General trends in world biogeographic literature: a preliminary bibliometric analysis

Research trends and perspectives of male infertility: a bibliometric analysis of 20 years of scientific literature.

To carry out an in-depth analysis of the scientific research on male infertility, we performed the first bibliometric analysis focusing on studies involving male infertility worldwide during the period 1995-2014. Analysis of 6357 articles in the field of male infertility showed a significant increasing trend in the number of publications over the period 1995-2014. Obstetrics and Gynecology was ...

Publication trends in corneal transplantation: a bibliometric analysis

BACKGROUND Our aim was to demonstrate the publication trends of corneal transplantation in the last decade. METHODS All of the keratoplasty research articles, letters, case reports, reviews and meeting abstracts published between January 2006 and December 2015 indexed on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge were evaluated. A bibliometric filter was used to capture keratoplasty related publica...

Knowledge Management in Organizations - A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends

Global research trends in spinal ultrasound: a systematic bibliometric analysis

BACKGROUND In recent years, there has been increased interest in the use of ultrasound technology in the evaluation of spinal and paraspinal regions. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate trends in spinal ultrasound research from 1994 to 2015 and compare the contributions of such research from different countries and authors. STUDY DESIGN Bibliometric analysis. SETTING Publications re...

Representation of Cancer in the Medical Literature - A Bibliometric Analysis

BACKGROUND There exists a lack of knowledge regarding the quantity and quality of scientific yield in relation to individual cancer types. We aimed to measure the proportion, quality and relevance of oncology-related articles, and to relate this output to their associated disease burden. By incorporating the impact factor(IF) and Eigenfactor™(EF) into our analysis we also assessed the relations...