Background/objective

Childhood epilepsy is one of the disease groups with the highest disease burden in society. This study aimed to guide researchers for new studies by determining the most compelling studies and current issues through a bibliometric analysis of scientific outputs about childhood epilepsy between 1980 and 2018.

Methods

The literature review was conducted using the Web of Science (WoS) database. Epilepsy and status epilepticus were used as search keywords in WoS, and the search was performed only in the title section of the publications. Only publications in the research field of pediatrics were included in the study and were analyzed bibliometrically. Linear regression analysis was used to estimate the number of publications in the coming years.

Results

It was seen that the number of articles on pediatric epilepsy has been increasing with a linear trend. A total of 3424 publications were found. Of these publications, 2197 (64.2%) articles were analyzed bibliometrically. The top two most productive countries were the USA(654) and Italy (199). The first two most active institutions were The Hospital for Sick Children (40, 1.8%) and Tel Aviv University (38, 1.7%). The top three journals that published the most were Journal of Child Neurology (422, 19.2%), Pediatric Neurology (335, 15.2%), and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (201, 9.1%).

Conclusion

In this bibliometric study on childhood epilepsies, a data summary of 2197 articles published between 1980 and 2018 is presented. We hope that this article will be a useful literature review and guide researchers working on pediatric epilepsy.

中文翻译：

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1980年至2018年间小儿癫痫出版物的文献计量分析。

背景/目标

儿童癫痫病是社会上疾病负担最高的疾病组之一。这项研究旨在通过对1980年至2018年间儿童癫痫的科学产出进行文献计量分析，确定最引人注目的研究和当前问题，以指导研究人员进行新的研究。

方法

文献综述使用Web of Science（WoS）数据库进行。癫痫和癫痫持续状态被用作WoS中的搜索关键字，并且仅在出版物的标题部分进行搜索。该研究仅包括儿科研究领域的出版物，并按文献计量进行分析。线性回归分析用于估计未来几年的出版物数量。

结果

可以看出，有关小儿癫痫的文章数量一直呈线性趋势增长。共找到3424种出版物。在这些出版物中，对2197篇文章（64.2％）进行了文献计量分析。生产力最高的两个国家是美国（654）和意大利（199）。前两个最活跃的机构是病童医院（40，1.8％）和特拉维夫大学（38，1.7％）。出版量最大的前三位期刊是《儿童神经病学杂志》（422，19.2％），《儿科神经病学》（335，15.2％）和《发育医学与儿童神经病学》（201，9.1％）。

结论

在这项关于儿童癫痫的文献计量研究中，提供了1980年至2018年期间发表的2197篇文章的数据摘要。我们希望本文将是有用的文献综述，并指导从事小儿癫痫研究的研究人员。