The current status and hotspots of hand-foot-mouth disease in China by co-word analysis

Objective To reveal the current research status and hotspots in the field of hand-foot-mouth disease in China and to provide a reference for relevant personnel to help them understand the development situation and determine the research direction. Methods The Chinese national knowledge infrastracture (CNKI) was searched with “hand-foot-mouth” as the key words. The bibliographic item co-occurren cematrix bulders (Bicomb) software was used to generate key-words matrix and co-occurrence matrix. Cluster analysis and network diagram were made by were made SPSS 20.0 and Ucinet 6.560 software. Results The hotspots in the field of hand-foot-mouth disease in China mainly concentrated in the epidemiology research and clinical analysis of hand-foot-mouth disease, the drug therapy of hand-foot-mouth disease, the prevention and control of complications of hand-foot-mouth disease as well as the combined treatment of traditional Chinese and western medicine for hand-foot-mouth disease. Conclusions The research of hand-foot-mouth disease in China is relatively mature, but there is lack of intensely innovation research and exploration of unknown factors.