Fecal microbiota transplantation research output from 2004 to 2017: a bibliometric analysis
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- Subject Areas
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Global Health, Statistics
- Keywords
- Fecal microbiota transplantation, bibliometric analysis, citations, inflammatory bowel disease, Clostridium difficile infection
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- © 2018 Li et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2018. Fecal microbiota transplantation research output from 2004 to 2017: a bibliometric analysis. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27259v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27259v1
Abstract
Background: Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an emerging therapy against Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Although the therapy has gained prominence, there has been no bibliometric analysis of FMT. Methods: Studies published from 2004 to 2017 were extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded. Bibliometric analysis were used to evaluate the number or cooperation of publications, countries, citations, references, journals, authors, institutions and keywords. Results: A total of 796 items were included, showing an increasing trend annually. Publications mainly came from 10 countries, led by the US (n = 363). In the top 100 articles ranked by the number of citations (range 47-1158), American Journal of Gastroenterology (2017 IF = 10.231) took the top spot. The co-citation network had 7 co-citation clusters headed by ‘recurrent Clostridium difficile infection’. The top 7 keywords with the strongest citation bursts had three parts, ‘microbiota’, ‘ diarrhea ’, and ‘case series’. All keywords were divided into four domains, ‘disease’, ‘nosogenesis’, ‘trial’, and ‘therapy’. Conclusions: This study shows the research performance of FMT from 2004 to 2017 and helps investigators master the trend of FMT, which is also an ongoing hotspot of research.
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This is a submission to PeerJ for review.
Supplemental Information
Correlations between citation index (WoSCC) and time cited (WOSCC) (A); citation index (Scopus) and time cited (Scopus) (B); citation index (Scopus) and citation index (WoSCC) (C)
Correlations between citation index (WoSCC) and time cited (WOSCC) (A); citation index (Scopus) and time cited (Scopus) (B); citation index (Scopus) and citation index (WoSCC) (C).
The top 100 most-cited articles ranked by the number of times cited
The top 100 most-cited articles ranked by the number of times cited.
Major clusters of co-cited references
Major clusters of co-cited references.
Journals with the top 100 articles ranked by the number of citation
Journals with the top 100 articles ranked by the number of citation.