Pintér Henriett, Gál Franciska, Molnár Pál
Semmelweis University, Andras Pető Faculty, Research Group on Communication Teaching and Learning, Hungary.
Heliyon. 2022 Jun 12;8(6):e09718. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09718. eCollection 2022 Jun.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a well-researched area of medical science, health science and special education. The growing number of publications every year makes difficult to monitor the progress of this research domain, therefore there is a broad interest for conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of interventions in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. Our goal is to analyze the scientific activity of authors who published systematic reviews and meta-analyses of CP intervention studies. To identify the active researchers, institutions, and countries, we used scientometric and bibliometric indicators that assess their productivity, collaborations, and the citations (utilization/usefulness of their studies), also paying attention to the institutional background and the network structure of national and international collaboration. We used Scopus to search for articles and included systematic reviews and meta-analyses of intervention studies, a total of 180 works, in our sample. Our results showed active and large communities of prolific authors and groups of authors with diverse institutional background. Most institutions are universities, hospitals, but we found various other organizations among them. Most of the universities are leading educational institutions according to international rankings; some of them are among the top-ranking ones. In geographical terms, the North American, Australian, and European regions are the most active and most interconnected ones. We assume organizations other than scientific collaboration networks also play a major role in the productivity and dissemination of scientific knowledge in this research area. As an example, we could mention the network, including the US, Australian and European registers. Authors living and working in the Far East, the Middle East or in South America also started to publish relevant articles in the 2010s. The research network structuring scientific knowledge in this area is flourishing.
脑性瘫痪(CP)是医学、健康科学和特殊教育领域中一个研究充分的领域。每年不断增加的出版物数量使得监测该研究领域的进展变得困难,因此,在国际同行评审科学期刊上对干预措施进行系统评价和荟萃分析受到广泛关注。我们的目标是分析发表脑性瘫痪干预研究系统评价和荟萃分析的作者的科研活动。为了确定活跃的研究人员、机构和国家,我们使用了科学计量学和文献计量学指标来评估他们的生产力、合作情况以及论文被引用情况(研究的利用率/实用性),同时也关注机构背景以及国家和国际合作的网络结构。我们使用Scopus搜索文章,并将干预研究的系统评价和荟萃分析纳入样本,共180篇作品。我们的结果显示,有活跃且庞大的多产作者群体以及具有不同机构背景的作者群体。大多数机构是大学、医院,但我们也发现其中有各种其他组织。根据国际排名,大多数大学都是领先的教育机构;其中一些位列顶尖行列。从地域角度来看,北美、澳大利亚和欧洲地区最为活跃且联系最为紧密。我们认为,除科学合作网络之外的组织在该研究领域的科学知识生产力和传播方面也发挥着重要作用。例如,我们可以提及包括美国、澳大利亚和欧洲登记册在内的网络。在2010年代,生活和工作在远东、中东或南美洲的作者也开始发表相关文章。构建该领域科学知识的研究网络正在蓬勃发展。