Mapping the knowledge of omics in myocardial infarction: A scientometric analysis in R Studio, VOSviewer, Citespace, and SciMAT

• Published in: Medicine (Baltimore) Vol. 104; no. 7; p. e41368
• Main Authors: Wei, Xuan, Wang, Min, Yu, Shengnan, Han, Zhengqi, Li, Chang, Zhong, Yue, Zhang, Mengzhou, Yang, Tiantong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 14.02.2025
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Genomics - methods; Humans; Myocardial Infarction - genetics; Narrative Review; Proteomics - methods; Scimat; omics research; Vosviewer; Citespace; myocardial infarction; R Studio; scientometric analysis
• ISSN: 1536-5964; 0025-7974; 1536-5964
• DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000041368

Many researchers nowadays choose multi-omics techniques for myocardial infarction studies. However, there's yet to be a review article integrating myocardial infarction multi-omics. Hence, this study adopts the popular bibliometrics. Based on its principles, we use software like R Studio, Vosviewer, Citespace, and SciMAT to analyze literature data of myocardial infarction omics research (1991-2022) from Web of Science. By extracting key information and calculating weights, we conduct analyses from 4 aspects: Collaboration Network Analysis, Co-word Analysis, Citing and Cited Journal Analysis, and Co-citation and Clustering Analysis, aiming to understand the field's cooperation, research topic evolution, and knowledge flow. The results show that myocardial infarction omics research is still in its early stage with limited international cooperation. In terms of knowledge flow, there's no significant difference within the discipline, but non-biomedical disciplines have joined, indicating an interdisciplinary integration trend. In the overall research field, genomics remains the main topic with many breakthroughs identifying susceptibility sites. Meanwhile, other omics fields like lipidomics and proteomics are also progressing, clarifying the pathogenesis. The cooperation details in this article enable researchers to connect with others, facilitating their research. The evolution trend of subject terms helps them set goals and directions, quickly grasp the development context, and read relevant literature. Journal analysis offers submission suggestions, and the analysis of research base and frontier provides references for the research's future development.