The Last Three Decades of Contact Dermatitis: A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Publications on Contact Dermatitis. Issue 5 (September 2020) - Şenel, Engin
Abstract : Background: Contact dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin disease, and it affects approximately 20% of the adult population. Bibliometrics is a statistical analysis of academic literature in a certain field. Although bibliometric studies have been popular in recent years, the literature has limited number of bibliometric researches focusing on dermatology. Objective: We aimed to perform the first bibliometric analysis of contact dermatitis literature. Methods: All data of our study were obtained from the databases provided by Web of Science. We used the keywords "contact dermatitis, " "irritant contact dermatitis, " "allergic contact dermatitis, " "cutaneous allergy, " "occupational dermatitis, " and "patch test" for our search. All items published between 1988 and 2017 were included. Results: A total of 37, 283 documents were found. The most studied research areas were dermatology, immunology, and allergy (79.7%, 65.02%, and 58.6%, respectively). The peak year of contact dermatitis literature was 2011 with 1, 782 items. The United States covered 24.77% of contact dermatitis literature with 9, 237 documents. Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and France followed the United States ( n = 4, 121, 3, 420, 2, 870, and 2, 627 items, respectively). Denmark was the most productive country, followed by Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, and Belgium. Conclusion: Physicians from developing and least developed countries should be supported to perform novel bibliometric researches on contact dermatitis.