Menopause Management Barriers: A 20-Year Bibliometric Analysis (2005–2025)

MENOPAUSE MANAGEMENT BARRIERS: A 20-YEAR BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (2005-2025) 2Supplementary data package 3================================================================================ 4 5Authors : Caglayan Bicer (Isparta City Hospital, Turkey); 6 Murat Yuksel (Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey) 7Contact : [e-mail] 8Target journal : Gynecological Endocrinology (Taylor & Francis) 9 10-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 111. CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE 12-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 README.txt - this file (search strategy, methods, reuse notes) 14 wos_records_1144.csv - the 1,144 analysed records, identified by their 15 Web of Science accession number (UT) and DOI, with 16 publication year, document type and source title. 17 18NOTE ON RAW DATA 19 The full-record Web of Science exports are proprietary to Clarivate Analytics 20 and cannot be redistributed under the Web of Science licence. This package 21 therefore identifies every analysed record by its persistent accession number 22 and DOI, which allows any user with Web of Science / publisher access to 23 reconstruct the exact corpus. The complete export files are available from 24 the corresponding author on reasonable request. 25 26-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 272. DATA SOURCE 28-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Database : Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics) 30 Search date : 4 April 2026 31 Final corpus : 1,144 records (2005-2025), English language. 32 33-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 343. SEARCH STRATEGY (Topic field, three Boolean blocks combined with AND) 35-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 Block 1 - Population: 37 menopause OR postmenopause OR perimenopause OR climacteric 38 39 Block 2 - Intervention / management domain: 40 treatment OR management OR hormone therapy OR HRT 41 42 Block 3 - Barrier construct: 43 barrier OR barriers OR adherence OR nonadherence OR discontinuation 44 OR undertreatment OR reluctance OR hesitancy OR disparities 45 OR unmet needs OR underuse 46 47 Combined : Block 1 AND Block 2 AND Block 3 48 Filters : language = English; publication years 2005-2025. 49 Document types : all document types returned by the query were retained 50 (802 articles, 304 reviews, 38 other = 22 proceedings papers, 51 9 early-access articles, 5 early-access reviews, 2 book 52 chapters). 53 54 Export & processing: 55 Full records with cited references were exported in three batches, merged, 56 and de-duplicated against Web of Science accession numbers, yielding the 57 1,144 unique records listed here. 58 59-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 604. BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING (VOSviewer 1.6.20) 61-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62 Author-keyword co-occurrence: 63 counting method = full counting 64 minimum occurrence threshold = 5 65 keywords retained = 172 of 2,687 unique author keywords 66 67 Temporal overlay: 68 keywords colour-coded by average publication year of occurrence. 69 70 Country co-authorship: 71 minimum 5 documents per country. 72 73-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 745. DERIVED FIGURES 75-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76 Figure 1 - Author keyword co-occurrence network 77 Figure 2 - Temporal overlay of author keywords (average publication year) 78 Suppl. Fig. S1 - Annual publication trend, 2005-2025 79 Suppl. Fig. S2 - Country co-authorship network 80 81-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 826. HOW TO CITE / REUSE 83-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 84 Ethics: the study used only publicly available bibliographic metadata; 85 ethics approval was not required. 86 87 Please cite the associated article once published. The record list in 88 wos_records_1144.csv may be reused to reproduce or extend the corpus. 89