VOSviewer-Based Bibliometric Network Analysis for Evaluating Research on Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome (JPFS)

Alessandro Vittori; Marco Cascella; Marianna Leonardi; Federica Monaco; Davide Nocerino; Arturo Cuomo; Alessandro Ottaiano; Francesco Perri; Ilaria Mascilini; Elisa Francia; Emiliano Petrucci; Franco Marinangeli; Sergio Giuseppe Picardo

doi:10.3390/children9050637

VOSviewer-Based Bibliometric Network Analysis for Evaluating Research on Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome (JPFS)

Children (Basel). 2022 Apr 28;9(5):637. doi: 10.3390/children9050637.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, ARCO Roma, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, IRCCS, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165 Rome, Italy.
² Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS, Fondazione Pascale, Via Mariano Semmola, 53, 80131 Naples, Italy.
³ Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Viale Abramo Lincoln 5, 81100 Caserta, Italy.
⁴ Division of Abdominal Oncology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS, Fondazione Pascale, Via Mariano Semmola, 53, 80131 Naples, Italy.
⁵ Head and Neck Medical Oncology Unit, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori-IRCCS, Fondazione Pascale, Via Mariano Semmola, 53, 80131 Naples, Italy.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, San Salvatore Academic Hospital of L'Aquila, Via Vetoio, 48, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Treatment, University of L'Aquila, Piazzale Salvatore Tommasi, 1, 67100 Coppito, Italy.

Abstract

Background: Juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome (JPFS) is a chronic musculoskeletal pain syndrome that affects children and adolescents.

Methods: A VOSviewer-based bibliometric network analysis was performed by scanning the global literature on JPFS in the Web of Science (WOS) online database. The search string applied to identify the closest matching articles was "juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome (all field)".

Results: A total of 67 articles on JPFS were published from 1985 to March 2022, in the WOS. Regarding article types, 39 were research manuscripts, 16 reviews, 8 meeting abstracts, 2 letters, 1 book chapter, 1 correction, and 1 proceeding paper. The Quartile analysis demonstrated that 44% of papers were published in Q1, 37% in Q2, 8% in Q3, and 11% in Q4.

Conclusions: Our analysis highlights that more efforts are warranted to increase the production of quality papers and enhance the connections between the various research groups. JFPS represents a research field still to be explored and which deserves greater investments to obtain quality scientific evidence.

Keywords: adolescence; bibliometric network analysis; childhood; children; chronic pain; fibromyalgia; juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome; musculoskeletal pain; pain; pediatrics.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.