Contributions from Turkey to the international emergency medicine literature during the COVID-19 pandemic: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Aim: The present study aimed to evaluate the bibliometric contributions made from Türkiye to the international scientific literature in the field of Emergency Medicine during the 2020-2021 period, which covered the COVID-19 pandemic period. Materials and Methods: The present study included a total of 872 studies in Emergency Medicine WoS Indexes between 2020-2021. The study data were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database of Thomson Reuters – Clarivate Analytics, and the review included publications in the "Emergency Medicine" category from Turkey that spanned the pandemic period between the years 2019-2020. Results: 78.1% of the aforementioned studies were included in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 88.2% were original research papers. A total of 2930 researchers were involved in the 872 publications in the scope of the study. The average number of co-authors per publication was 5.2, where the average number of publications per author was 0.3. As regards the scope of the publications, the main topic was "SARS-Cov-2 and pandemic". The aforementioned main theme was associated with general emergency medicine practices, COVID-19 pneumonia, and high-mortality emergency cases. Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first that investigated the studies from Turkey that contributed to the international literature in the field of emergency medicine during the pandemic period and provided valuable data reflecting the scientific productivity of the researchers, who continued their research in the field of emergency medicine, during the pandemic period.