Department of Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia , Kubang Kerian, Malaysia.
Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy, Universiti Utara Malaysia 06010 UUM Sintok , Kedah, Malaysia.
Chronobiol Int. 2021 Jan;38(1):27-37. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2020.1838534. Epub 2020 Nov 8.
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the publications on melatonin research from the Scopus database during the period 2015-2019. Based on the keywords used, which are related to melatonin in the article title, the study retrieved 4411 documents for further analysis using various tools. We used Microsoft Excel to conduct the frequency analysis, VOSviewer for data visualization, and Harzing's Publish or Perish for citation metrics and analysis. This study reports the results using standard bibliometric indicators such as the growth of publications, authorship patterns, collaboration, and prolific authors, country contribution, most active institutions, preferred journals, and top-cited articles. Based on our findings, there is a continuous growth of publications on melatonin research for 5 years since 2015. China was the largest contributor to melatonin research, followed by the United States. The published the most number of publications related to melatonin research. Our findings suggest that the role of melatonin in plant and food sciences, as well as in cancer, may in later years take over the clusters that earlier dominated melatonin research.
本研究对 Scopus 数据库中 2015-2019 年期间褪黑素研究相关出版物进行了文献计量分析。基于文章标题中与褪黑素相关的关键词，本研究使用各种工具检索了 4411 篇文献进行进一步分析。我们使用 Microsoft Excel 进行频率分析，VOSviewer 进行数据可视化，以及 Harzing's Publish or Perish 进行引文计量和分析。本研究使用标准的文献计量指标报告结果，如出版物的增长、作者模式、合作情况和高产作者、国家贡献、最活跃的机构、首选期刊和高被引文章。根据我们的发现，自 2015 年以来，褪黑素研究的出版物数量呈持续增长趋势，已有 5 年。中国是褪黑素研究的最大贡献者，其次是美国。美国发表了数量最多的褪黑素研究相关出版物。我们的研究结果表明，褪黑素在植物和食品科学以及癌症中的作用，可能在未来几年会取代早期主导褪黑素研究的研究领域。
