期刊名称：International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-5984
电子版ISSN：2249-5576
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：46-53
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
摘要：The present paper attempts to study the performance of global research on Kawasaki disease using a series of bibliometric indicators. As seen from Scopus database the global research output cumulated to 2717 publications in 10 years during 2005-14, with annual average growth rate of 7.09% and citation impact per paper of 8.45. Around 68% of the global publications on Kawasaki disease were cited one or more times. The top 10 most productive countries together accounted for 74.35% share of the global output during 2005-14, with Canada registering the largest (2.44) relative citation index, followed by USA (1.79), Japan (1.47), France (1.45), Taiwan (1.36) and Italy (1.03) during 2005-14. Medicine contributed the largest publications share of 93.89%, followed by immunology microbiology (10.78%), biochemistry, genetics molecular biology (7.95%), pharmacology, toxicology pharmaceutics (1.77%), neurosciences (1.18%) and agricultural biological sciences (1.14%) during 2005-14. The top 21 and 20 most productive global organizations and authors together contributed 26.76% and 25.98% publication share and 58.55% and 83.44% citation share to the world publications and citation output on Kawasaki disease during 2005-14. The top 20 journals together accounted for 30.95% share of the total global publication output during 2005-14. There were 48 high cited papers, which received 60 or more citations and together received 5519 citations, registering the average citation per paper of 114.98 during 2005-14. The authors suggest the need for developing national policy and guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and management of Kawasaki disease patients.
