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. 2025 May 23:18:2875-2887.
doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S514612. eCollection 2025.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Medication Compliance in Children with Asthma

Jing Zhao  1 , Yu Ding  1 , Zhiyuan Wang  2 , Guo Kou  1 , Sen Xu  1 , Jing Tai  1 , Chunrui Zhang  1 , Ying Guo  1 , Jun Yang  1
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Medication Compliance in Children with Asthma

Jing Zhao et al. J Multidiscip Healthc. .

Abstract

Objective: Bibliometrics was used to visualize the literature data of the current study on medication compliance in children with asthma, which can provide reference for improving the medication compliance of children with asthma.

Methods: Using the bibliometrix package in R4.4.1, all the research literatures related to the medication compliance of children with asthma in the WOS core database were used, and the data visualization analysis of the retrieved research literatures was carried out.

Results: A total of 285 research literatures on medication compliance in children with asthma were screened out. The earliest related research was published in 2009, and reaching its peak in 2019. The number of publications and citations related to medication compliance in children with asthma in the United States ranked first. J Allergy Clin Immun has 1043 citations in related journals. The analysis of cumulative publication volume shows that from 2009 to 2024, Journal of Asthma has the largest cumulative publication volume. Halterman Js is the most authoritative. The most frequently used keyword in these articles is "asthma". Statistical analysis of the high-frequency keywords in the literature on medication compliance in children with asthma showed that the top three high-frequency words were medication adherence, followed by unplanned children and childhood asthma.

Conclusion: The study on medication compliance in children with asthma was first published in 2009, and the research heat increased year by year. The most authoritative author in the field of medication compliance in children with asthma is Halterman Js. Journal of Asthma magazine is interested in the research field of medication compliance in children with asthma.

Keywords: asthma; bibliometrics; children; medication adherence.

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All of the authors had no any personal, financial, commercial, or academic conflicts of interest separately.

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Literature on medication compliance in children with asthma.
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The publication and citation of countries. (A) the top ten countries cited in the relevant literature; (B) SCP and MCP publications; (C) national distribution map; (D) The cumulative growth of the article over time.
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Figure 3
Journals published and cited. (A) Citation ranking of each journal; (B) the number of publications in each journal; (C) the ranking of the influence of each journal; (D) The cumulative number of publications in each journal changes over time; (E) Results of Bradford’s Law analysis.
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Figure 4
(A) Ranking of the most cited articles in the world; (B) ranking of the most cited articles in the local; (C) the most cited literature in each article; (D) Citation network clustering analysis.
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Figure 5
The situation of institution publication. (A) Ranking the number of institutional publications; (B) The changes in the number of papers issued by the top 5 institutions over time.
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The author’s publication. (A) Ranking of the number of publications; (B) local citation ranking; (C) influence ranking (H index); (D) the change of the author’s volume over time; (E) the author ‘s country and the keywords used in the article (the left side is the country name, the middle is the author name, and the right side is the keyword name); (F) Results of Lotka’s Law analysis.
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(A) Author cooperation network diagram; (B) National cooperation network diagram.
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Figure 8
High frequency keyword analysis. (A) Word cloud map; (B) Keyword tree diagram.
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Figure 9
Keyword co-occurrence network.
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