Acinetobacter baumannii: Researchers' Scientific Cooperation Network in Three Decades

Abstract

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most common challenging pathogens in causing serious infections in intensive care units of modern hospital systems around the world and poses a serious threat to public and patient health. This study aims to analyze the network of scientific and empirical collaborations of A. baumannii researchers in the last three decades.Materials & Methods: The present study was performed using the Co-citation analysis technique. All A. baumannii publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection for the period 1990-2019 are the statistical population of the study. After an advanced search, 4473 documents were retrieved. A total of 18343 authors contributed to the publication of the retrieved documents. Ravar PreMap 1.0.0.0, NetDraw, and UCINET 6.528.0.0 software were utilized for data analysis.Results: Data analysis showed that the global publication of A. baumannii has risen. "Clinical Infectious Diseases," was the best journal, and "Seifert, Harald," the most influential researcher, and "Seifert, Harald * Higgins, Paul G," were identified as the best co-citation pair. Top researchers in A. baumannii were "Beceiro," "Alejandro," "HSU Li Yang," and "Seifert, Harald," respectively, based on degree, betweenness and closeness centrality indicators. Conclusion:Analysis of social networks A. baumannii presents an objective and realistic view to experts and planners in Medical Sciences. Also, the structure of A. baumannii's internal relationships and researchers' connections is determined objectively. Finally, researchers get acquainted with journals, scientists and organizations that are proliferated and effective and plan to collaborate with them in the future

Analysis of publications on Acinetobacter: A Scopus database search study

“…When the studies on Acinetobacter are examined in terms of the publication language, it is seen that the English is the mostly preferred language [11,12]. Our study findings were similar.…”

“…Bibliometric analysis which is social science study area, has been started to use in medical area in recent years. As different researchers made this analysis on different medical topics, it became easier to give way to perspective for future studies [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Pubmed, The Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases are mostly common databases mainly preferred in bibliometric analyses [11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

“…As different researchers made this analysis on different medical topics, it became easier to give way to perspective for future studies [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Pubmed, The Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases are mostly common databases mainly preferred in bibliometric analyses [11][12][13][14][15][16]. As Acinetobacter infections are common nosocomial pathogens all over the world and WHO reported it as an emerging pathogen we choose Acinetobacter keyword to highlight the importance of this topic and sought to give a bibliometric overview of the literature on Acinetobacter, by using Scopus database, which was used in previously published bibliometric studies.…”

“…In a study from Iran, a bibliometric analysis was conducted with using WOS database and co-citation analysis was made with the "TI" tag using Ravar PreMap, UCINET 6.528.0.0, and Netdraw 1.0.0.0 programs [12]. "Seifert, Harald" from Germany was found as the most productive author on Acinetobacter topic.…”

“…Magiorakos et al was the most cited author in our study. But in Danesh et al's [12] study "Seifert, Harald * Higgins, Paul G" were the top cited authors. This was attributed to the fact that we did not use a similar database with our study.…”