TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tran, Bach Xuan
A1  - Pham, Thang Van
A1  - Ha, Giang Hai
A1  - Ngo, Anh Toan
A1  - Nguyen, Long Hoang
A1  - Vu, Thuc Thi Minh
A1  - Do, Ha Ngoc
A1  - Nguyen, Vu
A1  - Nguyen, Anh Tuan Le
A1  - Tran, Tung Thanh
A1  - Truong, Nu Thi
A1  - Hoang, Vuong Quan
A1  - Ho, Tung Manh
A1  - Dam, Nhue Van
A1  - Vuong, Thu Trang
A1  - Nguyen, Hung Quang
A1  - Le, Huong Thi
A1  - Do, Hoa Thi
A1  - Moir, Mackenzie
A1  - Shimpuku, Yoko
A1  - Dhimal, Meghnath
A1  - Arya, Shalini Subash
A1  - Nguyen, Tu Huu
A1  - Bhattarai, Suraj
A1  - Latkin, Carl A.
A1  - Ho, Cyrus S. H.
A1  - Ho, Roger C. M.
T1  - A bibliometric analysis of the global research trend in child maltreatment
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - Child maltreatment remains a major health threat globally that requires the understanding of socioeconomic and cultural contexts to craft effective interventions. However, little is known about research agendas globally and the development of knowledge-producing networks in this field of study. This study aims to explore the bibliometric overview on child maltreatment publications to understand their growth from 1916 to 2018. Data from the Web of Science Core Collection were collected in May 2018. Only research articles and reviews written in the English language were included, with no restrictions by publication date. We analyzed publication years, number of papers, journals, authors, keywords and countries, and presented the countries collaboration and co-occurrence keywords analysis. From 1916 to 2018, 47,090 papers (53.0% in 2010–2018) were published in 9442 journals. Child Abuse & Neglect (2576 papers; 5.5%); Children and Youth Services Review (1130 papers; 2.4%) and Pediatrics (793 papers, 1.7%) published the most papers. The most common research areas were Psychology (16,049 papers, 34.1%), Family Studies (8225 papers, 17.5%), and Social Work (7367 papers, 15.6%). Among 192 countries with research publications, the most prolific countries were the United States (26,367 papers), England (4676 papers), Canada (3282 papers) and Australia (2664 papers). We identified 17 authors who had more than 60 scientific items. The most cited papers (with at least 600 citations) were published in 29 journals, headed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (7 papers) and the Lancet (5 papers). This overview of global research in child maltreatment indicated an increasing trend in this topic, with the world’s leading centers located in the Western countries led by the United States. We called for interdisciplinary research approaches to evaluating and intervening on child maltreatment, with a focus on low-middle income countries (LMICs) settings and specific contexts.
KW  - child maltreatment
KW  - scientometrics
KW  - child abuse and neglect
KW  - global mapping
KW  - bibliometric analysis
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48848
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-488481
SN  - 1660-4601
SN  - 1661-7827
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
VL  - 15
IS  - 7, Art. 1456
SP  - 1
EP  - 25
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -