Abstract
BackgroundChina has made great progress in malaria prevention and control, but there has been no research to provide a macroscopic overview of malaria research in China. This bibliometric analysis was conducted from international databases to explore the characteristics of malaria investigations in China.MethodsPublished scientific papers about malaria were retrieved from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang database, Cqvip and PubMed during 2004–2014. Year of publication, first-author affiliation, journal name and keywords were extracted with the Bibliographic Items Co-occurrence Matrix Builder (BICOMB). High-frequency keywords were selected to construct the co-word matrix and divided into eight categories. Sub-networks were utilized to analyse the complex knowledge structures.ResultsIn recent ten years, a total of 5,126 entries were included. The number of papers on malaria started to increase since 2010. The papers published by top 12 Chinese journals in the field of malaria accounted for 32.98% in overall articles. Most of the studies were conducted by the researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs). The words “malaria”, “imported malaria”, “falciparum malaria”, “vivax malaria” and “malaria surveillance” were the centers of knowledge structures.ConclusionChinese studies on malaria mainly focus on the epidemiology and biomedical fields, this study offers a systematic evaluation on the output of malaria studies and the elimination of malaria in China.
Highlights
China has made great progress in malaria prevention and control, but there has been no research to provide a macroscopic overview of malaria research in China
In China, there were systematic reviews on congenital malaria cases and malaria outbreaks (1990–2013) [11, 12], few studies have been performed to provide a macroscopic overview of malaria research by using the bibliometric method, probably due to language barriers and poor compatibility between Chinese databases and international bibliometric
Most malaria-related papers were contributed by the researchers from CDC in China and institutes of parasitic diseases (IPDs) of Yunnan province
Summary
China has made great progress in malaria prevention and control, but there has been no research to provide a macroscopic overview of malaria research in China. This bibliometric analysis was conducted from international databases to explore the characteristics of malaria investigations in China. In China, there were systematic reviews on congenital malaria cases and malaria outbreaks (1990–2013) [11, 12], few studies have been performed to provide a macroscopic overview of malaria research by using the bibliometric method, probably due to language barriers and poor compatibility between Chinese databases and international bibliometric
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