Scientific Publications In Biochemical And Biophysical Research Communications (Bbrc): A 20-Years Bibliometric Analysis

Introduction: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC) was founded in 1959, and is the prestigious international journal dedicated to the rapid dissemination of timely and highly important experimental results in all areas of biological research. Based on its long history and high-quality articles, BBRC is qualified to be indexed by several databases such as Web of Science (WOS) and PubMed. This research provides a thorough overview of the journal in the past 20 years by using bibliometric analysis to evaluate its performance.Materials and methods: We retrieved related publications published in BBRC from the WOS database and PubMed database between 2000 and 2019. Different aspects, such as the total number of articles, total citations, average citations per item, H-index, research type, institutions, journals and top cited articles were classified and analyzed. In addition, collaboration and keywords co-occurrence networks were constructed by using VOSviewer software.Results: From 2000 to 2019, BBRC published 40930 papers in in WOS. Of these, Japan constituted a large share, accounting for 25.56%, followed by the USA and China. VOSviewer analysis showed that China had a close cooperation with the US, South Korea and Japan. Nevertheless, plenty of research collaborations could also be observed between Germany and other countries. High contribution institutions, their indicators of publication quality and the top 10 cited articles were also listed, which could reflect the visibility and influence of the research being published. Keyword co-occurrence analysis found a slight shift of focus in the research hotspots published during the past 20 years. BBRC possesses a long history and published large numbers of documents from researchers worldwide.Conclusions: This study performed a thorough overview of the publications trends that have published in the BBRC between 2000 and 2019. Moreover, the evolution of keywords published on BBRC also provide a comprehensive perspective of biochemical and biophysical research.