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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Neurosci.
Sec. Neurodegeneration
Volume 19 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1534735
Bibliometric analysis of cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury
Provisionally accepted
Jihua Hu 1
Ruiting Zhu 1
Xin Zhang 2 Yuchen Zhang 1
Jixin Liu 3 Wenyang Wang 1 Chiyin Li 1 Tong Yang 1
Ming Zhang 1*
Xuan Niu 1*- 1 The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
- 2 Xi'an Honghui Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
- 3 Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
Background: Cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) significantly reduces quality of life and imposes a heavy burden on society. A detailed examination of research trends of cognitive dysfunction following TBI has not yet been conducted. This study aimed to examine the bibliometric analysis of cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury over the past 20 years. Methods: Literature on bibliometric analysis was retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) from 2004 to 2023. The type of literature and the language were refined. A total of 1,902 articles were used for bibliometric analysis, including 1,543 (81.1%) original articles and 359 (18.9%) review articles. Data were retrieved on June 5, 2024. Results: The publication volume of articles was increasing year by year, with articles published in 537 journals. The Journal of Neurotrauma, with 130 articles, was the most productive and influential journal. The University of California System led in the number of articles published. There were 9,002 authors from 62 countries/regions. The USA and China were the top-ranked countries by article count. Pandharipande PP authored the highly cited article. Pick CG, as the author with the highest h-index. The top three of author keywords were traumatic brain injury, cognitive impairment, and mild traumatic brain injury. The topics of cognitive dysfunction after TBI were ferroptosis, cognitive decline, spinal cord injury, and prognosis.Conclusion: Our findings provide valuable insights into cognitive dysfunction following TBI and highlight emerging trends for future research.
Keywords: Traumatic Brain Injury, Head injury, cognitive dysfunction, Cognition, bibliometric analysis
Received: 26 Nov 2024; Accepted: 11 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hu, Zhu, Zhang, Zhang, Liu, Wang, Li, Yang, Zhang and Niu. 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:
Ming Zhang, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Xuan Niu, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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