Table 1. Summary of the bibliometric findings.
Description | Results (frequency) |
a. Overview of existing literature | |
Total published studies (1977–2019) | 125 |
Sources (Journals, reports, books, etc.) | 83 |
Authors' keywords | 178 |
Total authors | 375 |
Authors of multi-author documents | 356 |
Authors per document | 3 |
Co-authors per document | 3.43 |
Collaboration index | 3.46 |
Mean citations per document | 8.15 |
b. Types of documents | |
Original articles | 62 |
Review articles | 14 |
Letters/correspondence | 15 |
Editorials | 11 |
Others | 23 |