Global research on Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea: A visualized study

Figure 1 Annual number of publications on Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea indexed in Scopus and published from 2001 to 2020.

Figure 2 Network visualization map of country co-authorships. Of the 103 countries, 31 had at least 50 publications.

Figure 3 Network visualization map of the most frequent terms in the titles/abstracts of the retrieved documents. Of the 84961 terms, 385 had at least 100 publications. Terms with the same color represent a separate cluster (research theme).

Figure 4 Overlay network visualization map of the most frequent terms in the titles/abstracts of the retrieved documents. The colors on the map reflected the period of emergence in the literature, with yellow representing terms that were relatively recent in the literature.