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Review
. 2020 Aug 4;17(15):5607.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17155607.

Intimate Partner Violence: A Bibliometric Review of Literature

Yanqi Wu  1   2 , Jie Chen  1   2 , Hui Fang  1   2 , Yuehua Wan  1   2
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Intimate Partner Violence: A Bibliometric Review of Literature

Yanqi Wu et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a worldwide public health problem. Here, a bibliometric analysis is performed to evaluate the publications in the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) field from 2000 to 2019 based on the Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) databases. This work presents a detailed overview of IPV from aspects of types of articles, citations, h-indices, languages, years, journals, institutions, countries, and author keywords. The results show that the USA takes the leading position in this research field, followed by Canada and the U.K. The University of North Carolina has the most publications and Harvard University has the first place in terms of h-index. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine leads the list of average citations per paper. The Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Family Violence and Violence Against Women are the top three most productive journals in this field, and Psychology is the most frequently used subject category. Keywords analysis indicates that, in recent years, most research focuses on the research fields of "child abuse", "pregnancy", "HIV", "dating violence", "gender-based violence" and "adolescents".

Keywords: HIV; bibilometric; intimate partner violence; keywords analysis; violence.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The number of the publication and number of countries by year.
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Collaborative relationships among the top 15 most productive countries.
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Bubble chart of the Top 50 productive journals by year.
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Bubble chart of top 30 author keywords by year.
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