Visualization of nutrition research in 2022: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Objective: Nutrition is very important for human health, especially for clinical patients, and it is a very large area of research worth exploring. This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of nutrition researches to determine the current status, hotspots and frontiers in this field in 2022. Methods: Publications about nutrition were taken from the Web of Science Core Collection database (WOSCC). WOSCC’s literature analysis wire, the VOSviewer 1.6.19 was adopted to conduct the analysis. Results: These articles were written by more than 100,000 authors from 19,488 affiliations in 183 countries or regions, and were published in 3282 journals, and covered 127 research areas. The leading authors were Prado Carla M. and Shi Hanping. All publications were taken from 183 countries/regions and 19,488 organizations. The most productive countries are China and the United States. The most active institutions are the Harvard University and University of California System. A total of 3282 journals contributed to this field, and the leading journals were Clinical Nutrition and Nutrients. The important author keywords occurred most frequently were nutrition, sarcopenia, malnutrition, obesity, and diet. Conclusion: This study provided the dynamics and progress of nutrition research field. The studies about nutrition are booming. Future nutrition-related research could focus on sarcopenia, malnutrition, obesity, and diet.