Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Pulmonary rehabilitation plays important role in patients with lung diseases, and it is applied in acute, subacute, and chronic stages of the disease. Bibliometrics, which refers to the application of quantitative and statistical methods to analyze scientific publications on a specific topic, authors, journals, citation scores, and countries. Web of Science (WOS) search engine the selected keywords were those related to “pulmonary’’ and “rehabilitation” was used. Using the search query and 3,582 different types of results were gained and they were analyzed according to document types and after 20,645 entries, the number of journal articles was 1,493. Retrieved data were analyzed to present various bibliometric indicators while maps were visualized using the WOS viewer technique. The Hirsch (h) index and the impact factor (IF) of the publishing journal were used. Bibliometric overview of the literature on “pulmonary” and” rehabilitation” between 1970 – 2021 was given. The publications gained momentum after 2013. Most publications belong to 2020. In terms of the type of publications, meeting constitutes 80% of the publications published as abstracts and articles. About half of the published research articles are about the respiratory system and 11% of them are related to rehabilitation. The most frequent country was USA with 19.9 % of articles and England is the second most frequent country. In terms of the most cited country, the USA ranks first with 8238 citations. England is in second place with 5940 citations. Publications on “pulmonary” and “rehabilitation” have been increasing and growing rapidly in the past decade. The results can be used as context for analyzing broadscale strengths and gaps in the current state of evidence in a field and for informing a comprehensive strategic plan for further advancing the field and more countries should be encouraged to participate in the studies on this subject.

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Bibliometrics, Analysis, Scopus Database Publication,

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