ArticleFrontiers in immunology2024
Global research trends in the tumor microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma: insights based on bibliometric analysis.
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- Global research status and frontiers on ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma: a comprehensive bibliometric and visualized analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Recent trends in lipid metabolism research in liver cancer: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Primary Liver Cancer Imaging: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2026Article
- Personalized translational medicine: Investigating YKL-40 as early biomarker for clinical risk stratification in hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence post-liver transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2025Article
- Research Trends on Nanomaterials and Hepatocellular Carcinoma From 1999 to 2024: A Bibliometric Analysis.Drug design, development and therapy · 2025Article
- Emerging trends of the tumor microenvironment in peritoneal malignancies (2010-2024): a visualization analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to use visual mapping and bibliometric analysis to summarize valuable information on the tumor microenvironment (TME)-related research on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the past 20 years and to identify the research hotspots and trends in this field. Methods: We screened all of the relevant literature on the TME of HCC in the Web of Science database from 2003 to 2023 and analysed the research hotspots and trends in this field via VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Results: A total of 2,157 English studies were collected. According to the prediction, the number of papers that were published in the past three years will be approximately 1,394, accounting for 64.63%. China published the most papers (n=1,525) and had the highest total number of citations (n=32,253). Conclusions: We identified four key areas of focus in the study of the TME in HCC: the main components and roles in the TME, immunotherapy, combination therapy, and the microenvironmental landscape. Moreover, the result of our study indicate that effect of ferroptosis on the TME in HCC may become a future research trend.
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