Neurosurgery Research Productivity in Latin American and Caribbean countries: A Bibliometric and Visualized Study

Determine the bibliometric characteristics of scientific articles that address the subject of neurosurgery in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A bibliographic search of original articles published in the Web of Science database up to 2021 was performed, without language restrictions. The terms...

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Published in:World neurosurgery 2022-09, Vol.165, p.e401-e411
Main Authors: Visconti-Lopez, Fabriccio J., Solorzano-Salazar, Dustin M., Vargas-Fernández, Rodrigo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
Caribbean Región
Efficiency
Humans
Latin America
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Procedures
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Summary:Determine the bibliometric characteristics of scientific articles that address the subject of neurosurgery in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A bibliographic search of original articles published in the Web of Science database up to 2021 was performed, without language restrictions. The terms included in the search strategy were Neurosurgery, neurosurgical procedures and neurological surgical procedure. Articles according to the inclusion criteria in the Rayyan application were included. Subsequently, a quantitative bibliometric analysis was carried out with the bibliometrix package in R and VOSviewer. 882 articles published in 271 journals were identified. The first publication was in 2006, the highest number of publications was in 2021, the annual percentage growth rate was 25.9 and the average number of citations per document was 11.2. The author with the highest number of publications was TEIXEIRA MJ (41 articles) and the University of Sao Paulo had the highest number of articles on this topic. World neurosurgery was the journal with the most publications (120 articles) and the study by CARNEY N (2017) was the most cited (1175 citations). The country of the corresponding authors with the most publications and the greatest number of total citations was Brazil. NEUROSURGERY, SURGERY and MANAGEMENT were the most used keywords; however, in the most recent articles SIMULATION and DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION were used. In the last decade, there has been an increase in articles on Neurosurgery in LAC. Scientific production in neurosurgery must continue to increase in order to promote evidence-based medicine.
ISSN:1878-8750
1878-8769
DOI:10.1016/j.wneu.2022.06.064