Bibliometric analysis on global Behçet disease publications during 1980–2014: is there a Silk Road in the literature?

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Şenel, E., Demir, E. and Alkan, R.M. (2017), Bibliometric analysis on global Behçet disease publications during 1980–2014: is there a Silk Road in the literature?. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol, 31: 518–522. doi:10.1111/jdv.13897

Özet/Abstract:

Abstract

Background

Behçet disease (BD) is a chronic and multisystemic vasculitis characterized with recurrent oral and genital ulcers, uveitis, arthritis and skin manifestations. The highest prevalence of the disease has been reported in regions historically involved in the Silk Road routes.

Objective

We aimed to analyse Behçet literature and evaluate whether there is a concordance between ancient Silk Road regions and the distribution of publication productivity.

Methods

The bibliometric analysis of the publications published during 1980–2014 using Thomson Reuters Web of Science database was performed. We generated infographics of productivity and also analysed the correlations among economical productivities, technological advancement levels and humanity index and productivity performances of 78 countries in Behçet literature.

Results

Turkey ranked first in Behçet literature with 1837 articles followed by Japan and the USA. Turkey, Tunisia and Israel occupied the first three places in productivity. Significant correlations were noted between 2014 gross economic and technological indices and publication numbers of the countries. We found that European countries had high productivity, although they had low prevalence of BD. We detected no concordance between the productivity density of the countries and the ancient Silk Road routes.