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Yunyun Gao, Danyi Li, Yong-Xin Liu, Microbiome research outlook: past, present, and future, Protein & Cell, 2023, pwad031, https://doi.org/10.1093/procel/pwad031. <script async src="https://badge.dimensions.ai/badge.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
With its critical role in human health and disease, the microbiome has transformed modern biology. Over the past few years, microbiome research has evolved rapidly, with microbiologists gradually shifting their focus from cataloging microorganisms in the human microbiome to understanding their functional roles and how they interact with the host. Here, we present the global trends in microbiome research and summarize the past and current work on microbiome published in Protein & Cell. In closing, we highlight some of the major advancements in microbiome research, including technical, practical, and conceptual advancements, that aim to enhance disease diagnosis, medicine development, and personalized interventions.
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Graphical abstract | Microbiome research has developed unprecedentedly, prompting a question of what is next for future research. In response, we briefly retrospect past themes, present current work published in Protein & Cell, and highlight future perspectives in the field.
Fig. 1 | The trends and growth of microbiome research over the past years.
Fig. 2 | The framework of the current microbiome special issue.
Fig. 3 | Future direction of microbiome research.
Fig. S1 | Microbiome publications in the top 20 countries.
Fig. S2 | Citations of literature published in Protein & Cell microbiome special issues.
Fig. 1b | Tree map indicating the geographical distribution of publications related to microbiome since 1985.
Data were extracted from Web of Science Core Collection database on March 29, 2023.
Fig. 1c | Bar graph displaying the year-over-year growth rate of the five countries with the most microbiome-related publications over the past five years.
Year-over-year growth rate is calculated as follows: (the amount of the year’s publications—the amount of the last-year’s publications)/the amount of the last-year’s publications × 100%.
Fig. 1d | Bubble plot showing the citation indexes of journals citing publications from the first two special issues of Protein & Cell.
Citation index is calculated as follows: the number of citations that a journal has made to the publications × the journal impact factor (IF) in 2021.
Fig. S1a | The number of publications in different countries every year, starting from 2003.
Data were extracted from Web of Science Core Collection database on March 29, 2023.
Fig. S1b | The percentage of publications from different countries in the past five years.
Data were extracted from Web of Science Core Collection database on March 29, 2023.
Fig. S2a | The global distribution of citations of the research published in the first two microbiome-themed special issues of Protein & Cell.
Data were extracted from Web of Science Core Collection database on March 29, 2023.
Prof. Yong-Xin Liu
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Cite: Yunyun Gao, Danyi Li, Yong-Xin Liu, Microbiome research outlook: past, present, and future, Protein & Cell, 2023, pwad031, https://doi.org/10.1093/procel/pwad031.