Abstract
Background:
There is a paucity of information about the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in a cytology journal. Journal of Cytology (JOC) is the official publication of Indian Academy of Cytologists.
Objective:
This study aimed to audit the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in JOC from 2007 to 2015 over a 9-year period.
Materials and Methods:
Bibliometric analysis of issues of JOC from 2007 to 2015 was performed using web-based search. The articles published were analyzed for type of article and individual topic of oral and maxillofacial cytology. The articles published were also checked for authorship trends.
Results:
Of the total 93 published articles related to oral and maxillofacial cytology, original articles (43) and case reports (33) contribute the major share. The highest number of oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles was published in 2014 with 17 articles and the least published year was 2010 with three articles. Among the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in JOC, diseases of salivary gland (26) followed by oral exfoliated cells (17), soft tissue tumors (7), round cell tumors (6) and spindle cell neoplasms (5) form the major attraction of the contributors. The largest numbers of published articles related to oral and maxillofacial cytology were received from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (5), and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh (5).
Conclusion:
This paper may be considered as a baseline study for the bibliometric information regarding oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in India.
Keywords: Bibliometric analysis cytology journal, India, Journal of Cytology, maxillofacial cytology, oral
INTRODUCTION
Oral and maxillofacial cytology is employed to rule out diseases affecting the oral and maxillofacial regions. The bibliometric information about oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles is less compared to oral and maxillofacial pathology-related articles in scientific journals.[1,2,3,4] There is a paucity of information about the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in a cytology journal.
Journal of Cytology (JOC) is the official publication of Indian Academy of Cytologists, and it was selected to study the bibliometric analysis of oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles from 2007 to 2015 over a 9-year period because the full text of the articles is freely available from 2007 to 2015. This study aimed to audit the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in JOC from 2007 to 2015 over a 9-year period.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A total of 36 issues of JOC from 2007 to 2015 were analyzed. This was available on the following journal website: http://www.jcytol.org/backissues.asp (last accessed September 15, 2016).
A retrospective bibliometric analysis was conducted for JOC from 2007 to 2015. The articles published were analyzed for type of article (review article, symposium, original article, case report, images in cytopathology, commentary and letter to editor) and individual topic of oral and maxillofacial cytology. The articles in press (articles that are not yet assigned to an issue) in JOC were excluded from the study. The following criterion was used for the study. The topic or content of the article should be the only criterion for allotment of subject heading as the author may be from any specialty (dental or medical) and may be publishing on a very different topic. The articles were also checked for authorship trends according to the institution of the first author. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
RESULTS
The oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in JOC from 2007 to 2015 are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1.
The oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in Journal of cytology from 2007 to 2015 over a period
DISCUSSION
This bibliometric study is carried out in an exclusive pioneer cytology journal from India. From this study about oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles, it was interpreted that original articles (43) take a major share of published articles and case reports (33) form the second major share. Letters to the editor (8), symposium (6), review articles (1), commentary (1) and images in cytopathology (1) form the remaining share of the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in JOC.
Among the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in JOC, diseases of salivary gland (26) followed by oral exfoliated cells (17), soft tissue tumors (7), round cell tumors (6), spindle cell neoplasms (5), Langerhans cell histiocytosis (5) and cytological smear (4) form the major attraction of the contributors.
The highest number of oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles was published in 2014 with 17 followed by 2008 with 16 and 2013 with 14 and the least published year was 2010 with three articles.
Majority of the published articles related to oral and maxillofacial cytology were authored by 4 authors (26) followed by 3 authors (23), 5 authors (17), 2 authors (10), 6 authors (9), single author (7) and 7 authors (1).
The largest numbers of published articles related to oral and maxillofacial cytology were received from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (5), and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh (5), followed by Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur (4), Government medical College, Nagpur (3), Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi (3), Medical College, Kolkata (3), North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling (3), and Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak (3). There were only nine contributions from outside India, i.e., from Azerbaijan (1), Brazil (1), Korea (1), Kuwait (1), Malaysia (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Turkey (1) and the United States of America (2).
The main limitation of this study is that the data are taken from only one journal to study the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in a cytology journal. The another limitation of this study is that the data pertaining to oral and maxillofacial cytology articles in JOC may not reflect the overall oral and maxillofacial cytology research output from India.
CONCLUSION
The selection of the oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles from JOC is based on the content of the article irrespective of the specialty (either medical or dental). This paper may be considered as a baseline study for the bibliometric information regarding oral and maxillofacial cytology-related articles published in India.
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