Global historical retrospect and future prospects on biomarkers of heart failure: A bibliometric analysis and science mapping

Xin Dong; Yafei Xie; Jianguo Xu; Yu Qin; Qingyong Zheng; Rui Hu; Xin Zhang; Wenxin Wang; Jinhui Tian; Kang Yi

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13509

Global historical retrospect and future prospects on biomarkers of heart failure: A bibliometric analysis and science mapping

Heliyon. 2023 Feb 7;9(2):e13509. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13509. eCollection 2023 Feb.

Authors

Xin Dong^{1

2}, Yafei Xie^{2

3

4}, Jianguo Xu^{2

5}, Yu Qin⁵, Qingyong Zheng⁶, Rui Hu⁷, Xin Zhang^{2

8}, Wenxin Wang^{2

8}, Jinhui Tian^{4

5}, Kang Yi^{2

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ultrasound, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, China.
² Gansu International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease, Lanzhou, China.
³ The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Evidence-Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
⁵ Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
⁶ Evidence-Based Nursing Center, School of Nursing, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
⁷ The First Operating Room, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
⁸ The First School of Clinical Medicine of Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, China.

Abstract

Introduction: Heart failure is a rapidly growing public health problem and has become a major cause of hospitalization in middle-aged and older adults. Biomarkers are clinically important in managing heart failure and have attracted more attention from researchers in recent years. This study aimed to evaluate the global research of heart failure biomarkers by bibliometrics and to identify the hot spots and perspectives for further advancement.

Methods: Selection of relevant documents was from the Web of Science Core Collection. Microsoft Excel, VOSviewer, SciMA, and CiteSpace software were used for bibliometric analysis.

Results: As of October 29, 2021, 5,978 documents for heart failure biomarkers have been identified from 1989 to 2021. European Journal of Heart Failure and Circulation respectively ranked first in terms of the number of publications and the number of co-citations. A total of 5,698 institutions from 90 countries participated in these publications, with the USA leading with 2,045 documents. The most productive institution was Harvard University. Januzzi, J.L. and Maisel, A.S. were the most productive and most cited authors respectively. Natriuretic peptide, copeptin, valsartan, ferric carboxymaltose, empagliflozin, preserved ejection fraction, myocardial fibrosis, and heart transplantation were hot themes.

Conclusions: Extensive national and inter-institutional collaboration should be enhanced to bridge the gap between developed and less developed countries in heart failure biomarkers research. The research in this field seems to have reached a relatively mature stage, with a decrease in research fervor in recent years. The study of the natriuretic peptide family still has high centrality, with advances in the study of expression products and inflammatory markers. Cardiac fibrosis, cardiac remodeling, and therapies regarding heart failure have become hot spots.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Biomarker; Citation analysis; Heart failure; Science mapping.