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. 2023 Feb 14;20(4):3359.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20043359.

Easy-to-Read: Evolution and Perspectives-A Bibliometric Analysis of Research, 1978-2021

Marcela Alina Fărcașiu  1 , Vasile Gherheș  1 , Simona Șimon  1 , Daniel Dejica-Carțiș  1 , Liviu Cădariu  2 , Annamaria Kilyeni  1
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Easy-to-Read: Evolution and Perspectives-A Bibliometric Analysis of Research, 1978-2021

Marcela Alina Fărcașiu et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to observe the use of the Easy-to-Read term in the international scientific literature. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis was carried out using the Web of Science database, focusing on the period between 1978 and 2021. From this, 1065 records that met the search criteria were further identified. After applying the PRISMA model, the final analysis was performed on a corpus of 102 documents, comprising an analysis of the keywords and expressions where the term was found, an authorship analysis, a citation analysis, as well as a co-occurrence analysis. The publications were grouped based on the research area, with the field of Computer Science standing out with most of the occurrences (25), followed by Education & Educational Research (14 occurrences) and Linguistics (9 occurrences). The results suggest that interest in this field of research is limited, as the maximum number of publications related to this topic was 16 in 2020 and 14 in 2021. The study is important as it sheds light on the current state of the topic and seeks to identify future trends in this field.

Keywords: accessibility; bibliometric analysis; easy read; easy-to-read; inequities; intellectual (learning) disabilities; social exclusion.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Specific arrangements for access to justice of people with disabilities in the EU [7].
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PRISMA guidelines describing the collection of documents from Web of Science.
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Figure 3
Number of Web of Science publications on Easy-to-Read between 1991 and 2021.
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Distribution of publications based on research area.
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Word cloud generated from publication keywords of selected publications from Computer Science area based on the frequency of each keyword.
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Word cloud generated from publication keywords of selected publications from Education & Educational Research area based on the frequency of each keyword.
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Word cloud generated from publication keywords of selected publications from Linguistics Research area based on the frequency of each keyword.
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Map of authors authoring more than two publications.
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Map of authors’ main affiliation.
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Figure 10
Distribution of publications based on the number of received citations.
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Co-occurrence of keywords in the researched publications.
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