Thematic analysis of multiple sclerosis research by enhanced strategic diagram
Nazlahshaniza Shafina, Che Aishah Nazariah Ismaila, Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, Nurhafizah Ghani, Asma Hayati Ahmad, Zahiruddin Othman, Adi Wijaya, Rahimah Zakaria
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This bibliometric review summarised the research trends and analysed research areas in multiple sclerosis (MS) over the last decade. The documents containing the term "multiple sclerosis" in the article title were retrieved from the Scopus database. We found a total of 18003 articles published in journals in the English language between 2012 and 2021. The emerging keywords identified utilising the enhanced strategic diagram were "covid-19", "teriflunomide", "clinical trial", "microglia", "b cells", "myelin", "brain", "white matter", "functional connectivity", "pain", "employment", "health-related quality of life", "meta-analysis" and "comorbidity". In conclusion, this study demonstrates the tremendous growth of MS literature worldwide, which is expected to grow more than double during the next decade especially in the identified emerging topics.