Rare disease publishing trends worldwide and in China: A CiteSpace-based bibliometric study.

This study aimed to understand research trends, determine frontier topics, and explore the developments in and the differences between research conducted in China and the rest of the world. We analyzed the research status of rare diseases in China and globally over the past decade using bibliometric methods. We focused on rare disease literature indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases from January 2013 to December 2023.