Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey.
J Relig Health. 2019 Feb;58(1):1-13. doi: 10.1007/s10943-018-00739-w.
This research aims to present a bibliometric analysis of the published documents on spirituality, religion and health. Despite the increasing number of publications spirituality, religion and health research in recent years, there is still little information about the effects of these publications in the literature. "Religion," "spirituality," "spiritual," "health" and "medicine" keywords were used to search the Web of Science (WoS) database. Bibliometric analysis was conducted on the articles published between 1975 and 2017. The analysis was presented with network and density maps. The analysis also included the regression analysis to predict a number of publications in 2018. A total number of 1674 publications were found: 818 of these publications were articles. Of the 818 articles, 210 were religion, 198 were Public Environmental Occupational Health, 139 were Psychology, and 77 were performed in the field of Psychiatry. The most productive journal with 107 articles and 1129 citations was the Journal of Religion and Health. The USA (495; 60.5%) was the most productive country on spirituality, religion and health publications. The author who had the highest number of publications and citations was Koenig HG (33 publications; 4.03% and 1617 citations), the document who had the highest number of citations was Ellison CG and Levin JS (633 citations), and the author who had the highest number of citations in the references was Koenig HG, 2001, (126 citations). Duke Univ was the top institution in the number of publication (50 Article). This study will lead the researchers especially in terms of the important journals, active countries, authors, top-cited articles and current topics in spirituality, religion and health research.
本研究旨在对发表的关于灵性、宗教与健康的文献进行计量分析。尽管近年来灵性、宗教与健康研究的出版物数量不断增加，但关于这些出版物在文献中的影响的信息仍然很少。使用“宗教”、“灵性”、“精神”、“健康”和“医学”关键词在 Web of Science (WoS) 数据库中进行检索。对 1975 年至 2017 年期间发表的文章进行了计量分析。分析采用网络图和密度图呈现。分析还包括对 2018 年发表文章数量的回归分析预测。共发现 1674 篇出版物：其中 818 篇为文章。在 818 篇文章中，210 篇涉及宗教，198 篇涉及公共环境卫生职业健康，139 篇涉及心理学，77 篇涉及精神病学。发表文章数量最多（107 篇，1129 次引用）的期刊是《宗教与健康杂志》。在灵性、宗教与健康出版物方面，美国（495；60.5%）是最具生产力的国家。发表文章和引用文章数量最多的作者是 Koenig HG（33 篇；4.03%和 1617 次引用），被引频次最高的文献是 Ellison CG 和 Levin JS（633 次引用），参考文献中被引频次最高的作者是 Koenig HG，2001（126 次引用）。Duke Univ 是发表文章数量最多的机构（50 篇文章）。本研究将为研究人员提供有关灵性、宗教与健康研究的重要期刊、活跃国家、作者、高被引文章和当前研究主题的信息。
