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books, 52(7%) book chapters and 40(5%) reviews. Further, the majority was

written in English (646), Spanish (57) and Russian (30) languages.
Documents were not refined by the language as it will provide the readers

with the comprehensive nature of the studies related to SWDs in HE. The

annual growth rate of the related documents was 14.28% and the average
citation per document was 10.36.

5.1 Distribution of Annual Documents

The evolution of literature is tracked year-wise to reflect the trends in annual

publications. Accordingly, annual scientific production depicts a clear
upsurge starting from 2008 (14). Further, 2015 (46), 2018(75) and 2020(81)

are noteworthy as the annual publications reached the peaks. By 2020
publications per year increased nearly 100 indicating a good trend in

scientific production. The annual growth rate for scientific production was
14.28%.

Figure 1: Annual Scientific Publications

120
100

80
60
40
20
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1990 2000 2010 2020 2030

Note: Developed by Author, 2023 using Biblioshiny tool

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