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Biologic therapy for Crohn’s disease over the last 3 decades
Ji-Liang Shen, Zheng Zhou, Jia-Sheng Cao, Bin Zhang, Jia-Hao Hu, Jia-Ying Li, Xiao-Ming Liu, Sarun Juengpanich, Ming-Song Li, Xu Feng
Ji-Liang Shen, Jia-Sheng Cao, Bin Zhang, Jia-Hao Hu, Sarun Juengpanich, Xu Feng, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310016, Zhejiang Province, China
Zheng Zhou, Jia-Ying Li, Xiao-Ming Liu, Ming-Song Li, Department of Gastroenterology, Nan Fang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China
Ming-Song Li, Department of Gastroenterology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510000, Guangdong Province, China
Author contributions: Shen JL and Feng X designed the study and collected the data; Shen JL, Zhou Z, and Cao JS analyzed and interpreted the data; Zhou Z, Cao JS, Zhang B, Hu JH, Li JY, Liu XM, and Li MS wrote the manuscript; Juengpanich S and Feng X revised the manuscript; all authors made final approval of the version of the manuscript.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81800540; and Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province, No. 2018C03083.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Xu Feng, MD, PhD, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 3 East Qingchun Road, Hangzhou 310016, Zhejiang Province, China. phoneshe@zju.edu.cn
Received: August 8, 2021
Peer-review started: August 8, 2021
First decision: October 11, 2021
Revised: October 19, 2021
Accepted: December 7, 2021
Article in press: December 7, 2021
Published online: January 14, 2022
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
There is an overloading amount of publications on biologic therapy for Crohn’s disease (CD).
Research motivation
No comprehensive analysis of biologic therapy for CD has been reported.
Research objectives
To determine knowledge gaps and identify areas of interest of biologic therapy for CD.
Research methods
We conducted a bibliometric analysis of biologic therapy for CD based on the top 100 highest-cited original articles, summarized the bibliographic information, and explored the research hotspots.
Research results
The 2000s yielded the most influential original articles and saw the most dramatic growth. The United States and Europe contributed the most publications, and the cooperation relationships between them were most frequent. Gastroenterology published the most articles on biologic therapy for CD. Anti-tumor necrosis factor biologics and monoclonal antibodies were the most studied topics.
Research conclusions
The bibliometric analysis emphasized the key contributions made to the development of the specialized field.
Research perspectives
These data would provide useful research insights into biologic therapy for CD for clinicians and researchers.
