The Scientific Profiles of Documented Collections via Publication Data: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology

Human osteological documented collections (DCs), also referred to as “identified collections”, are a valuable resource in biological and forensic anthropology, they offer the possibility for hypothesis-driven research on sex age-at-death estimation methods, human variability, other morphometric-based parameters of individual identification. Consequently, feature many publications addressing sciences. The paper aims explore scientific profiles DCs via publication using bibliometric data. Dimensions databases were used select DC-related keywords title abstracts publications. search result analysis extraction conducted VOSviewer. A total 376 articles found, published between 1969 2021 (November). number has increased over years, specifically after 2011. results show that most associated with countries such United States Portugal (the latter highlights University Coimbra), tends focus profiling (e.g., age, assessments), journals highest numbers related This shows positive correlation DC growth anthropology recent slight shift towards leading institutions publish DC-based research. Hence, we can anticipate change institutional years come.