Bibliometric analysis of publications on pediatric epilepsy between 1980 and 2018
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Bibliometric analysis of publications on pediatric epilepsy between 1980 and 2018 Muhammet Gultekin Kutluk 1
&
Aysegul Danis 2
Received: 21 June 2020 / Accepted: 22 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Background/objective Childhood epilepsy is one of the disease groups with the highest disease burden in society. This study aimed to guide researchers for new studies by determining the most compelling studies and current issues through a bibliometric analysis of scientific outputs about childhood epilepsy between 1980 and 2018. Methods The literature review was conducted using the Web of Science (WoS) database. Epilepsy and status epilepticus were used as search keywords in WoS, and the search was performed only in the title section of the publications. Only publications in the research field of pediatrics were included in the study and were analyzed bibliometrically. Linear regression analysis was used to estimate the number of publications in the coming years. Results It was seen that the number of articles on pediatric epilepsy has been increasing with a linear trend. A total of 3424 publications were found. Of these publications, 2197 (64.2%) articles were analyzed bibliometrically. The top two most productive countries were the USA(654) and Italy (199). The first two most active institutions were The Hospital for Sick Children (40, 1.8%) and Tel Aviv University (38, 1.7%). The top three journals that published the most were Journal of Child Neurology (422, 19.2%), Pediatric Neurology (335, 15.2%), and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (201, 9.1%). Conclusion In this bibliometric study on childhood epilepsies, a data summary of 2197 articles published between 1980 and 2018 is presented. We hope that this article will be a useful literature review and guide researchers working on pediatric epilepsy. Keywords Bibliometric analysis . Epilepsy . Pediatric . Status epilepticus . Trends
Introduction Epilepsy is a prevalent, chronic, severe neurologic disease that has affected millions of people worldwide over the years [4, 14, 19]. There are different findings in the literature regarding the incidence of epilepsy, in a meta-analysis Ngugi et al. (2011) reported that the incidence was 45/100,000 (IQR 30– 67) in high-income countries and 82/100,000 (IQR 28–240) in * Muhammet Gultekin Kutluk [email protected] Aysegul Danis [email protected] 1
Department of Pediatric Neurology, University of Health Sciences, Antalya Research and Training Hospital, Varlık Avenue Kazım Karabekir Street, 07100 Muratpaşa, Antalya, Turkey
2
Department of Pediatric Neurology, University of Health Sciences, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children’s Research and Education Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
low- and middle-income countries [15]. In the meta-analysis conducted by Camfield et al. (2015), it was found that the incidence of epilepsy in children was between 41 and 187/ 100,000 [3]. The prevalence of epilepsy in children is reported to vary between 3.2 a
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