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Top journals publishing articles related to drowning prevention: a bibliometric analysis 2000-2022
David F Zane1, David W Lawrence2, Barbara Cosart3
1Injury Epidemiologist (Ret.), Austin, Texas, USA. and Member, International Drowning Researchers' Alliance (IDRA), Kuna, Idaho, USA.
Background:
Drowning is a worldwide problem. Scholarly publications about drowning prevention play a crucial role in bringing data to policy makers and prevention specialists. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of published articles related to unintentional drowning prevention included in the comprehensive, curated injury literature database, SafetyLit®.
Methods:
Thorough searches of drowning-related search terms in English and non- English translations identified articles published in journals between 2000 and 2022.
Results:
There was a 3-fold increase in publications between 2000 and 2022, with 2,937 articles published in 941 journals. Articles were published in 20 different languages. Five journals published 16% of the articles and sixty-one top journals published 50% of the articles. Eighty-nine percent of the top journals were included in PubMed; 82% were indexed in MEDLINE®; and professional areas of expertise of article authors spanned 18 categories.
Conclusions:
This study can facilitate journal selection for drowning researchers to ultimately increase the publication of scientific literature globally.
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