Research status and hotspots of autoimmune gastritis: A bibliometric analysis

Table 1 Top 10 productive countries

Rank	Country	Quantity	Proportion (%)	ACI	H-index	Centrality
1	Italy	70	22.15	29.16	25	0.49
2	Japan	68	21.52	14.65	16	0.03
3	United States	59	18.67	26.32	19	0.80
4	Australia	48	15.19	33.52	22	0.04
5	Germany	18	5.70	18.5	11	0.06
6	Turkey	16	5.06	6.44	6	0.00
7	Sweden	10	3.16	57.3	9	0.01
8	China	9	2.85	1.78	2	0.00
9	Netherlands	8	2.53	50.63	6	0.00
10	Finland	7	2.22	11.57	5	0.29

ACI: Average citations per item.

Table 2 Top 10 productive institutions

Rank	Institution	Country	Quantity	SOTC	ACI	H-index
1	Monash University	Australia	38	1413	37.18	20
2	University of Pavia	Italy	19	433	22.79	10
3	Kyoto of University	Japan	17	593	34.88	12
4	Ankala University	Turkey	14	95	6.79	6
5	Sapienza University Rome	Italy	14	284	20.29	9
6	University of Melbourne	Australia	14	367	26.21	11
7	Irccs Fondazione San Matteo	Italy	13	375	28.85	7
8	University of Padua	Italy	12	467	38.92	8
9	Azienda Ospedaliera Sant Andrea	Italy	11	192	17.45	7
10	Kawasaki Medical School	Japan	11	92	8.36	6

SOTC: Sum of times cited; ACI: Average citations per item.

Table 3 Top 10 authors

Rank	Author	Country	Institution	Quantity	ACI	H-index
1	Toh BH	Australia	Monash University	31	41.35	19
2	Vandriel IR	Australia	University of Melbourne	25	33.88	17
3	Gleeson PA	Australia	University of Melbourne	23	41.96	16
4	Alderuccio F	Australia	Monash University	19	33.89	12
5	Miceli E	Italy	Irccss S Matteo Hosp Fdn	14	24.07	8
6	Soykan I	Turkey	Ankara University	14	6.79	6
7	Di Sabatino A	Italy	University of Pavia	13	11.62	6
8	Haruma K	Japan	Kawasaki Medical School	12	7.83	6
9	Lenti MV	Italy	University of Pavia	12	34.17	10
10	Kalkan C	Turkey	City Hospital Ankara	10	6.1	4

ACI: Average citations per item.

Table 4 Top 20 journals

Rank	Journal	Quantity	ACI	IF (2022)	JCR
1	Internal Medicine	11	6.73	1.282	Q4
2	Gastroenterology	10	39.6	33.883	Q1
3	Autoimmunity	9	21.33	2.957	Q4
4	Journal of Immunology	9	44.11	5.426	Q2
5	World Journal of Gastroenterology	8	29.25	5.374	Q2
6	Digestive and Liver Disease	7	11.29	5.165	Q2
7	Frontiers in Immunology	7	1.57	8.786	Q1
8	International Reviews of Immunology	7	17.43	5.078	Q2
9	Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	6	35.5	9.524	Q1
10	Clinical and Experimental Immunology	6	22.83	5.732	Q2
11	Digestion	6	17.33	3.672	Q3
12	Autoimmunity Reviews	5	58	17.390	Q1
13	Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology	5	2.8	0	Q3
14	Journal of Gastroenterology	5	6.6	6.772	Q2
15	Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology	5	18.4	3.027	Q4
16	American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology	4	28.75	4.871	Q1/Q2
17	Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	4	14.25	5.686	Q1/Q2
18	BMC Gastroenterology	4	14.5	2.847	Q4
19	Digestive Diseases and Sciences	4	8	3.487	Q3
20	European Journal of Immunology	4	41.25	6.688	Q2

IF: Impact factor; JCR: Journal citation reports; ACI: Average citations per item.

Table 5 Top 20 Keywords

Rank	Keywords	Count	Centrality
1	Autoimmune gastritis	96	0.25
2	Pernicious anemia	64	0.12
3	Atrophic gastritis	46	0.12
4	Helicobacter pylori	44	0.14
5	Classification	40	0.16
6	Diagnosis	29	0.07
7	Helicobacter pylori infection	27	0.18
8	Disease	26	0.26
9	Autoantibody	21	0.10
10	Cancer	21	0.13
11	Prevalence	20	0.04
12	Parietal cell antibody	20	0.03
13	Follow up	16	0.08
14	Atrophic body gastritis	15	0.06
15	Pathogenesis	15	0.03
16	Management	15	0.03
17	Risk	12	0.04
18	Autoimmune atrophic gastritis	11	0.08
19	Gastric cancer	11	0.07
20	Body gastritis	10	0.08

Table 6 Top 20 cited references

Rank	Title	Journal	Author	Year	Citation
1	Classification and grading of gastritis - The updated Sydney System	American Journal of Surgical Pathology	Dixon M	1996	4036
2	Autoimmune disease as a consequence of developmental abnormality of a T cell subpopulation	Journal of Experimental Medicine	Asano M	1996	1067
3	Prevalence of undiagnosed pernicious anemia in the elderly	Archives of Internal Medicine	Carmel R	1996	798
4	Reappraisal of nature and significance of chronic atrophic gastritis	American Journal of Digestive Diseases	Strickland RG	1973	505
5	Mechanisms of disease: Pernicious anemia	New England Journal of Medicine	Toh BH	1997	381
6	Genetic susceptibility to post-thymectomy autoimmune-diseases in mice	Immunogenetics	Kojima A	1981	244
7	Autoimmune atrophic gastritis-pathogenesis, pathology and management	Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Neumann WL	2013	198
8	Major parietal-cell antigen in autoimmune gastritis with pernicious-anemia is the acid-producing H+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase of the stomach	Journal of Clinical Investigation	Karlsson FA	1988	183
9	Molecular mimicry between Helicobacter pylori antigens and H+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase in human gastric autoimmunity	Journal of Experimental Medicine	Amedei A	2003	180
10	Variable hematologic presentation of autoimmune gastritis: age-related progression from iron deficiency to cobalamin depletion	Blood	Hershko C	2006	157
11	An autoimmune-disease with multiple molecular targets abrogated by the transgenic expression of a single autoantigen in the thymus	Journal of Experimental Medicine	Alderuccio F	1993	148
12	Autoimmune gastritis in type 1 diabetes: A clinically oriented review	Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism	De Block C	2008	121
13	H+, K+-ATPase (proton pump) is the target autoantigen of Th1-type cytotoxic T cells in autoimmune gastritis	Gastroenterology	D'elios MM	2001	109
14	Systematic review: gastric cancer incidence in pernicious anaemia	Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics	Vannella L	2013	109
15	Reassessment of Intrinsic Factor and Parietal Cell Autoantibodies in Atrophic Gastritis With Respect to Cobalamin Deficiency	American Journal of Gastroenterology	Lahner E	2009	95
16	The parietal-cell autoantibodies recognized in neonatal thymectomy-induced murine gastritis are the alpha-subunit and beta-subunit of the gastric proton pump	Gastroenterology	Jones CM	1991	92
17	Immunological and clinical-studies on murine experimental autoimmune gastritis induced by neonatal thymectomy	Gastroenterology	Fukuma K	1988	85
18	Diagnosis and classification of autoimmune gastritis	Autoimmunity Reviews	Toh BH	2014	83
19	Analysis of mononuclear cell infiltrate and cytokine production in murine autoimmune gastritis	Gastroenterology	Martinelli TM	1996	75
20	Common Features of Patients with Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis	Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology	Miceli E	2012	73

Table 7 Top 10 co-cited references

Rank	Title	Journal	Author	Year	Citation
1	Classification and grading of gastritis - The updated Sydney System	American Journal of Surgical Pathology	Dixon MF	1996	78
2	Mechanisms of disease: Pernicious anemia	New England Journal of Medicine	Toh BH	1997	71
3	Reappraisal of Nature And Significance of Chronic Atrophic Gastritis	American Journal of Digestive Diseases	Strickland RG	1973	69
4	Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis-Pathogenesis, Pathology and Management	Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Neumann WL	2013	67
5	Analysis of Mononuclear Cell Infiltrate and Cytokine Production in Murine Autoimmune Gastritis	Gastroenterology	Martinelli TM	1996	46
6	An Autoimmune-Disease with Multiple Molecular Targets Abrogated by the Transgenic Expression of A Single Autoantigen In the Thymus	Journal of Experimental Medicine	Alderuccio F	1993	44
7	Autoimmune Gastritis in Type 1 Diabetes: A Clinically Oriented Review	Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism	De Block CEM	2008	44
8	Major Parietal-Cell Antigen In Autoimmune Gastritis With Pernicious-Anemia is The Acid-Producing H+,K+-Adenosine Triphosphatase of The Stomach	Journal of Clinical Investigation	Karlsson Fa	1988	42
9	Variable Hematologic Presentation of Autoimmune Gastritis: Age-Related Progression From Iron Deficiency To Cobalamin Depletion	Blood	Hershko C	2006	41
10	Common Features of Patients With Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis	Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology	Miceli E	2012	41
11	Immunologic and clinical studies on murine experimental autoimmune gastritis induced by neonatal thymectomy	Gastroenterology	Fukuma K	1988	40
12	Genetic susceptibility to post-thymectomy autoimmune diseases in mice	Immunogenetics	Kojima A	1981	40
13	H(+),K(+)-atpase (proton pump) is the target autoantigen of Th1-type cytotoxic T cells in autoimmune gastritis	Gastroenterology	D'Elios Mm	2001	37
14	Prevalence of undiagnosed pernicious anemia in the elderly	Arch Intern Med	Carmel R	1996	36
15	The parietal cell autoantigens recognized in neonatal thymectomy-induced murine gastritis are the alpha and beta subunits of the gastric proton pump [corrected]	Gastroenterology	Jones Cm	1991	36
16	Diagnosis and classification of autoimmune gastritis	Autoimmun Rev	Toh Bh	2014	36
17	Autoimmune disease as a consequence of developmental abnormality of a T cell subpopulation	J Exp Med	Asano M	1996	34
18	Reassessment of intrinsic factor and parietal cell autoantibodies in atrophic gastritis with respect to cobalamin deficiency	Am J Gastroenterol	Lahner E	2009	34
19	Molecular mimicry between Helicobacter pylori antigens and H+, K+ --adenosine triphosphatase in human gastric autoimmunity	J Exp Med	Amedei A	2003	33
20	Autoimmune gastritis: Pathologist’s viewpoint	World J Gastroentero	Coati I	2015	33