TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mund, Mathias
A1  - Kloft, Beatrix
A1  - Bundschuh, Matthias
A1  - Klingelhöfer, Doris
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Gerber, Alexander
T1  - Global research on smoking and pregnancy : a scientometric and gender analysis
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - The exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is considered to be amongst the most harmful avoidable risk factors. In this scientometric and gender study scientific data on smoking and pregnancy was analyzed using a variety of objective scientometric methods like the number of scientific contributions, the number of citations and the modified h-index in combination with gender-specific investigations. Covering a time period from 1900 to 2012, publishing activities of 27,955 authors, institutions and countries, reception within the international scientific community and its reactions were analyzed and interpreted. Out of 10,043 publications the highest number of scientific works were published in the USA (35.5%), followed by the UK (9.9%) and Canada (5.3%). These nations also achieve the highest modified h-indices of 128, 79 and 62 and the highest citation rates of 41.4%, 8.6% and 5.3%, respectively. Out of 12,596 scientists 6,935 are female (55.1%), however they account for no more than 49.7% of publications (12,470) and 42.8% of citations (172,733). The highest percentage of female experts about smoking and pregnancy is found in Australasia (60.7%), while the lowest is found in Asia (41.9%). The findings of the study indicate an increase in gender equality as well as in quantity and quality of international scientific research about smoking and pregnancy in the future.
KW  - bibliometry
KW  - cigarette
KW  - citation
KW  - gender studies
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - scientometry
KW  - smoking
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34104
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-341043
SN  - 1660-4601
SN  - 1661-7827
N1  - © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
VL  - 11
IS  - 6
SP  - 5792
EP  - 5806
PB  - Molecular Diversity Preservation International
CY  - Basel
ER  -