Scientometric Analysis of Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua’s Contributions in the Field of Ethnomedicine

Abstract

We scientometrically examined Dr. Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua’s research output from his appointment as junior lecturer at the University of Kinshasa until May 2024, the date of data collection. The following points were evaluated: (1) Dr. Ngbolua’s output; (2) Dr Ngbolua’s status as first author, co-author, or corresponding author; (3) his collaboration patterns with other researchers within or outside his institution. The documents search strategy involved searching the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, PubMed, and NHIS for terms related to Ngbolua. The data were evaluated using R and VOSviewer. Dr. Ngbolua has written 133 articles on medicinal plants and has cooperated with 237 researchers from around the world.

Keywords: Scientometrics; Bio-bibliometrics; Ethnomedical Plants; Ethno-medicine; Democratic; Republic of Congo