Global trends and hotspots on recurrent respiratory papillomatosis: A 20-year bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Objectives: Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is the most common benign laryngeal tumor in children. It can cause serious psychological and mental burden on patients since RRP requires repeated surgical treatment. This study aims to delineate the global trends and identify hotspots related to RRP over the past two decades.

Methods: We systematically gathered research findings on RRP from 2004 to 2023, utilizing the Web of Science as our data source. Subsequently, we performed a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the literature using Vosviewer, CiteSpace, and Bibliometrics online analysis platform.

Results: A total of 839 publications were finally identified on RRP from 2004 to 2023. The United States has the largest number of publications (392), accounting for 46.7%. The Capital Medical University is the most productive organization (24), followed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (18). The most productive journal was the Laryngoscope, with 86 publicatios. Comparatively, Vaccine is the most cited journal (2297). Craig S. Derkay ranked highest among all authors in publication (16). Burst detection shows onset, adjuvant therapy, management, juvenile-onset RRP, systemic bevacizumab, avastin, human papillomavirus vaccine are recent keywords of great interest to researchers.

Conclusion: Research on RRP has progressed significantly over the past two decades, especially in terms of therapeutic strategies. We strongly believe that this article will provide new research directions for other researchers and may contribute to future breakthroughs in the field.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.

FIGURE 1

Flow chart of the inclusion process.

FIGURE 2

Growth trends of publications on RRP from 2004 to 2023.

FIGURE 3

The density visualization depicts the extent of co‐authorship contributions by various institutions on RRP research. It employs a color gradient, transitioning from blue through green and yellow to red, to represent a progressive increment in the volume of publications.

FIGURE 4

The cooperation between countries on RRP. The thickness of the line between the two countries indicates their cooperative relationship strength.

FIGURE 5

The network visualization of the citation network for journals cited at least three times on RRP employs color coding to represent clustering, illustrating inter‐journal relationships and thematic groupings.

FIGURE 6

The network visualization of authors that contributed at least three articles on RRP, using dot size for publication count and color shifts, from blue through green to yellow to indicate publication timing.

FIGURE 7

Top 25 keywords with the strongest citation burst. The green line sliced by year represents the timeline, while the red grid represents the beginning and ending year and the time interval of citation bursts.