[Bibliometric analysis of worldwide literature in research of intimate partner violence in the world in recent 10 years]

Abstract

Objective: To analyze and reveal the worldwide hot topic and trend of the researches of intimate partner violence (IPV) during the past 10 years, and provide evidence for the related researches in China.

Methods: Relevant literatures included by PubMed database from 2005 to 2014 were analyzed quantitatively by using bibliographic item co-occurrence mining system (BICOMS). SPSS 20.0 statistical software was used to identify the high frequent key words of published articles to draw clustering relationship picture and Chi-square analysis was conducted to test the change trend of hot key words.

Results: Totally 3 257 IPV related articles were retrieved, and the number of the published papers was increasing in last decade, especially during the past three years. Study hot topics included IPV related damage and diseases, epidemiological studies, social support and IPV prevention and control. Chi-square analysis showed, during 2010-2014, the research mainly focused on the relationship between IPV and HIV infection (2.0% vs. 1.0%, χ² = 4.471, P=0.034) , and pregnant women and others were also included in the target population (1.2% vs. 0.4%, χ² = 4.805, P=0.028).

Conclusion: Worldwide research on IPV mainly focused on four aspects in recent ten years, but the relationship between IPV and HIV infection became a new research hot topic and pregnant women and others became new target populations in recent 5 years.