Co-cited references
NAFLD, γ=1
Co-cited references represent the degree of relationship between references. VOSviewer was used to find the top 5 references with the most co-citations (Visualization of co-cited literature on the gut-liver axis in NAFLD. The top 5 most co-cited references related to the gut-liver axis in NAFLD.We used CiteSpace to further analyze the co-cited references, parameters were set as follows: time slicing (2004–2022), years per slice (1), node type (cited reference), selection criteria (k=25), and no pruning. As seen in As seen in Burst detection of cited references represents a shift in research focus in a field. In CiteSpace, we set the parameters minimum Duration=2, γ=1, and screened 25 references with the strongest citation bursts, indicating their importance in the gut-liver axis in NAFLD-related fields (