1. An Analysis of the Publication of Osteoporosis Research
Wing P. Chan1, Wen-Ta Chiu2, Wang-Yi Lo3, Hsiu-Yuan Yang3, Yi-Chia Tseng4, Yi-Shyan Liao4 and Yuh-Shan Ho5
1Department of Rediology, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
3School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
4Department of Orthopedics, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
5Bibliometric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Introduction
Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. If not prevented or if left untreated, osteoporosis can progress painlessly until a bone breaks. Osteoporosis-related topics have been the subject of numerous studies during the last two decades. The objective of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of all osteoporosis-related publications in Science Citation Index (SCI) from
Methods
Documents used in this study were based on the databases of the SCI which was accessed from the ISI Web of Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA. The keywords “osteoporosis” and “bone densitometry” were used to search for papers published SCI.
Results
Table 1. Major characteristics of the research
Figure 1. Annual publication output
Figure 2. Ten most used author keywords
PY: Publication year
P: No. of articles
PG: Total pages
AU: No. of authors
J: No. of journals
SP, single country publications
CP, international collaborative publications
Table 2. Publication activity of top ten countries
Conclusions
The results show an increasing number of articles since 1991 and author numbers, article pages, and journal numbers indicate a continuous growth of the scientific community.
The seven most productive countries were the seven industrialized countries (G7).
The US was the world leader and dominated most of the publications, followed by the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Canada.
English was the dominant language, and 3 or 6 authors (55%) were the most common number of co-author.
Thirteen document types were found in the total of 24,479 documents.
The paper article was the most-frequently used document type comprising 71% of the total production.
Articles were published by 94 countries with 14 languages