ABSTRACT

Purpose: This paper aims to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific documents in the field of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.

Methods: Web of Science was used to collect bibliographic data of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation documents from 1983 until the end of 2017.

Results: Of a total of 6069 documents retrieved, 78.2% were journal articles. The average annual growth of the documents as of the year 2000 was 9.4%. The most frequent subject categories in this field were Rehabilitation, Neurosciences and Neurology, Sport Sciences, Psychology, and General and Internal Medicine. The most active journal was Brain Injury. More than 50% of the documents were published in 10 journals. The most prolific and impactful institutions were from the USA, Australia and Canada. Traumatic brain injury, rehabilitation, brain injury, stroke and outcome were the most commonly used keywords. Mild traumatic brain injury and concussion were the topics receiving attention in recent years.

Conclusion: Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation is a young and constantly growing field. Since the late 1990s, traumatic brain injury rehabilitation documents published yearly comprised about 3–4% of all rehabilitation documents. It was shown that review papers and proceedings have more impact than journal articles, and collaborative papers receive more citations. It was also revealed that knowledge does not become obsolete rapidly in this field.

摘要

目的：本文旨在对创伤性脑损伤康复领域的科学文献进行文献计量分析。

方法：利用Web of Science收集1983年至2017年底脑外伤康复文献的书目数据。

结果：在总共检索到的 6069 篇文献中，78.2% 是期刊文章。截至 2000 年，文献的年均增长率为 9.4%。该领域最常见的学科类别是康复、神经科学和神经病学、运动科学、心理学以及普通和内科学。最活跃的期刊是Brain Injury。50%以上的文献发表在10种期刊上。最多产和最具影响力的机构来自美国、澳大利亚和加拿大。创伤性脑损伤、康复、脑损伤、中风和结果是最常用的关键词。轻度创伤性脑损伤和脑震荡是近年来受到关注的话题。

结论：创伤性脑损伤康复是一个年轻且不断发展的领域。自 1990 年代后期以来，每年出版的脑外伤康复文献约占所有康复文献的 3-4%。结果表明，评论论文和论文集比期刊文章具有更大的影响力，并且合作论文获得的引用次数更多。研究还表明，该领域的知识不会迅速过时。