Bibliometric analysis of human microbiota-associated animal model (2005–2025)

BackgroundThe research on human microbiota-associated (HMA) animal models is an important tool for studying the human microbiome and holds great potential for elucidating disease mechanisms and microbe-based therapeutic interactions. However, a systematic bibliometric assessment of this field has been limited.MethodsThis study employed bibliometric methods, retrieving relevant publications published between 2005 and 2025 from the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and PubMed, and visualizin