A Comparative Analysis of Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) Literature on the Autism Crisis

Abstract

Autism is a neurobiological developmental disorder that is detected at around 3 years old. This disorder affects their communication, socialization, and behavioral skills. Its ratio is 1 per 150 and the possibility is greater for boys (2 girls for every 6 boys). A bibliometric analysis, comparing documents in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, has been carried out. It includes some new features such as the evaluation of growth, maturity, conceptual and intellectual maps and trends of a scientific community on top of the bibliometrics traditional approach. This study shows that, although the interest in different aspects related to autism is very high (from the year 2000), there is a significant lack on the prevention or prediction crisis topic.

Acknowledgements Luisa F. Cabeza would like to thank the Catalan Government for the quality accreditation given to her research group GREiA (2017 SGR 1537). GREiA is a certified agent TECNIO in the category of technology developers from the Government of Catalonia. Author Contribution M.D., M.T., R.G., and L.F.C. contributed to the design and implementation of the research, to the analysis of the results, and to the writing of the manuscript. L.A. contributed to the writing of the manuscript. Funding This work is partially supported by ICREA under the ICREA Academia program.