bims-evares Biomed News
on Evaluation of research
Issue of 2022–02–20
fifty-one papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society
  1. Worldwide Tinnitus Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Published Literature Between 2001 and 2020.
  2. Knowledge Mapping of Immunotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Bibliometric Study.
  3. A bibliometric analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome research in Southeast Asia: Insights and implications.
  4. Influence of Cytokines on Inflammatory Eye Diseases: A Citation Network Study.
  5. A Bibliometric Analysis of Deafness Gene Literature From 2009 to 2018 based on Web of Science.
  6. Emerging Trends and Hot Spots of Electrical Impedance Tomography Applications in Clinical Lung Monitoring.
  7. The evolution of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Global productivity and publication trends.
  8. [Current trends in research on occupational benzene poisoning: a bibliometric and visual analysis].
  9. Global Trends in Scientific Research on Pediatric Obesity.
  10. Trends in Graves' orbitopathy research in the past two decades: a bibliometric analysis.
  11. Global Research on Hereditary Hearing Impairment Over the Last 40 Years: A Bibliometric Study.
  12. Top 100 most-cited articles on intraoral squamous cell carcinoma and its risk factors: a bibliometric study.
  13. Trends in Small Animal Reproduction: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature.
  14. A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Japanese Encephalitis From 1934 to 2020.
  15. Bibliometric network analysis on rapid-onset opioids for breakthrough cancer pain treatment.
  16. Predicting Infectious Diseases: A Bibliometric Review on Africa.
  17. A Comprehensive Overview of the Parathyroid Tumor From the Past Two Decades: Machine Learning-Based Bibliometric Analysis.
  18. Research on Health Disparities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  19. Scientometric analysis and perspective of IgY technology study.
  20. Unequal opportunities in Italian cardiovascular research: focus on gender.
  21. On the Occasion of the Symposium "Scientometry, Citation, Plagiarism and Predatory in Scientific Publishing", Sarajevo, 2021.
  22. The long-term influence of Open Access on the scientific and social impact of dental journal articles: An updated analysis.
  23. Generation Z Within the Workforce and in the Workplace: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  24. Current and Future Perspectives on the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Scientometric Review.
  25. COVID-19 Study on Scientific Articles in Health Communication: A Science Mapping Analysis in Web of Science.
  26. [Visual analysis of research hotspots and frontiers on randomized controlled trials of acupuncture and moxibustion in the past 10 years].
  27. Thematic analysis of multiple sclerosis research by enhanced strategic diagram.
  28. Publication Trends of Research on Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy During 2001-2020: A 20-Year Bibliometric Study.
  29. Visualization and Analysis of Mapping Knowledge Domain of Heterogeneous Traffic Flow.
  30. A Visualized and Scientometric Analysis of Health Literacy Research.
  31. Comprehensive analysis of retracted journal articles in the field of veterinary medicine and animal health.
  32. Stigma towards Mental Disorders among Nursing Students and Professionals: A Bibliometric Analysis.
  33. What are the real environmental impacts of Antarctic tourism? Unveiling their importance through a comprehensive meta-analysis.
  34. The Supportive Role of International Government Funds on the Progress of Sepsis Research During the Past Decade (2010-2019): A Narrative Review.
  35. 'CARE compliance' of case reports published in Dental Traumatology in the past two decades: A bibliometric analysis.
  36. The growth and development of research on personality disorders: A bibliometric study.
  37. Virtual Reality Aided Therapy towards Health 4.0: A Two-Decade Bibliometric Analysis.
  38. Analysis of Eastern Asia's Contributions to Major Orthopaedic Journals in the Past 21 Years.
  39. Association of Financial Conflicts of Interest With Academic Productivity Among Junior Faculty in Hematology and Oncology.
  40. A bibliometric study of the compound theory system of the non-first author: An analysis of Zhou Zhongying's academic thought.
  41. The Role of Advanced Academic Degrees in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Faculty.
  42. [Truth-seeking and innovation for the academic excellence].
  43. Assessing gender disparity among Cell authors.
  44. All types of Research and Publication (including in Diabetes) have shown a healthy rising trend from India in the last decade.
  45. Postfellowship Foot and Ankle Surgeon Research Productivity: A Systematic Review.
  46. Innovative reflection on oral cancer research priorities: the contribution of social network analysis.
  47. Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19.
  48. [Who wants to be a SIGAPS millionaire?]
  49. Gender differences in authorship prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in research submissions to Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2017-2021).
  50. Waste management beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Bibliometric and text mining analyses.
  51. Increasing Pediatricians' Scholarly Productivity on and off the Tenure Track.
  1. Front Neurol. 2022 ;13 828299
    Worldwide Tinnitus Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Published Literature Between 2001 and 2020.
    Fangwei Zhou, Tian Zhang, Ying Jin, Yifei Ma, Zhipeng Xian, Mengting Zeng, Guodong Yu.
       Background: In recent years, tinnitus has attracted increasing research interest. However, bibliometric analysis of global research on tinnitus is rare. The objective of this study was to identify and describe the foci and developing trends of tinnitus research using a bibliometric approach.
    Methods: Publications related to tinnitus published from 2001 to 2020 were searched for in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) databases in the Web of Science Core Collection of Clarivate Analytics. The bibliometric approach was used to estimate the searched data, and VOSviewer and CiteSpace software were used to identify and analyze research foci and trends in the field of tinnitus.
    Results: A total of 5,748 articles were included. The number of publications on tinnitus has increased dramatically in the last 20 years, especially since 2010. The leading country in terms of publications and access to collaborative networks was the United States. High-frequency keywords included tinnitus, hearing loss, prevalence, management, depression, mechanism, vertigo, hearing, inferior colliculus, and noise. The analyses of keyword burst detection indicated that prevalence, anxiety, and neural network are emerging research hotspots.
    Conclusion: In the past 20 years, academic understanding of tinnitus has improved considerably. This study provides an objective, systematic, and comprehensive analysis of tinnitus-related literature. Furthermore, current hot spots and prospective trends in the field of tinnitus were identified. These results will assist otolaryngologists and audiologists in identifying the evolving dynamics of tinnitus research and highlight areas for prospective research.
    Keywords:  CiteSpace; VOSviewer; bibliometric analysis; hotspot; tinnitus; trend
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.828299
  2. Front Immunol. 2022 ;13 815575
    Knowledge Mapping of Immunotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Bibliometric Study.
    Jianming Shen, Hui Shen, Lixin Ke, Jialin Chen, Xi Dang, Baoxian Liu, Yunpeng Hua.
       Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors, and many patients are diagnosed with advanced disease. The treatment of advanced liver cancer has made significant strides in recent years, owing to the practice of immunotherapy drugs. Numerous studies have been published on immunotherapy for HCC; however, no relevant bibliometric study has been published. This study aims to gain a better understanding of the current situation and to identify potential new research directions by conducting a bibliometric analysis on immunotherapy for HCC.
    Methods: We searched the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) for articles related to immunotherapy for HCC. Three software (VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and python) were primarily used to assess the contribution and co-occurrence relationships of various countries/regions, institutes, journals, and, authors as well as to identify research hotspots and promising future trends in this research field.
    Results: A total of 1,641 English articles published between 2011 and 2020 were collected, with the number of articles increasing nearly every year. The majority of publications originated from China (n = 893, 54.42%), followed by the United States and Japan. The Sun Yat-sen University contributed the most publications (n = 97, 5.91%). Nakatsura Tetsuya (n = 26) and Llovet JM (n = 366) were ranked first in the top ten authors and co-cited authors. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy was the most productive academic journal on immunotherapy for HCC [n = 46, 2.80%; impact factor (IF) 2020 = 6.9679]. Aggregation and identification of critical nodes in the co-cited network demonstrated a shift in the field of HCC immunotherapy. Initially, the hotspots were predominantly "glypican-3", "cytokine-induced killer cells", and "ny-eso-1", while the emphasis has shifted in recent years to "landscape", "camrelizumab", "combination therapy", and "immune score".
    Conclusion: Increased attention has been paid to HCC with the advancement of immunotherapy. At the moment, the most active frontiers are focused on better understanding the immunological landscape of liver cancer, screening the population that can benefit from immunotherapy, and the clinical application of immune checkpoint inhibitors, particularly in combination with other therapeutic options (such as local therapy and targeted therapy).
    Keywords:  Bibliometric study; Citespace; HCC; Immunotherapy; VOSviewer
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.815575
  3. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2022 Feb 07. pii: S1871-4021(22)00033-9. [Epub ahead of print]16(2): 102419
    A bibliometric analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome research in Southeast Asia: Insights and implications.
    Ma Karen Celine Ilagan-Vega, Ourlad Alzeus G Tantengco, Elizabeth Paz-Pacheco.
       BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There has been an increased understanding in the pathophysiology and management of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in recent years. This study aimed to evaluate the trends and characteristics of PCOS publications in Southeast Asia (SEA) through a bibliometric analysis.
    METHODS: Systematic review of literature on PCOS in SEA countries between 1975 and 2020 was performed using the Scopus database. All published studies on PCOS conducted in or published by authors from any of the countries in SEA were included in this analysis. Bibliographic information was obtained, and visualization of collaboration networks of countries and keywords was conducted using VOSviewer software.
    RESULTS: A total of 260 articles were included in this analysis. The number of PCOS publications in SEA continued to increase through the years. The country with the highest number of publications was Thailand while Singapore produced the most publications with the greatest impact. The focus of research in SEA was on PCOS prevalence, risk factors, infertility, and metabolic complications. A country's fertility rate, research and development expenditures (%GDP), number of researchers per million people, and international research collaborations significantly correlated with PCOS research impact in SEA.
    CONCLUSION: This is the first bibliometric analysis in PCOS research in SEA. Despite the continuing increase in PCOS publications in SEA, it still lags compared to other regions. Countries in SEA should consider policies and strategies directed at increasing research support and encouraging international collaborations for local researchers to produce more meaningful publications and augment PCOS knowledge in the region.
    Keywords:  ASEAN; Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Metabolic syndrome; Polycystic ovary syndrome
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2022.102419
  4. J Clin Med. 2022 Jan 27. pii: 661. [Epub ahead of print]11(3):
    Influence of Cytokines on Inflammatory Eye Diseases: A Citation Network Study.
    Beatriz G Gálvez, Clara Martinez-Perez, Cesar Villa-Collar, Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena.
       BACKGROUND: The main objective of this study was to use citation networks to analyze the relationship between different publications on the impact of cytokines at an ocular level and their authors. Furthermore, the different research areas will be identified, and the most cited publications determined.
    METHODS: A search was performed in the Web of Science (WoS) database using the following keywords: "cytokine", "inflammatory", and "eye disease" for the period from 1990 to October 2021. The Citation Network Explorer and the CiteSpace software were then used to analyze the different publications.
    RESULTS: 3127 publications with 8955 citations generated on the web were found. The largest number of publications on this topic emerged in 2018 and the authors with the largest number of publications addressing this area of research were Peizeng Yang (1.4%), Aize Kijlstra (1.3%), and Stephen C. Pflugfelder (1.2%).
    CONCLUSIONS: the citation network has provided a comprehensive and objective analysis of the main studies on the influence of cytokines in ocular inflammatory diseases.
    Keywords:  bibliometric; citation network; cytokines; eye; inflammation
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11030661
  5. J Int Adv Otol. 2021 Nov;17(6): 541-550
    A Bibliometric Analysis of Deafness Gene Literature From 2009 to 2018 based on Web of Science.
    Linhui Li, Gefei Shi, Zhigang Yang, Zhihao Shen.
      To find the trend and hot points of deafness gene research in the nearly 10 years, a bibliometric analysis of literature in the fields from Web of Science was performed. Python 3.7, Gephi 0.9.2, and SPSS 22.0 were used for cleaning, restructuring, and analysis. A total of 2828 article documents were collected, which were from 651 Science Citation Index Expanded journals, 93 countries/regions, 18 199 authors, and 3148 organizations. PLoS One published more papers than other journals. Among the journals that published more than 30 papers, 10 journals were included in the genetics and heredity class. The top country/region with highest number of papers was United States. However, the top author and top affiliation was Dai Pu (China) and People's Liberate Army General Hospital (China), respectively. The results of co-occurrence network, hierarchical clustering, and multidimensional scale analysis of keywords showed that 2 groups were classified. The 2 groups focused on the gene mutation of deafness and the research objects, methods, factors, and gene locus, respectively. Multidimensional scale analysis told the research character and some research details. The gene mutation and variant of family and population diseases were the hot points.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5152/iao.2021.21056
  6. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 ;8 813640
    Emerging Trends and Hot Spots of Electrical Impedance Tomography Applications in Clinical Lung Monitoring.
    Zhe Li, Shaojie Qin, Chen Chen, Shuya Mei, Yulong Yao, Zhanqi Zhao, Wen Li, Yuxiao Deng, Yuan Gao.
       Objective: This study explores the emerging trends and hot topics concerning applications on electrical impedance tomography (EIT) in clinical lung monitoring.
    Methods: Publications on EIT applications in clinical lung monitoring in 2001-2021 were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). The search strategy was "electrical impedance tomography" and "lung." CiteSpace, a VOS viewer was used to study the citation characteristics, cooperation, and keyword co-occurrence. Moreover, co-cited reference clustering, structural variation analysis (SVA), and future research trends were presented.
    Results: Six hundred and thirty-six publications were included for the final analysis. The global annual publications on clinical lung monitoring gradually increased in the last two decades. Germany contributes 32.2% of total global publications. University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (84 publications, cited frequency 2,205), Physiological Measurement (105 publications, cited frequency 2,056), and Inéz Frerichs (116 articles, cited frequency 3,609) were the institution, journal, and author with the largest number of article citations in the research field. "Electrical impedance tomography" (occurrences, 304), "mechanical ventilation" (occurrences, 99), and "acute respiratory distress syndrome" (occurrences, 67) were the top most three frequent keywords, "noninvasive monitoring" (Avg, pub, year: 2008.17), and "extracorporeal membrane oxygenation" (Avg, pub, year: 2019.60) were the earliest and latest keywords. The keywords "electrical impedance tomography" (strength 7.88) and co-cited reference "Frerichs I, 2017, THORAX" (strength 47.45) had the highest burst value. "Driving pressure," "respiratory failure," and "titration" are the three keywords still maintaining a high brush value until now. The largest and smallest cluster of the co-cited references are "obstructive lung diseases" (#0, size: 97) and "lung perfusion" (#20, size: 5). Co-cited reference "Frerichs I, 2017, THORAX" (modularity change rate: 98.49) has the highest structural variability. Categories with most and least interdisciplinary crossing are "ENGINEERING" and "CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE."
    Conclusions: EIT is a valuable technology for clinical lung monitoring, gradually converting from imaging techniques to the clinic. Research hot spots may continue monitoring techniques, the ventilation distribution of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and respiratory therapy strategies. More diversified lung function monitoring studies, such as lung perfusion and interdisciplinary crossing, are potentially emerging research trends.
    Keywords:  ARDS; EIT; bibliometric analysis; hotspot; lung
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.813640
  7. Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Feb 06. pii: S0735-6757(22)00092-4. [Epub ahead of print]54 151-164
    The evolution of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Global productivity and publication trends.
    Faruk Danış, Emre Kudu.
       BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: There is still no comprehensive bibliometric study in the literature on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an important topic in emergency medicine, the number of global studies on which is increasing day by day. In this study, it was aimed to analyze the scientific articles on CPR published between 1980 and 2020 by statistical methods and to evaluate the subject holistically.
    METHODS: Articles on CPR published between 1980 and 2020 were downloaded from the Web of Science (WoS) database and analyzed using statistical methods. Network visualization maps were used to identify trending topics. Nonlinear regression analysis (exponential model) was used to estimate the number of articles in the coming years. Correlation studies were conducted using the Spearman correlation coefficient.
    RESULTS: A total of 21,623 publications were found. Of these publications, 14,818 (68.5%) were articles. The top 3 contributing countries to the literature were the United States (5281, 35.6%), Germany (1458, 9.8%), and the United Kingdom (1152, 7.7%). The 3 most active institutions were the University of Washington (417), University of Pittsburgh (361), and University of Arizona (240). The 3 journals with the most publications were Resuscitation (2822), Critical Care Medicine (522), and the American Journal of Emergency Medicine (421).
    CONCLUSION: In this comprehensive study, a summary of 14,818 articles was presented. The trending topics in CPR research in recent years are out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, cardio, simulation, in-hospital cardiac arrest, extracorporeal life support, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, targeted management temperature, and outcome. This article may be a useful resource on CPR global outcomes for clinicians and scientists.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric analysis; CPR; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medicine; Trends
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2022.01.071
  8. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi. 2021 Dec 20. 39(12): 933-937
    [Current trends in research on occupational benzene poisoning: a bibliometric and visual analysis].
    R M Ma, Y H Li, Q Ye.
      Objective: To analyze the research trends of benzene poisoning in recent years, to highlight the relevant research hotspots and prospects through bibliometrics. Methods: In August 2020, used "benzene" methylbenzere as key words, publications were retrieved from the PubMed, the Web of Science Core Collection database, SinoMed and CNKI before August 31, 2020. Describing the publication time, the number of the published research, publication countries, research institutions and journals. VOSviewer 1.6.10 were used to evaluate and co-occurrence analyze the keywords of the researches. Results: There were 510 English literatures about benzene poisoning. 43 countries had published relevant literatures. The United States had the largest number of articles (43.92%, 224/510) in this field, and China ranked second (11.57%, 59/510) . Relevant results had been published in 257 English journals. The most widely published journal was Environmental Health Perspectives (4.90%, 25/510) . There were 536 Chinese literatures. 368 research institutions had published relevant literatures. The first one was Shenzhen Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Hospital (3.36%, 18/536) , followed by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (3.17%, 17/536) . A total of 170 journals had published relevant research results. The most frequently published journal is Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases (12.13%, 65/536) . Key words co-occurrence analysis indicated that the domestic and foreign literatures paid more attention to occupational exposure, blood toxicity, myelosuppression, genetic polymorphism and so on. Conclusion: Domestic and foreign researches on benzene poisoning are mostly in China and the United States. In recent years, the research has gradually focused on the related mechanism of benzene poisoning, such as blood toxicity, carcinogenicity, genotoxicity and immunotoxicity.
    Keywords:  Benzene; Bibliometrics; Occupational exposure; Poisoning; Visual analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn121094-20201216-00695
  9. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 23. pii: 1251. [Epub ahead of print]19(3):
    Global Trends in Scientific Research on Pediatric Obesity.
    Silvia Coronado-Ferrer, Antonia Ferrer-Sapena, Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent, Juan Carlos Valderrama Zurián, Lourdes Castelló Cogollos.
      (1) Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze scientific production, collaboration among countries, and research topics focusing on pediatric obesity. (2) Methods: The papers that were included in the study were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection from Clarivate Analytics. A bibliometric analysis of several focuses, including journals of publication, subject categories, most frequent author keywords, and journal impact factors, was conducted. Social network analysis was used to recognize collaboration groups between countries and the co-occurrences of author keywords. (3) Results: A total of 12,171 research articles were published in 2036 journals classified under a variety of subject areas, with pediatrics (27.7%), nutrition and dietetics (18.5%), and public environmental and occupational health (18.4%) accounting for the most frequent study areas, and Pediatric Obesity (309), the International Journal of Obesity (299), and BMC Public Health being the most productive journals. The main challenges identified for pediatric obesity include general topics such as physical activity, nutrition, diet, and prevention as well as other more specific challenges such as metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, eating behavior, and cardiovascular diseases. (4) Conclusions: We observed a growth rate in the number of published articles of 59.8%, which serves as evidence of the importance of the topic. The number of funded papers also doubled from 2010 to 2019. There has been significant global collaboration on the topic, with countries across five continents being involved. The results of the thematic analysis reveal the importance of exercise and nutrition-related topics along with specialized health terms and terms related to public health.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; co-word analysis; international collaboration; pediatric obesity
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031251
  10. Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2022 Feb 14. pii: S0004-27492022005002210. [Epub ahead of print]
    Trends in Graves' orbitopathy research in the past two decades: a bibliometric analysis.
    Khaled A Elubous, Ali D Alebous, Hebah A Abous, Rawan A Elubous, Lana A Alebous, Taher O Alshammari.
       PURPOSE: This study was conducted to identify trends in Graves' orbitopathy research in the past two decades and to elaborate on hot topics in the field.
    METHODS: The Web of Science database was used to extract articles on Graves' orbitopathy or its synonyms. Full data and references were exported to VOSviewer software to be analyzed. Visualization maps and charts were constructed accordingly.
    RESULTS: We retrieved 1067 articles on Graves' orbitopathy from the Web of Science database. The United States ranked first in terms of the article count (25), followed by Italy (141) and the People's Republic of China (120). Wiersinga's and the University of Amsterdam's articles received the highest citation count (1509 and 3052, respectively). The University of Pisa and Thyroid published the highest number of articles (65 and 93, respectively). Co-authorship analysis showed four clusters of country collaborations: red cluster, European countries; green cluster, the United States, Brazil, Canada, South Korea, and Taiwan; a yellow cluster, People's Republic of China; and blue cluster, Japan, Australia, and Poland. Keyword analysis revealed five clusters of topics: pathogenesis, management, association, quality of life, and surgery. Analysis of co-cited references also revealed five clusters: pathogenesis, management, risk factors, clinical assessment, and surgical management.
    CONCLUSION: Research on Graves' orbitopathy has grown during the past two decades. Hot research topics are pathogenesis, management, risk factors, quality of life, and complications. Research trends have changed in the past two decades. Increasing interest in exploring Graves' orbitopathy mechanisms and associations is evident. European countries are cooperating in this field of research. The United States has established more extensive international cooperation than other countries. We believe that more international collaboration involving developing countries is required.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5935/0004-2749.20220081
  11. J Int Adv Otol. 2021 Nov;17(6): 482-491
    Global Research on Hereditary Hearing Impairment Over the Last 40 Years: A Bibliometric Study.
    Ahmet M Tekin, İlhan Bahşi, Yıldırım A Bayazit, Vedat Topsakal.
       BACKGROUND: Research on hereditary hearing impairment has had several boosts to identify deafness-causing genes. The number of studies regarding the diagnosis and treatment modalities of hereditary hearing impairment is enormous and increasing; however, little or no research has been conducted for evaluating the development of scientific output and trends in the field. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of centers that focus their research on hereditary hearing impairment and their scientific output.
    METHODS: Bibliometric analysis of the publications related to hereditary hearing impairment published between 1980 and 2019 were used in this study, which were also indexed in Web of Science database.
    RESULTS: The highest number of scientific articles on hereditary hearing impairment came from the United States, and it was also the most cited country. The University of Iowa is a leading center in the domain of hereditary hearing impairment in the world over the last 40 years. Fudan University, Central South University, and Harvard Medical School are also institutions that have had a focus on hereditary hearing impairment.
    CONCLUSIONS: There is a progressive increase in scientific papers on hereditary hearing impairment over the last 40 years that we have found in our bibliometric study. We identified key centers in the scientific research on hereditary hearing impairment in the world and also key journals that focus on hereditary hearing impairment. This information can facilitate new researchers in this field to seek collaboration with experienced partners, better synthesize the orientation and boundaries of the subject, and find target journals. Ultimately, we provided a certain benchmark value for key centers that perhaps should have a more prominent role in constructing experimental research or even clinical guidelines.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5152/iao.2021.21276
  12. Braz Oral Res. 2022 ;pii: S1806-83242022000100223. [Epub ahead of print]36 e030
    Top 100 most-cited articles on intraoral squamous cell carcinoma and its risk factors: a bibliometric study.
    Gilberto Melo, Carolina Simão Flausino, Isadora Koepp Darella, Andressa Fernanda Paza Miguel, Paulo Antônio Martins Júnior, Elena Riet Correa Rivero.
      This study aimed to analyze the 100 most-cited articles on intraoral squamous cell carcinoma and its risk factors. A literature search was conducted on November 12, 2020 using the Web of Science database. Bibliometric data were collected after study selection. Bibliometric maps were generated using VOSviewer software. Articles were ranked based on the number of citations, ranging from 108 to 1513 per study. Eleven studies presented at least 400 citations. Articles were published between 1950 and 2017 and were mostly case-control studies (n = 39) and narrative reviews (n = 29). The author and institution in most articles were S. Franceschi (n = 10) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (n = 10), respectively. The most prominent countries were the United States (n = 35), the United Kingdom (n = 16), and France (n = 9). Among the 100 most-cited articles, only one article was from Brazil, and the authors were affiliated with the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Bibliometric maps showed strong associations between the terms alcohol, smoked/smokeless tobacco, and human papillomavirus. Emerging terms, such as areca nut and betel quid, were cited in recent articles. In conclusion, alcohol, tobacco, and human papillomavirus were the most prominent risk factors. Case-control design was the most common study design, and the majority of studies were conducted in the United States by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1590/1807-3107bor-2022.vol36.0030
  13. Animals (Basel). 2022 Jan 29. pii: 336. [Epub ahead of print]12(3):
    Trends in Small Animal Reproduction: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature.
    Penelope Banchi, Ada Rota, Alessia Bertero, Guillaume Domain, Hiba Ali Hassan, Joke Lannoo, Ann Van Soom.
      Small animal reproduction (SAR) is a main research field in veterinary medicine and bibliometric analyses are useful to investigate trends in specific research areas. The objective of the present study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the literature of the last decade on SAR. A search equation was created, and documents were retrieved from the Web of Science database. Documents were manually revised, categorized and R software version 4.1.2 with Bibliometrix R package version 3.1 and MS Excel were used to perform the analyses. The included documents (n = 1470) were mainly research articles (78%). The top countries for the number of documents and citations were Brazil, United States, Italy, Poland, and Korea. These also account for the most prolific authors and institutions. Analyses by author keywords, categories, and recent reviews of the literature suggest that research on the canine species is more abundant than research on the feline one and that reproductive biotechnologies are a main research focus. Some clinical topics are still considered niche or neglected themes (e.g., semen collection in tomcats, neonatology). However, heterogeneity and ambiguity in keywords and categories are undeniable. This study offers interesting insights, providing definitions for main keywords in the field of SAR.
    Keywords:  bibliometric; canine; feline; reproduction; small animal
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12030336
  14. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022 ;12 833701
    A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Japanese Encephalitis From 1934 to 2020.
    Chongxiao Xu, Weijia Zhang, Yuefeng Pan, Guowei Wang, Qikai Yin, Shihong Fu, Fan Li, Ying He, Songtao Xu, Zhenhai Wang, Guodong Liang, Kai Nie, Huanyu Wang.
      Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). The disease is mainly an epidemic in Asia and has been studied for nearly 90 years. To evaluate the research trends of JE, 3,023 English publications between 1934 and 2020 were retrieved and analyzed from the Web of Science database using indicators for publication, country or territory, citation, journal, author and affiliation, keyword co-occurrence cluster, and strongest citation bursts detection. The results of the bibliometric analysis and the visualization tools show that the number of annual publications on JE has been increasing. JE has been continuously studied in the USA and also many Asian countries, such as Japan, China, India, and South Korea; however, only a few publications have high citations. The main research groups of JE in the last 5 years were in China, Japan, and the UK. The keyword co-occurrence analysis and the strongest citation bursts detection revealed that most studies focused on the pathogenic mechanism of JEV, control of outbreaks, and immunization with JE vaccine. The research maps on JE obtained by our analysis are expected to help researchers effectively explore the disease.
    Keywords:  Japanese encephalitis; Japanese encephalitis virus; bibliometric; research trends; visualization
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.833701
  15. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Feb 10. pii: S0885-3924(22)00063-X. [Epub ahead of print]
    Bibliometric network analysis on rapid-onset opioids for breakthrough cancer pain treatment.
    Marco Cascella, Federica Monaco, Davide Nocerino, Elisabetta Chinè, Roberta Carpenedo, Paola Picerno, Laura Migliaccio, Angela Armignacco, Giulia Franceschini, Sergio Coluccia, Piergiacomo Di Gennaro, Maura C Tracey, Cira A Forte, Mariangela Tafuri, Anna Crispo, Francesco Cutugno, Alessandro Vittori, Silvia Natoli, Arturo Cuomo.
       BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Proper breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) management is of pivotal importance. Although rapid-acting, oral and nasal transmucosal, fentanyl formulations (rapid-onset opioids, ROOs) are licensed for BTcP treatment, not all guidelines recommend their use. Presumably, some research gaps need to be bridged to produce solid evidence. We present a bibliometric network analysis on ROOs for BTcP treatment.
    METHODS: Documents were retrieved from the Web of Science (WOS) online database. The string was "rapid onset opioids" or "transmucosal fentanyl" and "breakthrough cancer pain". Year of publication, journal metrics (impact factor and quartile), title, document type, topic, and clinical setting (in-patients, outpatients, and palliative care) were extracted. The software tool VOSviewer (version 1.6.17) was used to analyze the semantic network analyzes, bibliographic coupling, journals analysis, and research networks.
    RESULTS: 502 articles were found in WOS. A declining trend in published articles from 2014 to 2021 was observed. Approximately 50% of documents regard top quartile (Q1) journals. Most articles focused on ROOs efficacy, but abuse and misuse issues are poorly addressed. With respect to article type, we calculated 132 clinical investigations. The semantic network analysis found interconnections between the terms "breakthrough cancer pain", "opioids", and "cancers". The top co-cited article was published in 2000 and addressed pain assessment. The largest number of partnerships regarded the United States, Italy, and England.
    CONCLUSION: In this research area, most articles are published in top-ranked journals. Nevertheless, paramount topics should be better addressed, and the implementation of research networks is needed.
    Keywords:  Bibliometric Analysis; Breakthrough cancer pain; Rapid-onset opioids; Transmucosal fentanyl
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.01.023
  16. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 02 08. pii: 1893. [Epub ahead of print]19(3):
    Predicting Infectious Diseases: A Bibliometric Review on Africa.
    Paulina Phoobane, Muthoni Masinde, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi.
      Africa has a long history of novel and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks. This reality has attracted the attention of researchers interested in the general research theme of predicting infectious diseases. However, a knowledge mapping analysis of literature to reveal the research trends, gaps, and hotspots in predicting Africa's infectious diseases using bibliometric tools has not been conducted. A bibliometric analysis of 247 published papers on predicting infectious diseases in Africa, published in the Web of Science core collection databases, is presented in this study. The results indicate that the severe outbreaks of infectious diseases in Africa have increased scientific publications during the past decade. The results also reveal that African researchers are highly underrepresented in these publications and that the United States of America (USA) is the most productive and collaborative country. The relevant hotspots in this research field include malaria, models, classification, associations, COVID-19, and cost-effectiveness. Furthermore, weather-based prediction using meteorological factors is an emerging theme, and very few studies have used the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies. Therefore, there is a need to explore 4IR predicting tools such as machine learning and consider integrated approaches that are pivotal to developing robust prediction systems for infectious diseases, especially in Africa. This review paper provides a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, and research funding agencies interested in the research theme-the prediction of infectious diseases in Africa-by capturing the current research hotspots and trends.
    Keywords:  Africa; bibliometric review; infectious diseases; prediction; research hotspots
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031893
  17. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 ;12 811555
    A Comprehensive Overview of the Parathyroid Tumor From the Past Two Decades: Machine Learning-Based Bibliometric Analysis.
    Zeyu Zhang, Fada Xia, Xinying Li.
       Introduction: Parathyroid tumor, in particular carcinoma, is fairly rare among neoplasms of the endocrine system, unlike its benign counterpart. However, there is no bibliometric analysis in the field of parathyroid tumors comprehensively summarizing and discussing a large number of publications by a machine learning-based method.
    Materials and Methods: Parathyroid tumor-related publications in PubMed from January 2001 to December 2020 were searched using the MeSH term "parathyroid neoplasms". Latent Dirichlet allocation was adopted to identify the research topics from the abstract of each publication using Python.
    Results: A total of 3,301 parathyroid tumor-associated publications were identified from the past 20 years, and included in further analyses. Research articles and case reports occupied the most proportion of publications, while the number of clinical studies and clinical trials decreased, especially in recent years. Technetium Tc 99m sestamibi was most studied among the diagnosis-related MeSH terms, while parathyroidectomy was among the treatment-related MeSH terms. The Latent Dirichlet allocation analyses showed that the top topics were 99mTc-MIBI imaging, parathyroidectomy, gene expression in the cluster of diagnosis research, treatment research, and basic research. Notably, scarce connections were shown between the basic research cluster and the other two clusters, indicating the requirements of translational study turning basic biological knowledge into clinical practice.
    Conclusion: The annual scientific publications on parathyroid tumors have scarcely changed during the last two decades. 99mTc-MIBI imaging, parathyroidectomy, and gene expression are the most concerned topics in parathyroid tumor research.
    Keywords:  bibliometrics; machine learning; natural language processing; parathyroid tumor; parathyroidectomy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.811555
  18. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 01 22. pii: 1220. [Epub ahead of print]19(3):
    Research on Health Disparities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Keng Yang, Hanying Qi.
      With the outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the issue of increasing health disparities has received a great deal of attention from scholars and organizations. This study analyzes 2282 papers on COVID-19-related health disparities that have been retrieved from the WOS database, with 58,413 references. Using bibliometric analysis and knowledge mapping visualizations, the paper focuses on the academic structure and research trends by examining the research distribution of countries, journals and authors, keywords, highly cited articles, and reference co-citation. The results show that the United States has contributed the most, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has published the largest number of papers on this topic. As for the core authors, Michael Marmot is the most productive. Issues such as racial health, mental health, and digital health disparities have been the trending topics of the COVID-19-related health disparities. The research directions include the features, factors, and interventions of health disparities under the influence of COVID-19. As such, this study provides literature support and suggestions to investigate COVID-19-related health disparities. The findings of the paper also remind public health regulators to consider factors of health disparities when developing long-term public health regulatory policies related to the pandemic.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; bibliometric analysis; health disparities; health inequalities; public health emergency; public health regulatory policy
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031220
  19. Poult Sci. 2022 Jan 10. pii: S0032-5791(22)00018-9. [Epub ahead of print]101(4): 101713
    Scientometric analysis and perspective of IgY technology study.
    Rao Wu, Saeed Yakhkeshi, Xiaoying Zhang.
      Egg yolk immunoglobulin (IgY) is a class of antibody that is produced in birds against pathogens. Therefore, hyperimmunization of birds can produce a specific antibody in the egg against target antigen for a wide range of applications in diagnostic, prophylactic or treatment in human and veterinary medicine which is known today as IgY technology. Until now, the number of articles, patents and clinical studies on IgY technology has increased significantly. Hence, there is a fact that scientometric studies are needed to gain a deeper understanding of the research for the commercialization of IgY technology. Until now, no scientometric research has been directed toward IgY technology. In view of this, we conducted scientometric analysis in the WoS database. A total of 1,029 IgY-related papers were obtained including 981 journal articles and 48 reviews. The visualization of this literature showed an increasing trend in the number of IgY-related publications over the 4 decades, especially after 2008 to 2021. China, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Germany had the largest number of publications, with 220, 148, 91, 76, and 72, respectively. Among all the research institutions, Dalian University of Technology, Alberta University and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University published the most of the articles, respectively. Among authors, Dr. Xiaoying Zhang had the highest number of publications with 21. The top most cited publications were from Dr. da Silva with 38 citations. Keywords co-occurrence network analysis showed that the correlation between different keywords is large, especially IgY, antibodies and immunoglobulin which is consistent with the rapid increase in the number of publications. Finally, through this data analysis, we hope that our result could help IgY technology to more maturity toward industrialization and commercialization.
    Keywords:  IgY technology; egg yolk immunoglobulin (IgY); poultry; scientometric analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2022.101713
  20. Panminerva Med. 2022 Feb 18.
    Unequal opportunities in Italian cardiovascular research: focus on gender.
    Gianluca Massaro, Andrea Matteucci, Michela Bonanni, Alberto Testa, Giacomo Frati, Elena Cavarretta, Mariangela Peruzzi, Giuseppe Sangiorgi, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai.
       BACKGROUND: Despite unanimous calls for more equitable access and support to female researchers, there are persistent barriers to women's career progression and professional fulfillment. These discriminative hurdles undermine female gender in science and have detrimental effects on research activities and female professionals and patients. There is no data on women's outlook in cardiovascular research in Italy, which limits appropriate remedial actions. We aimed at providing an updated perspective on top Italian cardiovascular researchers, focusing on women vs. men comparisons.
    METHODS: Top Italian cardiovascular researchers were retrieved from a dedicated and validated Scopus query. Researchers' sex was assigned according to the given name with a consensus process. Several metrics were compared, including global rank, total cites, total cites adjusted by academic age, h index, and selfcitation percentage. Bivariate and propensity score-adjusted analyses were used for inferential purposes.
    RESULTS: Our analysis shows the existence of a gender gap: the number of scientific articles published by Italian male researchers in their careers is significantly higher than their female counterparts (p=0.002). For men, the year of first publication is earlier (p=0.001); they also published more articles as a single author, or single+first author or single+first+last author. Men's papers cited at least once were more than those of women (p=<0.001), and the total number of citations was significantly higher for men (p=0.002). These results remain significant both in the analysis excluding self-citations as well as in the analysis including self-citations. The single-year analysis (2019) confirms the significance of the career analysis, adding that men have a higher rank based on composite score (p=0.041, or p=0.005 if including self-citation). Finally, men have a higher percentage of self-citation in 2019 than women (p=0.008).
    CONCLUSIONS: The gender disparity is still a limiting factor in Italian cardiovascular research. Despite career advancement, women continue to be underrepresented. Men retain more leadership positions in academia and maintain the edge for scientific work productions. More efforts are needed to ensure equity between men and women.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.23736/S0031-0808.22.04684-5
  21. Med Arch. 2021 Dec;75(6): 408-412
    On the Occasion of the Symposium "Scientometry, Citation, Plagiarism and Predatory in Scientific Publishing", Sarajevo, 2021.
    Izet Masic.
      12th Days of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AMNuBiH) this year were organized together with the International Academy of Sciences and Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo on December 4, 2021. The title of the symposium was "Scientometry, Citation, Plagiarism and Predatory in Scientific Publishing". Experiences in the scientific area covered by title of this conference were presented by some of the most influential scientists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are included between 2% of authors in the Stanford scientometric list, which was published in October 2021 in the journal Biology Plos. Some of the authors are former or current Editors-in-Chiefs of indexed biomedical journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia (Izet Masic, Asim Kurjak, Doncho Donev, Osman Sinanovic). Also, Sylwia Ufnalska and Izet Masic are or were members of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and they have great experiences about the topic of this conference. Science that analyzes scientific papers and their citation in the scientific journals - called scientometrics - day by day has become important for measuring scientific validity and quality of all kinds of publications deposited in the most important on-line scientific databases, like WoS, Scopus, Medline, PubMed Central, Embase, Hinari, etc., but also in academic platforms ResearchGate and Academia.edu. Scientometrics use the Impact and Echo factor for measuring the quality of publications in WoS journals, Scopus uses the h-Index, and the most common one used in the last 10 years is Google Scholar index. All of them have advantages and disadvantages, and also positive and negative influences in the academic praxis. One of the greatest, and sadly too common, problems which participants in the academic process encountered are plagiarism and predatory publishing. In order to prevent this severest form of academic fraud, authors must give credit to someone whose work has helped him/her by citing references correctly. This presentations of the symposium "SWEP 2021") analyzed the major components of scientometrics, the basic mechanisms of citations in medical publications and plagiarism, as an opposition to the primary goal of scientific enterprise: search for truth.
    Keywords:  Citation; Plagiarism; Predatory; Scientometrics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2021.75.408-412
  22. J Dent. 2022 Feb 12. pii: S0300-5712(22)00124-5. [Epub ahead of print] 104067
    The long-term influence of Open Access on the scientific and social impact of dental journal articles: An updated analysis.
    Xueqian Yu, Ziyan Meng, Danchen Qin, Cenyu Shen, Fang Hua.
       OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether dental journal articles that are open access (OA) receive greater citation counts and higher Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) than articles that are non-OA in the long term.
    METHODS: Eligible dental journal articles published in 2013 were identified via PubMed, and Web of science, Unpaywall and corresponding URLs were manually checked to determine the OA status of each included article 7 years after publication. Citation counts were extracted from Web of Science and Scopus, and AAS was harvested from the Altmetric Explorer. Multivariable general linear regression analyses were performed to investigate the association between OA and citation count, as well as between OA and AAS.
    RESULTS: Among the 755 included articles, 309 (40.9%) were freely available online. Among the 309 OA articles, articles available from publishers accounted for 64.4% (199/309) of all OA articles, and those available through self-archiving accounted for 56.0% (173/309). According to regression analyses, OA articles had significantly greater citation counts (P = 0.001) and AAS (P < 0.001) than non-OA articles.
    CONCLUSIONS/CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: In the field of dentistry, about 41% of journal articles are OA 7 years after publication, and OA articles available from the publishers are more common than those from authors through self-archiving. OA articles tend to have greater scientific and social impact than non-OA articles in the long term.
    Keywords:  altmetrics; bibliometrics; dentistry; evidence-based dentistry; open access; research waste
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdent.2022.104067
  23. Front Psychol. 2021 ;12 736820
    Generation Z Within the Workforce and in the Workplace: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    María Dolores Benítez-Márquez, Eva María Sánchez-Teba, Guillermo Bermúdez-González, Emma Sofía Núñez-Rydman.
      This article aims to improve the knowledge on Generation Z as employees within workforce and in the workplace, as well as on the main thematic trends that drive the research on the topic. To this end, and using bibliometric techniques, a sample of 102 publications on this subject from Web of Science between 2009 and 2020 is analyzed. Research discusses the most published and most cited authors and journals to have a broad view of the context of the subject. Later, through a longitudinal view, the study mainly focuses on analyzing the evolution of thematic clusters, to assess the progress of the themes, as well as the network around the principal motor cluster of each period. The obtained results suggest a hardly developed topic, which started to draw attention in 2018, while still having a wide margin for growth. The core of research on the topic has evolved around "Generation-Z" "generations," "workplace," "management" and "attitudes," "leadership," "career," or "learning-teaching-education," although a low keyword stability among periods was noted. There is a need for further development on a variety of aspects regarding this generation and the labor market, as the study shows a clear orientation toward management and generational diversity within the workplace.
    Keywords:  Generation Z; SciMAT; bibliometric review; thematic cluster; workforce; workplace
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.736820
  24. J Clin Med. 2022 Jan 29. pii: 750. [Epub ahead of print]11(3):
    Current and Future Perspectives on the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Scientometric Review.
    Alireza Noruzi, Behzad Gholampour, Sajad Gholampour, Somayeh Jafari, Razieh Farshid, Agata Stanek, Ali Akbar Saboury.
      This study attempted to draw the present and future perspective of the COVID-19 vaccine by identifying the most important scientists and their scientific contexts, trends of research topics, and relationships between different entities.
    METHODS: To achieve this purpose, bibliometric and scientometric techniques were used to analyze 6288 scientific documents contributing to COVID-19 vaccines from the beginning of 2019 to 13 December 2021, indexed in the Web of Science.
    RESULTS: The United States (US) had the greatest impact by publishing 2104 documents and receiving 32,958 citations. The US and the UK countries had the highest level of scientific collaborations with 192 collaborative studies. The University of Oxford and the Harvard Medical School were the most active institutions, and the University of Oxford and Emory University were the most influential institutions. Pollard AJ and Lambe T had the most publications and the highest citations and h-index. T Lambe, SC Gilbert, M Voysey, and AJ Pollard from the University of Oxford had the highest number of co-authorships. More than 19% of the research was conducted in the field of immunology. The Vaccines journal had the most publications, with 425 articles. The US Department of Health & Human Services granted the most research. In 2019, studies were focused on the topics of COVID-19 virus identification and ways to deal with it; in 2020, studies focused on the topics of COVID-19 and vaccines, whereas in 2021, they focused on the topics of COVID-19 vaccines and their effects, vaccines hesitancy, the role of healthcare workers in COVID-19, as well as discussions about these vaccines in the social media.
    CONCLUSIONS: Recognition of the most important actors (countries, institutes, researchers, and channels for the release of COVID-19 vaccine studies), research trends, and fields of study on the COVID-19 vaccine can be useful for researchers, countries, and policy makers in the field of science and health to make decisions and better understand these vaccines.
    Keywords:  COVID-19 vaccination; COVID-19 vaccine; bibliometric analysis; research topics; research trends; scientific collaboration
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11030750
  25. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 02 02. pii: 1705. [Epub ahead of print]19(3):
    COVID-19 Study on Scientific Articles in Health Communication: A Science Mapping Analysis in Web of Science.
    Carlos de Las Heras-Pedrosa, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, Dolores Rando-Cueto, Patricia P Iglesias-Sánchez.
      The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause a collapse in the health systems and econo-mies of many countries around the world, after 2 years of struggle and with the number of cases still growing exponentially. Health communication has become as essential and necessary for control of the pandemic as epidemiology. This bibliometric analysis identifies existing contributions, jointly studying health communication and the pandemic in scientific journals indexed. A systematic search of the Web of Science was performed, using keywords related to COVID-19 and health communication. Data extracted included the type of study, journal, number of citations, number of authors, country of publication, and study content. As the number of scientific investigations has grown, it is necessary to delve into the areas in which the most impactful publications have been generated. The results show that the scientific community has been quick to react by generating an extraordinary volume of publications. This review provides a comprehensive mapping of contributions to date, showing how research approaches have evolved in parallel with the pandemic. In 2020, concepts related to mental health, mass communication, misinformation and communication risk were more used. In 2021, vaccination, infodemic, risk perception, social distancing and telemedicine were the most prevalent keywords. By highlighting the main topics, authors, manuscripts and journals since the origin of COVID-19, the authors hope to disseminate information that can help researchers to identify subsisting knowledge gaps and a number of future research opportunities.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; bibliometric analysis; coronavirus; health communication
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031705
  26. Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2022 Feb 12. 42(2): 221-6
    [Visual analysis of research hotspots and frontiers on randomized controlled trials of acupuncture and moxibustion in the past 10 years].
    Cai-Jiao Liu, Zhi-Han Chen, Si-Jing Li, Huan Ren, Xiao-Yu Hu, Yu-Lan Ren.
      Retrieved the literature on randomized controlled trials (RCT) of acupuncture and moxibustion from 2011 to 2020 in the Web of Science (WOS) database, and explored research hotspots and frontiers in the field of acupuncture and moxibustion by visually analyze to countries, institutions, authors, keywords, cited literature, etc. using CiteSpace V5.6.R2. A total of 1147 articles were included. China has the largest number of publications, and the top 3 publications are Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University and Kyung Hee University. The hot research interventions in acupuncture and moxibustion include acupuncture, electroacupuncture, and bee acupuncture. The hot research topics include nerve regeneration, spasms, nausea, pain, obesity, cancer, etc. The research frontiers include acupuncture analgesia, diversification of acupuncture and its clinical effects, brain effects of acupuncture and acupuncture clinical mechanisms. It is believed that the cooperation between countries and institutions should be strengthened in the future, and deeper research should be carried out on the research content that is both hot spot and frontier.
    Keywords:  acupuncture and moxibustion; research frontiers; research hotspots; visual analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.13703/j.0255-2930.20201221-k0001
  27. Mult Scler. 2022 Feb 15. 13524585221075542
    Thematic analysis of multiple sclerosis research by enhanced strategic diagram.
    Nazlahshaniza Shafin, Che Aishah Nazariah Ismail, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, Nurhafizah Ghani, Asma Hayati Ahmad, Zahiruddin Othman, Adi Wijaya, Rahimah Zakaria.
      Recent interest in multiple sclerosis research warrants literature analysis to evaluate the current state of the discipline and new research domains. This bibliometric review summarised the research trends and analysed research areas in multiple sclerosis over the last decade. The documents containing the term 'multiple sclerosis' in the article title were retrieved from the Scopus database. We used Harzing's Publish or Perish and VOSviewer for citation analysis and data visualisation, respectively. We found a total of 18,003 articles published in journals in the English language between 2012 and 2021. The emerging keywords identified utilising the enhanced strategic diagram were 'covid-19', 'teriflunomide', 'clinical trial', 'microglia', 'b cells', 'myelin', 'brain', 'white matter', 'functional connectivity', 'pain', 'employment', 'health-related quality of life', 'meta-analysis' and 'comorbidity'. This study demonstrates the tremendous growth of multiple sclerosis literature worldwide, which is expected to grow more than double during the next decade especially in the identified emerging topics.
    Keywords:  Harzing’s Publish or Perish; Multiple sclerosis; VOSviewer; co-occurrence analysis; enhanced strategic diagram; thematic analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585221075542
  28. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 ;8 785126
    Publication Trends of Research on Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy During 2001-2020: A 20-Year Bibliometric Study.
    Yimin Wang, Minyue Xie, Min Zhang, Xiaohuan Zhao, Xinyue Zhu, Yuwei Wang, Yuhong Chen, Jieqiong Chen, Xiaodong Sun.
       Introduction: Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a special subtype of AMD, which is one of the leading threats to vision health worldwide. At this time, many aspects of PCV, from how it works to potential treatments, remain a mystery. In this study, we explored the frontier researches and revealed the study trends within the study of PCV.
    Methods: We collected all the publications in this field from 2001 to 2020, analyzed trends within them, and defined the contributions of various countries/regions, institutions, authors, and journals. Additionally, VOSviewer software was used to define the hot keywords in this field.
    Results: A total of 1,190 publications were ultimately examined; We found that PCV is becoming an increasingly relevant topic of research, and that Japan has contributed the most publications (428), the most citations (14,504 in total), and the highest H-index value (62) to the field. Our keywords analysis was classified into four clusters to show the hotspots within the study of PCV, namely mechanism-related, imaging-related, prognosis-related, and therapy-related topics. The average years in which the keywords appeared the most were also calculated, and we identified anti-VEGF therapy, anti-complement therapy and angiography as having been the main focus in recent years.
    Conclusions: These results helped clarify the comprehensive research progress that has been made as well as the future trends in the study of PCV, which can assist and guide future research.
    Keywords:  age-related macular degeneration (AMD); anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor); bibliometric; pigment epithelial detachment; polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV)
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.785126
  29. Comput Intell Neurosci. 2022 ;2022 7754961
    Visualization and Analysis of Mapping Knowledge Domain of Heterogeneous Traffic Flow.
    Yi He, Qi Feng, Lixin Yan, Xiao-Yun Lu.
      Mapping knowledge domain (MKD) is an important application in bibliometrics, which is a method of visually presenting and explaining newly developed interdisciplinary scientific fields using data mining, information analysis, scientific measurement, and graphic rendering. This study combines applied mathematics, visual analysis technology, information science, and scientometrics to systematically analyze the development status, research distribution, and future trend of the heterogeneous traffic flow by using the MKD software tools VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Based on the MKD and Bibliometrics approaches, 4709 articles have been studied, which were published by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) from 2004 to 2021 in the field of heterogeneous traffic flows. Firstly, this paper presents the annual numbers of articles, origin countries, main research organizations, and groups as well as the source journals on heterogeneous traffic flow studies. Then, cocitation analysis is used to divide heterogeneous traffic flow into three main research directions, which include "heterogeneous traffic flow model," "traffic flow capacity analysis," and "traffic flow stability analysis." The keyword cooccurrence analysis is applied to identify five dominant clusters: "modeling and optimization methods," "traffic flow characteristics analysis," "driving behavior analysis," "simulation experiment," and "policies and barriers." Finally, burst keywords were studied according to the publication date to present more clearly the change of research focus and direction over time.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7754961
  30. Front Public Health. 2021 ;9 811707
    A Visualized and Scientometric Analysis of Health Literacy Research.
    Jian Wang, Fakhar Shahzad.
       Purpose: The health literacy concerned by numerous policy and advocacy organizations is springing up rapidly and has evolved substantially over the past few decades. During the period of COVID-19, people who are in the absence of effective treatment and limited availability of vaccination need a higher health literacy to protective themselves. In order to provide a summary of the health literacy research, a visualized and Scientometric analysis is applied in this study.
    Methods: Based on a scientific review of 3,670 data on health literacy from Web of Science, this research uses Citespace software to systematically and objectively describe health literacy to determine the knowledge evolution structure between articles and investigate research trends.
    Results: The results show that the annual outputs of publications have grown rapidly since 2003. The USA and Australia make larger contributions compared with other countries in terms of quantity of publications and worldwide collaboration relationship between them. The "Soc Sci Med," "J Health Commun." "Patient Educ Couns" and "J Gen Intern Med" pay more attention to health literacy research. The leading authors with influence and authority are Wolf MS, Osborne RH, and Paasche-Orlow MK. Health literacy research in this field focuses on care, knowledge, and education, and so on. An emerging trend of health literacy with Covid-19, online tools, nursing, and obesity will spread across the globe.
    Conclusion: Compared with simply reviewing existing articles, the major contribution in this study is a comprehensive review of yearly scientific output, journals, countries, institutions, contributors, highly cited papers, and keywords for health literacy research. The review also provides valuable and seminal guidelines for interested researchers on health literacy research.
    Keywords:  Citespace; Scientometric analysis; health literacy; healthcare; visualized analysis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.811707
  31. BMC Vet Res. 2022 Feb 18. 18(1): 73
    Comprehensive analysis of retracted journal articles in the field of veterinary medicine and animal health.
    Mary M Christopher.
       BACKGROUND: Retractions are a key proxy for recognizing errors in research and publication and for reconciling misconduct in the scientific literature. The underlying factors associated with retractions can provide insight and guide policy for journal editors and authors within a discipline. The goal of this study was to systematically review and analyze retracted articles in veterinary medicine and animal health. A database search for retractions of articles with a veterinary/animal health topic, in a veterinary journal, or by veterinary institution-affiliated authors was conducted from first available records through February 2019 in MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Retraction Watch, and Google Scholar. Annual frequency of retractions, journal and article characteristics, author affiliation and country, reasons for retraction, and retraction outcomes were recorded.
    RESULTS: Two-hundred-forty-two articles retracted between 1993 and 2019 were included in the study. Over this period, the estimated rate of retraction increased from 0.03/1000 to 1.07/1000 veterinary articles. Median time from publication to retraction was 478 days (range 0-3653 days). Retracted articles were published in 30 (12.3%) veterinary journals and 132 (81.5%) nonveterinary journals. Veterinary journals had disproportionately more retractions than nonveterinary journals (P = .0155). Authors/groups with ≥2 retractions accounted for 37.2% of retractions. Authors from Iran and China published 19.4 and 18.2% of retracted articles respectively. Authors were affiliated with a faculty of veterinary medicine in 59.1% of retracted articles. Of 242 retractions, 204 (84.3%) were research articles, of which 6.4% were veterinary clinical research. Publication misconduct (plagiarism, duplicate publication, compromised peer review) accounted for 75.6% of retractions, compared with errors (20.6%) and research misconduct (18.2%). Journals published by societies/institutions were less likely than those from commercial publishers to indicate a reason for retraction. Thirty-one percent of HTML articles and 14% of PDFs were available online but not marked as retracted.
    CONCLUSIONS: The rate of retraction in the field of veterinary and animal health has increased by ~ 10-fold per 1000 articles since 1993, resulting primarily from increased publication misconduct, often by repeat offenders. Veterinary journals and society/institutional journals could benefit from improvement in the quality of retraction notices.
    Keywords:  Editorial policies; Publication ethics; Publication misconduct; Research misconduct; Veterinary journals
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-022-03167-x
  32. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 06. pii: 1839. [Epub ahead of print]19(3):
    Stigma towards Mental Disorders among Nursing Students and Professionals: A Bibliometric Analysis.
    Concepción Martínez-Martínez, Francisca Esteve-Claramunt, Blanca Prieto-Callejero, Juan Diego Ramos-Pichardo.
      Stigma is one of the main barriers to prevention, treatment and recovery from mental illness. However, bibliometric studies in this area are still scarce. Therefore, our aim was to quantify and analyze the scientific literature on the stigma of nursing students and professionals towards mental disorders. To this purpose, bibliometric indicators of scientific production, impact and collaboration were used. Among our results, it stands out that only 14.3% of the total number of studies analyzed measure the efficacy of the interventions carried out to reduce stigma. Furthermore, with exceptions such as Happell B and Byrne L, collaborations between authors and institutions are limited. "Service user involvement" appeared as a prominent keyword in 2018, coinciding with the increase in publications on the effectiveness of interventions. Interventions based on the involvement of people with psychiatric diagnoses in the design of nursing curricula seem to become a promising line of research. More studies measuring the efficacy of such interventions are needed. Knowledge of the lines of research that are being developed and of the researchers and institutions involved can contribute to creating synergy between the different researchers and to continue adding projects to the existing ones, thus contributing to the generation of more robust results that show the most indicated interventions to reduce the still present stigma and improve care for people with psychiatric diagnoses.
    Keywords:  bibliometric analysis; lived-experience; mental disorders; nursing; stigma
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031839
  33. J Environ Manage. 2022 Feb 09. pii: S0301-4797(22)00207-9. [Epub ahead of print]308 114634
    What are the real environmental impacts of Antarctic tourism? Unveiling their importance through a comprehensive meta-analysis.
    P Tejedo, J Benayas, D Cajiao, Y-F Leung, D De Filippo, D Liggett.
      Human activities in Antarctica were increasing before the COVID-19 pandemic, and tourism was not an exception. The growth and diversification of Antarctic tourism over the last few decades have been extensively studied. However, environmental impacts associated with this activity have received less attention despite an increasing body of scholarship examining environmental issues related to Antarctic tourism. Aside from raising important research questions, the potential negative effects of tourist visits in Antarctica are also an issue discussed by Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties. This study presents the results of a meta-analysis of scholarly publications that synthesizes and updates our current knowledge of environmental impacts resulting from Antarctic tourism. A first publication database containing 233 records that focussed on this topic was compiled and subjected to a general bibliometric and content analysis. Further, an in-depth content analysis was performed on a subset of 75 records, which were focussed on showing specific research on Antarctic tourism impacts. The main topic, methods, management proposals, and research gaps highlighted by the respective authors of these 75 publications were assessed. The range of research topics addressed, the methods used - including the application of established research designs from the field of environmental impact assessment -, and the conclusions reached by the study authors are discussed. Interestingly, almost one third of the studies did not detect a direct relationship between tourism and significant negative effects on the environment. Cumulative impacts of tourism have received little attention, and long-term and comprehensive monitoring programs have been discussed only rarely, leading us to assume that such long-term programs are scarce. More importantly, connections between research and policy or management do not always exist. This analysis highlights the need for a comprehensive strategy to investigate and monitor the environmental impacts of tourism in Antarctica. A first specific research and monitoring programme to stimulate a debate among members of the Antarctic scientific and policy communities is proposed, with the ultimate goal of advancing the regulation and management of Antarctic tourism collaboratively.
    Keywords:  Adaptive Management; Bibliometric analysis; Cumulative impacts; Monitoring; Natural protected areas; Strategic conservation
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114634
  34. Inquiry. 2022 Jan-Dec;59:59 469580221078513
    The Supportive Role of International Government Funds on the Progress of Sepsis Research During the Past Decade (2010-2019): A Narrative Review.
    Yuxin Leng, Chengjin Gao, Fang Li, Enzhong Li, Fengzhu Zhang.
      This narrative review aimed to clarify the characteristics of international government support for sepsis research, trends in published literature on sepsis, and potential contributions of government-source grants to progress in sepsis research between fiscal years 2010 and 2019. The data in this study were collected from the National Institutes of Health (NIH, https://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm/) of the United States of America (USA), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, https://isisn.nsfc.gov.cn/egrantweb/), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/). All sepsis-related projects approved by the NIH, NSFC, and JSPS were retrieved by searching the project titles, abstracts, and key words for "sepsis," "septic shock," or "sepsis inflammatory response syndrome" between 2010 and 2019. Representative sepsis-related studies published between Jan 2010 and Aug 2020 by the first/corresponding authors from these countries were obtained by searching the PubMed database using Medical Subject Heading terms for "sepsis" in representative journals, including Nature, Cell, Science, The Lancet, New England Journal of medicine (New Engl J Med), The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Critical Care Medicine (CCM), Intensive Care Medicine (ICM), Chest, Annals of Emergency Medicine (Ann Emerg Med), and American Thoracic Society journals (ATS). The total/annual institutional budgets, major funding mechanisms and schemes, superior institutions and individual principal investigators, and published original research articles in the field of sepsis in the USA, China, and Japan during the past decade were investigated. The national supporting schemes of the NIH, NSFC, and JSPS were similar. Support from these institutions is quite important for the development of the field of "sepsis" which was acknowledged in 57-64% of original research articles published in CCM. For the future development of precision medicine in sepsis, more government funding support is necessary.
    Keywords:  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; National Institutes of Health; National Natural Science Foundation of China; international government support; sepsis
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221078513
  35. Dent Traumatol. 2022 Feb 18.
    'CARE compliance' of case reports published in Dental Traumatology in the past two decades: A bibliometric analysis.
    Nitesh Tewari, Shubhi Goel, Sukeshana Srivastav, Vijay Prakash Mathur, Morankar Rahul, Bikash Chaurasia, Sruthila Raghuthaman.
       BACKGROUND/AIMS: The journal Dental Traumatology (DT) is one of the best resources in the field of dental traumatology. It has always encouraged publication of case reports of good quality. The CARE statement (2011) was developed for uniform and transparent reporting of cases in medical sciences. Since case reports are inseparable from the DT literature, the aim of this bibliometric-analysis was to evaluate the case reports published in the DT in the last two decades (2001-2021) and assess their compliance regarding CARE guidelines for elucidating the trends in DT and the reporting quality of these papers.
    METHODOLOGY: Two authors independently observed the tables of contents in all issues of DT from 2002-2021 and identified case reports. Selected articles were scrutinized to determine their eligibility. Data extraction was performed, case reports were segregated into domains, and their CARE compliance was evaluated by using a self-designed-validated method. Differences between the case reports published in two decades (2002-2011 and 2012-2021) were analysed with the Chi-square test.
    RESULTS: A total of 1612 articles published between February 2002 and October 2021 were scrutinized to identify 357 case reports with 277 from the period of 2002-2011 and 80 between 2012 and 2021. The highest number of case reports originated from Asia (2002-2011:135, 2012-2021:28). The CARE compliances of the majority of reports in the decade of 2002-2011 were between 75 and 85% (good) while the CARE compliances of the majority of reports from 2012-2021 were between 85 and 95% (very good) or >95% (excellent). These differences were statistically significant (p < .005).
    CONCLUSIONS: The number of case reports published in the decade of 2002-2011 were more than three times the number of case reports published in the decade of 2012-2021. The highest number of reports in both decades were from Asia and belonged to the therapeutic and prognostic domains. The CARE compliances of the reports in the decade of 2012-2021 were better than those from 2002-2011.
    Keywords:  CARE guidelines; bibliometric analysis; case reports; dental traumatology; traumatic dental injuries
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/edt.12738
  36. Personal Ment Health. 2022 Feb 18.
    The growth and development of research on personality disorders: A bibliometric study.
    Taylor Reis, Márcio Gekker, Marcelo Gerardin Poirot Land, Mauro Vitor Mendlowicz, William Berger, Mariana Pires Luz, Liliane Vilete, Ivan Figueira, Alexandre Xavier Gomes Araújo.
      This study objective was to investigate publication trends on personality disorders (PD) and to identify patterns of historical development. Publication rates were determined using the Results by Year Timeline feature of PubMed. Time series autoregressive integrated moving average models were used to analyse the publication rates for PDs in quinquennial periods beginning in 1980 and ending in 2019 and to predict the number of publications in the 2024-2029 period. More than 300 articles on antisocial and borderline PD are being published each year, and the models suggest an accelerating growth rate. Approximately 100 articles are being published on average every year on schizotypal PD, and the regression model indicates linear growth in the near future. The mean number of publications per year for obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic and avoidant PDs is in the range of 10-30 with the corresponding models indicating linear growth. Fewer than 10 articles are being published each year on dependent, paranoid, histrionic and schizoid PD, whereas dependent PD shows modest growth and paranoid PD rates tended to stability, histrionic and schizoid PD exhibit declining rates. Personality disorders are a group of conditions with diverse etiological, prognostic, therapeutic, legal, research, social and cultural implications that influence publication rates.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1540
  37. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 28. pii: 1525. [Epub ahead of print]19(3):
    Virtual Reality Aided Therapy towards Health 4.0: A Two-Decade Bibliometric Analysis.
    Zhen Liu, Lingfeng Ren, Chang Xiao, Ke Zhang, Peter Demian.
      Health 4.0 aligns with Industry 4.0 and encourages the application of the latest technologies to healthcare. Virtual reality (VR) is a potentially significant component of the Health 4.0 vision. Though VR in health care is a popular topic, there is little knowledge of VR-aided therapy from a macro perspective. Therefore, this paper was aimed to explore the research of VR in aiding therapy, thus providing a potential guideline for futures application of therapeutic VR in healthcare towards Health 4.0. A mixed research method was adopted for this research, which comprised the use of a bibliometric analysis (a quantitative method) to conduct a macro overview of VR-aided therapy, the identification of significant research structures and topics, and a qualitative review of the literature to reveal deeper insights. Four major research areas of VR-aided therapy were identified and investigated, i.e., post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and fear related disorder (A&F), diseases of the nervous system (DNS), and pain management, including related medical conditions, therapies, methods, and outcomes. This study is the first to use VOSviewer, a commonly used software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks and developed by Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands, to conduct bibliometric analyses on VR-aided therapy from the perspective of Web of Science core collection (WoSc), which objectively and visually shows research structures and topics, therefore offering instructive insights for health care stakeholders (particularly researchers and service providers) such as including integrating more innovative therapies, emphasizing psychological benefits, using game elements, and introducing design research. The results of this paper facilitate with achieving the vision of Health 4.0 and illustrating a two-decade (2000 to year 2020) map of pre-life of the Health Metaverse.
    Keywords:  Health 4.0; Health Metaverse; VOSviewer; anxiety and fear related disorder (A&F); bibliometric; diseases of the nervous system (DNS); health care; pain management; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); therapy; virtual reality
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031525
  38. Cureus. 2022 Jan;14(1): e21075
    Analysis of Eastern Asia's Contributions to Major Orthopaedic Journals in the Past 21 Years.
    Andrew Nguyen, Theodore Quan, Chapman Wei, Chaplin Wei, Michael-Alexander Malahias.
      Introduction Over the past two decades, Asia has experienced the rise and integration of Western medicine and digital health in its field of medicine. In this study, we investigated the trends in orthopaedic publications from three Asian countries: China, Japan, and Korea. Methods PubMed was used to measure the number of publications from China, Japan, and Korea in the past 21 years, from 1998 to 2020. The average percentage change in publications during this 21-year time period was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The average annual change in the number of publications from each country was also determined. One-way analysis of variance and two-group t-tests were utilized for statistical analyses with a p-value of <0.05 as the cut-off value for statistical significance. Results From years 1998 to 2020, there was a mean 35.5% ± 70.7% annual increase in the number of total publications from China, in comparison to a 5.1% ± 14.0% annual increase from Japan (p = 0.005) and a 27.3% ± 40.0% annual increase from Korea (p = 0.586). Conclusion For the past two decades, there has been a strong positive trend regarding the total number of orthopaedic publications from China. This finding might be related in part to an increased integration of Western medicine and the use of digital medicine, which followed a similar trend during the time period we analyzed. Korea and Japan also exhibited a positive trend in orthopaedic publications, which may be indicative of an improving educational system and greater general support for research.
    Keywords:  asia; china; japan; journals; korea; orthopaedic; publications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21075
  39. Oncology (Williston Park). 2022 Feb 08. 36(2): 84-91
    Association of Financial Conflicts of Interest With Academic Productivity Among Junior Faculty in Hematology and Oncology.
    Suneel D Kamath, Angela J Fought, Melissa M Shaw, Andrew A Davis.
       INTRODUCTION: Financial conflicts of interest (COIs) represent a common and complex issue in hematology and oncology. However, little is known about the timing of when COIs begin to develop during a career trajectory. We evaluated self-reported COIs for junior faculty members at top cancer centers to determine how these financial relationships correlated with measures of academic career productivity.
    METHODS: We analyzed data from 230 assistant professors at 10 academic cancer centers. Financial COIs were identified from the CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act dollars) database. Self-reported COIs were obtained from American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and American Society of Hematology (ASH) disclosures, and from disclosures in recent publications. Number of publications and h-index (defined as the largest number of publications [h] such that h publications each have at least h citations) were used as measures of academic productivity. Scatter plots and Spearman correlation coefficients were used to assess the relationship between COIs or Sunshine Act dollars with number of publications and h-index. Linear regression modeling was used to analyze the relationships between COIs or Sunshine Act dollars with number of publications and h-index, adjusting for years of experience since completing fellowship (YSF).
    RESULTS: A total of 46% of junior faculty had at least 1 COI. Number of COIs reported to ASCO/ASH was positively correlated with total Sunshine Act dollars (Spearman correlation, 0.53; P <.01). The number of COIs and the number of Sunshine Act dollars increased with years in practice (Spearman correlation, 0.38 and 0.25, respectively; P <.01 for both). COIs and Sunshine Act dollars correlated with h-index (Spearman correlation, 0.41 and 0.37, respectively; both P <.01). After adjusting for YSF, linear regression demonstrated that log-transformed h-index and number of publications were associated with Sunshine Act dollars (both P <.01) and COIs (ASCO/ASH) (both P = .01).
    CONCLUSIONS: Financial COIs increased with number of YSF. Measures of academic productivity were positively correlated with COIs (ASCO/ASH) and Sunshine Act dollars. These data suggest that the cultivation of industry relationships is associated with the early academic productivity of junior faculty.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.46883.2022.25920948
  40. Asian J Surg. 2022 Feb 16. pii: S1015-9584(22)00071-9. [Epub ahead of print]
    A bibliometric study of the compound theory system of the non-first author: An analysis of Zhou Zhongying's academic thought.
    Ming Lu, Yao Zhu, Guan-Qun Wo, Tao Yang.
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asjsur.2022.01.057
  41. Orthop J Sports Med. 2022 Feb;10(2): 23259671211073713
    The Role of Advanced Academic Degrees in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Faculty.
    Aaron Z Chen, Kaylre M Greaves, Thomas A Fortney, Christopher S Ahmad, William N Levine, David P Trofa, T Sean Lynch.
       Background: Limited knowledge exists on the role of advanced academic degrees within faculty positions in orthopaedic sports medicine.
    Purpose: To 1) provide an assessment of the baseline demographics of advanced degrees among orthopaedic sports medicine faculty and 2) examine the impact of advanced degrees on research productivity and career attainment of orthopaedic sports medicine faculty.
    Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 4.
    Methods: Orthopaedic sports medicine academics were identified using faculty listings on websites of the 200 orthopaedic surgery residency programs during the 2020-2021 academic year. Advanced degrees were defined as those additional to the primary medical degree (Doctor of Medicine [MD] or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine [DO]). Outcome measures included timing of advanced degree obtainment, residency program rankings, research productivity, and current academic rank and leadership roles. Statistical analysis was performed using chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests to determine the association of advanced degrees on outcome measures.
    Results: In total, 911 orthopaedic sports medicine faculty members were identified, of whom 100 had an advanced degree. The most common advanced degrees were Master of Science (MS/MSc; 38%), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD; 23%), and Master of Business Administration (MBA; 13%). The presence of an advanced degree was associated with greater research productivity, including higher h-index and number of publications, as well as more editorial board positions on orthopaedics journals (P < .001). Advanced degrees were not significantly associated with attending a higher ranked orthopaedic surgery residency program, current academic rank, or leadership roles. At the institutional level, orthopaedic sports medicine programs that employed faculty with an advanced degree had a higher residency program ranking and the presence of a sports medicine fellowship was more likely (P < .05).
    Conclusion: Advanced degrees in orthopaedic sports medicine were associated with greater faculty research engagement and employment at a higher ranked institution; they were not associated with matching to a highly ranked orthopaedic surgery residency program, higher faculty rank, or academic leadership roles.
    Keywords:  academic; advanced degree; degrees; faculty; sports medicine
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/23259671211073713
  42. Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi. 2022 Jan 20. 30(1): 1-3
    [Truth-seeking and innovation for the academic excellence].
    J D Jia, H Ren.
      The Chinese Journal of Hepatology has a 2020 core impact factor of 1.807, which position it first among the periodicals of gastroenterology. The China Association for Science and Technology classified it as T1 grade and included in the catalogue of high-level scientific and technological periodicals. Since 2021, it has received the special publishing fund of the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Press and Publications, the High-quality Scientific and Technological Periodicals Funding Project of Chongqing Association for Science and Technology, and the Industry-university-research Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and won many awards such as "Sichuan-Chongqing First-class Scientific and Technological Periodical" and "Chongqing High-quality Scientific and Technological Periodical", thereby ensuring the development of both qualitative and quantitative effects. Therefore, in 2022, we will work on attracting high-impact research reports, disseminate the academic results timely, efficiently and accurately, highlight the role of digital communication, and pave the way for the establishment of it as a first-class academic journal.
    Keywords:  Message; Plan; Review
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn501113-20220112-00017
  43. Cell. 2022 Feb 05. pii: S0092-8674(22)00141-6. [Epub ahead of print]
    Assessing gender disparity among Cell authors.
    Cell editorial team
      
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.001
  44. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2022 Feb 05. pii: S1871-4021(22)00037-6. [Epub ahead of print]16(2): 102423
    All types of Research and Publication (including in Diabetes) have shown a healthy rising trend from India in the last decade.
    Raju Vaishya, Abhishek Vaish.
      India has moved up its publications ranking globally to fourth, and to second amongst Asiatic countries in 2020, in all subject areas. In Diabetes journals the Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews is the fastest growing journal with the highest Cite Scoree, currently.
    Keywords:  Asia; Diabetes; India; Metabolism; Publication; Ranking; Research
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2022.102423
  45. J Foot Ankle Surg. 2022 Jan 13. pii: S1067-2516(22)00001-1. [Epub ahead of print]
    Postfellowship Foot and Ankle Surgeon Research Productivity: A Systematic Review.
    Dominick J Casciato, John Thompson, Christopher F Hyer.
      Though foot and ankle surgery fellowships have been around for decades, contributing factors for long-term research productivity remain unreported. Along with enhancing surgical training, the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) tasked programs with fostering research in effort to continue post-fellowship investigations. As the number of fellowship programs and fellows continues to increase, this study attempts to identifies factors associated with postfellowship research success. A PubMed search of peer-reviewed literature authored by ACFAS recognized 1-year fellowship graduates from 2000-2018 was conducted. Demographic data including current practice type and location was collected. Research activity at the 3, 5, and 10-year postfellowship period was investigated between publication history and current practice type. Statistical significance was set at p ≤ .05. Among the 37 fellowships assessed, 132 fellows were eligible for analysis. Most fellows maintained hospital-based employment 46 (34%) followed by private 44 (33%) and orthopedic group 30 (22%) practices. The proportion of fellows that published 5 and 10 years postfellowship was associated with research productivity 3 and 5 years postfellowship (p ≤ .03). The odds of publishing 3 years post-fellowship in orthopedic groups and university-based practices were 1.62 and 4.42 times higher compared to hospital-based graduates, respectively. The odds of publishing 5 years post-fellowship in orthopedic group and university based practices were 3.5 and 6.63 times higher than hospital-based practices, respectively. Despite the growing number of fellowships, a small proportion of fellows continue publishing postfellowship. These findings support the need to provide resources to engage graduates if retaining young practitioners in scholarly activity is desired.
    Keywords:  ACFAS; APMA; CPME; academic medicine; orthopedic surgery; publications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jfas.2021.12.028
  46. Braz Oral Res. 2022 ;pii: S1806-83242022000100601. [Epub ahead of print]36 e023
    Innovative reflection on oral cancer research priorities: the contribution of social network analysis.
    Allana Pivovar, Elder Semprebon, Camila Pinheiro Furquim, Juliana Lucena Schussel, José Miguel Amenábar, Cassius Carvalho Torres-Pereira.
      The objective of this study is to present a tool to help understand how variables associated with oral cancer prevention relate to each other in a social network. A search of the Scopus database was performed using terms related to oral cancer and prevention from 2000 to 2020. The keywords were used as nodes and were analyzed using NodeXL, which produced the network graphic analysis. From the 1004 publications available, 4038 different keywords were obtained and then grouped into 75 constructs based on conceptual similarity. The most influential nodes were risk factors, comorbidities, epidemiology, and treatment. However, topics such as technology, telemedicine, self-examination, and diagnostic delay remain far removed from central relations. Network analysis enabled us to observe the bias of biological and basic science in the field and identify a need for studies concerning primary prevention, behavioral interventions, and inequalities in oral cancer.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1590/1807-3107bor-2022.vol36.0023
  47. J Korean Med Sci. 2022 Feb 14. 37(6): e44
    Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of Retracted Articles on COVID-19.
    Hiba Khan, Prakash Gupta, Olena Zimba, Latika Gupta.
       BACKGROUND: With greater use of social media platforms for promotions of research articles, retracted articles tend to receive approximately the same attention. We systematically analyzed retracted articles from retractionwatch.com to look at the Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS) garnered over a period of time in order to highlight the role of social media and other platforms in advertising retracted articles and its effect on the spread of misinformation.
    METHODS: Retractionwatch.com was searched for coronavirus disease 2019 related retracted papers on November 6th, 2021. Articles were excluded based on lack of digital object identifier (DOI), if they were preprint articles, absent AAS, and incomplete AAS of pre retraction, post retraction, or both scores.
    RESULTS: A total of 196 articles were found on the Retraction Watch website of which 189 were retracted papers and 7 were expression of concern (EOC). We then identified 175 articles after excluding those that did not have a DOI and 30 preprint articles were also excluded giving 145 articles. Further exclusion of articles with absent AAS and incomplete AAS resulted in a total of 22 articles.
    CONCLUSION: Retracted articles receive significant online attention. Twitter and Mendeley were the most popular medium for publicizing retracted articles, therefore more focus should be given by journals and their Twitter accounts to discredit all their retracted articles. Preprints should be reconsidered as a whole by journals due to the huge risk they carry in disseminating false information.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Information Technology; Social Media
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e44
  48. Med Sci (Paris). 2022 Feb;38(2): 215-217
    [Who wants to be a SIGAPS millionaire?]
    Louise Benoit.
      In order to promote biomedical research, the French ministry of Solidarity and Health has developed a software that is used to rate medical doctors according to their scientific production: the SIGAPS points (System of Interrogation, Management and Analysis of Scientific Publications). These points (1-32 points) are attributed after the publication of a scientific paper according to the quality of the journal (based on the impact factor) and the doctor's rank among the authors. These points are then transformed into a sum of money received by the health facility (1 point = approximately 648 euros), 4 years in a row. Does this "fee-for-service" encourage doctors to publish quickly at any price, regardless of the quality of their research?
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/2022006
  49. Occup Environ Med. 2022 Feb 17. pii: oemed-2021-107915. [Epub ahead of print]
    Gender differences in authorship prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in research submissions to Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2017-2021).
    Christa Orchard, Peter M Smith, Hans Kromhout.
       OBJECTIVE: To explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted productivity of female academics in the field of occupational and environmental health, by examining trends in male and female authorship of submissions during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
    METHODS: Administrative data on submissions between January 2017 and November 2021 were obtained through databases held at BMJ journals. Author gender was identified using an existing algorithm based on matching names to social media accounts. The number and proportion of female and male primary (first) and senior (last) authors were examined for each quarter, and the average change in share of monthly submissions from male authors in the months since the pandemic compared with corresponding months prior to the pandemic were identified using regression models estimating least squares means.
    RESULTS: Among 2286 (64.7%) and 2335 (66.1%) manuscripts for which first and last author gender were identified, respectively, 49.3% of prepandemic submissions were from male first authors, increasing to 55.4% in the first year of the pandemic (difference of 6.1%, 95% CI 1.3% to 10.7%), before dropping to 46.6% from April 2021 onwards. Quarterly counts identified a large increase in submissions from male authors during the first year after the onset of the pandemic, and a smaller increase from female authors. The proportion of male last authors did not change significantly during the pandemic.
    CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that there has been an increase in male productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic within the field of occupational and environmental health research that is present to a lesser extent among women.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; women
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2021-107915
  50. Gondwana Res. 2022 Feb 05.
    Waste management beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Bibliometric and text mining analyses.
    Meisam Ranjbari, Zahra Shams Esfandabadi, Sneha Gautam, Alberto Ferraris, Simone Domenico Scagnelli.
      The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the demand for personal protective equipment, in particular face masks, thus leading to a huge amount of healthcare waste generated worldwide. Consequently, such an unprecedented amount of newly emerged waste has posed significant challenges to practitioners, policy-makers, and municipal authorities involved in waste management (WM) systems. This research aims at mapping the COVID-19-related scientific production to date in the field of WM. In this vein, the performance indicators of the target literature were analyzed and discussed through conducting a bibliometric analysis. The conceptual structure of COVID-19-related WM research, including seven main research themes, were uncovered and visualized through a text mining analysis as follows: (1) household and food waste, (2) personnel safety and training for waste handling, (3) sustainability and circular economy, (4) personal protective equipment and plastic waste, (5) healthcare waste management practices, (6) wastewater management, and (7) COVID-19 transmission through infectious waste. Finally, a research agenda for WM practices and activities in the post-COVID-19 era was proposed, focusing on the following three identified research gaps: (i) developing a systemic framework to properly manage the pandemic crisis implications for WM practices as a whole, following a systems thinking approach, (ii) building a circular economy model encompassing all activities from the design stage to the implementation stage, and (iii) proposing incentives to effectively involve informal sectors and local capacity in decentralizing municipal waste management, with a specific focus on developing and less-developed countries.
    Keywords:  COVID-19; Healthcare waste; Municipal solid waste; Personal protective equipment; Plastic waste; Wastewater
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.12.015
  51. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2022 Feb 17.
    Increasing Pediatricians' Scholarly Productivity on and off the Tenure Track.
    Dmitry Tumin, Nathan Baumgarten, Cierra Buckman, Devon Kuehn, Jason D Higginson.
       INTRODUCTION: Physician faculty have increasingly been appointed to nontenure track positions, which provide limited support for scholarly activity. We evaluated how a centralized departmental research group affected the scholarly productivity of faculty on and off the tenure track.
    METHODS: A research team providing both mentorship and logistical study support was implemented in 2018. We identified a pre-intervention cohort of physician faculty employed in July 2016, and a postintervention cohort, employed in July 2018. A publication search was conducted for these cohorts in the period 2017 to 2018 and 2019 to 2020, respectively.
    RESULTS: Seventy-five faculty were included in the analysis, with approximately two-thirds appointed on the clinical (nontenure) track. In the pre-intervention cohort (n = 59), 15 faculty (25%) had at least one publication in the period 2017 to 2018. In the postintervention cohort (n = 59), 33 faculty (56%) published at least one article in the period 2019 to 2020 (P = .001). Multivariable random-effects regression analysis confirmed that postintervention, odds of publishing in a given year increased for both clinical-track and tenure-track faculty.
    CONCLUSION: Both clinical and tenure-track faculty contribute to the academic mission at medical schools, yet scholarly activity is supported and rewarded for tenure-track faculty more often than for clinical-track faculty. Our centralized research team successfully fostered scholarly activity among both clinical-track and tenure-track faculty.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1097/CEH.0000000000000420
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