Global Research Output on Intestinal Flora and Health from 2000-2023: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

A Significant number of studies have been made on intestinal flora and health and it has flourished in the last 24years. In this study we have taken up an initiative to measure the literature outcome in intestinal flora using Scientometric analysis during the period 2000 to 2023 as extracted from SCOPUS interdisciplinary database. Total 6913 numbers of scholarly publications have been fetched which sum up most advanced achievements in this field according to the objectives. This research aims to assess the global research productivity on “Intestinal flora.” In respect of Literature Publications “China” is at the top among the world with publications (TP=4773), followed by “Unites States” (TP=468)”, and “India (TP=75)” is at the 11th position in this field during this time. “Frontiers in Microbiology” is the most prolific journal in the domain of “Intestinal flora” with 119 publications followed by “World Chinese Journal of Digestology” with 111 publications. Mostly Used Keywords are “Intestine Flora” (3947) followed by “article” (3157), then “non-human” (2897), “human” (2701) and so on.  In this study Microsoft Excel, and open-source tool VOSviewer is used to study research publications trend, authors productivity, country collaboration the most prolific journals, authors, co-cited references, keywords etc.