Choropleth map legend design for visualizing the most influential areas in article citation disparities: A bibliometric study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disparities in health outcomes across countries/areas are a central concern in public health and epidemiology. However, few authors have discussed legends that can be complemental to choropleth maps (CMs) and merely linked differences in outcomes to other factors like density in areas. Thus, whether health outcome rates on CMs showing the geographical distribution can be applied to publication citations in bibliometric analyses requires further study. The legends for visualizing the most influential areas in article citation disparities should have sophisticated designs. This paper illustrates the use of cumulative frequency (CF) map legends along with Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients (GC) to characterize the disparity of article citations in areas on CMs, based on th

SUBMITTER: Chien TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6799475 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature