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Mapping the landscape and structure of global research on binge eating disorder: Visualization and bibliometric analysis
Sa'ed H Zyoud, Muna Shakhshir, Amani S Abushanab, Amer Koni, Moyad Shahwan, Ammar Abdulrahman Jairoun, Samah W Al-Jabi
Sa'ed H Zyoud, Amani S Abushanab, Amer Koni, Samah W Al-Jabi, Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus 44839, Palestine
Sa'ed H Zyoud, Poison Control and Drug Information Center, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus 44839, Palestine
Sa'ed H Zyoud, Clinical Research Centre, An-Najah National University Hospital, Nablus 44839, Palestine
Muna Shakhshir, Department of Nutrition, An-Najah National University Hospital, Nablus 44839, Palestine
Amer Koni, Division of Clinical Pharmacy, Hematology and Oncology Pharmacy Department, An-Najah National University Hospital, Nablus 44839, Palestine
Moyad Shahwan, Department of Pharmacy, Ajman University, Ajman 346, United Arab Emirates
Moyad Shahwan, Centre of Medical and Bio allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman 346, United Arab Emirates
Ammar Abdulrahman Jairoun, Department of Health and Safety, Dubai Municipality, Dubai 67, United Arab Emirates
Author contributions: Zyoud SH conceptualized and designed the research project, took care of data management and analysis, generated figures, made significant contributions to the manuscript’s existing literature search and interpretation of the manuscript, and drafted the manuscript; Shakhshir M, Abushanab AS, Al-Jabi SW, Jairoun AA, Shahwan M and Koni A were involved in the interpretation of the data, contributed to the manuscript writing, and made revisions to the initial draft; all authors provided a critical review and approved the final manuscript before submission.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Sa'ed H Zyoud, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Academic Street, Nablus 44839, Palestine. saedzyoud@yahoo.com
Received: January 18, 2022
Peer-review started: January 18, 2022
First decision: May 11, 2022
Revised: May 22, 2022
Accepted: June 23, 2022
Article in press: June 23, 2022
Published online: July 19, 2022
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Binge-eating disorder (BED) is associated with various psychological and non-psychological issues that impair daily life to varying degrees, with a few severe impairments. Diabetes, obesity, chronic pain, and hypertension are some of its comorbid conditions.
Research motivation
A growing body of evidence shows that the BED appears to impact human health significantly. We discovered some bibliometric publications on specific nutritional topics, but none on BED; thus, this article is novel in this field.
Research objectives
This study aims to analyze research publications on the BED and identify global hotspots on this topic.
Research methods
A comprehensive research technique was undertaken using the SciVerse Scopus database to meet the study's goal.
Research results
This is the first bibliometric analysis of trends in BED publications. The interest in global research in BED has increased significantly in recent years. It is clear that the output in this field has risen steadily as the risk of BED has been better understood.
Research conclusions
In conclusion, based on our timely examination and analysis of hotspots and research trends, we found that the main hot topics related to BED are “type of treatment and management provided to BED”; “processes and pathways to binge eating”; and “diagnosis, signs and symptoms, comorbidities and prevalence and associated factors with BED”.
Research perspectives
This study explores the global performance and advancement of BED research and maps the research patterns and trends using a visualization tool to fill this knowledge gap. In addition, a bibliometric analysis of prior articles could lay the groundwork for a full understanding of existing research on BED and indicate some potential future research subjects.
