Abstract

Işıl Deniz Alıravcı and Dr. Mehmet Nuri Duran*

ABSTRACT

Background: Pregnancy is a period when susceptibility to infections increases due to physiological changes and weakening of the immune system. In order to gain a general perspective on maternal infections, in this study, we aim to make a bibliometric analysis of the literature related to maternal infections and explore the research status, hotspots and frontiers in this field in recent 10 years. Methods: In this bibliometric study, we retrieved publications from Web of Science (WoS) database Jan 1, 2004 to Jan 1, 2024 based on a variety of factors, including total citation numbers, languages, journals, countries, affiliations esc... Additionally, VOSviewer software version 1.6.18 used for representing global collaboration network and hot research themes. Results: Overall, 16496 Open Access articles from 1952 sources, contributed by 82420 authors retrieved from WOS between January 2004-2024, globally. All studies were published in science citation index expanded (SCI?EXPANDED) and social sciences citation index (SSCI), as a result of the Web of Science. The publications have been published in 13 different sources (journals, books, letters etc.), mostly original articles (%82). The average citations per documents was 31.19. The top active author was Romero R, the journal was Plos One with 846 articles, the affiliation was University of London and the country was USA. Conclusion: Our study systematically analyzed maternal infections, in the last 20 years. we need further investigate to provide new therapeutic perspectives to mitigate adverse perinatal outcomes due to maternal infections. In conclusion, bibliometric our study provide a general overview of maternal infections.