An In-Depth Bibliometric Analysis and Current Perspective on Male infertility Research.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Male infertility is emerging as a major, escalating global health problem that imposes the need to investigate research trends in male infertility. The purpose of this study is to analyze male infertility research trends in the past 20 years using the bibliometric database from Scopus.

Materials and methods

In order to perform an in-depth bibliometric analysis, we propose a 'Funnel Model', which includes several layers representing different sub-areas of male infertility research. Adopting this Funnel Model, using Scopus, we retrieved relevant bibliometric data (articles per year, authors, affiliations, journals, and countries) for various areas of male infertility research and performed descriptive statistics.

Results

The bibliometric analysis showed an expon

SUBMITTER: Baskaran S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7994650 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature