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. 2023 May 2:10:1157683.
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1157683. eCollection 2023.

A century of "anticoccidial drugs": bibliometric analysis

Mahmoud Kandeel  1   2 , Mohamed A Morsy  3   4 , Hany M Abd El-Lateef  5   6 , Mohamed Marzok  7   8 , Hossam S El-Beltagi  9   10 , Khalid M Al Khodair  11 , Ibrahim Albokhadaim  1 , Katharigatta N Venugopala  3   12 , Mohammed Al-Rasheed  13 , Mahmoud M Ismail  14
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A century of "anticoccidial drugs": bibliometric analysis

Mahmoud Kandeel et al. Front Vet Sci. .

Abstract

Publications are an important measure of scientific and technological progress. The quantitative examination of the number of publications in a certain research topic is known as bibliometrics. Bibliographic studies are widely used to analyse the condition of research, future potential, and current growth patterns in a certain topic. It can serve as a basis for making decisions and implementing strategies to achieve long-term development goals. To our knowledge, no research has been conducted in these domains; so, this work aims to employ bibliometric analysis to provide comprehensive data on publications related to anticoccidial drugs. As a result, the current study uses bibliometric analysis to track the evolution of anticoccidial drugs and its consequences in the academic and public worlds via a survey of relevant scientific and popular publications. The Dimensions database was used to retrieve the bibliographical statistics, which were then cleaned and analyzed. The data was also loaded into the VOS viewer, which generated a network visualization of the authors with the most joint articles. The investigation discovered three stages of publications and citations since the first article on anticoccidial drugs in 1949. The first stage, which ran from 1920 to 1968, was characterized by a scarcity of research articles on anticoccidial drugs. From 1969 to 2000, the second stage was marked by a stable and marginally increased number of articles. The scientific field was characterized by an increasing trend in the number of publications and their citations from 2002 to 2021. The study gave a complete list of the top anticoccidial drugs funding agents, countries, research institutes, most cited publications, and important co-authorship and partnerships. The outcomes of the study will help veterinary practitioners and researchers understand the trends and best sources of knowledge in the field of anticoccidial medications.

Keywords: analysis; anticoccidial; bibliometric; publications; research.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
PRISMA flow chart for bibliometric analysis of anticoccidial drugs.
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Figure 2
Annual total output of publications and citations on anticoccidial drugs. The data was retrieved from 1920 to 2021.
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Figure 3
Overview of Distribution of Countries with more than 100 publications on anticoccidial drugs.
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Figure 4
The rank of countries with more than 100 publications in the field of anticoccidial drugs.
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Figure 5
The Research Institutions with over 30 publications on anticoccidial drugs.
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Figure 6
The Most Frequent Funding Agents for anticoccidial drugs.
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Figure 7
Intellectual structure of the topmost authors with joint publications.
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