Abstract:

Intoxication is still the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite the growing number of global studies about intoxication, comprehensive bibliometric studies are not available in the literature. This study aims to analyze scientific articles about intoxication/poisoning and to evaluate this subject matter from a holistic point of view. Studies about intoxication that were published in the years between 1975 and 2020 were downloaded from the Web of Science (WoS) database and analyzed by bibliometric methods. Spearman’s correlation coefficient was used for correlation analyses. Regression analysis was used to estimate publication trends in the coming years. A total of 32,320 publications about medical research were obtained. Of these publications, 17,508 (54%) were articles. A non-linear growth trend was observed for the number of intoxication articles that have been published in recent years. The most active three institutions were the University of California San Francisco (137), Harvard University (133), and Oxford University (96). Clinical Toxicology was the journal that has published the highest number of articles (683). The most active author was Michael Eddleston (92). The most common subject matters were carbon monoxide, suicide, overdose, organophosphates, toxicology, alcohol, pesticides, epidemiology, children, paraquat, and lead poisoning. In this comprehensive bibliometric study about intoxication, which is a subject matter studied with a growing trend in the literature, we have presented a summary of 17,508 articles. This study can be a beneficial resource for clinicians and scientists by presenting global outputs about intoxication and future prospects and novel subject matters for research

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