Bibliometric Analysis of Type II Diabetes Mellitus Self-care Literature

In order to know the research situation in Diabetes Mellitus Self-care, the bibliometric study was used as a method of approach to the mentioned analysis. Using Web of Science-Expanded database, this study provides a quantitative description of the development of the research involving Diabetes Mellitus Self-care over a period of 20 years. Here we present an analysis of the annual trends, between 1995 and 2014, of research emphasis on Diabetes Mellitus Self-care, as reflected by their individual frequency of publication per year. From 1994 to 2014 the scientific literature related to Diabetes Mellitus Self-care increased fourteen fold (51 papers in 1995 and 748 in 2014). Totally 137 countries involved in the Type II Diabetes Mellitus Self-care research in the past twenty years. The number of countries participating in Diabetes self-care related research increased sixteen fold during this period, i.e., only three countries (USA, England and Australia) published related articles in 1995 to 48 countries in 2014, and the USA continually remained the leader. USA dominated publication (51.9%) by more then five fold among the seven major industrial counties. Several industrialized nations (England, Canada and Netherland) also continuously played important roles (9.7%, 5.6%, 4.6% separately). Results indicated that Diabetes Mellitus self-care researches were majorly done by economic advanced countries.