Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part B (2025)

Disrespectful and abusive care in public healthcare facilities is one of the main reasons that women tend to deny access public health care facilities. This study tries to appraise the present trends of research on respectful maternity care in public health care facilities around the world. Bibliometric analysis of research articles published during 2013-2023 and indexed in PubMed was done to this purpose. The Dimension database was used to extract PubMed data and the VosViewer was used for the data visualization. The highest number of 104 research articles respectful maternity care got published in 2022. Articles published in 2018 got the highest number of 1649 citations followed by 1342 in 2019, 1325 in 2016, 1236 in 2017, 1037 in 2020, and 883 in 2015. Among the top ten most influential countries the United States topped the list with 117 publications, followed by United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Australia, Canada, jointly Ghana and Tanzania, Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden with 54, 45, 42, 31, 19, 13 and 11 articles respectively. The World Health Organizations (WHO) had been the most influential organization with 1738 citations for only 12 published articles. It had the huge citation impact of 144.83%. WHO was followed by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Harvard University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with citation impact of 99.8%, 89.56% and 81.65% respectively.