Bibliometric Analysis of Curcumin Anti-Obesity Research, 2006-2025

709 publication records from the Web of Science Core Collection, analyzed by Shan Liu in 2026, map the evolution of research on curcumin's anti-obesity effects. The analysis reveals a quadratic polynomial growth trend in publications and a thematic shift from basic mechanisms to clinical translation. Data includes country contributions, institutional collaborations, author networks, and keyword co-occurrence patterns.

Use Cases

• Analyze publication growth trends and country-level contributions based on annual publication counts and national output data.
• Map the evolution of research themes and identify frontiers based on keyword co-occurrence and co-citation analyses.
• Study international and institutional collaboration patterns based on network analysis results.
• Validate bibliometric trends across databases based on the comparison between Web of Science and Scopus records.

Strengths

• Includes 709 primary records from Web of Science Core Collection, validated against 234 records from Scopus.
• Covers a 20-year time range from 2006 to 2025, showing a clear quadratic growth trend (R²=0.9995).
• Analysis performed with established bibliometric tools: VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (9.1 KB), suggesting it contains aggregated analysis results rather than raw publication metadata.
• Data may reflect the indexing bias inherent to the selected bibliographic databases (Web of Science and Scopus).

Provenance

Source

Publications retrieved from Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus.

Collection Method

Bibliometric and visualization analysis using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny.

Time Range

2006 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 05:58:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with specific country contributions noted (e.g., China, United States).