Global research trends of immunotherapy and biotherapy for inflammatory bowel disease: a bibliometric analysis from 2002 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is known that inflammatory bowel disease is the result of a defective immune system, and immunotherapy and biological therapy have gradually become important means to treat it. This paper focused on the bibliometric statistical analysis of the current research progress to summarize the research status of this field and analyze the research trends in recent years.

Methods

Two visualization tools, CiteSpace and VOSviewer, were used to explore the data of journals, institutions, countries/regions, authors, references, and keywords for the literature included in the Web of Science Core Collection from January 1, 2002, to December 31, 2021.

Results

A total of 312 papers were published in 120 journals by 603 institutions from 40 countries/regions, with 9463 co

SUBMITTER: Xiong JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9238098 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature