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ABSTRACT

Background:

Research on Graves’ ophthalmopathy(GO) increased remarkably in recent two decades, however, few studies provided statistical analysis to these publications.

Objective:

The purpose of this study is to detect and analyze the emerging trend and collaboration networks on GO.

Methods:

GO-related publications were collected from 1999 to 2019 from the Web of Science Core Collection Database. The publications were collected after restricting the publications with the category of article or review and language of English. The content of bibliometric analysis included changes in the annual number of publications, journals, authors, countries and institutions, keywords, and references.

Results:

There were 3051 publications collected which met the criterion. The number of annual publications had an increasing trend over the last 20 years. THYROID published 183 assays in total related to GO and ranked first. SMITH TJ had the largest number of publications on GO(83). The United States had the largest number of articles(784) and highest centrality(0.18) among the countries that had published essays related to GO. The UNIV PISA, which belonged to Italy, contributed 114 articles that are ahead of other institutions on the number of articles related to GO. The most recent burst keywords (proliferation, rituximab, and selenium) and references may provide clues on an emerging trend of research and clinical decision.

Conclusions:

This bibliometric analysis highlight countries, institutions, and authors which contributed to the publications on GO. And the possible emerging trends on GO research extracted from burst keywords and references may provided the clues on clinical decision making and future research.