A cross-sectional bibliometric analysis of care phases in SCImago's top five intensive care journals in 2012 and 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The critically ill patient's journey can broadly be divided into three phases; events prior to admission, during the ICU stay, and following discharge. There is a paucity of evidence on what proportion of research outputs in high-impact intensive care journals address the respective phases. We aimed to investigate how intensive care research published in SCImago's top five journals mapped onto phases of care and the National Institute of Health and Care Research James Lind Alliance (NIHR JLA) Priority Setting Partnership research topics over a decade. The study was prospectively registered with the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/r8vs5/.

Methods

We conducted a bibliometric cross-sectional analysis of intensive care research published in 2012 and 2022, in the

SUBMITTER: Tan MZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12454406 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature