Sweileh Waleed M, AbuTaha Adham S, Sawalha Ansam F, Al-Khalil Suleiman, Al-Jabi Samah W, Zyoud Sa'ed H
Department of Pharmacology/ Toxicology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, 44839 Palestine.
Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Genetics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, 44839 Palestine.
Multidiscip Respir Med. 2017 Jan 11;11:45. doi: 10.1186/s40248-016-0081-0. eCollection 2016.
The year 2015 marked the end of United Nations Millennium Development Goals which was aimed at halting and reversing worldwide tuberculosis (TB). The emergence of drug resistance is a major challenge for worldwide TB control. The aim of this study was to give a bibliometric overview of publications on multi-, extensively, and totally drug-resistant TB.
Scopus database was used to retrieve articles on multidrug resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR), and totally drug-resistant (TDR) tuberculosis for the study period (2006-2015). The number of publications, top productive countries and institutions, citation analysis, co-authorships, international collaboration, active authors, and active journals were retrieved and analyzed.
A total of 2260 journal articles were retrieved. The mean ± SD citations per article was 7.04 ± 16.0. The -index of retrieved data was 76. The number of publications showed a three - fold increase over the study period compared with less than two - fold increase in tuberculosis research during the same study period. Stratified by number of publications, the United States of America ranked first while Switzerland ranked first in productivity per 100 million people, and South Africa ranked first in productivity stratified per one trillion Gross Domestic Product. Three of the High Burden Countries (HBC) MDR-TB (India, China, and South Africa) were present in top productive countries. High percentage of international collaboration was seen among most HBC MDR-TB. Except for journal, most active journals in publishing articles on MDR, XDR, TDR-TB were in infection - related fields and in general medicine. Top 20 cited articles were published in prestigious journal such as and . The themes in top 20 cited articles were diverse, ranging from molecular biology, diagnostic tools, co-infection with HIV, and results of new anti-TB drugs.
Publications on MDR, XDR and TDR - TB are increasing in the past decade. International collaboration was common. Many low resourced African and Asian countries will benefit from research leading to new diagnostic and screening technology of TB. The exchange of expertise, ideas and technology is of paramount importance in this field.
2015年标志着联合国千年发展目标的结束，该目标旨在遏制和扭转全球结核病（TB）疫情。耐药性的出现是全球结核病控制的一项重大挑战。本研究的目的是对关于多重耐药、广泛耐药和全耐药结核病的出版物进行文献计量学概述。
使用Scopus数据库检索研究期间（2006 - 2015年）关于耐多药（MDR）、广泛耐药（XDR）和全耐药（TDR）结核病的文章。检索并分析出版物数量、高产国家和机构、引文分析、共同作者情况、国际合作、活跃作者以及活跃期刊。
共检索到2260篇期刊文章。每篇文章的平均引文数±标准差为7.04±16.0。检索数据的h指数为76。与同一研究期间结核病研究不到两倍的增长相比，本研究期间出版物数量增长了三倍。按出版物数量分层，美利坚合众国排名第一，而瑞士在每亿人口生产力方面排名第一，南非在按万亿国内生产总值分层的生产力方面排名第一。耐多药结核病高负担国家（HBC）中的三个国家（印度、中国和南非）位列高产国家。大多数耐多药结核病高负担国家之间的国际合作比例较高。除了某期刊外，发表关于耐多药、广泛耐药、全耐药结核病文章的最活跃期刊都在感染相关领域和普通医学领域。被引次数排名前20的文章发表在《柳叶刀》和《新英格兰医学杂志》等著名期刊上。被引次数排名前20的文章主题多样，涵盖分子生物学、诊断工具、与艾滋病毒合并感染以及新型抗结核药物的结果等。
在过去十年中，关于耐多药、广泛耐药和全耐药结核病的出版物不断增加。国际合作很常见。许多资源匮乏的非洲和亚洲国家将从结核病新诊断和筛查技术的研究中受益。在该领域，专业知识、思想和技术的交流至关重要。
