A Global Analysis of Research Outputs on Neurotoxicants from 2011–2020: Adverse Effects on Humans and the Environment

Abstract

Neurotoxicants are detrimental to the mammalian nervous system at higher concentrations after exposure, and could result in several neurological abnormalities, especially on the nervous and reproductive systems, and sometimes death. The present study, therefore, aimed to evaluate the research growth on neurotoxicants and their effects on humans and the environment over the last decade from 2011 to 2020. Data on this subject were obtained from the SCI-Expanded of Web of Science, and analyses were performed on the retrieved data in RStudio. The number of published documents fluctuated over the studied years, with an annual growth rate of 4.46%, and the highest number of publications were recorded in 2020 (n = 40). Single authored documents, documents per author, authors per documents, and collaboration index were 24, 0.219, 4.57, and 4.87, respectively. Networks of collaboration in this study were noticeable among authors, institutions, and countries; thus, making efforts to strengthen networking globally would be a good idea. Results from this study also show that the growing trend of research in the field is quite encouraging, thus providing future directions to upcoming researchers, and contributes immensely to reducing the exposure and several disorders linked to these neurotoxicants globally.

The relevance of livestock husbandry in the context of food security: a bibliometric outlook of research studies from 1938 to 2020

“…In agreement with the findings of the present study, previous reports of bibliometric studies from authors who assessed studies in other fields often discovered that knowledge drivers (researchers) of most bibliometric studies are from countries with financially stable economies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and China, with very few contributions coming from authors based in developing/low-income countries (Orimoloye and Ololade, 2021;Smith et al, 2021;Tywabi-Ngeva et al, 2022). The foremost countries with networks/collaborations on livestock husbandry and food security research mostly networked or formed alliances with other developed countries, while on few occasions they networked with authors from other developing nations whose governments give little or no attention and sponsorship to research work that has the potential of positively impacting their countries' economies and knowledge advancement.…”

“…With respect to the amount of research output, nations from stable economies (e.g., the United Kingdom, United States, and China) usually show dominance on the international stage (Geaney et al, 2015;Bruggmann et al, 2017;Idamokoro and Hosu, 2022b). In addition, these developed nations tend to network and collaborate in the area of research with other developed countries thereby neglecting nations from developing societies (Orimoloye and Ololade, 2021;Smith et al, 2021;Tywabi-Ngeva et al, 2022). Alliances between developed and developing nations are rare in scholarly studies (Orimoloye and Ololade, 2021).…”