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. 2016 Sep 18;9(9):1329-35.
doi: 10.18240/ijo.2016.09.17. eCollection 2016.

Scientometric analysis and mapping of 20 years of glaucoma research

Shahrokh Ramin  1 , Mohammad Pakravan  1 , Gholamreza Habibi  2 , Roghayeh Ghazavi  2
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Scientometric analysis and mapping of 20 years of glaucoma research

Shahrokh Ramin et al. Int J Ophthalmol. .

Abstract

Aim: To provide a scientometric analysis in the field of glaucoma.

Methods: A bibliometric method was used to obtain a view of the scientific production in field of glaucoma by data extracted from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) from 1993 to 2013. Specific parameters were retrieved from the ISI. Articles about glaucoma were analyzed regarding the topics' structure, history, and document relationships using HistCite software. Also, the trends in the most influential publications and authors were analyzed.

Results: The number of articles was constantly increasing, and most highly cited articles addressed clinical and epidemiologic topics in this field. During the past three years, there has been a trend towards genomic research studies and also more molecular translational research.

Conclusion: This was the first scientometric report on glaucoma, analyzing the characteristics of papers and the trends in scientific production. A constant increase was observed in the number of papers, while the subject of papers had a shift in the past three years towards genomic research studies.

Keywords: bibliometrics; citation analysis; glaucoma; historiography; scientometric analysis.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Historiography of the glaucoma literature regarding articles that had been cited 100 times or more
The circles represent papers. The size of the circle is relative to that paper's citations. The numbers outside the circle is the article number. An arrow pointing from one article to the next, usually to an older paper, indicates the citational relationship between papers, that is, the arrowhead points to the article that was cited. At the top of the histogram, the oldest articles (1993) appeared and at the bottom of the graph the newest ones (2007) with more than 100 citations are seen. The most highly cited articles can see in 2002.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Collaboration network between the countries
The size of the nodes indicates the amount of collaboration. As it can see in the network, USA, UK, Japan, Germany and Italy have most scientific collaboration with other countries in this field of the study.
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