Global trends and hotspots of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents: A bibliometric study and visualization analysis

Table 1 Top ten countries with the highest number of published studies on type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents

Rank	Country	Publications	Total citations	Average citation	H-index	Total link strength
1	United States	3669	213955	58.3143	205	1775
2	United Kingdom	1008	79435	78.8046	136	1373
3	China	705	20189	28.6369	62	457
4	Canada	543	27089	49.8877	76	530
5	Australia	528	31856	60.3333	80	692
6	Germany	497	22072	44.4105	76	820
7	Italy	469	20230	43.1343	67	635
8	India	320	16025	50.0781	53	240
9	Spain	294	11425	38.8605	51	670
10	Sweden	284	13807	48.6162	60	539

Table 2 Top 10 authors with the most publications on type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents

Rank	Author	Institutions	Publications
1	Dana Dabelea	Colorado School of Public Health	115
2	Jean M Lawrence	NIH National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases	76
3	Kristen J Nadeau	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	69
4	Lawrence M Dolan	University of Cincinnati	58
5	Fida Bacha	Baylor College of Medicine	57
6	Sonia Caprio	Baylor College of Medicine	56
7	Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – United States	56
8	Giuseppina Imperatore	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - United States	54
9	Catherine Pihoker	University of Washington	53
10	Silva Arslanian	University of Pittsburgh	47

Table 3 Top 10 most commonly co-cited authors in the field of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents

Rank	Author	Institutions	Count
1	Dabelea D	Colorado School of Public Health	1186
2	Ogden CL	George Washington University	733
3	Weiss R	Rambam Health Care Campus	632
4	Matthews DR	University of Oxford	626
5	Zeitler P	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	538
6	Reinehr Thomas	Witten Herdecke University	516
7	Knowler WC	George Washington University	514
8	Barker DJP	Dep Hort & Crop Sci	497
9	Mayer-Davis EJ	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – United States	491
10	Cole TJ	University College London	489

Table 4 Top ten institutions in terms of number of publications and centrality ranking in the field of type 2 diabetes mellitus research in children and adolescents

Rank	Institutions	Count	Rank	Institutions	Centrality
1	University of Colorado System	403	1	Case Western Reserve University	0.48
2	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	353	2	George Washington University	0.34
3	Harvard University	352	3	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	0.29
4	University of California System	293	4	University of California San Diego	0.27
5	Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education	271	5	Yale University	0.25
6	University of Pittsburgh	231	6	Queen Mary University London	0.24
7	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	231	7	Harvard University	0.22
8	University System of Ohio	230	8	Assistance Publique Hopitaux Paris	0.2
9	National Institutes of Health – United States	230	9	Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC	0.2
10	University of London	206	10	Northwestern University	0.19

Table 5 Top 10 most commonly cited journals in the field of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents

Rank	Journal	Count	JCR Partitions	Rank	Journal	Centrality	JCR Partitions
1	Diabetes Care	351	Q1	1	The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition	0.65	Q1
2	Pediatric Diabetes	293	Q1	2	Diabetes	0.59	Q1
3	Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism	213	Q1	3	American Journal of Medicine	0.56	Q1
4	Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism	166	Q4	4	Lancet	0.5	Q1
5	Diabetologia	155	Q1	5	Journal of the American Dietetic Association	0.46	Q1
6	PLoS One	144	Q2	6	New England Journal of Medicine	0.41	Q1
7	Diabetic Medicine	134	Q2	7	Preventive Medicine	0.28	Q1
8	Nutrients	112	Q1	8	American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology	0.23	Q1
9	Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice	111	Q2	9	Annals of Internal Medicine	0.22	Q1
10	Current Diabetes Reports	105	Q2	10	American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology	0.21	Q1

JCR: Journal Citation Reports.

Table 6 Top five most-cited references in literature related to type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents

Rank	First author	Journal	Year	Citations	TLS
1	Matthews DR	Diabetologia	1985	575	5056
2	Zeitler P	The New England Journal of Medicine	2012	396	6525
3	Knowler WC	The New England Journal of Medicine	2002	393	5296
4	Sinha R	The New England Journal of Medicine	2002	354	6324
5	Cole TJ	British Medical Journal	2000	341	3720

The five most-cited articles are taken from references[12,29-32]. TLS: Total link strength.

Table 7 Top 10 Keywords in the field of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents by frequency of appearance

Rank	Keywords	Occurrences	TLS
1	Children	2859	23174
2	Obesity	2489	21968
3	Adolescents	1952	16891
4	Prevalence	1505	13030
5	Insulin-resistance	1465	12960
6	Mellitus	1296	10322
7	Type 2 diabetes	1275	11416
8	Metabolic syndrome	1242	11545
9	Risk	1173	9567
10	Body-mass index	870	7903

TLS: Total link strength.