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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Microbiol.
Sec. Systems Microbiology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1558490
Gut Microbiota and Gastrointestinal Tumors: Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis
Provisionally accepted- Kunming Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China
Despite the growing number of studies on the role of gut microbiota in treating gastrointestinal tumors, the overall research trends in this field remain inadequately characterized. This study aims to evaluate these trends and hotspots through a bibliometric analysis. As of September 30, 2024, relevant publications were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection, and analytical tools such as VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and an online bibliometric analysis platform were utilized. A total of 1,421 publications were analyzed, revealing geographical disparities in research output, with China and the United States as the leading contributors. Institutionally,
Keywords: Citespace, VOSviewer, Gut Microbiota, Emerging research trends, Gastrointestinal tumors, Immunotherapy Count Centrality Rank Count Centrality
Received: 10 Jan 2025; Accepted: 24 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 CHEN, Wang, Han, Peng and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zhiyun Zhang, Kunming Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China
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