A bibliometric or scientometric evaluation of the homeopathy literature has been published by a Turkish author (someone who I do not know and have never before heard of). He (of maybe she?) collected data from 4 electronic databases. All documents published between 1975 and 2017 were included. The keywords searched for in detail were “homeopathy“, “homeopathic”, “homoeopathy” and “homoeopathic”. He used Spearman’s correlation test to investigate a possible correlation between publication numbers or the productivity and features of the countries. We created infographics and infomaps by using GunnMap and VOSviewer sources. Gross domestic product (GDP) ranking data of countries was procured from The World Data Bank.
A total of 4183 articles were found. The great majority of documents were original articles (n = 3043, 72.75%). The UK dominated homeopathy literature with 950 articles followed by the USA, Germany, India and Brazil (n = 636, 590, 277 and 246 items, respectively). Switzerland was found to be most productive country (20.41) followed by the UK, Norway and Israel (14.35, 11.31 and 8.41, respectively). University of Exeter (UK) was the leading institution with 204 items (4.88%).
The most productive journal was ‘Homeopathy’ dominating which had published 24% of all the articles. A very high correlation was detected between publication number and citation number by year (r = 0.95, p < 0.001). A high correlation was also seen between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and productivity of the countries. A moderate correlation was found between GDP and publication number of the countries (r = 0.66 and p < 0.001). In scientometric network analysis, the USA, the UK and Germany were noted to be three major association centres.
University of Exeter (UK) was the leading institution!
As far as I know, all homeopathy papers from Exeter are (co)authored by me …
… I must be the HOMEOPATHIC WORLD CHAMPION!
(Sorry guys)
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Congratulations!
I suppose that makes you World Champion of Nothing!
Congratulations!
A true distinction
Congratulations.
May I succuss your hand?
Bravo! Water will retain the memory of your name.
Congratulations!
I am humbled in your presence, Your Homeo-ness.
Quantity does not imply Quality.
how true!
we can see that with your frequent comments.
I’m afraid this type of analysis does not work for homeopathic research. The way to become all powerful as a alternative publisher is to get your existing core data and then dilute it as far as possible with a gishgallop of non-information.
Keep repeating this process until no actual data can possibly exist in your publication and you then have the most powerful and effective research available to mankind.
Someone like Dana Ullman is probably going to come out as the grand wizard when using a proper holistic approach to assessing homeo-literature.