Knowledge mapping of global trends for myasthenia gravis development: A bibliometrics analysis

Abstract

BackgroundMyasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease with acquired neuromuscular junction transmission disorders. In the last two decades, various pathogenesis, application of immunosuppressive agents, and targeted immunotherapy have been significant events. However, extracting the most critical information from complex events is very difficult to guide clinical work. Therefore, we used bibliometrics to summarize and look forward.MethodsScience Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database was identified as a source of material for obtaining MG-related articles. Scimago Graphica, CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and bibliometrix were utilized for bibliometric analysis. Knowledge network graphs were constructed and visualized; countries, institutions, authors, journals, references, and keywords were evaluated. In addition, GraphPad Prism and Microsoft Excel 365 were applied for statistical analysis.ResultsAs of October 25, 2022, 9,970 original MG-related articles were used for the bibliometric analysis; the cumulative number of citations to these articles was 236,987, with an H-index of 201. The United States ranked first in terms of the number of publications (2,877) and H-index (134). Oxford has the highest H-index (67), and Udice French Research University has the highest number of publications (319). The author with the highest average number of citations (66.19), publications (151), and H-index (53) was Vincent A. 28 articles have remained in an explosive period of citations. The final screening yielded predictive keywords related to clinical trials and COVID-19.ConclusionWe conducted a bibliometric analysis of 9,970 original MG-related articles published between 1966 and 2022. Ultimately, we found that future MG research hotspots include two major parts: (1) studies directly related to MG disease itself: clinical trials of various targeted biological agents; the relationship between biomarkers and therapeutic decisions, pathogenesis and outcome events, ultimately serving individualized management or precision therapy; (2) studies related to MG and COVID-19: different variants of COVID-19 (e.g., Omicron) on MG adverse outcome events; assessment of the safety of different COVID-19 vaccines for different subtypes of MG.

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