A bibliometric technique for analyzing trends in public health research

This study aims to assess the literature on public health concerning different bibliometric laws and factors. The Scopus citation database was utilized to collect bibliographic data for 372,260 public health publications published between 2000 and 2015. The research findings revealed that the majority of research output is published as articles (64.22 %); The United States generated one-third of all publications, and the majority of public health articles were written by authors connected to the US “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”; English makes up 89.22 % of all research output, followed by French (2.65 %), Spanish (2.34 %), and German (2.03 %); The UK-based journal Lancet ranked top of the list in producing 3,264 articles which account for 0.88 % of total publications on public health. Since the percentage error is so little, Bradford's law of scattering was therefore found to fit the data set in the current investigation. Regarding public health, it has been noted that Zipf's Law roughly captures the relationship between rank (r) and frequency (f).