Historical roots of pain management in infants: A bibliometric analysis using reference publication year spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: Retrospective evaluations of the historical role of previously published research are often fraught with subjective bias and misrepresentation, which leads to contested scientific claims. This paper investigates the historical roots of infant pain management using novel quantitative methods to identify the published literature and evaluate its relative importance. A bibliometric analysis named "reference publication year spectroscopy" (RPYS), was performed using the program CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer) to avoid the subjectivity associated with comparative evaluations of individual research studies. Web of Science (WoS) search queries on infant-related synonyms, pain-related synonyms, and analgesia or anesthesia-related synonyms were combined using the Boolean operator "AND," to ide

SUBMITTER: Anand KJS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8975229 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature