• Peiling Gan, Shu Huang, Xiao Pan, Huifang Xia, Xinyi Zeng, Wensen Ren, Lei Shi, Muhan Lü, Xian Zhou, and Xiaowei Tang.
• Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Jan 20; 102 (3): e32705e32705.

BackgroundThe rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has attracted worldwide attention. There were also reported gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with COVID-19. This work aims to analyze the global research trends in COVID-19 and digestive disease.MethodsThe related papers on COVID-19 and digestive disease were identified with Pubmed and web of science core collection on September 3, 2021. Bibliometric visualization was conducted through VOSviewer and CiteSpace.ResultsThe analytic research was based on original articles and reviews. There were 997 articles found, with citations ranging from 0 to 878. These articles were distributed among 86 countries and 355 journals. The USA mainly contributed (288 articles), where 3 of the top 10 institutions were located. Followed by China (215 articles) and Italy (160 articles). The highest level of scientific collaboration has been formed between the USA to China. The World Journal of Gastroenterology (39 papers) published the most significant number of articles. Concerning the research topic, the colon/small bowel had the largest number of articles, followed by the liver and pancreaticobiliary. "Liver injury," "inflammatory bowel disease," "management," and "endoscopy" were the hotspot keywords. The largest cluster of liver transplantation had offered hints regarding research frontiers.ConclusionThe analytic results showed that the liver, especially liver transplantation, and inflammatory bowel disease were the 2 most influential research topics in COVID-19 and digestive disease.Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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