A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Bacterial Persisters

Table 1

Annual growth rate (AGR), compound annual growth rate (CAGR), relative growth rate (RGR), and doubling time (DT) of the publications.

Year	Number of publication	Cumulative number of publications	AGR	CAGR	RGR	DT
2001	4	4		27.27%
2002	8	12	100.00%		1.10	0.63
2003	5	17	-37.50%		0.35	1.99
2004	7	24	40.00%		0.34	2.01
2005	17	41	142.86%		0.54	1.29
2006	13	54	-23.53%		0.28	2.52
2007	17	71	30.77%		0.27	2.53
2008	21	92	23.53%	25.50%	0.26	2.67
2009	29	121	38.10%		0.27	2.53
2010	41	162	41.38%		0.29	2.37
2011	38	200	-7.32%		0.21	3.29
2012	59	259	55.26%		0.26	2.68
2013	80	339	35.59%		0.27	2.57
2014	93	432	16.25%		0.24	2.86
2015	103	535	10.75%		0.21	3.24
2016	158	693	53.40%	17.17%	0.26	2.68
2017	184	877	16.46%		0.24	2.94
2018	173	1,050	-5.98%		0.18	3.83
2019	210	1,260	21.39%		0.18	3.80
2020	294	1,554	40.00%		0.21	3.30
2021	349	1,903	18.71%		0.20	3.42