Global trends of Vaccinia oncolytic virus therapy over the past two decades: Bibliometric and visual analysis.

Background: In recent years, the vaccinia oncolytic virus has entered the clinical trial stage of examination and shown good progress. It has many advantages, such as good safety, high oncolytic efficiency, and the regulation ability of the tumor microenvironment, and is expected to be successfully used in the clinical treatment of tumors in the future. However, no bibliometric analysis has so far been performed that generalizes horizontally across this field.