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. 2022 May 27;9(6):256.
doi: 10.3390/vetsci9060256.

Bibliometric Analysis of Veterinary Communication Education Research over the Last Two Decades: Rare Yet Essential

Zih-Fang Chen  1 , Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu  2   3 , Jih-Jong Lee  4 , Chung-Hsi Chou  1
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Bibliometric Analysis of Veterinary Communication Education Research over the Last Two Decades: Rare Yet Essential

Zih-Fang Chen et al. Vet Sci. .

Abstract

Research of veterinary communication education is a relatively rare but important field, and its importance has been increasingly noticed recently. This study aims to describe the existing veterinary education research literature by adopting the systematic bibliometric approach. We conducted a comprehensive literature exploration on worldwide veterinary education and veterinary communication education publications in the Web of Science Core Collection database from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2021. VOSviewer and EXCEL were used to identify trends and patterns in characteristics of the publications, including author affiliations and countries, and the publishing journals. Based on our search criteria, in the past 22 years, there have been 6006 veterinary education publications with 101 publications in 2000, 684 publications in 2021 (577% increase), and 677 communication-related publications with 9 publications in 2000, 107 publications in 2021 (1189% increase). The VOSviewer results indicate that both the United States and England were the most vigorous countries with close collaboration. Our results show the publication quantity has been increasing at a sharp slope rate over the past twenty years, which indicates the importance and growth of veterinary education and the veterinary communication education research field, and identifies the international collaborations among countries and institutions.

Keywords: VOSviewer; Web of Science Core Collection database; bibliometrics; clients; communication; veterinarians; veterinary education.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Yearly numbers of veterinary education publications (VEPs), veterinary communication education publications (VCEPs), and the percentages of VCEPs/VEPs (2000 to 2021).
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Country collaboration analysis of 6006 veterinary education publications (VEPs) from 2000 to 2021.
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Country collaboration analysis of 677 veterinary communication education publications (VCEPs) from 2000 to 2021.
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Institutional collaboration analysis of 6006 veterinary education publications (VEPs) from 2000 to 2021.
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Institutional collaboration analysis of 677 veterinary communication education publications (VCEPs) from 2000 to 2021.
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Author collaboration analysis of 6006 veterinary education publications (VEPs) from 2000 to 2021.
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Author collaboration analysis of 677 veterinary communication education publications (VCEPs) from 2000 to 2021.
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