Trends in parthenolide research over the past two decades: A bibliometric analysis

Parthenolide (PTL) is a new compound extracted from traditional Chinese medicine. In recent years, it has been proven to play an undeniable role in tumors, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory diseases. Similarly, increasing number of experiments have also confirmed the biological mechanism PTL these order better understand development trend potential hot spots cancer other we conducted detailed bibliometric analysis. The purpose presenting this analysis was highlight inform researchers important research directions, co-occurrence relationships status field. Publications related 2002 2022 were on web science core collection (WoSCC) platform. CiteSpace, VOSviewers R package “bibliometrix” applied build relevant network diagrams. presented terms performance (including publication statistics, top publishing countries, institutions, journals co-cited journals, authors authors, references citation bursts keyword statistics topic statistics) mapping citations by country, institution, journal, author, co-citation analysis, co-occurrence). discussion results explained focus latest trends Finally, current shortcomings field PTLwere clearly pointed out for reference scholars.