A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF FACIAL PARALYSIS RESEARCH LITERATURE

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to conduct a scientometric analysis of facial parlaysis research publications from 2017 to 2021. To find the results of the study, a total of 854 research articles were retrieved from the PubMed database. The distribution of publications was studied based on the year, most productive authors, country, institutes, document type, source and keywords. It was identified that in the year 2021, the most articles were published, contributing 253 (29.63%), three authors ranked first, Guntinas-Lichius O, Jowett N, and Volk GF, each contributed 9 (0.20%), the relative growth rates decreased from 2018 (0.83) to 2021 (0.36), with the mean relative growth rate for this time period being 0.42, the doubling time is highest in 2021 with 1.93, Medicine published the most articles 33 (3.86%), Jena University Hospital in Germany topped the list with 82 (1.66%) articles, followed by Capital Medical University in China with 44 (0.89%) articles. The majority of documents were published in the form of articles, with 361 (42.27%) publications, followed by case reports with 322 (37.70%).