Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, 19030, Çorum, Turkey.
Beekeeping and Bee Products Application and Research Center, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey.
J Relig Health. 2018 Oct;57(5):1996-2012. doi: 10.1007/s10943-018-0665-4.
Bibliometrics is a high-demand and fast-growing statistical area for the analysis of scientific literature in a certain field. Although religion and health (R&H) field has been a developing study area in recent years, only a few bibliometric studies have been published on the literature in R&H. In this study, we aimed to perform bibliometric analysis of the health literature related to the most populous Abrahamic religions during the period of 1975-2017 by using Web of Science database including WoS Collection Core Collection, Korean Journal Database, Russian Science Citation Index and SciELO Citation Index. In overall evaluation, the USA ranked first in publication productivity with 1388 items and covered 37.21% of total literature. The Journal of Religion and Health published the highest number of documents (n = 351). We found a total of 1329 items in health and Christianity field, and the USA was the most productive country followed by the UK and Canada (n = 166 and 63 documents, respectively). Loma Linda University was found to publish the highest number of items. We detected 1965 publications in Islam and health area, and top three countries were the USA, the UK and Saudi Arabia (n = 387, 194 and 137 items, respectively). University of London was the most productive institution (n = 72, 3.67%). A total of 436 articles were detected in Judaism and health. Top three countries in productivity were the UK, Israel and the UK (211, 151 and 36 items, respectively). Hebrew University of Jerusalem produced 17.43% of total documents as the topmost institution. Although Abrahamic religions originated from Middle East, we noted that most productive authors in this field were not Middle Eastern and from developed countries. Researchers from developing or least developed countries should be encouraged to carry out more studies in R&H field.
文献计量学是分析特定领域科学文献的高需求和快速发展的统计领域。尽管宗教与健康（R&H）领域近年来一直是一个发展中的研究领域，但关于 R&H 文献的文献计量学研究却很少。在这项研究中，我们旨在通过使用包括科睿唯安 Web of Science 核心合集、韩国期刊数据库、俄罗斯科学引文索引和拉美科技索引在内的 Web of Science 数据库，对 1975-2017 年间与三大一神论宗教有关的健康文献进行文献计量学分析。在总体评价中，美国以 1388 项出版物排名第一，占总文献的 37.21%。《宗教与健康杂志》发表的文献数量最多（n=351）。我们在健康与基督教领域共发现 1329 项文献，美国是最具生产力的国家，其次是英国和加拿大（分别为 166 项和 63 项）。洛马林达大学发表的文献数量最多。我们在伊斯兰教与健康领域共发现 1965 项文献，排名前三的国家是美国、英国和沙特阿拉伯（分别为 387 项、194 项和 137 项）。伦敦大学是最具生产力的机构（n=72，3.67%）。在犹太教与健康领域共发现 436 项文献。在生产力方面排名前三的国家是英国、以色列和英国（分别为 211 项、151 项和 36 项）。耶路撒冷希伯来大学发表的文献占总文献的 17.43%，是该领域发文量最高的机构。尽管三大一神论宗教起源于中东，但我们注意到，该领域最具生产力的作者并非来自中东，而是来自发达国家。应鼓励发展中国家或最不发达国家的研究人员在 R&H 领域开展更多研究。
