Fig. 3 Country and institution analysis on antibody mimetics between 1986 and 2022
Notes: Node size represents the number of publications. Node color: average time to appear. The purple circles indicate that these countries have a significant role in the study.

3.4 Journal Analysis

Journal selection is an indicator to reflect the research focus and tendency of antibody mimetics study which is coincide with keywords analysis. A total of 554 journals were retrieved, the most productive journals are Biosensors & Bioelectronics (1146 publications) and Analytical Chemistry (942 publications) (Fig. 4). The most cited journals (Analytical Chemistry , Journal of the American Chemical Society , Nature , Science , PNAS , and Biosensors & Bioelectronics ) have been cited more than 10,000 times. In addition, Journal of Biological Chemistry ,Biochemistry-US , Journal of Molecular Biology ,PNAS , Nature , Science , Acs Sensors , andNature Biotechnology produced a high citation burst, indicating their critical role in the field (Table 2). Interestingly, increasing emerging papers were published on food related journals likeFoods , Food Chemistry , Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization and Microchemical Journal , indicating a new application field exploited. Meanwhile, a growing number of interdisciplinary journals relevant to antibody mimetics studies span biology, chemistry, and physics.