This study aims to analyze buruli ulcer literature by applying bibliometric tools. The data were collected from Scopus database to analyze growth, authorship pattern, publication type, language-wise distribution of papers, most productive authors and highly cited papers on buruli ulcer. The findings of the study indicated that research activities on buruli ulcer registered negative growth rate in the most number of years. About 86.62% papers were contributed by multiple authors which indicated collaborative research trend in the subject. Highest number of papers on buruli ulcer was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Portaels F. from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium grabbed first rank by contributing highest number of papers on buruli ulcer.

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2000-2017 年布鲁里溃疡全球出版物产出的文献计量评估

本研究旨在通过应用文献计量工具分析布鲁里溃疡文献。数据来自 Scopus 数据库，用于分析关于布鲁里溃疡的增长、作者模式、出版物类型、论文的语言分布、最具生产力的作者和高被引论文。研究结果表明，布鲁里溃疡研究活动出现负增长的年份最多。约86.62%的论文由多位作者共同贡献，表明该学科的合作研究趋势。在 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 上发表的关于布鲁里溃疡的论文数量最多。来自比利时热带医学研究所的 Portaels F. 以贡献最多关于布鲁里溃疡的论文数夺得第一名。