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Global Research Output and Theme Trends on Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: A Restrospective Bibliometric and Co-Word Biclustering Investigation of Papers Indexed in PubMed (1999–2018)

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  • Fan Li

    (School of Medical Informatics, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China)

  • Hao Zhou

    (Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China
    Department of Impression Evidence Examination Technology, Criminal Investigation Police University of China, Shenyang 110854, China)

  • De-Sheng Huang

    (Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China
    Department of Mathematics, School of Fundamental Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China)

  • Peng Guan

    (Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China)

Abstract

Climate change is a challenge for the sustainable development of an international economy and society. The impact of climate change on infectious diseases has been regarded as one of the most urgent research topics. In this paper, an analysis of the bibliometrics, co-word biclustering, and strategic diagram was performed to evaluate global scientific production, hotspots, and developing trends regarding climate change and infectious diseases, based on the data of two decades (1999–2008 and 2009–2018) from PubMed. According to the search strategy and inclusion criteria, a total of 1443 publications were found on the topic of climate change and infectious diseases. There has been increasing research productivity in this field, which has been supported by a wide range of subject categories. The top highly-frequent major MeSH (medical subject headings)/subheading combination terms could be divided into four clusters for the first decade and five for the second decade using a biclustering analysis. At present, some significant public health challenges (global health, and travel and tropical climate, etc.) are at the center of the whole target research network. In the last ten years, “Statistical model”, “Diarrhea”, “Dengue”, “Ecosystem and biodiversity”, and “Zoonoses” have been considered as emerging hotspots, but they still need more attention for further development.

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  • Fan Li & Hao Zhou & De-Sheng Huang & Peng Guan, 2020. "Global Research Output and Theme Trends on Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: A Restrospective Bibliometric and Co-Word Biclustering Investigation of Papers Indexed in PubMed (1999–2018)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(14), pages 1-14, July.
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