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Table 4 Ranking the top 10 areas of interest of the published papers worldwide in the field of waterpipe tobacco smoking during the study period

From: Bibliometric analysis of scientific publications on waterpipe (narghile, shisha, hookah) tobacco smoking during the period 2003-2012

SCR

Areas of interest

n (%)*

1st

Medicine

268 (80.2)

2nd

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

38 (11.4)

3rd

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

27 (8.1)

4th

Environmental Science

23 (6.9)

5th

Social Sciences

18 (5.4)

6th

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

13 (3.9)

6th

Psychology

13 (3.9)

8th

Dentistry

11 (3.3)

9th

Nursing

10 (3.0)

10th

Neuroscience

4 (1.2)

  1. Abbreviation: SCR Standard Competition Ranking.
  2. *total exceeds 100% as data are overlapping due to multidiscipline interaction.