Demir Emre, Yaşar Eda, Özkoçak Vahdet, Yıldırım Engin
Hitit University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Çorum, Turkey.
Hitit University, Institute of Science, Department of Forensic Sciences, Çorum, Turkey.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2020 Jan;69:101885. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2019.101885. Epub 2019 Nov 9.
The purpose of this study is to make a holistic summary of the articles published in the field of Legal Medicine/Forensic Science through bibliometric methods, determine the top cited publications in the field, and to determine the most active journals and especially trend topics. The articles published in the field of Legal Medicine between the years 1975 and 2018 were downloaded from the Web of Science index and were analyzed using bibliometric methods. The correlations between the number of publications of the countries and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDP PPP) values was analyzed using the Spearman's correlation coefficient. The number of articles to be published in the field of Legal Medicine between the years 2019 and 2022 was estimated with linear regression analysis. The results showed that there were totally 38845 articles published in the field of Legal Medicine. Regression analysis results indicate that it will exceed 2500 publications after 2022. The most productive countries in the field of Legal Medicine were the USA (12.448, 32.045%). A high correlation was found between legal medicine publication productivity and GDP and GDP PPP (r = 0.726, p < 0.001; r = 0.703, p < 0.001). As for the collaboration between countries, analysis results showed that the network web indicated the most important factor as the geographical location. This study will provide important information to a forensic scientist (a doctor, academic, and practitioner).
本研究旨在通过文献计量学方法对法医学/法科学领域发表的文章进行全面总结，确定该领域被引用次数最多的出版物，并确定最活跃的期刊以及特别是热门主题。从科学网索引中下载了1975年至2018年期间法医学领域发表的文章，并使用文献计量学方法进行分析。使用斯皮尔曼相关系数分析了各国出版物数量与国内生产总值（GDP）以及人均国内生产总值（GDP PPP）值之间的相关性。通过线性回归分析估计了2019年至2022年期间法医学领域将发表的文章数量。结果表明，法医学领域共发表了38845篇文章。回归分析结果表明，2022年后将超过2500篇出版物。法医学领域产出最多的国家是美国（12448篇，占32.045%）。发现法医学出版物产出与GDP和GDP PPP之间存在高度相关性（r = 0.726，p < 0.001；r = 0.703，p < 0.001）。至于国家间的合作，分析结果表明，网络显示地理位置是最重要的因素。本研究将为法医科学家（医生、学者和从业者）提供重要信息。
