Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a worldwide public health problem. Here, a bibliometric analysis is performed to evaluate the publications in the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) field from 2000 to 2019 based on the Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) databases. This work presents a detailed overview of IPV from aspects of types of articles, citations, h-indices, languages, years, journals, institutions, countries, and author keywords. The results show that the USA takes the leading position in this research field, followed by Canada and the U.K. The University of North Carolina has the most publications and Harvard University has the first place in terms of h-index. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine leads the list of average citations per paper. The Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Family Violence and Violence Against Women are the top three most productive journals in this field, and Psychology is the most frequently used subject category. Keywords analysis indicates that, in recent years, most research focuses on the research fields of “child abuse”, “pregnancy”, “HIV”, “dating violence”, “gender-based violence” and “adolescents”.
Highlights
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a common and worldwide health concern [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
The analysis was based on the papers related to “Intimate Partner Violence” which were obtained from the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) during the period from 2000 to 2019
Until 2019, countries or regions have participated in IPV research
Summary
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a common and worldwide health concern [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), IPV includes “any behavior by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviors” [9]. According to a WHO report in 2013 [10], over one in three women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual partner violence, or sexual violence by a non-partner. IPV levels vary in different regions due to a variety of cultural, economic level, social system, and religious reasons, with the highest prevalence in Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and the South–East Asia Regions, followed by the Americas. High-income regions, the European and the Western Pacific Regions have a relatively low prevalence [10]. Since IPV is associated with many serious physical and mental health consequences: physical injury [11,12,13,14], post-traumatic stress disorder [15,16,17], HIV infections [18,19,20,21], induced abortion [22,23,24], alcohol use disorders [25,26,27,28,29], adolescent pregnancy [30,31,32,33], dating violence [30,34,35,36,37], and more, scholars from many countries have been participating in the study of IPV and how to prevent the violence [38,39,40,41,42,43,44]
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