The 100 top-cited articles on scrub typhus: a bibliometric analysis

• DOI: 10.24171/j.phrp.2021.12.2.10
• Publication Date: 2021-05-05T22:51:35Z
• Authors: Taha Hussein Musa; Wei Li; Joseph Kawuki; Pingmin Wei
• Keywords: Citation analysis; Web of science

The aims of this study were to analyze the characteristics 100 top-cited articles on scrub typhus (ST), and assess present research landscape future directions using bibliometric analysis.Web Science was used conduct a analysis ST. analyzed by publication year, number citations, document type, journals, keywords, institutions, country origin, authorship.The top ST published between 1945 2017. citations ranges from 39 227 interquartile range 35.5. United States highest (n=21) articles. Mahidol University most prolific institution in terms (n=14). American Journal Tropical Medicine Hygiene journal with (n=14), Paris DH productive author Hirsh-index, which 10 for that author. revealed significant correlation total authors (r=0.668, p < 0.001), institutions (r=0.692, years since (r=0.869, countries involved (r=0.963, 0.001).The findings provide landmarks citation frequency influential In addition, provides useful information readers health policy-makers evaluating literature