Abstract
Pulmonary rehabilitation plays important role in patients with lung diseases, and it is applied in acute, subacute, and chronic stages of the disease. Bibliometrics, which refers to the application of quantitative and statistical methods to analyze scientific publications on a specific topic, authors, journals, citation scores, and countries. Web of Science (WOS) search engine the selected keywords were those related to “pulmonary’’ and “rehabilitation” was used. Using the search query and 3,582 different types of results were gained and they were analyzed according to document types and after 20,645 entries, the number of journal articles was 1,493. Retrieved data were analyzed to present various bibliometric indicators while maps were visualized using the WOS viewer technique. The Hirsch (h) index and the impact factor (IF) of the publishing journal were used. Bibliometric overview of the literature on “pulmonary” and” rehabilitation” between 1970 – 2021 was given. The publications gained momentum after 2013. Most publications belong to 2020. In terms of the type of publications, meeting constitutes 80% of the publications published as abstracts and articles. About half of the published research articles are about the respiratory system and 11% of them are related to rehabilitation. The most frequent country was USA with 19.9 % of articles and England is the second most frequent country. In terms of the most cited country, the USA ranks first with 8238 citations. England is in second place with 5940 citations. Publications on “pulmonary” and “rehabilitation” have been increasing and growing rapidly in the past decade. The results can be used as context for analyzing broadscale strengths and gaps in the current state of evidence in a field and for informing a comprehensive strategic plan for further advancing the field and more countries should be encouraged to participate in the studies on this subject.
Highlights
Pulmonary rehabilitation consists of complex applications and is shaped according to the needs of patients with respiratory problems (Nici et al, 2014)
Bibliometrics, which refers to the application of mathematical and statistical methods to analyze scientific publications on a specific topic, (Thompson et al, 2015) serves to provide quantitative information on bibliographic properties, such as authors, journals, citation scores, and countries of distribution (Roldan-Valadez et al, 2019)
Pulmonary rehabilitation methods are very diverse according to the existing lung disease; for example, in pulmonary arterial hypertension, exercise training is safe and effective, pulmonary rehabilitation for bronchiectasis, including exercise training and airway clearance techniques, improves exercise capacity and quality of life (Holland et al, 2013)
Summary
Pulmonary rehabilitation consists of complex applications and is shaped according to the needs of patients with respiratory problems (Nici et al, 2014). Pulmonary rehabilitation can be applied to the patient with a multidisciplinary approach in the acute phase of the disease, afterwards or in any chronic phase It has goals such as reducing symptoms, increasing exercise performance, participation in daily activities, improving health-related quality of life, and making changes in health behaviour long-term (Cooper, 2015). Bibliometrics, which refers to the application of mathematical and statistical methods to analyze scientific publications on a specific topic, (Thompson et al, 2015) serves to provide quantitative information on bibliographic properties, such as authors, journals, citation scores, and countries of distribution (Roldan-Valadez et al, 2019). To comprehensively summarize the pulmonary rehabilitation studies and provide valuable insights into the practice; we try to explore the results of these findings that can be used as context for analyzing broadscale strengths and gaps in the current state of evidence in a field, and for informing a comprehensive strategic plan for further advancing the field
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