Title
Where are we after 60 years of paragonimiasis research? A bibliometric assessment
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Hernández-Pacherres A.
Labán-Seminario L.M.
Cardona-Ospina J.A.
Rodríguez-Morales A.J.
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Publisher(s)
EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche
Abstract
Paragonimiasis is highly prevalent endemic foodborne disease in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and constitutes a major public health concern. A bibliometric analysis was performed about the worldwide scientific production of paragonimiasis. We browsed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) (1957-2015), Scopus (1976-2015), Medline/PubMed/GoPubMed® (1970-2015), ScIELO (1981-2014) and LILACS (1985- 2011). All types of articles were included and categorized by year of publication, number, type of scientific article, city and institution of origin, international cooperation, scientific journal, impact factor, language of publication, authors and H index. In SCI-E, 1,028 manuscripts were recovered, while Japan (21.9%) and the USA (17.7%) were the countries with highest scientific production. In this database, Asian region studies received 5,454 citations (H index=32). In Scopus 2161 items were recovered, corresponding to 45.8% of Asian countries. Japan (18.2%) was the first with the University of Miyazaki (11.7% of the country); South Korea (9.5%) was second with the Seoul National University (11.2% of the country). In SciELO 29 items were found, with no contributions from the Asian region. In LILACS 1487 articles were found (22.9% covering Asia). Among the databases, the Journal of Parasitology (Impact factor=1.227) showed the highest number of manuscripts and “Agatsuma T”, from Japan, was the author with most records. Japan and South Korea lead global scientific production on paragonimiasis. By contrast, in Latin America, production has been extremely low especially in the last five years.
Start page
142
End page
149
Volume
25
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Epidemiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85020889037
PubMed ID
Source
Infezioni in Medicina
ISSN of the container
11249390
Sponsor(s)
Fogarty International Center D43TW007393 FIC
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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