Abstract
Exposure to air pollution is linked with an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and CVDs-related mortality. However, there is a shortage of scientometric analysis on this topic. Therefore, we propose a scientometric study to explore research hotspots and directions in this topical field over the past decade. We used the core collection of Web of Science (WoS) to obtain relevant publications and analyzed them using Excel, the Bibliometix R-package, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer. The study covered various aspects such as annual publications, highly cited papers, co-cited references, journals, authors, countries, organizations, and keywords. Research on air pollution and CVDs has remarkable increase over the past decade, with notable researchers including Kan H, Brook RD, Peters A, and Schwartz J. The 3144 articles were published by 4448 institutions in 131 countries/regions. The leading countries were the USA and China, and the most published journal was Environmental Research. Mortality, hospital admissions, oxidative stress, inflammation, long-term exposure, fine particulate matter, and PM2.5 are the top areas that merit further investigation and hold significant potential for advancing our understanding of the complex relationship between air pollution and CVDs.
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This work was supported by the Guangdong provincial science and technology special project funds program (grant number 210728156901524, 210728156901519), the Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (grant number A2021432, A2023481), and the Shantou Medical Health Science and Technology Plan (grant number 210521236491457, 210625106490696, 220518116490772, 220518116490933).
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Daitian Zheng conceived and designed the study, conducted the visual analysis of the data, and wrote a large part of the manuscript. Qiuping Yang and Jinyao Wu retrieved the dataset from the Web of Science, while Huiting Tian and Zeqi Ji provided software guidance and revised the manuscript. Lingzhi Chen, Jiehui Cai, Zhiyang Li, and Yexi Chen were responsible for interpreting the findings of the study. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Zheng, D., Yang, Q., Wu, J. et al. Research trends on the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular diseases in 2013–2022 – A scientometric analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 93800–93816 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28938-3
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