Research trends and hotspots of osteoarticular involvement in brucellosis

Human brucellosis causes a variety of clinical symptoms and osteoarticular involvement is the most common involvement. We conducted a bibliometric analysis study on osteoarticular involvement in brucellosis. The study s aim was to investigate the impact of publications in this field and to discover research development and clusters. We used the Web of Science (Wos) database to obtain the data. The titles, document types, publication years, authors, organizations, keywords, abstracts of each record, H-index, and citations were analyzed. We analyzed 642 documents (research articles and review articles). 83.178% of them were published in Science Citation Index Expanded (Sci-Expanded) indexed journals. English (88.785%) was the most preferred language. Researchers from 70 countries contributed to the growth of scientific studies. Turkey was ranked first with a total of 177 publications. The United States of America (11.059%), Peoples Republic of China (8.411%), Iran (6.698%), and Spain (6.698%) were the top five countries according to the number of publications. The publications were cited 11118 times (17.32 per item) and the mean of the H-index was 51. The publications published between 2000- 2009 received the highest number of citations and had the highest H indexes. H indexes and citation numbers of publications have decreased since 2010. This is the first report that shows the trends of osteoarticular involvement in brucellosis. In conclusion, financial support for scientific studies in regions where brucellosis is endemic may increase the number of articles to be published in the future from these regions.