Malnutrition Research Output: A Bibliometric Analysis for articles Index in Web of Science between 1900 and 2020

Introduction: Malnutrition is a significant cause of child morbidity and mortality, it remains global health issue with high prevalence. Here, we carried out bibliometric survey to provide scientific research output on malnutrition identify the gaps future direction from published papers searched in Web Science (WoS). Methods: A comprehensive analysis was generated by searching WoS database. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), used search terms “Malnutrition’ or ‘Malnourishment’ ‘Nutritional Deficiency’ ‘Undernutrition’ ‘Nutrition Disorders.’ Was retrieve article between 1900 2020. Only original review English were included analysis. SPSS, HistCite, Bibliometrix app.” (Using R), VOSviewer ver 1.6.6 for Results: Research peak 1972 2007 100(0.99%) articles, 2008 2012 more than 200 (1.98%) while year 2019 2020 had least 500 (4.95%) articles per year. The United States ranked first number 1947(19.28%), followed Kingdom 604 (5.98%), Brazil 412 (4.08%). In addition, our analyses revealed correlation total citations Year science publications(r=0.9216, p<0.0001), countries (r=0.9219, Number authors (r=0.4149, Institution (r=0.5534, Journal h_index (r=0.6927, impact factors (r=0.6364, p<0.0544). Conclusion: This provides insights into overview annual trend output, institution, journal, authors, countries.