Bibliometric analysis of peruvian scientific production on infectology in Peru

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to determine the bibliometric characteristics of original scientific articles on infectology in Peru. Methodology: A bibliographic search of original articles published in the Web of Science database up to 2022
was conducted. A bibliometric analysis was carried out using the bibliometrix package in R and VOSviewer. Results: We identified 1354 published articles. The first publication was in 2001, the highest number of publications was in 2020, and
the average number of citations per document was 21.72. The author with the highest number of publications was Robert Hugh Gilman, and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia had the highest number of articles on this topic. PLoS
Neglected Tropical Diseases was the journal with the most publications, and the study by Grant RM et al. was the most cited. Predominant terms in the articles covered topics such as HIV, Leishmania, and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the year 2015, while around 2019, COVID-19 and mortality were addressed. Conclusions: An increase in scientific activity in the
field of infectology was observed among authors affiliated with Peruvian institutions, with Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia presenting the highest production. The journal that recorded the most publications by Peruvian authors in the field of infectology was PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.