Objective: Chest pain is a very broad term and is the most common reason for admission to the emergency department (ED) after injury. This study aimed to present a medical perspective by examining scientific articles published on chest pain from a emergeny medicine perspective with statistical methods.
Material and Methods: Exploratory and descriptive bibliometric study conducted in Ankara, Turkey. The source of our study is the Web of Science (WoS) database. The articles indexed between 1980-2022 were included in our research in the database, and the studies of 2023 were not included since the effect factors are not clear yet. While searching the database, the words “Chest Pain” were used as keywords.
Results: We reached a total of 3329 publications by analyzing the WoS database using the term "chest pain". When the citations of the documents written about chest pain are evaluated, we found that the highest citation was made in 2021. Co-citation analysis has shown that there are 11310 authors investigating the issue of chest pain. Collaboration and citation collaboration was observed between Harvard University, the Duke University and the Mayo Clinic. Coronary artery disease and acute coronery syndrome were found the strongest relationship with chest pain.
Conclusion: It is observed that the publications related to chest pain are associated with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and this diagnosis has the highest publication, citation and impact power. The number of publications related to other fatal clinical conditions in the differential diagnosis of chest pain is relatively low.
Key words: Chest Pain; Emergency Medicine, Cardiology; Bibliometry
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