The hundred most-cited publications in microbiota of diabetes research

Abstract

Background:Bibliometric analysis is an approach to evaluate the circumstances and trends in specific research field over time and to provide inspiration in future research and policy. Researches have a tremendous increase focus on the role of the microbiota in the development of diabetes in recent years; however, there is no published literature conducting a bibliometric analysis to explore the tendency. The aim of this study was to provide a detailed evaluation of the hundred most cited articles in microbiota of diabetes research.Methods:The database of the Web of Science was utilized for identification of articles. The top 100 were selected for further analysis of authorship, number of citations, article type, source journal, geographic origin, and interactions.Results:The articles selected were published from 2007 to 2015. The total citations ranged from 1289 to 35, citation density ranged from 163.75 to 6.5. The article type included basic science (n = 32), review (n = 29), expert opinion (n = 19), cross-sectional study (n = 12), RCT (n = 3), and others (n = 5). The study content included pathogenesis (n = 58), risk factor (n = 11), modifying of intestinal microbiota (n = 10), prebiotic treatment (n = 8), antibiotic treatment (n = 4), diet control (n = 4), and others (n = 5). The 100 most cited articles were published in 59 journals. Among them, Diabetes (n = 7), Diabetologia (n = 7), and Plos one (n = 7) published the most T100 articles. In total, 24 countries and 174 scientific research institutions participated in those researches. USA (n = 32) and Belgium (n = 22) were the leading countries in this field, followed by France (n = 18) and Finland (n = 16). Patrice D. Cani contributed the most top cited articles (n = 15).Conclusion:This bibliometric study is likely to include a list of intellectual milestones focused on microbiota of diabetes research in the past decade, which provides insights into the circumstances and trends in preventing and treating diabetes from a new perspective.

Global research trends in microbiome-gut-brain axis during 2009–2018: a bibliometric and visualized study

“…Since 2012, there has been growing research output in the field of MGBA, which is consistent with increasing research activity related to the microbiome in general. Similar findings have been reported in other bibliometric studies [43,44,[86][87][88][89]. A possible underlying explanation for the rising publication numbers is that in 2013 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the second phase of Integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP) [90].…”

“…Table 1 presents the 10 most prolific countries related to MGBA publications, with the top 4 being the USA (n = 385), Ireland (n = 161), China (n = 155), and Canada (n = 144). The overall citation h-index was 106, and the countries with the highest h-index values were the USA (69), Ireland (58), and Canada (43). There is a positive modest correlation between h-index and number of published articles (r = 0.817, P-value = 0.004).…”

“…Bibliometric analyses have been used in various fields to highlight the most influential countries, authors, journals, publications, and institutions [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. These include research related to microbiota [43,44]. Worldwide, there are more than 330 clinical studies recorded on clinical trials.gov with a specific focus on the microbiome.…”

“…Of the 86 countries, 35 had at least ten publications; the largest set of connected countries consists of 34 countries. The size of frame represents the number of publications of the country and the thickness of lines signifies the size of collaboration between the countries, while 6 different colors seen in this figure represent the collaboration cluster of the countriesResearch output related to MGBA most often originated from the United States, as reported in other bibliometric studies regarding microbiome research[43,44,[86][87][88][89].…”

Top 100 cited articles on rheumatoid arthritis

“…The T100 articles were published in 24 journals (Table 2), which may be more focused than articles published in other fields. [36,37] Among them, Arthritis & Rheumatism contributed the most articles (n = 33), with a total citation number of 44,765. Thirty-seven percent of articles were published in high-impact general journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine (n = 15), the Lancet (n = 12) , Nature (n = 4), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (n = 3) , Science (n = 2), and Cell (n = 1).…”