A bibliometric analysis on research of fungal bioiflm from PubMed database
Abstract：ObjectiveTo analyze the status quo of and review the research of fungal bioiflm worldwide by an overview of related literatures from PubMed, so as to provide ideas and basis for further research.MethodsMedical literatures on the research of fungal bioiflm in PubMed database were analyzed by using bibliometric tools such as Thomson data analyzer. The distributions of years, nations, journals, and currently hot topics on fungal bioiflm, and top-20 cited papers were analyzed.ResultsThe number of the papers published every year on fungal bioiflm was stable from 1981 to now. United States and Europe had leading advantages in this ifeld. The journal published the most papers of fungal bioiflm was American and European journals. Three of the top-10 authors of the most publications came from center for medical mycology, department of dermatology, university hospitals of cleveland, case western reserve university, which illustrates these research institutes in a leadership position in this ifeld. Researches focused on formation of medical fungal bioiflm, as well as its interaction with antifungal medicine and basis of this virulence related genes and proteins. The trend of citation analysis and qualifying contributions to the literature has some consistency. Researches in China are mainly from Hong Kong and Beijing, but there is an obvious gap between China and Europe or America.ConclusionUnited States and Europe are the leaders in this ifeld. The numbers and citation rates of the papers from China in this ifeld have been increasing in recent 5 years. The hot topics in this ifeld were the formation of fungal bioiflm, susceptibilities and mechanism of this virulence.
Keywords：Medical fungiBioiflmPubMedBibliometrics
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Pages：5( 14-18 )