Bibliometrics, a route to potentiate research skills in surgery? – Correspondence

Mapping knowledge landscapes and research frontiers of gastrointestinal microbiota and bone metabolism: a text-mining study

“…In this study, literature retrieval was conducted using the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), a subset of the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC), renowned as one of the foremost databases in the biomedical field ( Wu et al., 2021a ; Aguilar Ramírez et al., 2022 ; Ni et al., 2022 ; Temel et al., 2022 ; Zyoud et al., 2022 ; Du et al., 2023 ; Huang et al., 2023 ; Liu et al., 2023 ; Montazeri et al., 2023 ; Wang et al., 2023 ; Wu et al., 2023 ; Zhang et al., 2023 ; Zhang et al., 2023 ; Babar et al., 2024 ; Cheng et al., 2024 ). The database, widely employed in bibliometric studies across disciplines, was accessed on March 3, 2024, with a search spanning a single day.…”

“…This methodology serves as a vital tool for identifying active research teams and potential collaborators, delineating research hotspots, depicting overall research trends, and pinpointing important frontiers for future exploration in a given research field ( Wang et al., 2023 ; Babar et al., 2024 ). In recent years, owing to the explosive growth of biomedical literature and the continuous development of various free bibliometric tools such as CiteSpace and VOSviewer software, bibliometric studies have garnered increasing attention in the biomedical domain ( Aguilar Ramírez et al., 2022 ; Montazeri et al., 2023 ; Cheng et al., 2024 ). Taking the gut microbiota as an example, previous bibliometric studies have analyzed the relationship between gut microbiota and tumors ( Zyoud et al., 2022 ; Wu et al., 2023 ), inflammatory diseases ( Liu et al., 2023 ; Zhang et al., 2023 ), immune system disorders ( Ni et al., 2022 ; Zhang et al., 2023 ), as well as traumatic diseases ( Du et al., 2023 ; Huang et al., 2023 ).…”