The evolution of the regional anesthesia: a holistic investigation of global outputs with bibliometric analysis between 1980-2019

Abstract

the body with local anesthetic medications without causing loss of consciousness [1]. When regional anesthesia is compared with general anesthesia, the frequency of use is increasing, due to early mobilization, high analgesia level,

Regional Anesthesia (2012–2021): A Comprehensive Examination Based on Bibliometric Analyses of Hotpots, Knowledge Structure and Intellectual Dynamics

“…In a previous bibliometric study on RA, it was noted that some countries had become more productive and occupied an advanced position in this decade. 9 The dominance of Western countries in this study resulted from the prevalence of RA research among their academic and medical organizations. Harvard Medical School represented the most productive institute with 150 scholarly discourses.…”

“…One previous bibliometric study was conducted for research published from 1980 to 2019, in which the Web of Science database was used. 9 Therefore, as it is known, updating bibliometric studies and diversifying the use of databases are necessary steps in monitoring and analyzing all kinds of research. The purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of documents published in the Scopus database on RA between 2012 and 2021 to determine which countries, organizations, and authors are influential, international cooperation, and the most cited articles and journals in this field.…”

Bibliometric analysis of swimming publications in sports science: a medical perspective

“…The WoS database indexes articles published in journals with a higher impact than other databases . In recent years, WoS has been (9)(10)(11) widely preferred in bibliometric analysis . (12)(13)(14)…”

“…(9,10) While bibliometric studies can reveal the countries, journals, institutions, and authors that are most active in a subject or a field, they can also present inter-author, interinstitutional and international cooperation . Thanks (10,11) to biblio-metric studies, researchers can master the literature in a short time by reading the abstracts obtained from the analyses of hundreds of articles from the past to the present . In line with the increasing number of (12,13) publi-cations in the literature, bibliometric studies have been carried out on many medical topics .…”

“…In line with the increasing number of (12,13) publi-cations in the literature, bibliometric studies have been carried out on many medical topics . In recent (10)(11)(12)(13)(14) years, bibliometric studies have also started to be carried out in sports sciences . (15,16) Although the number of global studies on swimming, which have an essential place in sports sciences, has increased, there are still no bibliometric studies in the literature.…”