Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Cure8 research brief
Why This Matters
A bibliometric map of perianal fistula research helps patients and clinicians see how much work exists, which centers and authors lead the field, and which topics cluster together—useful when looking for expertise or major studies to read. It does not report clinical findings or treatment effects.
Who Should Pay Attention
Researchers studying perianal fistula or Crohn’s disease, clinicians treating PFCD, research librarians, and patients or advocates seeking to find leading centers or literature.
Study Snapshot
Story typeResearch paper
Evidence typeResearch paper
Source depthJournal abstract
What To Know
This JoVE article reports a reproducible bibliometric analysis focused on perianal fistula in Crohn’s disease (PFCD) covering publications from 1992–2025. The authors describe their search strategy, normalization of author keywords, and network analyses (co-authorship, keyword co-occurrence, and reference co-citation) using R and VOSviewer.
They identify leading countries, institutions, authors, and frequent keywords—showing a stable core research structure for PFCD while highlighting how retrieval and normalization choices affect results. Key details: The study is based on Web of Science Core Collection records and a screened primary corpus of 769 PFCD publications.
The analysis includes sensitivity checks with alternative retrieval strategies, keyword cleaning, and multiple network analyses. Main outputs reported include publication trends, top contributing countries (US), institutions, and authors, and clustered thematic structures from keyword and citation networks.
How this matters to people affected by Crohn’s disease: This is a research-landscape study rather than a clinical trial or treatment report. It helps map where PFCD research is concentrated and which topics and teams are central, which can guide clinicians, patients, and researchers toward key literature and experts.
Keep In Mind
This article is an abstract-level JoVE journal record presenting a bibliometric (research mapping) study—its purpose is to describe publication patterns and networks, not to provide new clinical trial results or practice recommendations.
Findings depend strongly on the chosen database (WoSCC) and the authors’ search and normalization methods; the paper reports sensitivity analyses to explore that dependence.
Source Details
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Research paper
Evidence type derived from source or registry metadata.
PublicationJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE
AuthorsWang J, Su J, Chen X +1 more
Study typeVideo Audio media, journal article
Indexed viaEurope PMC
Source typeResearch paper
PublishedSep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM
Content availableJournal abstract
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