Chutiyami Muhammad
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
J Parasitol Res. 2024 Oct 24;2024:8201097. doi: 10.1155/2024/8201097. eCollection 2024.
Malaria vaccine is one of the critical areas in tropical health research, considering the success recorded in other vaccine-preventable diseases. This study is aimed at reviewing recent trends in global malaria vaccine research from 2005 to 2022. A validated search strategy was undertaken to identify scientific literature on the malaria vaccine in the Scopus database. Bibliometric indicators identified include a pattern of publication growth and citations over the study period; top authors, countries, funding organizations, and journals; keywords, including different malarial parasite species, and the overall research themes. A total of 6457 documents were found from 2005 to 2022, published in 160 journals/sources in 189 countries/territories. Malaria Journal published the highest number of research outputs (478, 7.4%) within the study period, and the highest number of documents (468, 7.3%) were published in 2021. There were 214,323 total citations, with 33.2 average citations per document and 167 documents' h-index. The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia combined produced more than 60% of the publication output, with most collaboration with African countries such as Kenya. is the most occurring parasite species keyword (754, 11.7%), with a growing interest in (30, 0.5%). Merozoite surface protein, characterization, trials, infant/children, traveler, and research/review were the six themes that emerged from the studies. The last one and half decades have seen a significant increase in malaria vaccine research and citations, mainly targeting vaccine development, safety, and efficacy in Africa. This necessitates more international efforts to improve the vaccines' effectiveness considering different species.
考虑到在其他疫苗可预防疾病方面取得的成功，疟疾疫苗是热带卫生研究的关键领域之一。本研究旨在回顾2005年至2022年全球疟疾疫苗研究的最新趋势。采用经过验证的检索策略在Scopus数据库中识别关于疟疾疫苗的科学文献。确定的文献计量指标包括研究期间的出版物增长模式和引用情况；顶尖作者、国家、资助组织和期刊；关键词，包括不同的疟原虫种类，以及总体研究主题。2005年至2022年共发现6457篇文献，发表于189个国家/地区的160种期刊/来源。《疟疾杂志》在研究期间发表的研究成果数量最多（478篇，占7.4%），2021年发表的文献数量最多（468篇，占7.3%）。总引用次数为214323次，每篇文献平均引用33.2次，h指数为167篇文献。美国、英国和澳大利亚合计产出的出版物超过60%，与肯尼亚等非洲国家的合作最为频繁。恶性疟原虫是出现频率最高的寄生虫种类关键词（754次，占11.7%），对卵形疟原虫的兴趣也在增加（30次，占0.5%）。裂殖子表面蛋白、特征、试验、婴儿/儿童、旅行者以及研究/综述是这些研究中出现的六个主题。在过去的十五年半中，疟疾疫苗研究和引用显著增加，主要针对非洲的疫苗开发、安全性和有效性。考虑到不同的疟原虫种类，有必要做出更多国际努力来提高疫苗的有效性。
