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Record W4410213013 · doi:10.1007/s42452-025-06969-4

Visualising and analysing the research trends of dietary fiber: a bibliometric study

2025· article· en· W4410213013 on OpenAlex
Xiaoli Bai, Li Huang, Yi He

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueDiscover Applied Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicFood composition and properties
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBibliometricsRegional scienceData scienceGeographyComputer scienceLibrary science

Abstract

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Abstract The increasing recognition of dietary fiber’s health benefits has driven extensive research in this area. However, with the growing volume of studies, tracking emerging trends and identifying key research directions can be challenging. This study employs CiteSpace and bibliometric analysis to examine 21,434 articles from the Web of Science database, providing a comprehensive overview of dietary fiber research from 2010 to 2024. Major outcomes reveal that research in dietary fiber has shown a steady upward trend, particularly in the last five years, with China and the United States contributing the most publications. Canada, however, exhibits the highest centrality in global cooperation. The analysis identifies Nutrients , Foods , and Food Chemistry as the top journals publishing dietary fiber research. Prolific authors, such as Gidley and Zhang, along with leading institutions like the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and the United States Department of Agriculture, are highlighted. Keyword co-occurrence analysis reveals research hotspots, including the functional characteristics of dietary fiber, its relationship with intestinal health, and its application in functional foods. Emerging trends focus on the development of new dietary fibers, interaction mechanisms with intestinal flora, and the role of dietary fiber in chronic disease prevention. These insights offer valuable guidance for future research directions and practical applications in nutrition and health-related industries.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics
Consensus categoriesBibliometrics
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.907
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0130.065
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.122
GPT teacher head0.427
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it