Hot topics in the international studies on the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis

VernacularTitle:国际类风湿关节炎病因学研究热点探析
Author: Yuejiao WANG ¹ ; Ning ZHANG
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1. 中国医科大学附属盛京医院第二风湿免疫科
Keywords: Arthritis,rheumatoid; Etiology; Hot topics; Co-word clustering; Strategic coordinate
From: Chinese Journal of Rheumatology 2017;21(12):800-806
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To analyze the published articles on the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and catch the recent research hot topics.Methods Literature searching on the etiology of RA was conducted through PubMed database of US Congress Library of Medicine published in past five years.Bibliographic Item CO-Occurrence Matrix Builder (BICOMB) to bibliometric analysis and statistical product and service solutions (SPSS) 19.0 were used for cluster analysis and plotting strategic coordinate figure.Results Four research hot topics were identified by analyzing the keywords:① Therapeutic and adverse effects of antirheumatic agents;② Genetics and complications of RA;③ Immunity of autoantigens and autoantibodies in RA;④ Immune cells and microRNAs in RA.Conclusion Researches on RA etiology have developed steadily,with different current status and developing tendency,which provides reference for related studies.