The landscape of microbiota research in Iran; a bibliometric and network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To introduce bibliometric features of Iranian documents on microbiota and to provide descriptive information about retrieved documents related to the medical sciences and documents utilizing molecular techniques for microbiota detection.

Methods

This is a descriptive bibliometric study of all Iranian documents on microbiota in any language that were indexed in Scopus before 7 September 2019. We assessed the research performance through statistical analysis of the bibliometric indicators, including number of publications, citations, institutions and journals activities, co-citations and bibliographic couplings, and network analysis of co-authorships, countries' collaborations, terms and keywords.

Results

We extracted 425 relevant documents, 260 of which pert

SUBMITTER: Aazami H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7270223 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature