Benchmarking Endophthalmitis
What does analysis of the last five years of literature on endophthalmitis tell us about the priorities of the field, and the contributors to it?
Endophthalmitis – the purulent inflammation of the intraocular fluids – is never a good sign, and typically arises because of infection. There are a number of types – exogenous (which comprises both acute and chronic postoperative forms, traumatic, filtering bleb-associated, and post-intravitreal injection-arising) and endogenous, with acute postoperative endophthalmitis being the most common form.
But what are your peers’ thoughts on the matter? What are they reading? Where is the research heading? We decided to benchmark the last five years of PubMed-listed literature on the topic. We asked:
What are the major topics for the field?
Which journals have the greatest impact?
How is the knowledge available online?
What type of articles are being published?
Who are the most prolific authors?
Most prolific authors
Top 20 Journals (by Eigenfactor)
Top 20 Journals (by number of Publications)
Publications per year
Fee or Free?
Top 20 journals (by Impact Factor)
Article categorization by number of publications
Most common additional search terms
PubMed was searched for “endophthalmitis”, with results limited to the last five years. The data were analyzed in Microsoft Excel 2013.
I spent seven years as a medical writer, writing primary and review manuscripts, congress presentations and marketing materials for numerous – and mostly German – pharmaceutical companies. Prior to my adventures in medical communications, I was a Wellcome Trust PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.
