Trends of Publications and Country Rankings in Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health from Asia: A Bibliometric Study from 1996 to 2022.

ABSTRACT

There is a need to analyze the trends of country-wise research output in child heath over the past few decades. A total of 7,87,812 global publications in pediatrics, perinatology and child health were found from 1996 to 2022 in SCOPUS, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, covering over 35,000 journals from diverse disciplines. About 13.4% of these were published from Asia. There was an average growth of global publications of 3.53 times between 1996 and 2022, with China and India showing higher growth than the global average.