Publication activity in water treatments: Web of Science–based bibliometric analysis of the last two decades

• Published in: International journal of biometeorology 2022-08, Vol.66 (9), p.1829-1839
• Main Authors: Güneri, Fulya Demircioğlu, Karaarslan, Fatih, Forestıer, Fatma Begüm Erol, Forestıer, Romain J., Odabaşı, Ersin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Animal Physiology; Bibliometrics; Biological and Medical Physics; Biometeorology; Biophysics; Documents; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; Environmental Health; Income; Mathematical analysis; Meteorology; Mineral water; Original Paper; Plant Physiology; Scientific papers; Spas; Statistical analysis; Subgroups; Water treatment
• ISSN: 0020-7128; 1432-1254
• DOI: 10.1007/s00484-022-02323-0

We evaluated the quantity and quality of scientific publications linked with water treatments using the Web of Science (WoS) database. The WoS was searching by using the following terms “hydrotherapy,” “balneotherapy,” “spa therapy,” “spa treatment,” “creno-balneotherapy,” “water treatments,” and “aqua therapy,” on February 10th, 2022. The recorded data were the total number of articles, year of articles, country of articles, journal, document type, index data, and citation data. Also, the studies performed with natural source mineral water were marked to make a further subgroup analysis through quality and quantity. We obtained 816 articles; 667 (81.74%) were original research articles, and 149 (18.26%) were review articles. A statistically significant and increasing trend was shown in the publication about water treatments ( p