Abstract
Introduction: Malnutrition is a significant cause of child morbidity and mortality, and it remains a global health issue with high prevalence. Here, we carried out a bibliometric survey to provide global scientific research output on malnutrition and identify the research gaps and future research direction from published papers searched in Web of Science (WoS). Methods: A comprehensive analysis was generated by searching the WoS database. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), was used to search terms “Malnutrition’ or ‘Malnourishment’ or ‘Nutritional Deficiency’ or ‘Undernutrition’ or ‘Nutrition Disorders.’ Was used to retrieve article published in between 1900 and 2020. Only original research and review papers published in English were included in the analysis. SPSS, HistCite, Bibliometrix app.” (Using R), and VOSviewer ver 1.6.6 were used for analysis. Results: Research output peak from 1972 to 2007 with 100(0.99%) articles, in 2008 to 2012 with more than 200 (1.98%) articles, while the year 2019 and 2020 had the least more than 500 (4.95%) articles per year. The United States ranked first in terms of the number of articles 1947(19.28%), followed by United Kingdom 604 (5.98%), and Brazil 412 (4.08%). In addition, our analyses revealed a significant correlation between the total number of citations Year science publications(r=0.9216, p<0.0001), and between number of countries (r=0.9219, p<0.0001), and number of Number of authors (r=0.4149, p<0.0001), and Institution (r=0.5534, p<0.0001), Journal h_index (r=0.6927, p<0.0001), and Journal impact factors (r=0.6364, p<0.0544). Conclusion: This bibliometric analysis provides insights into the global overview on the annual trend of the global malnutrition research output, institution, journal, authors, and countries.
Highlights
Malnutrition is a significant cause of child morbidity and mortality, and it remains a global health issue with high prevalence
Published peer-reviewed articles on malnutrition were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database
The resulting bib.txt data was downloaded from WoS, and as a result, 10100 documents related to malnutrition were
Summary
Malnutrition is a significant cause of child morbidity and mortality, and it remains a global health issue with high prevalence. There has been concerted effort to ensure that people of all ages are less vulnerable to the intricacy of malnutrition [3] through researches and investment programs from governments, NGOs, and private entities. With these efforts, the developed countries have witnessed massive progress in combating malnutrition that was diffused into the developing countries. The developed countries have witnessed massive progress in combating malnutrition that was diffused into the developing countries This progress is measured in terms of reduced child mortality attributed to low malnutrition prevalence, longer life expectancy for the aging population, and improved maternal health services. It has since been reported that lower birth weight and undernutrition were risk factors for high glucose concentrations and increased blood pressure rate [6]
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