Research hotspots and trends in gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A bibliometric study

Table 1 Top 15 high-output countries/regions in the field of gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, from 2013 to 2023

Ranking	Country	Documents	Citations
1	China	549	12409
2	United States	224	15261
3	Italy	147	9552
4	United Kingdom	57	6470
5	Spain	56	1852
6	South Korea	56	1728
7	Germany	54	2624
8	Japan	54	2191
9	Canada	41	2775
10	France	37	4763
11	Iran	37	1486
12	Australia	29	3366
13	Austria	24	2777
14	Netherlands	24	2003
15	Poland	24	341

Table 2 Top 15 high-output institutions in the field of gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, from 2013 to 2023

Ranking	Organization	Documents	Citations
1	Shanghai Univ Tradit Chinese Medicine	35	762
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ	34	1013
3	Univ Calif, San Diego	29	2372
4	Zhejiang Univ	24	704
5	Chinese Acad Sci	22	857
6	Hallam Univ	18	360
7	Jinan Univ	17	591
8	Inst Salud Carlos Iii	16	861
9	Tongji Univ	15	555
10	Univ Sydney	15	1471
11	Univ Tehran Med Sci	15	919
12	Hua Zhong University Sci & Technol	14	532
13	Sun Yat Sen Univ	14	945
14	Zhejiang Chinese Med Univ	14	143
15	Univ Naples Federico Ii	13	572

Table 3 Top 15 high-output journals in the field of gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, from 2013 to 2023

Ranking	Source	Documents	Citations
1	Nutrients	76	1890
2	International Journal of Molecular Sciences	60	1787
3	Frontiers in Microbiology	28	530
4	World Journal of Gastroenterology	28	2119
5	Food & Function	23	478
6	Frontiers in Pharmacology	20	372
7	Scientific Reports	20	1269
8	Frontiers in Nutrition	19	143
9	Frontiers In Endocrinology	18	215
10	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	18	449
11	Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology	17	166
12	Biomedicines	15	252
13	Frontiers In Immunology	13	154
14	Hepatology	13	3817
15	Foods	12	66

Table 4 Top 15 high-output authors in the field of gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, from 2013 to 2023

Ranking	Authors	Documents	Citations
1	Suk Ki Tae	14	340
2	Abenavoli Ludovico	13	603
3	Nobili Valerio	13	1258
4	Byrne Christopher D.	12	1245
5	Gupta Hari Priya	12	217
6	Roomba Rohit	12	1302
7	Alisi Anna	11	980
8	Schnabl Bernd	11	1308
9	Targher Giovanni	11	2023
10	Bergheim Ina	10	456
11	Kim Dong Joon	10	181
12	Ganesan Raja	9	54
13	Hekmatdoost Azita	9	552
14	Nieuwdorp Max	9	703
15	Tilg Herbert	9	1403

Table 5 Top 10 cited references related to research on gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (from Web of Science Core Collection database)

Ranking	Title	First author	Journal	Year	Total citations
1	The multiple-hit pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)	Buzzetti E	Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental	2016	1764
2	The Severity of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is Associated with Gut; Dysbiosis and Shift in the Metabolic Function of the Gut Microbiota	Boursier J	Hepatology	2016	869
3	Gut microbial metabolites in obesity, NAFLD and T2DM	Canfora EE	Nature Reviews Endocrinology	2019	724
4	Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its relationship with cardiovascular; disease and other extrahepatic diseases	Adams LA	Gut	2017	712
5	Intestinal microbiota determines development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice	Le Roy T	Gut	2013	660
6	The role of the gut microbiota in NAFLD	Leung C	Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology	2016	624
7	Gut Microbiome-Based Metagenomic Signature for Non-invasive; Detection of Advanced Fibrosis in Human Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	Loomba R	Cell Metabolism	2017	613
8	Bile Acid Control of Metabolism and Inflammation in Obesity, Type 2; Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	Chávez-Talavera O	Gastroenterology	2017	580
9	Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	Mouzaki M	Hepatology	2013	526
10	Fructose and sugar: A major mediator of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	Jensen T	Journal of Hepatology	2018	521

Table 6 Top 20 keywords with high frequency related to research on gut microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Ranking	Keywords	Frequencies	Total link strength
1	Gut microbiota	610	5215
2	NAFLD	406	3589
3	Insulin-resistance	336	3181
4	Obesity	328	2869
5	Steatohepatitis	311	2899
6	Inflammation	256	2326
7	Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	250	2204
8	Hepatic Steatosis	243	2286
9	Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	216	1865
10	Microbiota	177	1571
11	Intestinal microbiota	169	1643
12	Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	154	1514
13	Metabolic syndrome	149	1379
14	Fatty liver disease	148	1263
15	Fibrosis	146	1343
16	Oxidative stress	136	1197
17	Probiotics	134	1388
18	Pathogenesis	129	1184
19	Diet	127	1169
20	Dysbiosis	119	1053

NAFLD: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.