Raut Rupesh, Sah Ranjit, Dixit Kritika, Rodriguez-Morales Alfonso J, Marco Zenteno, Dhama Kuldeep, Malik Yashpal Singh, Tiwari Ruchi, Bonilla-Aldana D Katterine, Lee Angel
King Edward Medical University, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Curr Trop Med Rep. 2021;8(4):257-264. doi: 10.1007/s40475-021-00247-0. Epub 2021 Nov 1.
There has been a high influx of publications on the SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 worldwide in the recent few months as very little was known about them. Nepal too had a substantial number of publications on the same, and there was a need to track the most relevant and impactful to the scientific community through bibliometric analysis.
A total of 72 publications were analyzed. Bagmati Pradesh (88%) and its district, Kathmandu (77%), was with the most publications. There were no publications from Gandaki and Karnali Province. Most of the publications were in the international medical journals (82%), 53% chose European journals to publish, and 15.27% were related to and published in psychology journals. The majority were original articles (39%) and mostly related to public health (20.83%). 59.7% of the papers had Nepalese as the first author. Most of them were affiliated with Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and Patan Academy of Health Sciences.
Our analysis suggests a need to shift the type of studies from observational studies to studies oriented more towards the therapeutic and clinical trials of available medicines and patient care management. Similarly, the bibliometric analysis gives an overall picture of Nepali medical research's publication status around the globe.
在过去几个月里，全球范围内关于严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）和冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的出版物大量涌现，因为此前人们对它们了解甚少。尼泊尔也有大量关于这方面的出版物，因此有必要通过文献计量分析来追踪对科学界最相关且最具影响力的文献。
共分析了72篇出版物。巴格马蒂省（88%）及其加德满都地区（77%）的出版物数量最多。甘达基省和卡纳利省没有相关出版物。大多数出版物发表在国际医学期刊上（82%），53%选择在欧洲期刊上发表，15.27%与心理学期刊相关并发表在其中。大多数是原创文章（39%），且大多与公共卫生相关（20.83%）。59.7%的论文第一作者是尼泊尔人。其中大多数隶属于特里布万大学教学医院和帕坦健康科学学院。
我们的分析表明，有必要将研究类型从观察性研究转向更多地针对现有药物的治疗和临床试验以及患者护理管理的研究。同样，文献计量分析给出了尼泊尔医学研究在全球范围内的发表状况全貌。
