ArticleOphthalmology. Glaucoma
A Bibliometric and Mapping Analysis of Glaucoma Research between 1900 and 2019.
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- Depicting Developing Trend and Core Knowledge of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Insight into the characteristics of research published in traditional, complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine journals: a bibliometric analysis.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2021Article
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purposeTo explore the relevance of scientific production on glaucoma using bibliometric tools.
designBibliographic study.
participantsOriginal articles published from 1900 through 2019.
methodsWe performed a search in Web of Science for documents published between 1900 and 2019. We used bibliometric indicators to explore documents production, dispersion, distribution, time of duplication, and annual growth, as characterized by Price's law of scientific literature growth, Lotka's law, the transient index, and the Bradford model. We also calculated the participation index of different countries and institutions. Finally, we explored with bibliometric mapping the co-occurrence networks for the most frequently used terms in glaucoma research.
main outcome measuresBibliometric indicators for individuals, institutions, and countries.
resultsA total of 33 631 original articles were collected from the timeframe 1900 through 2019. Price's law showed an exponential growth. Scientific production was adjusted better to exponential growth (r = 0.967) than linear growth (r = 0.755). Literature on glaucoma research increased its growth in the last 30 years at a rate of 5.1% per year with a production that doubled its size every 13.9 years. The transience index was 60.08%; this indicates that most of the scientific production is the output of very few authors. Bradford's law showed a high concentration of articles published in a small core of specialized journals. Lotka's law indicated that the distribution of authors is concentrated heavily in small producers. The United States and University of London demonstrated the highest production of original articles. Map network visualization showed the generated term map detailing clusters of closely related terms.
conclusionsGlaucoma literature has grown exponentially. A very high rate of transience was found that indicates the presence of numerous authors who sporadically publish on this topic. No evidence of a saturation point in the glaucoma literature was observed.
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