Even though, proceeding paper and article were the most used document types, we also considered all the document types, as shown in Table 5.
Each submission has been peer reviewed and evaluated by three independent reviewers on the quality, originality, soundness, and significance of its contributions and the significant improvement regarding to the IEEE ISB2011 proceeding paper.
Each submission has been peer reviewed and evaluated by three independent reviewers on the quality, originality, soundness, and significance of its contributions and the significant improvement regarding to the IEEE ISB2012 proceeding paper.
Other less significant outputs for all papers were editorial material, review, meeting abstract, news item, book review, letter, correction, software review, book chapter, item about an individual, note, and reprint; for highly cited papers it was the same with lower significant percentages for review and proceeding paper (Table 5).
"Document Types" were limited to "Article" and "Proceeding Paper".
Each submission has been peer reviewed and evaluated by three independent reviewers on the quality, originality, soundness, and significance of its contributions and the significant improvement regarding to the ISB2010 proceeding paper.
Finally, the impact of journal papers, as measured with bibliometric indicators, largely dominates that of proceeding papers.
In the all papers group, proceeding papers (62.73%) and articles (38.61%) are the main contributors, whereas in the highly cited papers, articles (89.28%) is only the highest contributor.
Further analysis we found, there were more research activities reporting on proceeding papers in those years compared to their previous year.
For instance, there were 556 proceeding papers in 2012 and 260 proceeding papers in 2011.
The search produced 530 records consisting of journal articles and conference proceeding papers.
