This Bibliometric Analysis section examines the scientific literature on creatine, analyzing publication patterns, citation networks, and author contributions. This section highlights the most influential studies, offering insights into the intellectual structure of creatine research.
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Network of “Bibliographic coupling of authors” with the highest relevance in the creatine research
Searches in Scopus with the term “creatine” only in the title. Order of article results: relevance. Results: 12,000. Articles collected for analysis: all results. Minimum number of documents per author: 15; Minimum citations per author: 100; Database cleaning: yes; Node size: number of co-occurrences of authors in the articles.
Network map of co-authorship of countries with the highest relevance in the creatine research
Searches in Scopus with the term “creatine” only in the title. Order of article results: relevance. Results: 12,000. Articles collected for analysis: all results. General overview of which countries have had the highest scientific production in research lines related to creatine. Node size: number of articles per country.
Minimum number of documents per country: 5
Database cleaning: no
Network of co-occurrence of authors’ keywords”.
Searches in Scopus with the term “creatine” only in the title, abstract, and keywords. Order of article results: highest number of citations. Results: >20,000. Articles collected for analysis: 20,000 (maximum number of articles allowed for export). This allows understanding which areas have had the greatest impact and depth in research on creatine and/or the creatine kinase. Node size: number of co-occurrences of authors’ keywords in articles. Minimum number of co-occurrences of included authors’ keywords: 40
Network of “co-authorship of authors” with the highest altmetric over the last 10 years.
Searches in Dimensions with the term “creatine” only in the title, abstract, and keywords. This allows linking the contributions of the most influential authors in the last decade based on alternative (altmetric) and traditional measures (number of publications). Node size: number of articles per author (in the last 10 years). Order of article results: highest altmetric attention score. Filter: articles and last 5 years. Results: 11,454. Articles collected for analysis: 2,500 (maximum number of articles allowed for export). Minimum number of articles per included author: 5.
Bibliographic Enrichment – Connected Papers
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The seed node reference is “Creatine in Health and Disease” by Kreider, R. B., & Stout, J. R. This article was chosen because it is a comprehensive summary of creatine and its different potential effects throughout the life cycle.
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The seed node reference is “Intracellular compartmentation, structure and function of creatine kinase isoenzymes in tissues with high and fluctuating energy demands: the ‘phosphocreatine circuit’ for cellular energy homeostasis” by Wallimann, T., Wyss, M., Brdiczka, D., Nicolay, K., & Eppenberger, H. M. This article was chosen because it has had the greatest impact in terms of citations within the creatine research.