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Objective To provide the evidence for cooperation in research on Kashin-Beck disease in China by ana-lyzing the research competence of authors in papers on Kashin-Beck disease and their cooperation .Methods Papers on Kashin-Beck disease were retrieved from 4 commonly used Chinese perodical databases .Key words Information was collected and organized using BICOMS to produce a co-words matrix,atlas of co-words was plotted using NetDraw, the data were analyzed using SPSS 17.0.Results Of the 3454 authors engaged in research of Kashin-Beck disease from 1957 to 2012,81 published 15 or more than 15 papers.Cluster analysis showed that these 81 authors were from Institute of Endemic Diseases,Xi'an Jiaotong University Medical School; Institute of Kashin-Beck Disease,Chinese Center for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control;Jilin No.2 Center for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control;Centers for Disease Prevention and Control of China Academy of Sciences , Henan Province and Gansu Province .Conclusion A large number of researchers are engaged in research of Kashin-Beck disease .Their research interest and charac-teristics are clear.However, the cooperation between different institutions is weak and should be strengthened.
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Objective To reveal the main interests in studies of Kashin-Beck disease by analyzing the key words in Chinese papers on Kashin-Beck disease .Methods Chinese papers on Kashin-Beck disease were retrieved from CNKI, CBM, VIP, and Wanfang digital journal full-text database.A co-word matrix was generated by abstracting their key words which were analyzed by gCLUTO clustering .Results The studies on Kashin-Beck disease were centered on the role of fusarium metabolic toxins and fulvic acid in pathology of Kashin-Beck disease, etiology of Kashin-Beck disease, functional change in Kashin-Beck disease patients, relation between Kashin-Beck disease and geological envi-ronment, monitoring and X-ray diagnosis of Kashin-Beck disease, surgical treatment of Kashin-Beck disease, preven-tion and treatment efficiency analysis of Kashin-Beck disease.Social network figure showed that etiology of Kashin-Beck disease, relation between Kashin-Beck disease and geological environment, monitoring and X-ray diagnosis of Kashin-Beck disease, surgical treatment of Kashin-Beck disease, prevention and treatment efficiency analysis of Kashin-Beck disease were the hot spots in studies of Kashin-Beck disease at present.Conclusion The research subjects determined by co-word clustering analysis are consistent with the interests in studies of Kashin-Beck disease in China at present.