Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Department of Pediatric Urology, Ankara, Turkey.
Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Parasitology, Ankara, Turkey.
Parasitol Int. 2024 Dec;103:102945. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2024.102945. Epub 2024 Aug 10.
Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease caused by Echinocccus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis and declared a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization. The disease is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in India, Australia, China, Turkey, South America, the Middle East, and Eastern European countries. Bibliometric analysis is a popular research trend that gains the advantage of evaluating all the studies about one specific topic and emphasizing the importance and place of the subject in the literature. With this study, we aim to evaluate all the global published literature in the Web of Science core collection database about urinary tract echinococcosis between 1945 and 2024.
All documents indexed in the Web of Science core collection database between 1945 and 2024 were scanned on March 29, 2024. VOSviewer program 1.6.20 and MS Office Excel 2017 programs were used for forward analysis.
152 documents were obtained, 102 of which were indexed in SCI-Expanded journals. Turkey (21.71%) was the leading country in terms of the total number of documents, followed by India (21.05%), but citations of Indian publications were higher (21.77%). Spain was in the first rank in terms of average citations per document (19.33). Most of the documents were original articles (78.29%). Okan Akhan was the most prolific author, with three documents. The most-cited document was conducted in 1997 by Angulo et al. and received 74 citations. With seven publications, Urology Case Reports was the journal that published the most documents on urinary tract echinococcosis.
Evaluating the studies on urinary system echinococcosis with bibliometric analysis, it is understood that although the number of studies has gradually increased over the years, they are still less than expected. We recommend that more studies be conducted to determine the true prevalence of echinococcosis and ensure more effective management of the disease, especially in countries where it is endemic.
包虫病是一种由细粒棘球绦虫和多房棘球绦虫引起的寄生虫病，被世界卫生组织列为被忽视的热带病。该疾病是发病率和死亡率的重要原因，特别是在印度、澳大利亚、中国、土耳其、南美洲、中东和东欧国家。文献计量分析是一种流行的研究趋势，它的优势在于评估关于一个特定主题的所有研究，并强调该主题在文献中的重要性和地位。通过这项研究，我们旨在评估 1945 年至 2024 年间在 Web of Science 核心集数据库中全球发表的关于泌尿道包虫病的所有文献。
于 2024 年 3 月 29 日扫描了 1945 年至 2024 年期间在 Web of Science 核心集数据库中索引的所有文献。VOSviewer 程序 1.6.20 和 MS Office Excel 2017 程序用于正向分析。
共获得 152 篇文献，其中 102 篇被 SCI-Expanded 期刊索引。土耳其（21.71%）在文献总数方面处于领先地位，其次是印度（21.05%），但印度出版物的引用率更高（21.77%）。在平均每篇文献的引用次数方面，西班牙排名第一（19.33）。大多数文献为原创文章（78.29%）。Okan Akhan 是最多产的作者，有三篇文章。被引次数最多的文献是 1997 年 Angulo 等人发表的一篇文献，被引 74 次。发表泌尿道包虫病文献最多的期刊是《泌尿外科病例报告》，有 7 篇。
通过文献计量分析评估泌尿系统包虫病的研究，了解到尽管近年来研究数量逐渐增加，但仍低于预期。我们建议开展更多研究，以确定包虫病的真实流行率，并确保对该疾病进行更有效的管理，特别是在疾病流行的国家。
