Bibliometric analysis of artemisinin combination therapy efficacy publications on SCOPUS and PUBMED databases

In line with research efforts towards malaria control and eradication, this study was proposed to provide a bibliometric summary of research output on ACT resistance/ therapeutic efficacy. 

Keywords related to ACT efficacy were used to retrieve literature using the PUBMED and SCOPUS databases. 

In total we obtained 7082 and 3031 journal articles were retrieved from the databases respectively. The number of publications on SCOPUS was within the same range of 310-370 except for 2023 which recorded only 207 publications, while for PUBMED, publications showed a noticeable increase between 2006 and 2015. The malaria journal was well represented in both databases with 195, 2.7% appearance in PUBMED and 588, 19.4% in SCOPUS. Although it was the most productive journal in SCOPUS, in PUBMED we had BMC medicine (333, 4.7%). Publications in SCOPUS recorded an average yearly citation of 13.8, further individual analysis showed that 533, 7.5% of publications were cited eleven to twenty times, followed closely by 525,7.4% of the publications with six to 10 citations. Analysis of Author contribution showed majority of publications in the authorship of 6 and above.