Sweileh Waleed M, Shraim Naser Y, Al-Jabi Samah W, Sawalha Ansam F, Rahhal Belal, Khayyat Rasha A, Zyoud Sa'ed H
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, 44839 Palestine.
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, 44839 Palestine.
World Allergy Organ J. 2016 Jul 25;9:25. doi: 10.1186/s40413-016-0116-1. eCollection 2016.
A wide variety of probiotic products has been introduced into the market in the past decade. Research trends and activity on probiotics help understand how these products were evolved and their potential future role in medicine. The objective of this study was to assess the research activity on probiotics in pediatrics using bibliometric indicators and network visualization.
Original and review articles on probiotics in pediatrics published worldwide were retrieved from SciVerse, Scopus (1994-2014) and analyzed. VOSviewer was used for network visualization.
The total number of documents published on probiotics in pediatrics was 2817. Research activity on probiotics in pediatrics showed approximately 90- fold increase during the study period. Approximately 22 % of published articles originated from USA and has the greatest share, however, Finland ranked first when data were stratified by population or income. The most productive institution in this field was Turku University in Finland with 82 (2.91 %) articles. Half of the prolific authors were also from Finland. Most of the published research activity appeared in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Most frequently encountered title terms include nutrition, infant formula, necrotizing enetrocolitis, allergy, and diarrhea. The total number of citations for the retreived documents documents was 70991, and the average citation per article was 25.20.
Interest in probiotic research and its potential benefits in pediatric ailments is relatively recent but significantly increasing. Bibliometric analysis can be used as an indicator of the importance and growth of probiotic use in pediatrics.
在过去十年中，各种各样的益生菌产品已投放市场。益生菌的研究趋势和活动有助于了解这些产品是如何演变的以及它们未来在医学中的潜在作用。本研究的目的是使用文献计量指标和网络可视化来评估儿科领域益生菌的研究活动。
从SciVerse、Scopus（1994 - 2014年）检索并分析全球发表的关于儿科益生菌的原创文章和综述文章。使用VOSviewer进行网络可视化。
儿科领域发表的关于益生菌的文献总数为2817篇。在研究期间，儿科益生菌的研究活动增长了约90倍。约22%的已发表文章来自美国，占比最大，然而，按人口或收入分层时，芬兰排名第一。该领域产出最多的机构是芬兰图尔库大学，有82篇（2.91%）文章。一半多产的作者也来自芬兰。大多数已发表的研究活动出现在《儿科胃肠病学与营养杂志》上。最常出现的标题术语包括营养、婴儿配方奶粉、坏死性小肠结肠炎、过敏和腹泻。检索到的文献总被引次数为70991次，每篇文章的平均被引次数为25.20次。
对益生菌研究及其在儿科疾病中的潜在益处的关注相对较新，但正在显著增加。文献计量分析可作为益生菌在儿科应用的重要性和发展的一个指标。
