Zyoud S H, Al-Jabi S W, Sweileh W M
Poison Control and Drug Information Center (PCDIC), College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Information, National Poison Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia
Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
Hum Exp Toxicol. 2015 Jan;34(1):12-23. doi: 10.1177/0960327114531993. Epub 2014 Apr 22.
There is a lack of data concerning the evaluation of scientific research productivity in paracetamol poisoning from the world. The purposes of this study were to analyse the worldwide research output related to paracetamol poisoning and to examine the authorship pattern and the citations retrieved from the Scopus database for over a decade.
Data were searched for documents with specific words regarding paracetamol poisoning as 'keywords' in the title or/and abstract. Scientific output was evaluated based on a methodology developed and used in other bibliometric studies. Research productivity was adjusted to the national population and nominal gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.
There were 1721 publications that met the criteria during study period from the world. All retrieved documents were published from 72 countries. The largest number of articles related to paracetamol poisoning was from the United States (US; 30.39%), followed by India (10.75%) and the United Kingdom (UK; 9.36%). The total number of citations at the time of data analysis was 21,109, with an average of 12.3 citations per each documents and median (interquartile range) of 4 (1-14). The h-index of the retrieved documents was 57. After adjusting for economy and population power, India (124.2), Nigeria (18.6) and the US (10.5) had the highest research productivity. Countries with large economies, such as the UK, Australia, Japan, China and France, tended to rank relatively low after adjustment for GDP over the entire study period.
Our study demonstrates evidence that research productivity related to paracetamol poisoning has increased rapidly during the recent years. The US obviously dominated in research productivity. However, certain smaller country such as Nigeria has high scientific output relative to their population size and GDP. A highly noticeable increase in the contributions of Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions to scientific literature related to paracetamol poisoning was also observed.
目前全球缺乏关于对乙酰氨基酚中毒科研生产力评估的数据。本研究旨在分析全球范围内与对乙酰氨基酚中毒相关的研究产出，并研究作者模式以及从Scopus数据库中检索到的十多年来的文献引用情况。
以标题或摘要中包含“对乙酰氨基酚中毒”特定词汇作为“关键词”搜索文献。基于其他文献计量学研究中开发和使用的方法评估科研产出。研究生产力根据各国人口和人均名义国内生产总值（GDP）进行调整。
在研究期间，全球共有1721篇符合标准的出版物。所有检索到的文献来自72个国家。与对乙酰氨基酚中毒相关文章数量最多的是美国（30.39%），其次是印度（10.75%）和英国（9.36%）。数据分析时的总引用次数为21109次，平均每篇文献引用12.3次，中位数（四分位间距）为4次（1 - 14次）。检索文献的h指数为57。在对经济和人口因素进行调整后，印度（124.2）、尼日利亚（18.6）和美国（10.5）的研究生产力最高。在整个研究期间，英国、澳大利亚、日本、中国和法国等经济大国在经GDP调整后排名相对较低。
我们的研究表明，近年来与对乙酰氨基酚中毒相关的研究生产力迅速增长。美国在研究生产力方面明显占据主导地位。然而，某些较小的国家，如尼日利亚，相对于其人口规模和GDP而言，科研产出较高。还观察到亚太地区和中东地区对与对乙酰氨基酚中毒相关科学文献的贡献有显著增加。
