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Int J Ophthalmol. 2016 Nov 18;9(11):1663-1668. doi: 10.18240/ijo.2016.11.21. eCollection 2016.

A bibliometric analysis of academic publication on diabetic retinopathy disease trends during 1980-2014: a global and medical view.

International journal of ophthalmology

Cagatay Caglar, Emre Demir, Ferit Kerim Kucukler, Mustafa Durmus

Affiliations

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Corum 19200, Turkey.
  2. Department of Biostatistic, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Corum 19200, Turkey.
  3. Department of Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, Hitit University, Corum 19200, Turkey.

PMID: 27990373 PMCID: PMC5145098 DOI: 10.18240/ijo.2016.11.21

Abstract

AIM: To investigate diabetic retinopathy (DR) literature using the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science (WoS) database and to analyse the correlation results between socio-economic development datas and number of DR publications.

METHODS: The statistical analysis of the documents published during 1980-2014 was analysed. The data of this study were based on the database of WoS. "Diabetic retinopathy" was used as the keywords to search the WoS database.

RESULTS: The United States ranked first in the DR research with 1840 publications and 24.38% of the world production followed by England and Japan. Besides, the most productive country was Iceland. A high correlation was found between number of publications and 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) values of 81 countries (

CONCLUSION: More DR studies have been published in developed countries, DR and other complications of diabetes have gradually increased in developing countries over recent decades. It can be expected that the number of DR studies will gradually increase in developing countries.

Keywords: bibliometrics; correlation analysis; developing countries; diabetic retinopathy; socio-economic development

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