Current status and trend of mitochondrial research in lung cancer: A bibliometric and visualization analysis

Abstract

This study summarizes and analyzes the relationship between mitochondria and the pathogenesis of lung cancer. The related articles in the Web of Science core literature database are searched and collected, and the data are processed by R software, Citespace, VOSviewer, and Excel. A total of 4476 related papers were retrieved, 4476 articles from 20162 co-authors of 3968 institutions in 84 countries and published in 951 journals. Through various bibliometric analysis tools, the relationship between mitochondria and the pathogenesis of lung cancer was analyzed, the previous research results were summarized, and the potential research direction was found.

Keywords

• Bibliometric analysis
• Lung cancer
• Mitochondria
• Citespace
• VOSviewer