Data di Pubblicazione:
2022
Abstract:
Small animal reproduction (SAR) is a main research field in veterinary medicine and
bibliometric analyses are useful to investigate trends in specific research areas. The objective of the
present study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the literature of the last decade on SAR.
A search equation was created, and documents were retrieved from the Web of Science database.
Documents were manually revised, categorized and R software version 4.1.2 with Bibliometrix R
package version 3.1 and MS Excel were used to perform the analyses. The included documents
(n = 1470) were mainly research articles (78%). The top countries for the number of documents
and citations were Brazil, United States, Italy, Poland, and Korea. These also account for the most
prolific authors and institutions. Analyses by author keywords, categories, and recent reviews of the
literature suggest that research on the canine species is more abundant than research on the feline
one and that reproductive biotechnologies are a main research focus. Some clinical topics are still
considered niche or neglected themes (e.g., semen collection in tomcats, neonatology). However,
heterogeneity and ambiguity in keywords and categories are undeniable. This study offers interesting
insights, providing definitions for main keywords in the field of SAR.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
small animal; reproduction; canine; feline; bibliometric
Elenco autori:
Banchi, Penelope; Rota, Ada; Bertero, Alessia; Domain, Guillaume; Ali Hassan, Hiba; Lannoo, Joke; Van Soom, Ann
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