report presents publication output and metrics produced by the partnership between Western Health and Deakin University between 2018 and 2022. Overall, 96 articles, authored by Professors Bodil Rasmussen and/or Linda Sweet, were published over the five years. Total number of publications owned by Deakin University was 11,930 during those five years. In comparison, the number of publications the Western Health group owns rose from 3 (3.1%) in 2018 to 44 (45.8%) in 2022, while there has been stagnancy in the number of publication outputs recorded nationally (19% in 2018, 20.2% in 2022), and internationally (18.6% in 2018, 20.5% in 2022).
Citation count, whether internationally, nationally or at University level, has shown a decreasing trend across the years, but it was found that the citation count for the Western Health group has seen sixteen times growth in the number of citations, from 15 in 2018 (1.8%) to 244 in 2022 (29.3%).
While other entities have shown a decline in the number of citation count per publication, the Western Health group’s citation per publication has increased from 5 to 13.4 between 2018 and 2021.
The field-weighted citation index rose from under 1 in 2018/2019 to 3.63 in 2022, meaning that authors from the Western Health group were cited 3.6 times more often than authors from elsewhere.
These are amazing results! Congratulations, to Professors Bodil Rasmussen and Linda Sweet and their fantastic teams.