Ramadan and public health: A bibliometric analysis of top cited articles from 2004 to 2019

摘要

Objective: The present bibliometric study aimed to identify and perform the analysis of top one hundredcited publications on Ramadan fasting and health. Methods: The Web of Science database was searched for publication analyses of the papers publishedfrom January 2004 till June 2019. The search was performed using keywords "Ramadan" AND "Health" OR "Fast*". The descriptive analysis was performed using SPSS (version 20) software. The coauthorcollaborations and keywords were analyzed using VOS viewer software (version 1.6.11). Results: The present study found that the United Kingdom was the most productive country (n = 15) followed by Turkey (n = 13), Tunisia (n = 12) and Saudi Arabia (n = 11). The most prominent institutionwas National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports, Tunisia (n = 7) followed by King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (n = 6) and Loughborough University, United Kingdom (n = 5). Conclusion: The most frequently occurring keywords in this analysis were Ramadan, fasting, exercise, Ramadan fasting and physical performance. The present study provides insight into the impactful paperspertaining to Ramadan fasting and associated health benefits. (c) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University forHealth Sciences. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).