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生物与医学研究中牛磺酸硫醇的现状与未来趋势:文献计量分析

 

Authors Fu Y, Guan H, Yu M, Jiang P, He X, Bao J, Zhang B, Li Y

Received 17 June 2025

Accepted for publication 18 September 2025

Published 26 September 2025 Volume 2025:18 Pages 6127—6149

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S547548

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Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Dr Scott Fraser

Yixian Fu,1 Haiying Guan,2 Mingna Yu,1 Ping Jiang,1 Xiaojun He,1 Jidan Bao,1 Binjie Zhang,3 Yan Li1 

1Department of Clinical Nutrition, Zhoushan Hospital, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Basic Medicine, Shangrao Health Vocational College, Shangrao, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Zhoushan Hospital, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

Correspondence: Binjie Zhang, Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, Zhoushan Hospital, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, 316100, People’s Republic of China, Email zbj668508@163.com Yan Li, Department of Clinical Nutrition, Zhoushan Hospital, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, 316100, People’s Republic of China, Email 13857204154@163.com

Background: Ergothioneine (EGT) is a natural antioxidant with multiple cellular protective properties. Recently, due to the improvement of production efficiency, EGT-related products have been more widely used. This paper studies the present situation of global research trends and hotspots of EGT to better grasp the direction of EGT research in biology and medical.
Methods: We searched for relevant literature on EGT in the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) and SciFinder databases on August 16, 2025. CiteSpace, VOSviewer, Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Excel, Bibliometrix program package and Biorender software are used for statistical analysis and visualisation.
Results: A total of 800 articles were collected. It is found that the average growth rate of EGT’s publications in biology and medicine from 1996 to 2025 was 17.33%. Based on the statistical results by country/region, it is evident that the primary focal areas of research activity within this domain exhibit concentrated distribution across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Among the top ten authors in terms of publication volume, six are from Asia, three are from Poland in Europe, and one is from the United States (USA) in the Americas. The highest H-index ranking author is Halliwell B (169).
Conclusion: Based on the keyword visualisation results, the current research hotspots are mainly divided into three clusters: 1) The absorption, distribution, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant biological molecular mechanisms of EGT in vivo. 2) The impact of EGT’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on various diseases; 3) The source of EGT, the antioxidant potential of edible fungi in vitro, and its influencing factors. At present, research on EGT in biology and medicine mainly focuses on basic theories, so we believe that clinical trial research will become a hot trend in the future.

Keywords: ergothioneine, bibliometric analysis, mushroom, fungi, health