A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION

S.Y. Cenidoza¹, C.J. Escuadra²

¹Community Based Rehabilitation Binangonan, Municipality of Binangonan Health department, Rizal, Philippines, ²University of Santo Tomas, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Manila, Philippines

Background: Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is a strategy advocated by the World Health Organization which addresses the rehabilitation, balancing of opportunity, reduction of poverty and empowerment of persons with special needs. More evidence about CBR has been published recently to help convince relevant stakeholders about its significance and impact. However, no analyses have been conducted to systematically summarize all related publications.

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to systematically and comprehensively evaluate the knowledge structure, domain, and evolution trend in the field of CBR.

Methods: This study utilized Web of Science to retrieve literature with keywords “community-based rehabilitation” or “community development”. Web of Science core collection, SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CCR-EXPANDED, and Index Chemicus were used for reliability of the scientific metrological analysis. R software was used for further data analysis and visualizations.

Results: A total of 9442 documents were retrieved from 1989 to 2022. Results showed increasing numbers of publications, with the most number of publications last 2018, as more organizations and countries have considered its significance. USA, Australia, England and Canada have the most number of CBR publications followed by Indonesia, China and South Africa. Using the Web of science categories, primary research topics in this field included “development studies”, “environmental science,” “public environmental and occupational health”, “sociology” and “rehabilitation”.

Conclusions: This study provided an overview of the scientific output, trend and research topics in the field of CBR publications worldwide.

Implications: This study provides an overview and valuable guidance for researchers, practitioners, educators and policy makers to find the practice and direction of CBR.

Funding acknowledgements: Not Applicable

Keywords:
Community-Based Rehabilitation
Community Development
Scientometric analysis

Topics:
Community based rehabilitation
Disability & rehabilitation

Did this work require ethics approval? No

Reason: No Ethics Approval was required as the study did not involve any human participants.

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