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Research Article: Inherited Metabolic Diseases from Past to Present: A Bibliometric Analysis (1968–2023)

Date Published: 2023-07-12

Abstract:
Bibliometric studies on inherited metabolic diseases (IMDs) do not exist in the literature. Therefore, our research aims to conduct a bibliometric study to determine the current status, trending topics, and missing points of publications on IMDs. Between 1968 and 2023, we conducted a literature search with the keyword “inherited metabolic disease” in the SCOPUS database. We included research articles in medicine written in English and published in the final section. We created our data pool using VOSviewer, SciMAT, and Rstudio software programs for the bibliometric parameters of the articles that met the inclusion criteria. We performed a bibliometric analysis of the data with the R package “bibliometrix” and BibExcel programs. We included 2702 research articles published on IMDs. The top three countries that have written the most articles in this field are the USA (n = 501), the United Kingdom (n = 182), and China (n = 172). The most preferred keywords by the authors were: newborn screening (n = 54), mutation (n = 43), phenylketonuria (n = 42), children (n = 35), genetics (n = 34), and maple syrup urine disease (n = 32). Trending topics were osteoporosis, computed tomography, bone marrow transplantation in the early years of the study, chronic kidney disease, urea cycle disorders, next-generation sequencing, newborn screening, and familial hypercholesterolemia in the final years of the study. This study provides clinicians with a new perspective, showing that molecular and genetic studies of inherited metabolic diseases will play an essential role in diagnosis and treatment in the future.

Introduction:
Inherited metabolic diseases are rare diseases caused by a genetic mutation and have unique biochemical, clinical, and pathophysiological consequences depending on the specific biochemical pathway affected [1,2]. Clinicians have become more knowledgeable in recent years about the pathophysiology, early diagnosis, and treatment of inherited metabolic diseases because of advances in genetics and biochemistry [3,4,5]. Early diagnosis and treatment’s positive contribution by the recently increasing number of studies…

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