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Review
. 2022 Nov 17:10:1002015.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1002015. eCollection 2022.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria: A bibliometric review of literature

Guojun Sun  1 , Qian Zhang  1 , Zuojun Dong  1 , Dashun Dong  1 , Hui Fang  2 , Chaojun Wang  3 , Yichen Dong  4 , Jiezhou Wu  1 , Xuanzhe Tan  1 , Peiyao Zhu  1 , Yuehua Wan  2
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria: A bibliometric review of literature

Guojun Sun et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) are a serious threat to the health of people and the ecological environment. With this problem becoming more and more serious, more countries made research on the ARB, and the research number has been sharply increased particularly over the past decade. Therefore, it is quite necessary to globally retrace relevant researches on the ARB published from 2010 to 2020. This will help researchers to understand the current research situation, research trends and research hotspots in this field. This paper uses bibliometrics to examine publications in the field of ARB from 2010 to 2020 that were retrieved from the Web of Science (WOS). Our study performed a statistical analysis of the countries, institutions, journals, authors, research areas, author keywords, Essential Science Indicators (ESI) highly cited papers, and ESI hotspots papers to provide an overview of the ARB field as well as research trends, research hotspots, and future research directions in the field. The results showed that the number of related studies is increasing year by year; the USA is most published in the field of ARB; China is the most active in this field in the recent years; the Chinese Acad Sci published the most articles; Sci. Total Environ. published the greatest number of articles; CM Manaia has the most contributions; Environmental Sciences and Ecology is the most popular research area; and "antibiotic resistance," "antibiotics," and "antibiotic resistance genes" were the most frequently occurring author keywords. A citation analysis showed that aquatic environment-related antibiotic resistance is a key research area in this field, while antimicrobial nanomaterial-related research is a recent popular topic.

Keywords: antibiotic resistance; antibiotic resistant bacteria; antibiotics; bibliometrics; keyword analysis.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Trends in the number of published articles related to ARB by year. TP, total papers; TC, total citations.
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Number of ARB-related publications per year from 2010 to 2020 in the USA, China and the UK.
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Figure 3
Collaboration matrix map among the top 10 productive countries/regions.
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Figure 4
DDA cluster map on cooperation of the top 15 institutions.
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Figure 5
Bubble chart of top 20 ARB research areas.
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Figure 6
Bubble chart of the top 30 author keywords by year.
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Figure 7
Cross-correlation graph of the top 30 author keywords.
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