Recent trends on the stent research for blood arteries by bibliometric analysis.
The research trends on stent for blood arteries are reviewed by bibliometric analysis using 7,790 journal articles published from 1986 to 2013 of the Web of Science database. The bibliometric indicators are applied to analyze the journal article data, which are simple number of publications for selecting key players, citation indicators for measuring qualitative research performance, collaboration indicators for figuring out the degree of international collaboration and keyword mapping for identifying the research trends. The studies of stent for blood arteries are investigated on the basis of the analysis by countries, institutions and topic changing. The leading countries and institutions published many high-quality journal articles with strong international collaboration. In this report, the current status and future of research trends are clearly revealed from the periodic topic changing analysis. The keywords such as 'drug eluting stent', 'stent coated with new polymers' and 'drug delivery systems' have come into the recent stent-related research, which means lots of efforts are under way to overcome the present limitations of the research.
Technology Information Analysis Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 66 Hoegi-ro, Seoul, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-741 Korea.
Sejung
S
Ahn
Department of Life Science, College of Biosystems, Dongguk University, Seoul, 100-715 Korea.
Jung-Suk
JS
Sung
Noanix Corporation, 711 Sejung TechnoValley, 134 Gongdanro, Hoengdeok-gu, Chungju-si, Chungbuk, 361-290 Korea.
Brad
B
Choi
ReSEAT, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 66 Hoegi-ro, Seoul, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-741 Korea.
Hackjoo
H
Kim
ReSEAT, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 66 Hoegi-ro, Seoul, Dongdaemun-gu, 130-741 Korea.
Yong Kiel
YK
Sung
Biomaterials; Blood artery; Blood coagulation; Drug-eluting stent; Stent