1Central Library, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Department of Otorhinolaryngology, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3Research scholar, Medical Research Laboratory IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
4Assistant Professor, Medical Research Laboratory IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Mahesh Chandra Sahu, PhD, NPDF, Assistant Professor, Medical Research Laboratory, IMS and SUM hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Email: mchsahu@gmail.com
Online published on 2 February, 2019.
The foreign body reaction composed of macrophages and foreign body giant cells is the end-stage response of the inflammatory and wound healing responses following implantation of a medical device, prosthesis, or biomaterial. This study is attempted on all papers published on foreign body in Scopus index journals.
In this retrospective study, the publication trend, citation trends for top articles, distributions of journals and Scopus categories were analyzed. Five bibliometric indicators including total articles, independent articles, collaborative articles, first author articles, and corresponding author articles were applied to compare publications between countries and institutions. All the data and information were retrieved from the SCOPUS data base on 27 October 2017 for a period of 2007 to 2016.
The number of article in first author is very less as compared to the article with multi authorship. With T test, it is revealed that open access articles are less published as compared to the closed access article, which is considered to be very statistically significant at P=0.0073. It is observed that the top 10 authors published 17% of total documents and other 150 authors published the rest 83% documents. It is found that 45.5% of total documents were published in top 15 journals and the rest 67 journals published 55% documents.
FBs in the ear and nose were found more frequently in children, and the throat was the most common site of FBs in adults and elderly people. Most of the nasal and aural FBs can be easily removed in the ER or OPD. Parents/caretaker should not allow children to play with coins or other small objects to prevent the risk of FB ingestion or insertion. The research on FB should be carreid out in larger amount to solve the problem for intake of FB.
Foreign body reaction, bibliometric, Scopus, , Foreign body giant cells
