Bibliometric analysis of publication trends and topics of influenza‐related encephalopathy from 2000 to 2022

Abstract Background Influenza‐related encephalopathy is a rapidly progressive that usually presents during the early phase of influenza infection and primarily manifests as central nervous system dysfunction. This study aimed to analyze current research status hotspots influenza‐related since 2000 through bibliometrics analysis. Methods The Web Science Core Collection (WOSCC) was used extract global papers on from 2022. Meanwhile, VOSviewer CiteSpace software were for data processing result visualization. Results A total 561 published articles included in study. Japan country most articles, with 205 followed by United States China. Okayama University Tokyo Medical Nagoya University, Juntendo University. Based analysis keywords, four clusters different directions identified: “Prevalence H1N1 virus occurrence neurological complications age groups,” “mechanism brain response after infection,” “various acute encephalopathy” “diagnostic indicators encephalopathy.” Conclusions progress, hotspots, frontiers described visualization bibliometrics. findings will lay groundwork future studies provide reference encephalopathy. Research basically at stable stage, number results related outbreaks virus.