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Bibliometric analyses of publications in the field of restless legs syndrome

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Abstract

Purpose

Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a chronic neurological disorder and the incidence of RLS is a more common disease than known is accepted. This study was performed to identify and analyze the characteristics of RLS-related articles published from 2001 to 2020 using bibliometric analyses.

Methods

RLS-related articles published from 2001 to 2020 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database with predefined search terms. VOSviewer software was used to visualize various bibliographic coupling networks on data. The top 10 lists (about organizations, papers, journals, most commonly cited articles, authors, countries, and keywords) extracted from 2001 to 2020 were also analyzed.

Results

A total of 2311 articles were included and the total number of publications from 2001 to 2020 was increased by 5.02-fold. The highest number of RLS publications (n = 171) since 2001 was observed in 2020. The United States is contributed the highest number of RLS-related publications (34.53%). The top productive journal was Sleep Medicine and the most prominent organization was Johns Hopkins University. In the list of top 10 authors, Allen RP was the first author.

Conclusions

This study is the first bibliometric analysis that provides a general perspective on the RLS from 2001 to 2020 and may be useful as a guide for further research in this field.

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The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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  2. Department: Public Health, Public Health Directorate, Osmaniye, Turkey

    Erhan Kaya

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HÜ prepared the hypothesis of the study and determined the work planning. HÜ and EK collected data and contributed the manuscript. EK analyzed the data of manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Üçer, H., Kaya, E. Bibliometric analyses of publications in the field of restless legs syndrome. Acta Neurol Belg 123, 465–474 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-022-02068-y

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