

Mennan C, Brown S, McCarthy H, Mavrogonatou E, Kletsas D, Garcia J, Balain B, Richardson J, Roberts S. Human bone marrow-derived and umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells for alleviating neuropathic pain in a spinal cord injury model. Yousefifard M, Nasirinezhad F, Shardi Manaheji H, Janzadeh A, Hosseini M, Keshavarz M. Unveiling the differences of secretome of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, adipose tissue-derived stem cells, and human umbilical cord perivascular cells: a proteomic analysis. Pires AO, Mendes-Pinheiro B, Teixeira FG, Anjo SI, Ribeiro-Samy S, Gomes ED, Serra SC, Silva NA, Manadas B, Sousa N, Salgado AJ. HucMSC-exosome mediated-Wnt4 signaling is required for cutaneous wound healing. Zhang B, Wang M, Gong A, Zhang X, Wu X, Zhu Y, Shi H, Wu L, Zhu W, Qian H, Xu W. Furthermore, funding agencies might increase investments in exploring the therapeutic potential of UC-MSCs.īibliometric Citation H-index Hotspots UC-MSC. Attention should be drawn to the latest hotspots, such as "TNF-α", "migration", "angiogenesis", and "apoptosis". The focus gradually shifts from "characteristics" to "treatments and effects". We conclude that the number of publications has been continuously growing dramatically since 2002 and that mainland China and South Korea are the most productive regions. For promising hotspots, "TNF-α" showed the latest AAY at 2014.09, followed by "migration", "angiogenesis", and "apoptosis". The average appearing years (AAY) of keywords in cluster 1 was more recent than that in cluster 2. Keywords were stratified into two clusters by VOSviewer software: cluster 1, "treatments and effects" and cluster 2, "characteristics". South Korea ranked first for number of papers per million people and per trillion gross domestic product (GDP). Mainland China contributed the most with 558 papers, with the most citations (6858 times) and the highest H-index (43). With 21.26 citations per paper, 1206 papers cited 25,517 times were included.

Comparative analyses were employed to assess contributions between different countries, institutes, and researchers. Statistical analyses were performed using Excel, GraphPad Prism 5, and VOSviewer software. Publications on UC-MSCs were retrieved from the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) of the Web of Science (WoS) from 1975 to 2017. Therefore, this study aimed to assess scientific activity regarding UC-MSC research. However, there has been no bibliometric analysis evaluating the evolution in UC-MSC research. Several studies have focused on umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) due to their potential therapeutic effects in a cluster of diseases.
