A bibliometric analysis of global Ebola research

Cruz-Calderón, Stefania; Nasner-Posso, Katherinn Melissa; Alfaro-Toloza, Patricio; Paniz‐Mondolfi, Alberto; Rodríguez‐Morales, Alfonso J.

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.02.007

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“…5 Recently, it was found that most Ebola research has been conducted in America. 6 The Sustainable Development Goals promote research in all fields and for full research capacity in all countries by 2030. 7 This would improve performance in controlling emerging and re-emerging diseases that are greatly hampering progress towards targets in developing countries and support the information needs of decision makers at all levels.…”

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Challenges facing young African scientists in their research careers: A qualitative exploratory study

Kumwenda¹,

Niang²,

Orondo³

et al. 2017

Mal. Med. J

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Challenges facing young African scientists in their research careers: A qualitative exploratory study

Kumwenda¹,

Niang²,

Orondo³

et al. 2017

Mal. Med. J

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“…Bibliometric analysis examines the progress of any topic and offers a comprehensive assessment of scientific research trends. In recent years, bibliometric analysis has been extensively performed to assess scientific activities in many fields, including infectious diseases such as Mayaro virus fever [19], Zika virus [20], Ebola virus disease [21,22], yellow fever disease [23], dengue [24], Malaria [25], leishmaniasis [26,27], influenza [28], and John Cunningham virus [29]. To the best of knowledge of the author, there has been no bibliometric study about MERS-CoV research in the English literature.…”

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Global research trends of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a bibliometric analysis

Zyoud

2016

BMC Infect Dis

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BackgroundMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a virus that causes severe viral pneumonia in humans, known to have a high mortality rate and a similarity in clinical symptoms with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. It was first isolated in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in 2012 and after that, MERS-CoV exhibited outbreaks in several regions of the world. This study aimed to assess the characteristics of publications involving MERS-CoV at global level by using a bibliometric analysis.MethodsScopus database was searched on March 4, 2016 for MERS-CoV publications published between 2012 and 2015. It was performed on the same day in order to avoid the possible bias came from update on the database because the metrics are changing over time. All publication types were considered; however publications as errata were excluded. Analysis parameters include year of publication, publication type, patterns of international collaboration, research institutions, journals, impact factor, h-index, language, and times cited.ResultsA total of 883 MERS-CoV research publications were published across the world. The MERS-CoV-associated publications were originated from 92 countries/territories, indicating the international spread of MERS-CoV research. The USA was the largest contributor, with 319 articles published over 4 years, followed by KSA (113 articles). The total number of citations for these publications has already achieved 8,015, with an average of 9.01 citations per each publication. The h-index for MERS-CoV-associated publications was 48. The USA also have the highest h-index (32), followed by KSA (26) and UK (22). Netherland produced the greatest proportion of publications with international research collaboration (72.7 %) followed by the UK (71 %) and Germany (69.1 %) out of the total number of publications for each country.ConclusionsThere is a rapid increase in research activities related to MERS-CoV from 2012 to 2015. This study demonstrates that the MERS-CoV related literature has grown to be more extensive and global over the past 4 years. The bulk of publications in the field of MERS-CoV research are published by high-income countries such as the USA. Furthermore, the USA, the UK and KSA may have higher quality of articles according to the value of h-index.

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“…Dengue outbreaks worldwide have progressively increased [9][10][11][12][13][14], with recent outbreaks in the North Africa and Middle East regions [1,15,16]. In recent years, bibliometric analysis has been widely conducted to evaluate scientific research activities in many fields of infectious diseases such as chikungunya [17], Ebola virus disease [18,19], influenza [20], John Cunningham virus [21], leishmaniasis [22,23], Mayaro virus fever [24], Malaria [25], yellow fever disease [26], and Zika virus [27]. Bibliometrics is a statistical analysis of written publications and is used to provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of available data deposited at major multidisciplinary journal-indexing database such as Scopus.…”

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Dengue research: a bibliometric analysis of worldwide and Arab publications during 1872–2015

Zyoud

2016

Virol J

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BackgroundDengue is an important emerging and re-emerging arboviral infection globally as a rapidly growing and widespread public health problem, with transmission occurring in more than 128 countries in Asia, Americas, southeast Africa, western Pacific, and eastern Mediterranean regions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to characterize and quantify the scientific output of dengue research in Arab countries relative to that worldwide by using a bibliometric analysis.MethodsThe standardized search approach based on the use of the the keyword “dengue” in the title, abstract, and keyword field was used to get research output related to dengue at a global level. All data related to dengue were collected from the past to December 31, 2015.ResultsA total of 19,581 dengue-related documents identified in the Scopus database. The results show that the study of dengue exhibits an overall upward trend from 1872 to 2015 with peak publications in 2014. The leading countries in dengue research were the USA (4,709; 24.05 %), India (1,942; 9.92 %), Brazil (1,530; 7.81 %), Thailand (1,260; 6.43 %), the UK (1,129; 5.77 %), and France (1,087; 5.55 %). Only 226 (1.16 % of the overall global research effort in the dengue field) articles were published from the Arab region. The total number of citations for all publications was 352,710, with an average of 18.0 citations per publication. Furthermore, the h-index for all extracted data related to dengue research was 186. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was the most productive country in Arab region with 102 documents representing 45.1 %. Furthermore, the h-index for all extracted data related to dengue research was 27. The USA was Arab’s most main cooperative partner (46, 20.4 %), followed by India (36, 15.9 %).ConclusionsThe amount of literature related to dengue research has considerably increased over the last decade. This bibliometric analysis has demonstrated the leading role that the USA, India, Brazil, Thailand, the UK, and France play in dengue research. The Arab world produced fewer publications related to dengue with lower quality than other world countries.

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A bibliometric analysis of global Ebola research

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Challenges facing young African scientists in their research careers: A qualitative exploratory study

Challenges facing young African scientists in their research careers: A qualitative exploratory study

Global research trends of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a bibliometric analysis

Dengue research: a bibliometric analysis of worldwide and Arab publications during 1872–2015

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