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Affiliation
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Hitit University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Çorum, Turkey. |
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Abstract
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) could cause motor, sensory loss, severe functional insufficiency, and social problems. This study aims to provide a holistic summary of the global scientific outputs about Spinal Cord Injury through bibliometric analyses and reveal the trend topics.
METHODS: All publications about Spinal Cord Injury published between 1980 and 2018 in Web of Science (WoS) index were downloaded (Access date: 01.09.2019) and analyzed using bibliometric methods. In the "Title" search section in WoS, the documents that had the "Spinal Cord Injury" words were found. Correlation analysis between spinal cord injury publication productivity and economic development indicators of the world countries were analyzed using the Spearman correlation coefficient.
RESULTS: There were 20322 publications 13662 of which were articles. The top three productive countries were the USA, China, and Canada. British Columbia (403, 2.9%), Toronto (401, 2.9%), and Miami (387, 2.8%) were the prominent institutions. The top productive journals were Spinal Cord (1399, 10.24%), Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (835, 6.11%), and Journal of Neurotrauma (631, 4.61%). A statistically significant, high-level correlation was found between the number of publications about SCI and the countries' Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Product per capita (r=0.711, p<0.001; r=0.699, p<0.001).
CONCLUSION: This study provides a systematic analysis of SCI and could be a beneficial guide for clinicians and scientists.
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