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Outdoor air pollution and respiratory health: a bibliometric analysis of publications in peer-reviewed journals (1900 – 2017)

Overview of attention for article published in Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, June 2018
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Title
Outdoor air pollution and respiratory health: a bibliometric analysis of publications in peer-reviewed journals (1900 – 2017)
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Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40248-018-0128-5
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Waleed M. Sweileh, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Sa’ed H. Zyoud, Ansam F. Sawalha

Abstract

Outdoor air pollution is a major threat to global public health that needs responsible participation of researchers at all levels. Assessing research output is an important step in highlighting national and international contribution and collaboration in a certain field. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze globally-published literature in outdoor air pollution - related respiratory health. Outdoor air pollution documents related to respiratory health were retrieved from Scopus database. The study period was up to 2017. Mapping of author keywords was carried out using VOSviewer 1.6.6. Search query yielded 3635 documents with an h-index of 137. There was a dramatic increase in the number of publications in the last decade of the study period. The most frequently encountered author keywords were: air pollution (835 occurrences), asthma (502 occurrences), particulate matter (198 occurrences), and children (203 occurrences). The United States of America ranked first (1082; 29.8%) followed by the United Kingdom (279; 7.7%) and Italy (198; 5.4%). Annual research productivity stratified by income and population size indicated that China ranked first (22.2) followed by the USA (18.8). Analysis of regional distribution of publications indicated that the Mediterranean, African, and South-East Asia regions had the least contribution. Harvard University (92; 2.5%) was the most active institution/organization followed the US Environmental Protection Agency (89; 2.4%). International collaboration was restricted to three regions: Northern America, Europe, and Asia. The top ten preferred journals were in the field of environmental health and respiratory health. Environmental Health Perspective was the most preferred journal for publishing documents in outdoor pollution in relation to respiratory health. Research on the impact of outdoor air pollution on respiratory health had accelerated lately and is receiving a lot of interest. Global research networks that include countries with high level of pollution and limited resources are highly needed to create public opinion in favor of minimizing outdoor air pollution and investing in green technologies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 249 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 12%
Student > Bachelor 25 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 9%
Researcher 16 6%
Student > Postgraduate 8 3%
Other 47 19%
Unknown 102 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 23 9%
Environmental Science 22 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 5%
Computer Science 12 5%
Other 60 24%
Unknown 106 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 March 2022.
All research outputs
#5,242,603
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
#76
of 307 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#93,530
of 342,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
#3
of 10 outputs
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