Mapping Half a Century of Global Brain Abscess Research (1975–2025): screening rubric, dual-screen log, analysis code and archived dataset

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Authors: Varun Gopal Rajan, Trayi Raveendra Joshi
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Abstract

Supporting materials for a bibliometric analysis of global brain-abscess research (9,097 journal articles, 1975–2025, OpenAlex). Includes the relevance-screening rubric frozen before screening, the complete per-record screening log for both independent reviewers, the consensus decisions and their recorded basis, the inter-rater agreement and analysis scripts in R, the annual world-output denominator used for the share analysis, and the archived dataset from which all reported metrics were regenerated.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Bacterial Infections and Vaccines Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis Mosquito-borne diseases and control

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Publication date
3 August 2026
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Preprint