Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Parasit Vectors. 2013 Mar 7;6:55. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-55.
Publications are often used as a measure of success of research work. Leishmaniasis is considered endemic in 98 countries, most of which are developing. This article describes a bibliometric review of the literature on leishmaniasis research indexed in PubMed during a 66-year period.
Medline was used via the PubMed online service of the US National Library of Medicine. The search strategy was Leishmania [MeSH] or leishmaniasis [MeSH] from 1 January 1945 until 31 December 2010. Neither language nor document type restrictions were employed.
A total of 20,780 references were retrieved. The number of publications increased steadily over time, with 3,380 publications from 1945-1980 to 8,267 from 2001-2010. Leishmaniasis documents were published in 1,846 scientific journals, and Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (4.9%) was the top one. The USA was the predominant country by considering the first author's institutional address (16.8%), followed by Brazil (14.9%), and then India (9.0%), however Brazil leads the scientific output in 2001-2010 period (18.5%), followed by the USA (13.5%) and India (10%). The production ranking changed when the number of publications was normalised by population (Israel and Switzerland), by gross domestic product (Nepal and Tunisia), and by gross national income per capita (India and Ethiopia). For geographical area, Europe led (31.7%), followed by Latin America (24.5%).
We have found an increase in the number of publications in the field of leishmaniasis. The USA and Brazil led scientific production on leishmaniasis research.
出版物常被用来衡量研究工作的成果。利什曼病被认为在 98 个国家流行，其中大多数为发展中国家。本文描述了对美国国立医学图书馆的 PubMed 在线服务中收录的 66 年间利什曼病研究文献的计量学综述。
使用 Medline 通过美国国立医学图书馆的 PubMed 在线服务进行检索。检索策略为 1945 年 1 月 1 日至 2010 年 12 月 31 日期间的 Leishmania [MeSH] 或 leishmaniasis [MeSH]。没有对语言或文件类型进行限制。
共检索到 20780 篇参考文献。随着时间的推移，出版物的数量稳步增加，1945-1980 年有 3380 篇，2001-2010 年有 8267 篇。利什曼病文献发表在 1846 种科学期刊上，其中《皇家热带医学与卫生学会会刊》（4.9%）排名最高。从第一作者的机构地址来看，美国是主要国家（16.8%），其次是巴西（14.9%），然后是印度（9.0%），但在 2001-2010 年期间，巴西的科学产出最高（18.5%），其次是美国（13.5%）和印度（10%）。当按出版物数量与人口（以色列和瑞士）、国内生产总值（尼泊尔和突尼斯）和人均国民总收入（印度和埃塞俄比亚）进行标准化时，生产排名发生了变化。就地理区域而言，欧洲居首位（31.7%），其次是拉丁美洲（24.5%）。
我们发现利什曼病领域的出版物数量有所增加。美国和巴西在利什曼病研究方面处于领先地位。
