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. 2023 Nov 9;23(1):2208.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16242-1.

Environmental tobacco smoke and children's health: a bibliometric and altmetric analysis of 100 most cited articles

Sneha S Patil  1   2 , Naveen Puttaswamy  3 , Sachin C Sarode  4 , Gargi S Sarode  4 , Smita S Patil  5 , Andres Cardenas  6 , Rajesh Kumar Gandhirajan  7 , Kalpana Balakrishnan  3
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Environmental tobacco smoke and children's health: a bibliometric and altmetric analysis of 100 most cited articles

Sneha S Patil et al. BMC Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is arguably the most ubiquitous and hazardous, even at very low levels, starting in early life. The objective of this study was to describe the state of research and future trends on ETS exposure and Children's Health (CH) topics with bibliometrics and altmetrics.

Methods: An electronic search was performed in Scopus database on January 31, 2023. Consensus was arrived on 100 most-cited articles by two reviewers. These papers were then cross matched with citations harvested from Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar. Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) and Dimension counts were also collected. Analysis and network visualization of authors, countries, and keywords were generated using VOSviewer software.

Results: Among a total of 1107 articles published on ETS and CH, the 100 top-cited articles appeared in 54 journals, with Pediatrics (n = 12) contributing a maximum number of articles. The time period between 2000 and 2009 accounted for 44% of all publications. With respect to the research design employed across these studies, cross-sectional design took precedence over others accounting for approximately 40%. Predominantly, articles focused on childhood asthma; however, current research trends have shifted towards emerging fields such as children's oral health and DNA methylation. Twitter, policy documents, and news outlets were the main platforms where outputs were discussed. The AAS was not associated with journal impact factor or access type. Weak correlations were observed between AAS and citation count in Scopus, WoS, and Google Scholar (r = 0.17 to 0.27) while a positive association existed between dimension count and the number of citations across all three databases (r = 0.84 to 0.98).

Conclusion: This study demonstrates the evolution, digital dissemination and research hotspots in the field of ETS and CH, predicting the possible future research directions. High-quality studies with more specific exposure classification are warranted to better understand the relationship between ETS and CH.

Keywords: Altmetric; Bibliometric analysis; Child health; Dimensions; Environmental tobacco smoke; Most cited.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Association between age of publication and mean citation density
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Coauthor contribution in the top-cited papers
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Visualisation network of international collaboration for ETS and CH publications
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Distribution of (a) articles by study design (b) disease type by study design (c) disease type based on ICD-11
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Keyword co-occurrence map of the most-cited articles
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