Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Application and Research Center, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
J Korean Med Sci. 2023 Apr 10;38(14):e104. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2023.38.e104.
Central Asian countries (CACs) are less visible in the global scientific environment, despite their solid scientific nature. The current article aimed to assess the publication productivity of CACs since 1996 using SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR).
This is a descriptive study. The SJR portal was used to retrieve the data. The Country Rankings section was viewed, and the Asiatic Region option was chosen. The most active countries and CACs' number of documents, number of citable documents, citations, self-citations, citations per document, and H index data were obtained. The number of documents from CACs was recorded annually to determine the ten-year trend (2012 to 2021). Scientific categories in which CACs were prolific were defined.
Between 1996 and 2021, 18,336,647 documents with Asian region origins were produced. The most active countries in the Asiatic Region were China (1st), Japan (2nd), India (3rd), South Korea (4th), and Taiwan (5th). According to the number of documents, Kazakhstan ranked 15th, Uzbekistan 19th, Kyrgyzstan 24th, Tajikistan 27th, and Turkmenistan 31st among the Asiatic Region countries. The total number of documents originating from CACS, which was 1,616 in 2012, increased to 9,780 in 2021 with an upward trend (6.05 fold increase).
Despite a rising number of articles, CACs are not at the forefront of scientific productivity in the Asiatic Region. Kazakhstan is the leading country in scientific productivity among CACs. Nonetheless, the increasing quantity of articles from CACs over the last ten years suggests that these countries have the infrastructure and human resources to enhance scientific research and production.
尽管中亚国家（CACs）具有坚实的科学基础，但它们在全球科学环境中并不那么引人注目。本文旨在使用 SCImago 期刊和国家排名（SJR）评估 1996 年以来 CACs 的出版生产力。
这是一项描述性研究。使用 SJR 门户检索数据。查看国家排名部分，并选择亚洲地区选项。获得了最活跃国家和 CACs 的文件数量、可引用文件数量、引文、自引、每篇文章的引文数和 H 指数数据。记录 CACs 的文件数量，以确定十年趋势（2012 年至 2021 年）。确定 CACs 高产的科学类别。
1996 年至 2021 年期间，共发表了 18336647 篇源自亚洲地区的文献。亚洲地区最活跃的国家是中国（第 1 位）、日本（第 2 位）、印度（第 3 位）、韩国（第 4 位）和中国台湾（第 5 位）。根据文献数量，哈萨克斯坦在亚洲国家中排名第 15 位，乌兹别克斯坦第 19 位，吉尔吉斯斯坦第 24 位，塔吉克斯坦第 27 位，土库曼斯坦第 31 位。2012 年源自 CACs 的文献总数为 1616 篇，2021 年增至 9780 篇，呈上升趋势（增长 6.05 倍）。
尽管文章数量有所增加，但 CACs 在亚洲地区的科学生产力方面并未处于领先地位。哈萨克斯坦是 CACs 中科学生产力最高的国家。尽管过去十年来自 CACs 的文章数量不断增加，但这表明这些国家拥有加强科学研究和生产的基础设施和人力资源。
