Main text 13 Bibliometric are increasingly used to map global research trends and methodological 14 developments. Yang et al. (2023) recently published a bibliometric analysis entitled "Global research 15 on the crosstalk between intestinal microbiome and colorectal cancer: A visualization analysis" in 16Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. In their study, the authors constructed the dataset 17 using searches conducted within the title (TI), abstract (AB), and author keywords (AK) fields of the 18Science Citation Index Expanded.
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