Bibliometric Analysis of the Articles Published in the Ophthalmic Epidemiology Journal Between 2002 and 2019

Abstract

ABS TRACT Objective: The purpose of this study is to present a holistic analysis of published items in Ophthalmic Epidemiology Journal (OEJ). Material and Methods: The data used in this study were obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. WoS en-abled the extensive details of documents published in OEJ between 2002-2019 including countries, institutions, authors, citations and keywords. Scientometric network maps of keywords and country and in- stitution co-authorships were created. Country contributions to the OEJ were shown on a graphic. Results: The search query revealed a total of 991 documents. Most of the documents were original articles (90.11%). The peak year when the maximum number of the documents (86) and total number of citations (1687) occurred was 2018. The h-index of the literature published in OEJ was 49. The average citations per item was 13.9. USA was the leading country by producing 40.42% of all documents followed by UK, Australia, India and China. The London University was the most contributing institution (5.25%) followed by London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine and Johns Hopkins University. The most used keywords were ‘Acuity’, ‘Survey’ and ‘Child’. Conclusion: Beneficial information about dynamic and trending search topics in ophthalmic epidemiology field may be obtained by this study.