Quantitative Analysis of Biosafety Literature Based on CiteSpace
Objective CiteSpace software is used to carry out a visual analysis of the data of national biosafety re-search literature from 1978 to 2023.By analyzing the current status of publications in the field of national biosafety research,publishing institutions,authors and literature keywords,the research status,research hotspots,research frontiers and future trends are understood and the reference and help for follow-up national biosafety research are provided.Methods Based on the literature data sources of CNKI database,CiteSpace software was used to gener-ate and analyze the relevant knowledge map of national biosafety research institutions,authors and literature key-words.Results From 1978 to 2023,a total of 1 688 valid national biosafety research papers were included.The number of national biosafety research papers published annually showed an increasing trend,and the Journal of Chi-nese Frontier Health and Quarantine published the most relevant papers.A total of 608 research institutions partici-pate in national biosafety research,and inter-institutional cooperation and exchange are less,and the overall is rela-tively scattered.A total of 829 authors participated in the national biosafety research.There were few cooperative lines and low cooperative network density among authors,and most of them were independent studies,lacking mu-tual cooperation.Key words such as invasive alien plants,risk assessment,biosecurity,customs,biosecurity law and biosecurity are the latest research frontiers in the field of biosecurity.Conclusion The national basic research and development plan and major epidemic situation are the key factors to promote national biosafety research.Research institutions in China should further exchange and cooperate with each other to establish cooperation network and en-hance the density of cooperation network.Scholars from different institutions and different fields should strengthen exchanges and cooperation,and constantly innovate research results in the field of national biosafety research.Key-words such as risk assessment,inspection and quarantine and animal and plant quarantine have a relatively low fre-quency in the key keyword groups of high importance,indicating that although these keywords play an important role in the whole knowledge network graph,they have received little attention and deserve more research attention.