Attal Zoé Gabrielle, Gabay Sapir Itzhaki, Peles Galia, Horev Amir
From the Medical School for International Health (MSIH), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Pediatric Outpatient Clinic, Soroka University Medical Center, Yitzhak, Israel.
Indian J Dermatol. 2024 Jul-Aug;69(4):365. doi: 10.4103/ijd.ijd_673_23. Epub 2024 Aug 19.
Vitiligo is a skin disease affecting melanocytes, characterised by the development of depigmented skin lesions.
We used bibliometric analysis (BA) to identify high-quality research articles on vitiligo using criteria such as total citations, annual citations (AC) and journal impact factors. We extracted the 100 most-cited articles on vitiligo using the Web of Science database and analysed the results using Microsoft Excel 2019. Our search was limited to manuscript titles or abstracts containing the keyword 'vitiligo'. The data extracted information such as title, author, year of publication, journal of publication, total citations and research area. We also calculated the AC rate to account for bias.
A total of 6,189 studies were retrieved. The 100 most-cited articles were published between 1976 and 2017. Of those, 75 were original articles, with the research foci being mainly pathogenesis (29%) and treatment (26%). The US was the most prolific publisher overall. We separately retrieved the highest cited data from 2018 to 2022 and tabled the top 10. Of those, 50% were original articles.
Our BA shows that developed countries published most of the vitiligo literature. Additionally, recent research has focused on targeted treatment approaches. We also highlight the increasing paediatric vitiligo research, specifically regarding therapies.
白癜风是一种影响黑素细胞的皮肤病，其特征是出现皮肤色素脱失性病变。
我们使用文献计量分析（BA），通过总被引频次、年度被引频次（AC）和期刊影响因子等标准，来识别关于白癜风的高质量研究文章。我们使用科学网数据库提取了100篇被引频次最高的关于白癜风的文章，并使用Microsoft Excel 2019对结果进行分析。我们的搜索仅限于标题或摘要中包含关键词“白癜风”的手稿。所提取的数据包括标题、作者、发表年份、发表期刊、总被引频次和研究领域等信息。我们还计算了AC率以消除偏差。
共检索到6189项研究。100篇被引频次最高的文章发表于1976年至2017年之间。其中，75篇为原创文章，研究重点主要是发病机制（29%）和治疗（26%）。美国是总体上发表文章最多的国家。我们分别检索了2018年至2022年被引频次最高的数据并列出了前10名。其中，50%为原创文章。
我们的文献计量分析表明，大多数白癜风文献是由发达国家发表的。此外，近期的研究集中在靶向治疗方法上。我们还强调了儿科白癜风研究的增加，特别是在治疗方面。
