Hot topics in the international studies on the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis / 中华风湿病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the published articles on the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and catch the recent research hot topics.Methods Literature searching on the etiology of RA was conducted through PubMed database of US Congress Library of Medicine published in past five years.Bibliographic Item CO-Occurrence Matrix Builder (BICOMB) to bibliometric analysis and statistical product and service solutions (SPSS) 19.0 were used for cluster analysis and plotting strategic coordinate figure.Results Four research hot topics were identified by analyzing the keywords:① Therapeutic and adverse effects of antirheumatic agents;② Genetics and complications of RA;③ Immunity of autoantigens and autoantibodies in RA;④ Immune cells and microRNAs in RA.Conclusion Researches on RA etiology have developed steadily,with different current status and developing tendency,which provides reference for related studies.