Jintong Wu, Zijie Tang, Su Wang, Yuxin Qiu, Xinyu Nie, Chengxin Li, Rui Wang
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Abstract
Superficial mycosis is a common and recurrent infectious skin disease. It poses significant challenges, with high recurrence rates and drug resistance, which notably diminishes the quality of life for patients and presents substantial public health issues. Numerous publications on superficial mycosis have posed significant challenges for researchers to manage the overwhelming amount of information effectively. This study aims to comprehensively explore the current state and latest advancements in global research through bibliometric techniques, providing a holistic appraisal of the field. Publications from the Web of Science Core Collection database were analyzed, including publications and citations, author groups and their countries and regions, journal categories, publishing institutions, and keywords using Excel 2019, VOSviewer, and CiteSpace. A total of 2206 papers were reviewed, showing a stable increase in research output from 2020 to 2022 and a predicted growth trend. The United States and India published the most significant number of research papers. Key research areas identified were "Outbreak", "Desorption ionization time", "Formulations", "Impact", "Dermatophyte", and "Dermoscopy". This bibliometric analysis provides a comprehensive visualized map to describe current and development trends. Advanced diagnostic technologies and innovative delivery systems are key current research priorities and will remain focal areas in this field.
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Mycopathologia is an official journal of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS). Mycopathologia was founded in 1938 with the mission to ‘diffuse the understanding of fungal diseases in man and animals among mycologists’. Many of the milestones discoveries in the field of medical mycology have been communicated through the pages of this journal. Mycopathologia covers a diverse, interdisciplinary range of topics that is unique in breadth and depth. The journal publishes peer-reviewed, original articles highlighting important developments concerning medically important fungi and fungal diseases. The journal highlights important developments in fungal systematics and taxonomy, laboratory diagnosis of fungal infections, antifungal drugs, clinical presentation and treatment, and epidemiology of fungal diseases globally. Timely opinion articles, mini-reviews, and other communications are usually invited at the discretion of the editorial board. Unique case reports highlighting unprecedented progress in the diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections, are published in every issue of the journal. MycopathologiaIMAGE is another regular feature for a brief clinical report of potential interest to a mixed audience of physicians and laboratory scientists. MycopathologiaGENOME is designed for the rapid publication of new genomes of human and animal pathogenic fungi using a checklist-based, standardized format.