Characteristics of video articles in the medical sciences: a bibliometric and altmetric analysis from 1966 to 2022
Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Introduction. We report on the characteristics of video articles in the medical sciences from 1966 to 2022 using bibliometric and altmetric methods.Method. The study covers 38,766 video articles extracted from PubMed. Growth of literature, journals involved, most prolific authors, institutions and countries, citation and altmetric patterns, and MeSH terms of video articles were assessed. Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and Altmetric.com were used to assess citation and altmetric patterns.Results. The number of video articles produced overall increased from 1 per year in 1991 to 5043 in 2019, but numbers have decreased since 2020. Most of the 25 most productive journals in terms of video articles were related to Surgery, Gastroenterology and Cardiology. Citation analyses showed that the great majority of video articles had at least one citation (90.59%), while 0.42% ranked as highly cited. Altmetric analyses showed that 64.1% of video articles had an Altmetric Score. Conclusion. In the last 10 years, video articles have drawn the attention of publishers and researchers. However, since 2020, the decline in the number of journals publishing video articles and in the number of video articles published raises questions about the future of these scientific audio-visual media.
Source: HAL
Authors: Rakotoary, Sarah, Boudry, Christophe
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7130908881