Thematic analysis of multiple sclerosis research by enhanced strategic diagram. (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shafin, Nazlahshaniza; Ismail, Che Aishah Nazariah; Mustafa, Mohd Zulkifli; Ghani, Nurhafizah; Ahmad, Asma Hayati; Othman, Zahiruddin; Wijaya, Adi; Zakaria, Rahimah
• Is Part Of: Multiple sclerosis. Volume 28:Number 14(2022)
• Page Start: 2160
• Page End: 2170
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: Multiple sclerosis -- Harzing's Publish or Perish -- VOSviewer -- co-occurrence analysis -- thematic analysis -- enhanced strategic diagram; Central nervous system -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Myelin sheath -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Inflammation -- Periodicals; Multiple sclerosis -- Periodicals; Central Nervous System Diseases -- Periodicals; Demyelinating Diseases -- Periodicals; Inflammation -- Periodicals; Multiple Sclerosis -- Periodicals; Système nerveux central -- Maladies -- Périodiques; Gaine de myéline -- Maladies -- Périodiques; Inflammation (Pathologie) -- Périodiques; Sclérose en plaques -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 616.834005
• DOI: 10.1177/13524585221075542
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1352-4585

Abstract

Recent interest in multiple sclerosis research warrants literature analysis to evaluate the current state of the discipline and new research domains. This bibliometric review summarised the research trends and analysed research areas in multiple sclerosis over the last decade. The documents containing the term 'multiple sclerosis' in the article title were retrieved from the Scopus database. We used Harzing's Publish or Perish and VOSviewer for citation analysis and data visualisation, respectively. We found a total of 18, 003 articles published in journals in the English language between 2012 and 2021. The emerging keywords identified utilising the enhanced strategic diagram were 'covid-19', 'teriflunomide', 'clinical trial', 'microglia', 'b cells', 'myelin', 'brain', 'white matter', 'functional connectivity', 'pain', 'employment', 'health-related quality of life', 'meta-analysis' and 'comorbidity'. This study demonstrates the tremendous growth of multiple sclerosis literature worldwide, which is expected to grow more than double during the next decade especially in the identified emerging topics.