The application of bioinformatics on academic thesis of Chinese graduate student:a bibliometric analysis based on VOSviewer

LIU Junli; JI Ziyi; LYU Jinyu; CUI Yiming; HONG Jian

doi:10.12173/j.issn.1004-5511.202408080

Abstract：Objective To analyze the application status of bioinformatics on Chinese medical graduate students.Methods Available academic thesis was filtered with a topic of bioinformatics medical research ranging from 2003 January 1st to 2023 December 31st in CNKI and WanFang Database.The VOSviewer software was used to analyze the research hotspots of the academic thesis of Chinese medical graduate students,taking oncology as an example,the application status of bioinformatics in clinical practice was investigated.Results A total of 22,298 theses were included,comprising 14,036 master's theses(62.95%)and 8,262 doctoral theses(37.05%).In the last two decades,the number of bioinformatics-related thesis for Chinese medical student has been increasing continuously.The research hotspots of academic thesis mainly focused on expression analysis,mechanistic study,database and oncology.Notably,oncology-related research accounted for 45.72%of the theses.For lung cancer,application of bioinformatics has provided data support for pharmacological target investigation,diagnosis assistance and therapeutic effect monitoring in preclinical research.In addition,bioinformatics has been employed to aid clinical decision making,such as diagnosis and determination of therapeutic strategies.Conclusion The application of bioinformatics in the theses of medical postgraduates in China is increasing rapidly,particularly in the field of oncology.In clinical oncology practice,bioinformatics plays a pivotal role in early diagnosis,personalized therapy,and prognostic evaluation.