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Table 2 The top 10 ranking of areas of interest of published articles associated with electronic cigarette

From: Worldwide research productivity in the field of electronic cigarette: a bibliometric analysis

SCRa

Areas of interest

n (%)*

1st

Medicine

313 (87.9)

2nd

Social Sciences

42 (11.8)

3rd

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

28 (7.9)

4th

Environmental Science

17 (4.8)

5th

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

9 (2.5)

6th

Psychology

8 (2.2)

6th

Chemistry

8 (2.2)

8th

Nursing

7 (2.0)

9th

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

5 (1.4)

10th

Health Professions

3 (0.8)

  1. Abbreviation: SCR Standard Competition Ranking.
  2. aEqual areas of interest have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers.
  3. *Total exceeds 100% as data are overlapping due to multidisciplinary interaction.