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Bibliometric Analysis of Crohn's Disease in Children, 2014-2024 - Frontiers
This study maps what researchers have been publishing about Crohn's disease in children over the past decade, highlighting major topics, influential papers, and active authors/institutions.
For patients and families, this helps show where scientific attention has focused (diagnosis, management, and research priorities) and where gaps may remain.
pediatric patients, parents-caregivers, clinicians (pediatric gastroenterology), and researchers interested in pediatric IBD trends and literature
What To Know
This Frontiers in Pediatrics article is a bibliometric review of research on pediatric Crohn's disease from 2014–2024. It analyzes publication trends, leading authors, institutions, journals, highly cited guidelines and documents, and frequent keywords using bibliometric tools (CiteSpace, VOSviewer).
The study highlights increasing publication volume, key contributors (e.g., Turner, Dan; Levine, A.), top journals, and commonly cited guideline documents.
The paper does not report new clinical trial results or treatment recommendations; it summarizes the research landscape to show where pediatric Crohn's disease research has concentrated (diagnosis criteria, treatment guidelines, and common research topics).
It identifies hotspots and trends to help researchers and clinicians find influential papers and potential collaboration networks.
This is useful if you want an overview of how research on childhood Crohn's disease has evolved, which journals/authors are most active, and which topics (diagnosis, management, and related research areas) are most frequently studied. It does not provide patient-level clinical guidance.
Read the full article if you want maps of collaboration, citation patterns, and keyword trends across the field.
This is a bibliometric review (analysis of publications), not original clinical research. It summarizes trends and citation networks from Web of Science data using visualization tools; it does not change clinical care or present new treatment evidence. Use it to understand research activity and to find key guidelines and papers referenced by the field.
