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A decennial study of the trend of antibiotic studies in China

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Antibiotics are one of the greatest inventions in human history and are used worldwide on an enormous scale. Besides its extensive usage in medical and veterinary arenas to treat and prevent the infection, its application is very prominent in other fields, including agriculture, aquaculture, and horticulture. In recent decades, the increased consumption of antibiotics in China saw a vast increase in its production and disposal in various environments. However, in this post-antibiotic era, the abuse and misuse of these valuable compounds could lead to the unreversible consequence of drug resistance. In China, antibiotics are given a broad discussion in various fields to reveal their impact on both human/animals health and the environment. To our knowledge, we are the first paper to look back at the development trend of antibiotic-related studies in China with qualitative and quantitative bibliometric analysis from the past decades. Our study identified and analyzed 5559 papers from its inception (1991) to December 6, 2021, from the Web of Science Core Collection database. However, with few authors and institutions focusing on long-term studies, we found the quality of contributions was uneven. Studies mainly focused on areas such as food science, clinical research, and environmental studies, including molecular biology, genetics and environmental, ecotoxicology, and nutrition, which indicate possible primary future trends. Our study reports on including potentially new keywords, studies’ milestones, and their contribution to antibiotic research. We offer potential topics that may be important in upcoming years that could help guide future research.

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This work was financially supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. E51879084 and E51579075).

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    Tong Yu & Songhe Zhang

  2. College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

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Yu, T., Rajasekar, A. & Zhang, S. A decennial study of the trend of antibiotic studies in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 121338–121353 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30796-y

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