TY  - JOUR
A1  - Al-Mutawakel, Khaled
A1  - Scutaru, Cristian
A1  - Shami, Awfa
A1  - Sakr, Mohannad
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Quarcoo, David
T1  - Scientometric analysis of the world-wide research efforts concerning Leishmaniasis
T2  - Parasites & vectors
N2  - Background: Leishmaniasis is a chronic disease that is found in various countries of the world. The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of leishmaniasis on the world's research output. The present study assessed benchmarking of research output for the period between 1957 and 2006. Using large database analyses, research in the field of leishmaniasis was evaluated. Furthermore, cooperation between different countries was identified.
Results: The number of publications increased with time. Most publications came from Western countries such as the US, UK or Germany. Interestingly, countries like Brazil and India had a high research output. We found a substantial amount of cooperation between countries.
Conclusion: Although leishmaniasis is of limited geographic distribution it attracts a wide research interest. The central hub of research cooperation is the USA.
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/22837
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-228371
SN  - 1756-3305
N1  - © 2010 Al-Mutawakel et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 3
IS  - 1, Art. 14
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -