Radiologic Clinics of North America; Bibliometric Spectrum of Publications from 2000 to 2019.

Authors

Ali Mohammed Aldhebaib, Chairman - Department of Radiological Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences-R, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Follow
Ikram Ul Haq, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Follow
Fayazul Ul Haq, Department of Radiological Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences-R, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Follow
Muhammad Tanveer, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaFollow
Oinam Gokulchandra Singh, Department of Radiological Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences-R, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Follow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study is to present the bibliometric analysis of papers published in Radiologic Clinic of North America (RCNA) from 2000 to 2019.

Design/Methodology: The Elsevier’s Scopus database was used as a source to retrieve the bibliographic records published from 2000 to 2019. The data was evaluated on the following parameters, growth of publications and their citation impact by year, most contributing institutions and countries, productive authors, authorship patterns, most-cited papers, frequently used keywords and flow of knowledge. Only original and review articles were used for analysis, other types of documents were excluded. Microsoft Excel, SPSS and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis.

Results: A fluctuation was detected in the number of publications. A total of 1,401 papers were selected, of whom 1,241 (88.57%) were review articles and 160 (11.42%) were research articles. The mean and standard deviation (SD) scores of papers were 70 and 6.15 respectively. All selected papers received 34,145 citations with a mean score of 24.37 citations per paper (SD 1019.55). The study found that all top-10 contributing institutions belonged to the USA and the USA was also found most productive country. Out of the ten-most productive authors, nine were affiliated with USA and two-author pattern found a most preferred pattern.

Conclusion: The finding of this study exposed that the USA is the most productive country in terms of authors, institutions and even in citing the literature of RCNA.