A bibliometric analysis of toxicology research productivity in Middle Eastern Arab countries during a 10-year period (2003–2012)

Zyoud, Sa’ed H.; Al-Jabi, Samah W.; Sweileh, Waleed M.; Awang, Rahmat

doi:10.1186/1478-4505-12-4

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“…The USA and the UK were the most influential countries with the most publications, productive institutions and international cooperation. Bibliometric studies in other toxicological fields also demonstrated the predominance of the USA and the UK over other worldwide countries in number and quality of research output in various toxicological fields . This research activity in the field of lithium toxicity may be related to population size, economic factors, the size of the scientific community, research traditions and funding in these countries , and also the incidence of lithium toxicity or number of poison centres may play a role in research performance .…”

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Global Research Trends in Lithium Toxicity from 1913 to 2015: A Bibliometric Analysis

Zyoud

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Sweileh

et al. 2017

Basic Clin Pharma Tox

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Lithium salts have been used to treat psychiatric disorders since the 1940s and are currently used in prophylaxis and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder. Therefore, we conducted this study to assess lithium toxicity-related publications using bibliometric approaches from a health point of view to assess global research trends in the lithium toxicity field to offer guidance to future research in this field. The data were retrieved from the online version of Scopus database on 6 August 2016. All records with the term 'lithium' in the title were retrieved, and those related to lithium toxicity were evaluated. There were a total of 1241 publications related to lithium toxicity published from 1913 to 2016. Articles (971 or 78.2%) were the most common type, followed by letters (179 or 14.4%) and reviews (61 or 4.9%). The annual publication of articles increased slightly after 1950 and the total number of publications related to lithium toxicity fluctuated with three peaks occurred in 1978, 1985 and 2014. The USA was the predominant country (25.38%), followed by the UK (7.82%), France (6.85%) and Canada (3.55%). Denmark had the highest productivity of publication after standardization by gross domestic product and population size. The average number of citations per article was 9.24, and the h-index for all publications in the field of lithium toxicity was 46. The highest h-index value was achieved by the USA (31) followed by the UK (21) and Canada (13). The Lancet was the highest ranked journal with 27 articles, followed by American Journal of Psychiatry with 23 articles. This study provides a bibliometric analysis on the global research trends in lithium toxicity studies during 1913-2015. There has been a progressive increase in the number of publications related to lithium toxicity published in the last decade, and most of the studies related to lithium toxicity arose from the USA and the UK.

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Global Research Trends in Lithium Toxicity from 1913 to 2015: A Bibliometric Analysis

Zyoud

Waring

Sweileh

et al. 2017

Basic Clin Pharma Tox

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“…Finally, our study is not without limitations, most of which are the same as those of studies performed in other biomedical fields [7,8,14,76]. First of all, we used ISI web of knowledge database and therefore articles published in elsewhere were not included.…”

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Assessing urology and nephrology research activity in Arab countries using ISI web of science bibliometric database

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BackgroundBibliometric analysis is increasingly being used for research assessment. The main objective of this study was to assess research output in Urology and Nephrology subject from the Arab countries. Original scientific articles or reviews published from the 21 Arab countries in “Urology and Nephrology” subject were screened using the ISI Web of Science database. Research productivity was evaluated based on a methodology developed and used in other bibliometric studies by analyzing the annual productivity, names of journals, citations; top 10 active institution and authors as well as country contribution to Urology and Nephrology research.ResultsThree thousand and seventy six documents in “urology and nephrology” subject category were retrieved from 104 journals. This represents 1.4% of the global research output in “urology and nephrology”. Four hundred and two documents (12.66%) were published in Annales D Urologie Journal. The h-index of the retrieved documents was 57. The total number of citations, at the time of data analysis, was 30401 with an average citation of 9.57 per document. Egypt, with a total publication of 1284 (40.43%) ranked first among the Arab countries in “urology and nephrology” subject category. Mansoura University in Egypt was the most productive institution with a total of 561 (15.33%) documents. Arab researchers collaborated most with researchers from the United States of America (226; 7.12%) in urology and nephrology research.ConclusionThe present data reveals a good contribution of some Arab countries to the field of “urology and nephrology”. More efforts are needed by some other Arab countries to bridge the gap in urology and nephrology research. Overall, the quality of urology/nephrology research is considered relatively high as measured by h-index. Cooperation in urology/nephrology research should be encouraged in the Arab world to bridge the gap with that from developed countries.

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“…Publication activity was adjusted for Arab countries, categorized by population size and gross domestic product (GDP), which was retrieved from the online databases of the World Bank [88]. An adjustment index (AI) was calculated using the following formula: AI = [total number of publications for the country/GDP per capita of the country]*1000, where the GDP per capita = GDP/population of the country [9,89,90]. Scientific output was evaluated based on a methodology developed and used in other bibliometric studies [91][92][93].…”

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Public, environmental, and occupational health research activity in Arab countries: bibliometric, citation, and collaboration analysis

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BackgroundThe objective of this study was to analyze quantity, assess quality, and investigate international collaboration in research from Arab countries in the field of public, environmental and occupational health.MethodsOriginal scientific articles and reviews published from the 22 Arab countries in the category "public, environmental & occupational health" during the study period (1900 – 2012) were screened using the ISI Web of Science database.ResultsThe total number of original and review research articles published in the category of "public, environmental & occupational health" from Arab countries was 4673. Main area of research was tropical medicine (1862; 39.85%). Egypt with 1200 documents (25.86%) ranked first in quantity and ranked first in quality of publications (h-index = 51). The study identified 2036 (43.57%) documents with international collaboration. Arab countries actively collaborated with authors in Western Europe (22.91%) and North America (21.04%). Most of the documents (79.9%) were published in public health related journals while 21% of the documents were published in journals pertaining to prevention medicine, environmental, occupational health and epidemiology.ConclusionResearch in public, environmental and occupational health in Arab countries is in the rise. Public health research was dominant while environmental and occupation health research was relatively low. International collaboration was a good tool for increasing research quantity and quality.

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A bibliometric analysis of toxicology research productivity in Middle Eastern Arab countries during a 10-year period (2003–2012)

Cited by 78 publications

References 31 publications

Global Research Trends in Lithium Toxicity from 1913 to 2015: A Bibliometric Analysis

Global Research Trends in Lithium Toxicity from 1913 to 2015: A Bibliometric Analysis

Assessing urology and nephrology research activity in Arab countries using ISI web of science bibliometric database

Public, environmental, and occupational health research activity in Arab countries: bibliometric, citation, and collaboration analysis

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