Atividade antimicrobiana de plantas medicinais contra Klebsiella pneumoniae segundo a perspectiva cienciométrica

Abstract

Scientometrics is the area of knowledge that quantitatively determines scientific production. Therefore, the objective of this study was to carry out a scientometric analysis of scientific works published, worldwide, in the last 5 years on medicinal plants that showed antimicrobial activity against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Seventy-seven publications were included for scientometric analysis, with forty-nine found on Science Direct and twenty-eight on PubMed. One hundred and thirty-one plant species were found that showed positive antimicrobial results against K. pneumoniae. Authors from twenty-nine countries have published in magazines on this subject. The region of the world with the largest number of articles published was Asia (34), followed by Africa (26), Europe (11), South America (5) and North America (1). The articles were published in several journals totaling forty-seven. The average value of the impact factor of the journals was 2.38 (± 1.35) for JCR and 0.65 (± 0.48) for SJR. The greatest predominance was publication in Qualis B2 journals, for the areas of medicine and biodiversity with 14 and 10 journals respectively. The Asian and African continents were the regions with the high interest in this research area, possibly because they have a great plant diversity and a more fragile economic situation, justifying the incentive and probably the largest number of published articles. The discussion by the scientific community is important for the dissemination and direction of studies and scientometric analysis is essential for performing this function quantitatively.