scholarly journals Osteopathic empirical research: a bibliometric analysis from 1966 to 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Morin ◽  
Isabelle Gaboury
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
System Body

Abstract Background Despite the increasing use of osteopathy, a manipulative complementary and alternative medicine therapy, in the general population, its efficacy continues to be debated. In this era of evidence-based practice, no studies have previously reviewed the scientific literature in the field to identify published knowledge, trends and gaps in empirical research. The aims of this bibliometric analysis are to describe characteristics of articles published on the efficacy of osteopathic interventions and to provide an overall portrait of their impacts in the scientific literature. Methods A bibliometric analysis approach was used. Articles were identified with searches using a combination of relevant MeSH terms and indexing keywords about osteopathy and research designs in MEDLINE and CINAHL databases. The following indicators were extracted: country of primary author, year of publication, journals, impact factor of the journal, number of citations, research design, participants’ age group, system/body part addressed, primary outcome, indexing keywords and types of techniques. Results A total of 389 articles met the inclusion criteria. The number of empirical studies doubled every 5 years, with the United States, Italy, Spain, and United Kingdom being the most productive countries. Twenty-three articles were cited over 100 times. Articles were published in 103 different indexed journals, but more than half (53.7%) of articles were published in one of three osteopathy-focused readership journals. Randomized control trials (n = 145; 37.3%) and case reports (n = 142; 36.5%) were the most common research designs. A total of 187 (48.1%) studies examined the effects of osteopathic interventions using a combination of techniques that belonged to two or all of the classic fields of osteopathic interventions (musculoskeletal, cranial, and visceral). Conclusion The number of osteopathy empirical studies increased significantly from 1980 to 2014. The productivity appears to be very much in sync with practice development and innovations; however, the articles were mainly published in osteopathic journals targeting a limited, disciplinary-focused readership.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Nickel-Based Orthopaedic Implants

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Gurpreet Thind
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Orthopaedic Implants ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
The City ◽  
Research Domain

Nickel is one of the widely used metal for orthopaedic implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Nickel-based orthopaedic implants”. All published articles related to “Nickel-based orthopaedic implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Nickel-based orthopaedic implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain were the Journal of Orthopaedic Research and Biomaterials. The most active country was the United States of America. The leading organization engaged in research regarding knee implants was the City University of Hong Kong. The most active authors who had made valuable contributions related to orthopaedic implants were Chu. P.K.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Toxicity of Steel-implants

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Gurmeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Biomedical Materials ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Research Domain

Steel is one of the most used metals for implants and toxicity is an important issue associated with steel implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Toxicity of steel-implants”. All published articles related to “Toxicity of steel-implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Toxicity of steel-implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain were the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research and Bio-materials. The most active country was the United States of America, and the leading organization engaged in the research regarding the toxicity of steel-implants was the Tulane University of United States of America. The most active authors were Sousa J. P and Niinomi M.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Toxicity of Nickel-implants

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Gurpreet Thind
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
Research Domain

Nickel is one of the most used metals for implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Toxicity of Nickel-implants”. All published articles related to “Toxicity of Nickel-implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Toxicity of Nickel-implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain biomaterial. The most active country was the United States of America and United Kingdom. The leading organization engaged in the research regarding the toxicity of Nickel implants was the Rush University Medical Center, United States of America. The most active author who had made valuable contributions related to the toxicity of Nickel implants was Hallab N.J.  

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Orthopaedic Implants

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Bhupinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Orthopaedic Implants ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute ◽  
Research Domain

Several metals are used for orthopaedic implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “orthopaedic implants”. All published articles related to “orthopaedic implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “orthopaedic implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain were the Biomaterials. The most active country was the United States of America. The leading organization engaged in research regarding Orthopaedic implants was the IRCCS Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna of Italy. The most active authors who had made valuable contributions related to dental implants were Arciola C.R and Webster T.J.

scholarly journals Status Quo and Research Trends of Craniopharyngioma Research: A 10-Year Bibliometric Analyses (From 2011 to 2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhua Li ◽  
Anming Yang ◽  
Guangjie Liu ◽  
Shisheng Zou ◽  
Yiguang Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Literature Metrology ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
Analysis Platform

BackgroundCraniopharyngioma (CP) is a challenging intracranial tumor due to its special hypothalamus-pituitary location. Each patient with CP should be evaluated and treated separately. Exploring novel methods of automatized analysis of data for gaining knowledge on any medical field is an encouraging task, particularly in such an extremely challenging tumor as CP. We aim to summary the situations, investigate the research trends and evaluate research hotspots using bibliometric analysis for the CP research.MethodsWe extracted all the CP-related literatures from 2011 to 2020 from the Web of Science database. An Online analysis platform of literature metrology (Bibliometric), BICOMB, gCLUTO and CiteSpace softwares were used to do bibliometric analysis. As a supplement, we also analyzed the top 100 cited case reports with particular and certainly infrequent information to improve the analysis.ResultsAccording to our retrieval strategy, we found a total of 1262 CP-related literatures. The United States has maintained a leading position in global CP research, followed by China and Germany. Among institutions, Capital Med Univ, St Jude Childrens Res Hosp and Southern Med Univ rank in the top 3 in terms of the number of articles published. “WORLD NEUROSURGERY” is the most popular journal for CP-related research. Moreover, MULLER HL, MERCHANT TE, QI ST and others have made great achievements in the study of CP. Finally, we did biclustering analysis on keywords and identified 4 CP research hotspot clusters.ConclusionsOur research provides a comprehensive analysis of the scientific progress of CP in the past 10 years, and insight into the development of CP research field, highlight research trends over time, and help identify valuable future directions.

scholarly journals Current Status of Animal-Assisted Interventions in Scientific Literature: A Critical Comment on Their Internal Validity

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier López-Cepero
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
Critical Comment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Action Mechanisms ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Animal Interaction ◽  
Meta Analyses

Many meta-analyses and systematic reviews have tried to assess the efficacy of animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), reaching inconsistent conclusions. The present work posits a critical exploration of the current literature, using some recent meta-analyses to exemplify the presence of unattended threats. The present comment illustrates that the field (1) comprehends inconsistencies regarding the terms and definitions of AAIs; (2) pays more attention to the characteristics of the animals than to the action mechanisms of AAIs; (3) does not provide a clear connection between anthrozoology (how humans and non-human animals interact in communities), benefits of the human–animal interaction (HAI), and the design of AAIs; and (4) implicitly reinforces these phenomena through research designs. Thus, some conclusions extracted from these meta-analyses need further discussion. Increasing the internal validity of AAIs in empirical studies is an urgent task, which can be addressed by (1) developing a better understanding of how anthrozoology, the HAI, and AAIs relate to each other; (2) highlighting the mechanisms that explain the results in an empirical and specific way; and (3) changing the design of interventions, adopting a component-centered approach, and focusing on the incremental efficacy and efficiency of AAI programs.

scholarly journals Music Perception and Cognition Research from 1983 to 2010: A Categorical and Bibliometric Analysis of Empirical Articles in Music Perception

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Tirovolas ◽  
Daniel J. Levitin
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Longitudinal Course ◽  
Music Research

in this review we sought to document the longitudinal course of empirical studies in the journal Music Perception, from the journal’s first issue in 1983 to 2010. The aim was to systematically characterize the nature of empirical research in one of the principal peer-reviewed outlets for work in our field, and to consider these data as a sample representing the overall course of research across the last three decades. Specific domains examined within each article were: Topics, Participants, Stimuli, Materials, and Outcome Measures. In total, 384 empirical articles in the journal were examined. In addition, relevant details were extracted from the full set of 578 articles regarding geographic and disciplinary (departmental) distribution of the authors. Together, the data we report allow an examination of 26-year trends in music research. These are made available in a database that is fully searchable or sortable by interested researchers.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Corrosion of knee implants

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Seema Ramniwas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
Drexel University ◽  
Research Domain

Corrosion of metals is one of the major challenges of the performance of knee implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Corrosion of knee implants”. All published articles related to “Corrosion of knee implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Corrosion of knee implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain were the Wear, and Journal of Arthroplasty. The most active countries were the United States of America and India. The leading organizations engaged in the research regarding corrosion of knee-implants were the Drexel University and Rush University Medical Center of United States of America. The most active author related to knee implants was Badar R.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Titanium-Based Orthopaedic Implants

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Gurmeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthopaedic Implants ◽  
Brown University ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Domain

Titanium is one of the widely used metal for orthopaedic implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Titanium-based orthopaedic implants”. All published articles related to “Titanium-based orthopaedic implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Titanium-based orthopaedic implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journal related to this research domain was Biomaterials. The most active country was the United States of America. The leading organization engaged in research regarding Titanium Based orthopaedic implants was the Brown University of the United States of America and the Chinese Academy of Sciences of China. The most active authors who had made valuable contributions related to orthopaedic implants were Webster T.J.   

scholarly journals Investigating Research Hotspots and Publication Trends of Spinal Stenosis: A Bibliometric Analysis During 2000–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keda Yang ◽  
Lei Pei ◽  
Kaicheng Wen ◽  
Siming Zhou ◽  
Lin Tao
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Spinal Stenosis ◽  
Posterior Longitudinal Ligament ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Common Disease ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Pubmed Database ◽  
Surgical Methods ◽  
Research Hotspots

Spinal stenosis is a common disease affecting the elderly that is present in a various forms. Its high incidence forces researchers to pay more attention and offer countermeasures. We used the Web of Science Core collection and PubMed database to obtain 5,606 scientific studies concerning spinal stenosis, and the number of publications maintained a roughly increasing trend from 108 in 2000 to 512 in 2018, only declining in 2011. Bibliometric analysis was conducted using the online analysis software CiteSpace and Bibliographic Item Co-Occurrence Matrix Builder (BICOMB). The United States maintains academic leadership in this field. The journal SPINE was the most authoritative, with 695 articles and an average of 12.73 citations. The exported major MeSH terms were further biclustered with gCLUTO according to co-word analysis to reveal research hotspots, including etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, conservative treatment, operative indication, internal implantation, and postoperative complications. After combination, the main topics focused on pathogenesis and surgical treatment. Narrowing causes flavum ligamentum hypertrophy, and posterior longitudinal ligament ossification is widely accepted. Additionally, minimally invasive surgery and internal implantation fixation are more valid in the clinic. Refining pathological classification and optimizing surgical methods and instrument properties will be important future research directions for spinal stenosis.

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