Data analysis
NAFLD
This study conducted visual analysis on data with Microsoft Excel 2021, VOSviewer1.6.18 and CiteSpace6.1. R3.We analyzed the number of annual publications, the H indexes of countries and authors, the number of co-citations, etc. In all retrieved articles, we found one with publication time of 2023, it was incorporated into 2022 analysis to facilitate data process. VOSviewer and CiteSpace was used to realize the visual analysis of distribution of the countries/regions, authors and co-cited authors, institutions, journals and co-cited journals, co-cited references, and keywords. For the keywords and co-cited references, we then performed clustering and burst detection. The clustering labels refer to the three algorithms provided in the Citespace software, including log-likelihood ratio (LLR), latent semantic indexing (LSI), and mutual information (MI) (Flow chart for the analysis of the gut-liver axis in NAFLD researches.