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. 2025 Feb 26;15(5):681.
doi: 10.3390/ani15050681.

Hotspot Analysis of Rumen Microbiota and Methane Mitigation in Ruminants: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1998 to 2023

Xueyue Zheng  1 , Lijie Tang  1 , Rong Wang  2 , Xiumin Zhang  2 , Min Wang  2 , Duanqin Wu  3
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Hotspot Analysis of Rumen Microbiota and Methane Mitigation in Ruminants: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1998 to 2023

Xueyue Zheng et al. Animals (Basel). .

Abstract

Methane (CH4) is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas, following carbon dioxide (CO2), and has a warming potential 28 times greater than CO2 [...].

Keywords: bibliometrics; greenhouse gas; methane emission; rumen microbiota.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Figure 1
Flowchart of research procedure.
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Figure 2
Number of publications and citations per year from 1998 to 2023 on Web of Science.
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Figure 3
The number of publications for each geographic region in the world (based on the nationality of the first author).
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Figure 4
Research cooperation network among authors from different countries. Thicker lines indicate stronger partnerships.
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Figure 5
Research hotspots trends of change. Each small circle signifies a keyword. The size of the circle is directly proportional to the frequency of its occurrence. Furthermore, the thickness of the line connecting these circles indicates an increased co-occurrence frequency between keywords, signifying a closer relationship.
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Figure 6
Keyword cluster analysis chart. (A) Phase I: 1998–2005; (B) phase II: 2006–2020; (C) phase III: 2021–2023; (D) all phases: 1998–2023.
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Figure 7
Top 25 keywords with the strongest citation bursts. Red lines indicate the years when the keyword was used frequently. Blue lines indicate the years when the keyword was not used frequently between 1998 and 2023.
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