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Trends and prospects in spinal tuberculosis research: a future-oriented approach

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Purpose

Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history, and spinal tuberculosis (STB) is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. A large number of research has been conducted in this field. However, there has been no bibliometric analysis performed in recent years in STB. The aim of this study was to analyze trends and hotspots in research on STB.

Methods

Publications regarding STB between 1980 and 2022 were extracted from the Web of Science database. CiteSpace (V5.7.R2) and VOSviewer (1.6.10) were used to perform global analyses of the number of publications, countries, institutions, authors, journals, keywords, and cited references.

Results

A total of 1262 articles were published between 1980 and 2022. We observed rapid growth in the number of publications since 2010. Spine had the highest number of publications (47, 3.7%). Zhang HQ and Wang XY were key researchers. The Central South University published the most papers (90, 7.1%). China was the leading contributor in this field with 459 publications and 29 H-index. National partnerships are dominated by the USA, and there is a lack of active cooperation between other countries and authors. Conclusion: research on STB has achieved great progress, with an increasing number of publications since 2010. Surgical treatment and debridement are current research hots pots, and diagnosis, drug resistance, and kyphosis are likely research frontiers. Cooperation between countries and authors needs to be further strengthened.

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The authors thank the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82272536), Natural Science Foundation of Gansu province (Grant No. 22JR5RA949), and the Special Fund Project for Doctoral Training Program of Lanzhou University Second Hospital (Grant No. YJS-BD-09). We also thank Peng Niu for his valuable comments in revising the manuscript and his help with language editing in revising the manuscript.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82272536), Natural Science Foundation of Gansu province (Grant No. 22JR5RA949), and the Special Fund Project for Doctoral Training Program of Lanzhou University Second Hospital (Grant No. YJS-BD-09).

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MZ collected the literature and wrote the article. XK revised the article. MZ and XH designed the study. SL and JJ prepared figures and tables. All authors contributed toward data analysis, drafting, and critically revising the paper and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

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Zhang, M., Hu, X., Lei, S. et al. Trends and prospects in spinal tuberculosis research: a future-oriented approach. Eur Spine J 32, 4246–4258 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-023-07728-y

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