Research on the ethics of assisted reproductive technology——based on CiteSpace literature visualization analysis
Objective To explore the research hotspots,current status and developmental trend of assisted reproduc-tive technology by visualizing and analyzing the ethical issues based on CiteSpace.Methods By searching the China National Knowledge Infrastructure,Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform,China Science and Technology Journal Database,China Biomedical Literature System,and Chinese Medical Journal Full Text Database for 1132 articles of ART-related ethical issues between 1995 and 2022.CiteSpace 5.5.R2 was used to conduct visual analysis of collaborative networks,keywords,and co-citation of the literature,and to draw a visualization map.Results The research hotspots of ART-related ethical issues are surrogacy,frozen embryo attribution,gene editing and other topics.The inter-author and inter-institutional collaborations of high publication literature is few at home.Administrative and law regulations to manage ART-related ethical issues is the di-rection of future development in this field.