Journal of Library and Information Sciences

Basic Literature of Diabetes: A Bibliometrics Analysis of Three Countries in Different World Regions
Yahya Ibrahim Harande1, Ibrahim Usman Alhaji

Abstract
Among the non-communicable diseases in the world, Diabetes is considered deadly and terrible disease. It attacks both adults and infants. Governments of different countries and the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are showing some concern on how the disease can be reduced from their societies. Multi-disciplinary attack is now launched on the disease include research and publication. This paper, examines the growth of published literature on the disease in three countries; Nigeria, Argentina and Thailand. The finding clearly shows that the literature of diabetes grow and spread very widely. In the year 1986 and beyond, the countries in the selected regions witnessed exponential growth of the literature. Bradford-zipf distribution method was applied to the three countries and the result indicates that, the literature of diabetes disease in these countries positively agreed with the Bradford-zipf laws of distribution and scattering of journal article. Total number of (19) core journals were found. Nigeria has (9), Argentina (6) and Thailand (4) respectively. These core journals produced (585) papers article on literature of diabetes. Out of this number, Argentina has 297Thailand has 104 and Nigeria with 184 papers. Another striking finding of the study is that among the nineteen (19) core journals identified from the three countries, one of the journals Diabetes research and clinical practice appeared in the core collection of each of these countries under review. Therefore it is more universal than the rest of the core journals.

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