Visual analysis of the current situation and hotspots of oral frailty in the elderly based on CiteSpace
LU Ting
LI Juan
LI Simin
ZHANG Fengyin
WANG Xiaoyue
Abstract：Objective To explore the current research status,hotspots and trends of oral frailty in the elderly and provide a basis for conducting related research in China.Methods The data source was Web of Science Core Collection database.The related research on oral frailty in the elderly from January 1,2013 to February 29,2024 was retrieved.The bibliometric analysis software CiteSpace 6.3.R1 was used to conduct a visual analysis of the situations of authors,coun-tries,publishing institutions and keywords.Results A total of 161 documents were included in the study.Japan emerged as the country with the largest number of publications,contributing to 70%of the global output.Notable authors with high publication frequency included HIRANO,WATANABE,and SHIROBE.The top countries in terms of publica-tion volume were Japan,China,Switzerland,Netherlands,and the United States.Key areas of research interest revolved around oral frailty,oral health,older adults,association,health,oral function,oral hypofunction,tongue pressure,mastica-tory performance,and tooth loss.Keyword clustering resulted in the formation of 12 distinct clusters,with prominent key-words such as tongue pressure,older adults,geriatric dentistry,oral function,,Alzheimer's disease,oral hypofunction,etc.Analysis of emergent keywords revealed long-standing terms such as mortality,weight loss,older people and aspira-tion pneumonia persisting for over 3 years,while recent emergent keywords in the past 5 years included the number of teeth,malnutrition,strength,oropharyngeal dysphagia,quality of life,nutrition,and masticayory function.Conclu-sions Overall in terms of development trends,the number of research publications in the field related to oral frailty in the elderly has generally been on the rise,but the total amount is still relatively low,and the research in this field is still in its infancy.Studies on aspects such as oral frailty,oral health,the elderly,association,and oral functions have always re-ceived much attention and are expected to be further explored in the future.The research frontiers are shifting towards as-pects such as nutritional status,quality of life,and health behaviors,and the above studies are expected to become new hotspots.
Keywords：oral debilityagedbibliometricsCiteSpace
Publication Date：2024-08-25
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 53-58 )