Global Bibliometric Analysis of Stroke and Gut Microbiota Research Trends

A bibliometric analysis of 1,236 research articles on stroke and gut microbiota published between 2000 and August 2025. Yawen Wang conducted this study using data from the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and PubMed. The dataset includes metrics on publication trends, country contributions, institutional collaborations, and keyword co-occurrence.

Use Cases

• Analyze annual publication trends and the 20.6% average growth rate over the past 5 years to forecast future research activity.
• Map country and institutional collaboration networks to identify central contributors like the United States and leading publishers like China.
• Identify research hotspots and emerging frontiers through keyword co-occurrence analysis of terms like 'neuroinflammation' and 'short-chain fatty acids'.
• Compare rankings of influential authors and core journals across multiple databases (Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed) for validation.
• Track the interdisciplinary integration of fields like pharmacology and immunology within the stroke and gut microbiota research domain.

Strengths

• Contains 1,236 analyzed research articles, providing a substantial corpus for trend analysis.
• Multi-database validation using Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed enhances the robustness of the bibliometric findings.
• Covers a 25-year time range from 2000 to August 2025, allowing for longitudinal trend analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset is relatively small at 3.8 MB, limiting the depth of raw data available for re-analysis.
• Specific column names and the raw article data are not provided, only the analysis results.
• The geographic focus is biased towards major publishing countries, potentially underrepresenting research from other regions.

Provenance

Source

Web of Science Core Collection, with cross-validation from Scopus and PubMed.

Collection Method

Bibliometric analysis using tools including CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and R software on retrieved publication records.

Time Range

January 1, 2000 to August 31, 2025.

Freshness

Data current through August 2025, with the dataset last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Global, with specific country-level contribution analysis.