Bibliometric analysis of main diseases due to exposure to altitude in the world

Aquino-Canchari C.R.; Baquerizo-Quispe N.S.; Florez-Soto D.M.; Lorenzo-Roque A.I. · Medicina (Brazil) (2023) · DOI: 10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2023.204914

Resumen

Introduction: Around 140 million people in the world live-in high-altitude regions; however, there are few bibliometric studies. Objective: Describe the scientific production of the main diseases due to exposure to altitude in the world. Methods: Observational study, bibliometric type. After a systematic search in Scopus, original articles were included, whose main variable was mountain sickness, high-altitude cerebral edema and high-altitude pulmonary edema. Characteristics of each study were manually extracted and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: 2305 articles were found on mountain sickness (n=1531), high-altitude pulmonary edema (n=549) and high-altitude cerebral edema (n=225), respectively, in Scopus. Regarding the most influential journal was High Altitude Medicine and Biology in all three diseases, the country with the highest number of articles was the United States (458, 168 and 75), the most used language was English (91.31%, 85.33% and 84.19%), the author with the highest number of publications was Bartsh P. (2.94%, 18.60% and 3.42%) and most of the articles were open access (41.08%, 42.06% and 76.53%), respectively. Conclusion: The scientific production of original articles on mountain sickness, high-altitude pulmonary edema and high-altitude cerebral edema in Scopus has increased in recent years; however, it is still scarce compared to other diseases.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana Los Andes