Gender-based violence, a sustainable development goal: A bibliometric study

Abstract

Gender violence is a widespread problem at the international level, resulting in suffering and increased death among women. The objective of the present study is to establish the bibliometric indicators of the scientific production of research on gender violence. Review articles indexed in the main collection of Web or Science, Scopus and Medline were analyzed, considering the indicators of
production and impact, top institutions, authors, occurrence and concurrence of keywords, as well as categorization of the centrality and density of topics. A totalof 2970 original articles were reported distributed in Web of science (1033); Scopus (1361) and Medline (576), of which 1194 were analyzed between the years 2015 to 2021 with an annual growth rate of 31.3% in Scopus, followed by
0.5% in WoS and 3.4% in Medline. The United States occupies the first place in this field of research, the most active journal was Journal of interpersonal violence, the leading institution was the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the most influential keyword gender-based violence. It is concluded that the scientific production related to gender-based violence reflects a public health problem with worldwide implications with emphasis on the United States, highlighted by the volume of its production and impact achieved in ranked journals with the highest number of influential articles, generating a great challenge for future research.