Research hotspots and trends of bone defects based on Web of Science: a bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bone defects can be seen everywhere in the clinic, but it is still a challenge for clinicians. Bibliometrics tool CiteSpace is based on the principle of "co-citation analysis theory" to reveal new technologies, hotspots, and trends in the medical field. In this study, CiteSpace was used to perform co-citation analysis on authors, countries (regions) and institutions, journals and cited journals, authors and cited literature, as well as keywords to reveal leaders, cooperative institutions, and research hotspots of bone defects and predict development trends.

Method

Data related to bone defect from 1994 to 2019 were retrieved from the Web of Science core collection; then, we use Excel to construct an exponential function to predict the number of annual publications;

SUBMITTER: Lin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545570 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature