A retrospective analysis of schistosomiasis related literature from 2011-2020: Focusing on the next decade

• DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106750
• Publication Date: 2022-11-11T16:46:57Z
• Authors: Qingkai Xue; Yao Deng; Yiyun Liu; Yuyan Wang; Wenjun Hu; Yuzheng Huang; Kun Yang
• Keywords: Tropical disease; Schistosoma; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Parasitic Disease

Schistosomiasis, an ancient and neglected tropical disease, which poses a huge threat to over 200 million people globally. It is necessary have general summary of schistosomiasis research after the new roadmap 2021-2030 issued by WHO. This study analyzes current status from perspective One Health concept analyzing important literature published 2011 2020, while further highlighting priorities, difficulties, directions in order propose suggestions for disease studies research.Published related was searched Web Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database. Focusing on visual analysis main field schistosomiasis, CiteSpace software used conduct co-occurrence with keywords, countries, institutions, authors. Moreover, clustering burst analyses keywords co-citation authors, publications, journals were performed.A total 6638 schistosomiasis-related articles all can be sourced WoSCC The publication has remained stable past 10 years, contains area human epidemiology, animal surveillance environment. top five high-frequency included Schistosoma mansoni, infection, praziquantel, japonicum. formed nine clusters, including japonicum, helminths, protein, diagnosis, response, haematobium. In recent most focused mechanism liver fibrosis, eliminating controlling risk factors, relationship between infection host immunity. productive countries include United States, China, Brazil, institutions are University Basel, Swiss Tropical Public Institute, São Paulo. Highly authors Jürg Utzinger Donald P. McManus. At time writing, author highest frequency (993 times) Peter Hotez, journal (3,720 PLoS Neglected Diseases. Human Colley et al. (2014), frequently co-cited (494 times).This provides preliminary description initial exploration future directions. applied control, as confirmed this bibliometric analysis. Our guidance development other diseases.