Plague Literature Bibliometric Analysis, 2016–2025

From 2016 to 2025, this dataset contains bibliometric analysis results for 1,994 scientific publications on plague sourced from Web of Science and PubMed. It was created by Yanfen Niu and last updated in May 2026. The data tracks publication trends, institutional contributions, national cooperation networks, and keyword co-occurrence clusters.

Use Cases

• Analyze publication growth rates based on the annual publication counts from 2016 to 2025.
• Map international research collaboration based on the national cooperation network data.
• Identify emerging research topics based on keyword co-occurrence clustering and annual variation trends.
• Evaluate the output of core research institutions like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Strengths

• Includes 1,994 documents for analysis.
• Covers a 10-year time span from 2016 to 2025.
• Identifies specific core institutions and countries involved in plague research.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the Web of Science and PubMed databases.

Provenance

Source

Web of Science Core Collection and PubMed database.

Collection Method

Bibliometric analysis using COOC, VOSviewer, and Anaconda software.

Time Range

2016 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 17:46:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with specific focus on Africa, the Americas, and Asia.