Sun Yitao, Bai Yinping, Yang Wenlong, Bu Kangmin, Tanveer Sikander Khan, Hai Jiangbo
College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyan, China.
College of Life Sciences and Engineering, The Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
Front Chem. 2022 Jul 7;10:915648. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.915648. eCollection 2022.
Since the 21st century, natural biopolymers have played an indispensable role in long-term global development strategies, and their research has shown a positive growth trend. However, these substantive scientific results are not conducive to our quick grasp of hotspots and insight into future directions and to understanding which local changes have occurred and which trend areas deserve more attention. Therefore, this study provides a new data-driven bibliometric analysis strategy and framework for mining the core content of massive bibliographic data, based on mathematical models VOS Viewer and CiteSpace software, aiming to understand the research prospects and opportunities of natural biopolymers. The United States is reported to be the most important contributor to research in this field, with numerous publications and active institutions; polymer science is the most popular subject category, but the further emphasis should be placed on interdisciplinary teamwork; mainstream research in this field is divided into five clusters of knowledge structures; since the explosion in the number of articles in 2018, researchers are mainly engaged in three fields: "medical field," "biochemistry field," and "food science fields." Through an in-depth analysis of natural biopolymer research, this article provides a better understanding of trends emerging in the field over the past 22 years and can also serve as a reference for future research.
自21世纪以来，天然生物聚合物在全球长期发展战略中发挥了不可或缺的作用，其研究呈积极增长态势。然而，这些大量的科学成果不利于我们快速把握热点、洞察未来方向，也不利于了解发生了哪些局部变化以及哪些趋势领域值得更多关注。因此，本研究基于VOS Viewer数学模型和CiteSpace软件，提供了一种新的数据驱动的文献计量分析策略和框架，用于挖掘海量文献数据的核心内容，旨在了解天然生物聚合物的研究前景和机遇。据报道，美国是该领域研究的最重要贡献者，有大量出版物和活跃的机构；聚合物科学是最热门的学科类别，但应进一步强调跨学科团队合作；该领域的主流研究分为五个知识结构集群；自2018年文章数量激增以来，研究人员主要从事三个领域：“医学领域”、“生物化学领域”和“食品科学领域”。通过对天然生物聚合物研究的深入分析，本文能让我们更好地了解该领域在过去22年中出现的趋势，也可为未来研究提供参考。
