Scientific Outputs of Hypertensive Retinopathy

Authors : Ayşe Nilüfer KÖYLÜOĞLU, Bünyamin AYDIN

Pages : 547-552

Doi:10.19127/bshealthscience.1128021

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Publication Date : 2022-09-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The goal of this work was to analyze the scientific output in the field of hypertensive retinopathy and its evolution globally and by major countries or regions, with a particular focus on the leading countries and international collaborations. In this bibliometric study, the keywords related to hypertensive retinopathy insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(“Hypertensive” and “Retinopathy” or ‘’ hypertensive retinopathy’’ or ‘‘hypertension’’ and ‘‘eye’’); were used in a search query in the Web of Science insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WOS); search engine. The time span was set from 1970 to 2021. Only research articles were analyzed. Data pertaining to growth of publications, the most active countries and institutions, the most cited journals, and mapping of publications and keywords were analyzed from Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 152 articles included the study. The average number of citations of these articles was 14.69. The H-index of these articles was 22.The majority of the articles were from research areas of Ophthalmology insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=44; 28.94%);, Cardiovascular System Cardiology insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=30; 19.73%); and General Internal Medicine insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=21; 13.81%);. The leading countries on number of publishing articles was the Unıted States of America insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(USA); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=28; 18.42%);, Türkiye insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=21; 13.81%); and China insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=20; 13.15%);. Akdeniz University, Türkiye insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=5, 3.289%);, Capital University of Medicine and China insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=5, 3.289%); were the most productive affiliations on hypertensive retinopathy publications. The number of publications on hypertensive retinopathy have been increasing in the past two decades. The most of the publications from the USA, especially in North America countries. Citation numbers are high but international collaboration needed around the globe this growing and concerning subject.
Keywords : Hypertension, Eye, Hypertensive retinopathy, Publications