A bibliometrics analysis and visualization of autism spectrum disorder

Abstract

BackgroundThe prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) increased rapidly in the last 20 years. Although related research has developed rapidly, little is known about its etiology, diagnostic marker, or drug treatment, which forces researchers to review and summarize its development process and look for the future development direction.MethodsWe used bibliometrics to analyze papers of ASD in the Web of Science from 1998 to 2021, to draw the network of authors, institutions, countries, and keywords in the ASD field, and visualize the results.ResultsA total of 40,597 papers were included with a continually increasing trend. It turns out that the research on ASD is mainly concentrated in universities. The United States has the largest number of ASD studies, followed by England and Canada. The quality of papers related to ASD is generally high, which shows that ASD research has become a hot spot of scientific research. The keywords of ASD etiology and diagnostic markers can be classified into at least 7 aspects. The detection of keywords shows that ASD research is mostly based on its subtypes, takes children as the study population, focuses on neurodevelopmental imaging or genetics, and pays attention to individual differences. And ASD research has changed greatly under the impact of Corona Virus Disease 2019 in the past 2 years.ConclusionWe consider the future development direction should be based on the improvement of case identification, accurate clinical phenotype, large-scale cohort study, the discovery of ASD etiology and diagnostic markers, drug randomized controlled trials, and telehealth.

A 30-year bibliometric assessment and visualisation of emotion regulation research: applying network analysis and cluster analysis

“…In this regard, we found that the current research hotspots of emotion regulation research are depression, borderline personality disorder, parenting, psychopathology, bipolar disorder, reappraisal, mindfulness, adolescent, rumination, suppression, prefrontal cortex, aging, aggression, self-regulation, rumination, well-being, post-traumatic stress disorder and autism spectrum disorder as shown in Figures 8 and 9. This finding is consistent with earlier studies (Guo et al, 2022;Rong et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2021;Baminiwatta and Solangaarachchi, 2021;Yeung, 2018) which reported that these research areas in the spectrum of emotion regulation are currently attracting a significant amount of attention from researchers and practitioners around the globe due to their potential impact and relevance. In addition to this, Figure 10 demonstrated the research trends of emotion regulation and disclosed that Covid-19, non-suicidal self-injury, psychological distress and intimate partner violence are the most recent research themes that emerged in the past few years.…”

“…A review of such studies is presented here. Rong et al (2022) performed a bibliometric analysis in the field of autism spectrum disorder. A total of 40,597 papers were published between 1998 and 2021 and were extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database.…”

“…It allows us to disclose the evolutionary nuances of a particular discipline and identify research trends, hotspots and areas that require further exploration (Donthu et al , 2021). Recently, many scholars (Dong et al , 2022; Guo et al , 2022; Lin et al , 2022; Fei et al , 2022; Nie et al , 2022; Rong et al , 2022; Wu et al , 2022; Yang et al , 2022; Wang et al , 2021; Yeung, 2018) investigated various sub-disciplines of psychology through bibliometric techniques to assess research performance, uncover emerging research trends and themes, identify research gaps and trace the evolution and development of knowledge within the fields.…”

A bibliometric analysis of global research status and trends in neuromodulation techniques in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder

“…A previous bibliometric study found that research on ASD in the past 20 years mainly focused on its etiology, including brain structure, images, psychology, genes and animal models [ 103 ]. From 1998 to 2009, the classification and research of ASD and its subtypes have made great progress [ 104 ].…”

“…In addition, the etiology research of ASD is mainly focused on developmental neuroimaging and genetics during this period [ 101 ]. Many key brain regions have been proved to be related to the occurrence and development of autism, such as the medial prefrontal cortex, temporal-parietal junction [ 103 ], which provide potential options for the future treatment of ASD. From 2010 to 2018, with the promotion of the fifth edition of ASD diagnostic criteria in 2013, the research on ASD subtypes has been reduced to a certain extent, and chromosome and gene detection technologies have been widely used in ASD, which promoted the development of cytogenetic diagnostic tests for developmental delay/intellectual disability, ASD, or multiple congenital anomalies [ 101 ].…”