Parasitology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Department of Dermatology, Hitit University Faculty of Medicine, Çorum, Türkiye.
Turkiye Parazitol Derg. 2023 Sep 18;47(3):171-178. doi: 10.4274/tpd.galenos.2023.51423.
Scabiosis, the infestation of the skin with , is a neglected tropical disease, with at least 200 million people being infested with the parasite at any time. It is estimated that scabies is responsible for 0.07% of the total burden of disease worldwide. Objective of this study is to perform a scientometric analysis of literature using the Web of Science Core Collection database for the years 1981-2020.
All documents indexed between 1981 and 2020 in scabies literature were analyzed by using a search string including keywords of "scabies", "" and "" in Web of Science Core Collection database. We excluded all materials including data on the bacterium species named Streptomyces scabies and .
Overall, 2,933 articles were retrieved on scabies, 66.3% of which were original article. With 663 publications the USA was the most productive country, while The International Journal of Dermatology was the journal with the highest number of publications on scabies. Half of the most productive institutions and seven of the top ten prolific authors were also from Australia. The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia was the most supportive funding agency. With 4,706 citations, 2020 was the year with most references on scabies. The most cited publication was "The Global Burden of Skin Disease in 2010: An Analysis of the Prevalence and Impact of Skin Conditions" by Hay et al. in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology with a total of 565 citations. The most collaborative country was Australia and the most cooperative institution was the University of Melbourne.
The majority of the studies were done in a given country while multicenter studies are very rare. It is recommended that more studies should be conducted on scabiosis in developing countries where the problem of scabies is the biggest.
疥疮是一种由 引起的皮肤寄生虫病，是一种被忽视的热带病，任何时候都至少有 2 亿人受到寄生虫的感染。据估计，疥疮占全球疾病总负担的 0.07%。本研究的目的是使用 Web of Science 核心集数据库对 1981 年至 2020 年的 文献进行科学计量分析。
使用包括“疥疮”、“”和“”关键字的搜索字符串，分析 1981 年至 2020 年索引的疥疮文献中的所有文档。我们排除了所有包括名为链霉菌疥疮和 的细菌物种数据的材料。
总共检索到 2933 篇关于疥疮的文章，其中 66.3%为原始文章。美国是发表文章最多的国家，有 663 篇，而《国际皮肤病学杂志》是发表疥疮文章最多的期刊。在最具生产力的机构中，有一半和排名前十的高产作者中有七个来自澳大利亚。澳大利亚国家卫生和医学研究委员会是最支持的资助机构。2020 年是疥疮文献引用量最多的一年，有 4706 条引用。引用量最多的出版物是 Hay 等人在《皮肤病调查杂志》上发表的“2010 年全球皮肤疾病负担：皮肤状况的患病率和影响分析”，总引用量为 565 次。合作最密切的国家是澳大利亚，合作最密切的机构是墨尔本大学。
大多数研究都是在一个特定的国家进行的，而多中心研究非常罕见。建议在疥疮问题最大的发展中国家开展更多关于疥疮的研究。
