RESISTANCE TO ANTI-FUNGAL AGENTS IN Candida albicans: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Abstract

One of the best indicators of the progress of research in a specific topic is the analysis of the production of scientific arti-cles; bibliometrics is a useful discipline to analyze such infor-mation in a quantitative way. Infections produced by Candida albicans are an important topic worldwide and, the mortality related to them has increased, particularly in immunocompro-mised patients. To document the state of the art of research in the topic of `Mechanisms of resistance to C. albicans an-ti-fungal agents', based on a bibliometric study of the articles published for 16 years (2002-2018), a search for articles that described it in the Scopus database was carried out. The in- formation was filtered by keywords and 79 documents were exported and later analyzed using the software VOSviewer (R). The use of bibliometric indicators is a solid tool for the diag- nosis of research on the resistance of C. albicans to anti-fungal agents.