This study aimed to have a good knowledge of heart failure complicated with malnutrition research status, hotspots, and forecast research trends using bibliometric analysis and visualization of studies of heart failure complicated with malnutrition in the past 10 years.
Articles related to malnutrition-induced heart failure were obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) series from January 2012 to January 2022. Two software (Java CiteSpace 5.8R3 and Microsoft Excel 2019) were used to perform bibliometric and knowledge-map analysis, including analyzing the annual publication and trend of articles, authors and co-cited authors, institutions/countries, co-cited journals, co-occurrence, clusters, and burst of keywords, co-cited references, and reference burst.
A total of 672 articles appeared in 180 scientific journals by 4249 authors from 1453 institutions in 71 countries. Over the past 10 years, the number of related studies released has shown an upward trend, and the range of increases has been larger over the past 5 years. Takatoshi Kasai released the most papers, while Anker S D had the most co-quotes. Simultaneously, active cooperation existed in complicated heart failure with researchers on malnutrition.
This study conducted a full overview of the present research situation, hotspots, and frontiers by using bibliometric and visualization analysis methods in heart failure complicated with malnutrition, which would provide a helpful reference for future research.