Unveiling transplantation research productivity of United States: A bibliometric analysis

Figure 1 Flow chart of the United States transplantation research output and exclusion criteria.

Figure 2 Publication trends in the United States in the field of transplantation, as documented in transplantation journals from 1998 to 2022.

Figure 3 Network visualization showing most cited countries contributed with the United States in the field of transplantation research. A and B: The size of the circles represents the weight of citations.

Figure 4 Cluster map of the most occurring keywords and their interconnection across the years. A: Each circle represents a keyword, and the size of the circles represents the frequency of occurrence. Larger circles indicate that the keyword appears more frequently. Keywords included in the same cluster are displayed in the same color. The distance between the 2 circles shows the degree of the relationship; B: Overlay map of keyword occurrence over time for papers published on the field of transplantation from the United States. The red color represents the key words that have been discussed more frequently.

Figure 5 Network visualization of the most common keyword after restricting the search to organs transplanted name. Larger circles indicate that the keyword appears more frequently. Keywords included in the same cluster are displayed in the same color. The distance between the 2 circles shows the degree of the relationship.