Visualising and analysing the research trends of dietary fiber: a bibliometric study
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
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 imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.013 | 0.065 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it