Robert Claude, Wilson Concepción Shimizu
Gliaxone, Saint Germain sous Doue, France.
School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Front Pain Res (Lausanne). 2023 Mar 1;4:1071453. doi: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1071453. eCollection 2023.
During the last decades, the emergence of Bibliometrics and the progress in Pain research have led to a proliferation of bibliometric studies on the medical and scientific literature of pain (B/P). This study charts the evolution of the B/P literature published during the last 30 years. Using various searching techniques, 189 B/P studies published from 1993 to August 2022 were collected for analysis-half were published since 2018. Most of the selected B/P publications use bibliometric analysis of Pain , while some focus on specific types of Pain with Headache/Migraine, Low Back Pain, Chronic Pain, and Cancer Pain dominating. Each study is characterized by the origin (geographical, economical, institutional, …) and the medical/scientific context over a specified time span to provide a detailed landscape of the Pain research literature. Some B/P studies have been developed to pinpoint difficulties in appropriately identifying the Pain literature or to highlight some general publishing pitfalls. Having observed that most of the recent B/P studies have integrated newly emergent software visualization tools (SVTs), we found an increase of anomalies and suggest that readers exercise caution when interpreting results in the B/P literature details.
在过去几十年里，文献计量学的兴起以及疼痛研究的进展导致了大量关于疼痛医学和科学文献的文献计量学研究（B/P）。本研究梳理了过去30年发表的B/P文献的发展历程。通过各种检索技术，收集了1993年至2022年8月发表的189项B/P研究进行分析，其中一半是2018年以来发表的。大多数选定的B/P出版物使用疼痛文献计量分析，而一些则专注于特定类型的疼痛，其中头痛/偏头痛、腰痛、慢性疼痛和癌症疼痛占主导。每项研究的特点是在特定时间段内的起源（地理、经济、机构等）和医学/科学背景，以提供疼痛研究文献的详细概况。一些B/P研究旨在找出准确识别疼痛文献的困难之处，或突出一些普遍的出版陷阱。在观察到最近的大多数B/P研究都整合了新出现的软件可视化工具（SVT）后，我们发现异常情况有所增加，并建议读者在解读B/P文献细节中的结果时谨慎行事。
