1. Bibliometric Analysis of Desflurane Research
during the Period of 1991 to 2005
Min-Jia Li1,3, Yuh-Shan Ho2 and Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu1
1Department of Health and Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
2Bibliometric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
3Department of Anesthesiology, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Introduction
Desflurane (compound I-653) was one of the last volatile anesthetics to be synthesized in 1960s. It languished for 2 decades because of difficulties and danger in its production. It was studied thoroughly in animals and first used in humans in No analyses by bibliometric technique that have examined this topic exist in the literature. The objective of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of all Desflurane-related publications in Science Citation Index (SCI). A systematic search was performed using the SCI for publications during the period of 1991 to These documents were analyzed and evaluated according to publication and to determine the quantitative characteristics of desflurane research.
Methods
Documents used in this study were based on the databases of the SCI which was accessed from the ISI Web of Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Selected documents included ‘desflurane’ and ‘I-653’ as a part of its title, abstract, or keyword. Parameters analyzed included language, type of document, page count, publication output, country of publication, and authorship.
Results
Table 2. Most 10 publishing countries
P: Number of articles; SP: Single country; publications; CP: International collaboration publications; C: Number. of countries
AU: Number of authors; J: Number of journals; IF: Impact factor; NA: No record in the JCR
Figure 1. Fifteen most used author keywords
Table 1. Major characteristics of the desflurane research
Table 3. Publication distribution by impact factor
Conclusions
The results show an increasing number of articles since 1991 and author numbers, article pages, and journal numbers indicate a continuous growth of the scientific community.
The US was the world leader and dominated most of the publications, followed by the Germany, UK, France, Japan, Canada and Austria.
Most of the journals had impact factors, which ranged from 0 to 3, accounting for 67.7% of all papers studied. Journals with IFs of 2–3 published 616 (38.4%) papers, 441 (27.5%) were published by journals with IFs 4–6.
the most frequently cited paper was ‘The Pharmacology of Sevoflurane in Infants and Children’. This article, in 1994 by Lerman, Sikich, Kleiman and Yentis, was published in Anesthesiology and was cited 161 times since its publication.