Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Pulmonary rehabilitation plays important role in patients with lung diseases, and it is applied acute, subacute, chronic stages of the disease. Bibliometrics, which refers to application quantitative statistical methods analyze scientific publications on a specific topic, authors, journals, citation scores, countries. Web Science (WOS) search engine selected keywords were those related “pulmonary’’ “rehabilitation” was used. Using query 3,582 different types results gained they analyzed according document after 20,645 entries, number journal articles 1,493. Retrieved data present various bibliometric indicators while maps visualized using WOS viewer technique. The Hirsch (h) index impact factor (IF) publishing Bibliometric overview literature “pulmonary” and” rehabilitation” between 1970 – 2021 given. momentum 2013. Most belong 2020. In terms type publications, meeting constitutes 80% published as abstracts articles. About half research are about respiratory system 11% them rehabilitation. most frequent country USA 19.9 % England second country. cited country, ranks first 8238 citations. place 5940 Publications have been increasing growing rapidly past decade. can be used context for analyzing broadscale strengths gaps current state evidence field informing comprehensive strategic plan further advancing more countries should encouraged participate studies this subject.