European scientific production on occupational health indexed in the Scopus bibliographic database
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https://doi.org/10.4321/s0465-546x2024000200003Keywords:
Occupational Health, Bibliometrics, Bibliometric Indicators, Subject Headings, ScopusAbstract
Introduction: To analyze, through bibliometric techniques, the European scientific production on Occupational Health (OH) indexed in the Scopus bibliographic database.
Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Data was obtained from the Scopus database by querying the fields of title, abstract, and keywords using the term “Occupational Health”; search date was April 2023.
Results: A total of 89,133 references worldwide were obtained, with 27,546 (30.9%) of them affiliated with European institutions. The annual publication count showed a direct linear regression model (R2 = 0.7; p < 0.001). The most common document type was the original article with 19,895 (72.2%) references, with a productivity index of 4.3. The Burton-Kebler half-life was 12 years, with a maximum of 94 and a minimum of 0 years, and the Price Index (PI) was 23.5%. Works published in 34 different languages were identified, with English being the predominant language in OH publications with 21,419 (77.8%) works.
Conclusions: This study demonstrated that research in the field of OH in Europe has experienced constant growth over the years, although it has not yet reached exponential growth. A High obsolescence was observed in terms of scientific production in the European context. The original article was the most common type of document in scientific production. Most European scientific publications in this field are published in open access format. The lack of use of standardized language was evident. A clear Anglophone influence was noted, both in terms of language and institutional affiliation. However, a lack of collaboration between European institutions in this area of knowledge was noted.
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