Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2024, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (7): 1099-1104.doi: 10.12307/2024.134

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Bibliometric analysis of researches on liver organoids

Xu Canli1, He Wenxing1, Wang Lei1, Wu Fangting1, Wang Jiahui1, Duan Xuelin2, Zhao Tiejian1, 3, Zhao Bin1, 4, Zheng Yang1   

  1. 1Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science, 2College of Zhuang Medicine, 3College of Basic Medicine, 4Finance Office, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Received:2022-10-08 Accepted:2023-04-14 Online:2024-03-08 Published:2023-07-17
  • Contact: Zheng Yang, Master, Lecturer, Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • About author:Xu Canli, Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China He Wenxing, Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning 530200, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 82204755 (to ZY); National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81960751 (to ZTJ); Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (Youth Project), No. 2020GXNSFBA297094 (to ZY); Scientific Research Project of Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 2022CX004 (to ZB); Scientific Research Project of Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 2022MS002 (to WL); Scientific Research Project of Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 2022MS008 (to ZY); Scientific Research Project of Faculty of Chinese Medicine Science of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 2022QJ001 (to WJH)

Abstract: BACKGROUND: In recent years, the development of liver organoids has made it a hot spot in the field of international liver disease research, but there is still no article on the bibliometric analysis of liver organoids.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the hot trends in liver organoids in the last 20 years based on bibliometrics and visualization analysis. 
METHODS: We searched the articles about liver organoids in the Web of Science Core Collection from January 1, 2002 to November 12, 2022. Origin, Office, and CiteSpace software were used for bibliometrics and visualization analysis. We statistically analyzed the number of annually published articles, countries, institutions, authors, journals, and keywords of the articles by generating charts. 
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The number of articles, citation frequency, institutions and personnel involved in the research about liver organoids showed an overall upward trend in the last 20 years, indicating that the field was growing rapidly and attention was increasing. The USA had published the most papers and had the strongest influence in this field. Although it had invested a lot of time and energy, the number of papers published by a single research institution in the USA was not the highest among many research institutions. China was second only to the USA in the number of publications, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University leading the list. Utrecht University in the Netherlands was the institution with the most publications. Clevers H was the author with the highest number of articles. The article with the highest co-citation frequency was “Long-term culture of genome-stable bipotent stem cells from adult human liver”. The main fields of study for liver organoids were Molecular Science, Biology, and Immunology. The most frequently occurring keywords were stem cell, in vitro, and culture. The research hotspots in the liver organoids field were mainly focused on in vitro stem cell three-dimensional culture, differentiation and gene expression. 

Key words: liver, organoid, bibliometrics, frontier, hot spot, visualization, in vitro, stem cell, CiteSpace

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