Ethical review was not required for this study, because all the original data used here were from public databases and secondary literature analysis was performed on the data.

The Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) is the source of all data in this study since it is widely acknowledged as the most complete and high-quality digital literature database, as well as the most authoritative bibliometric analysis database. We combed through the WOSCC database from 1999 to 2022, and used “Cerebral Revascularization” (subject) or “Extracranial-Intracranial Arterial Bypass” (subject) or “Cerebral Microsurgical Revascularization” (subject) or “EC-IC Arterial Bypass” (subject) or “Bypass, STA-MCA” (subject) as the search phrase to retrieve relevant articles. English is only allowed as a search language. Eventually, 996 papers were retrieved in total, including 769 articles, 90 reviews, 14 conference papers, 57 editorial materials, 42 conference abstracts, 18 letters, 2 revisions, and 4 online publications. We restricted the scope of literature categories to papers and reviews, resulting in the collection of 859 papers. Two researchers examined 859 articles manually. In the event of a dispute, the third researcher has final say. In the end, five duplicate articles and zero invalid articles were removed, resulting in 854 articles. The specific flowchart is illustrated in Figure 1.

This study uses Microsoft Office 365, CiteSpace (v.6.1. R2), and VOSviewer (v.1.6.18) to conduct bibliometric and visual analysis of all data.

Use VOSviewer (v.1.6.18) to do bibliometric analysis on countries/regions, institutions, journals, authors, keywords, and references and build visual maps. Each node on the map indicates the respective country/region, institution, journal, author, keyword, and citation. The line between the nodes represents the relationship of collaboration. CiteSpace (v.6.1. R2) is utilized to construct a two-sided map coverage analysis of countries/regions, institutions, authors, key phrases, co-introduction references, and co-introduction journals. In the map, the size of nodes is proportional to the number of references, and the thickness of lines between nodes shows the strength of collaboration (Ma et al., 2020). CiteSpace (v.6.1. R2) software parameter settings are as follows: Time Slicing: From 1999 Sep to 2022 Sep, #Year Per Slice (1); Text Processing: Term Source includes Title, Abstract, Author Keywords (DE), and Keywords Plus (ID); Term Type, Links and Selection Criteria; Node Type: Author, Institution, Country, Term, Keyword, Source, Category, Reference, Cited Author, and Cited Journal; Pruning includes: Pathfinder, Pruning Sliced networks, Minimum Spanning Tree, and Pruning the merged network.

We deleted five duplicate items through manual screening. A search of the WOSCC database from 1999 to 2022 yielded a total of 854 articles related to cerebral revascularization. In addition, the quantitative analysis incorporated 46 nations, 482 institutions, and 689 scholars. The types of publications included are as follows: Figure 2A indicates that there were 769 papers, 90 reviews, 14 conference papers, 57 editorial materials, 42 conference abstracts, 18 letters, 2 revisions, and 4 online publications.

As shown in Figure 2B, we also analyzed the number of global publications on cerebral revascularization published annually. In general, the number of publications in this research field has increased. Especially since 2008, the number of publications in the field of cerebral revascularization has increased rapidly, with less fluctuations and an average of 40 to 50 publications from 2013 to 2022. Furthermore, it is evident that the low volume of research before 2008 may have been limited by various factors, such as insufficient equipment, immature personnel skills, and underdeveloped information technology. With the continuous development of science and technology, the number of studies in this field is increasing, which also highlights the current global medical field has been vigorously promoted by science and technology. At the same time, the development of cerebral revascularization has gradually attracted the attention of the public, and it has become a new direction in the field of neurology.

By analyzing the original data, it was found that 482 institutions from 46 countries contributed content on cerebral revascularization. The United States has published the most publications (339), followed by Japan (173), China (99), Germany (56), South Korea (48), and Switzerland (38 articles) (Figure 3A and Table 1). It is not difficult to find that in the ranking of publishing countries, most are developed countries, especially dominated by the United States, with earlier scientific and technological development than other countries. However, as a big developing country, China is now close to the top three in the world in this field, which also shows that China has injected fresh blood into the research of cerebral revascularization and is the main country to promote the development of this field. The United States has the greatest central position, with a central threshold of 0.99, indicating a clear edge in terms of national collaboration and national influence (Table 2). Japan (0.19), the United Kingdom (0.15), Germany (0.12), Switzerland (0.11), Canada (0.1), and France (0.1) also have a prominent central position. Even though the document outputs of China and South Korea are among the top five in the world, there is no apparent advantage in the central position, with 0.09 and 0.05, respectively. This also demonstrates that a number of Asian nations continue to have deficiencies in national collaboration and national influence, but we cannot disregard their contributions to cerebral revascularization research. Of course, another important reason for China’s low index of national cooperation and national influence is the resource blockade and the isolation of cutting-edge technological talents in most capitalist countries. Therefore, we believe that national ideological differences cannot be applied to the cause of human health. China and the United States should uphold the spirit of cooperation, strengthen exchanges between various disciplines and the cultivation of talents, and jointly promote the forward development of the field of cerebral revascularization, and even the development of multidisciplinary fields.

In the distribution of national institutions (Figure 3B and Table 3), we found that the University of California, San Francisco, United States has the most articles (28), followed by Stanford University in California, United States (23), Capital Medical University of China (20), St. Joseph’s Hospital in Los Angeles, United States (18), the University of Southern California, United States (16), Northeastern University of Japan (15), and Barrow Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (15). As expected, the major institutions and universities in the United States enjoy a distinct edge in terms of the number of documents granted. It reveals that the United States is the global leader in cerebral revascularization research. At the same time, in this field of research, the strength of Asian countries should not be underestimated, especially the major institutions and universities in China and Japan, which started late but developed rapidly and are the backbone of the field of cerebral revascularization. In addition, in the process of global economic integration, we should also call for close cooperation between institutions and universities in the field of cerebral revascularization for the sake of human health.

Michael T. Lawton were the most productive authors, followed by Peter Vajkoczy, Ali Tayebi Meybodi, Gary K. Steinberg, and Jonathan J. Russin (Figure 4 and Table 4). It is not difficult to determine that Michael T. Lawton not only published the most works in the field of cerebral revascularization, but also collaborated the most closely. Figure 5A depicts a study of the author’s network of collaboration. Clusters of various hues represent organizations that work closely together. In the red cluster, Michael T. Lawton, Ali Tayebi Meybodi, and Arnau Benet are all from the United States, and the quantity of their papers accounts for the top 10 papers published overall. Michael T. Lawton and Arnau Benet are from the Department of Neurosurgery, St. Joseph’s Hospital, USA, and have a high level of collaboration in cerebral revascularization, with most of their articles published in Surgical Neurosurgery and World Neurosurgery (Gandhi et al., 2019; Hendricks et al., 2022). Peter Vajkoczy and Jan karl Burkhardt located in the yellow cluster are from Benevolence University Berlin and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, who are closely associated in implantation of intracranial stents and angioplasty (Dengler, 2015; Lenga et al., 2019). Robert F. Spetzler and Laligam N. Sekhar of St. Joseph’s Hospital and the University of Washington, respectively, conduct cutting-edge research in the field of neurology intracranial aneurysms and are represented in the green cluster (Sekhar et al., 2018; Spetzler et al., 2019). Luca Regli and Fady T. Charbel are distinguished researchers in their respective specialties inside the blue and purple clusters, respectively. In the study of cerebral bypass surgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations and intracranial aneurysms, they are closely related (Stapleton and Charbel, 2019; Staartjes et al., 2021). It is undeniable that most of the highly productive scholars in the field of cerebral revascularization are from American universities and research institutions, and they are more mature in the development and clinical operation of related technologies. Of course, this is also due to the country’s economic strength and the influence of science and technology. Therefore, the boundaries between scientific research should be abandoned, and scholars in the field of cerebral revascularization should be encouraged to strengthen the communication at the technical level.

Author co-citation analysis is to determine the distance of research interest among authors by analyzing the frequency of papers published by different authors and simultaneously cited by authors of other papers. Using the VOSviewer software, we analyzed the top 10 most co-referenced and cited authors once again (Figure 5B and Table 4). 19 writers have had their works referenced more than 100 times, reflecting the high scientific value and international significance of their research. M. Fujimura, S. Kuroda, and a number of other researchers improved the prognosis of adult moyamoya disease by unblocking the STA-MCA bypass (Fujimura and Tominaga, 2015; Kuroda, 2020), primarily through middle cerebral artery anastomosis, thereby decreasing persistent intracranial angiogenic edema. In the green cluster, In. Sekhar and Tm. Sundt et al. successfully addressed the long-term prognosis of patients with skull base tumors and intracranial aneurysms by performing high-flow bypass surgery and aneurysm blocking of middle cerebral artery branch blood flow (Hage, 2019; Samadashvili et al., 2019). In addition, they examined research on cerebral revascularization for the treatment of ischemia, aneurysms and malignancies of the skull base. Within the blue cluster, Hjm. Barnett and S. Amin Hanjani utilized the superficial temporal artery (STA) as the primary donor channel for extracranial intracranial bypass surgery. It is stated that cerebral blood supply repair should be avoided in the case of subarachnoid hemorrhage after describing the pros and cons of these procedures (Zhang et al., 2002; Hage et al., 2015). Of course, the authors’ co-citation analysis can clearly reflect the closeness of their research directions and reveal their respective or co-representative research fields and research frontiers. Therefore, for research in the field of cerebral revascularization, we should advocate close communication between high co-citation authors, which can not only promote the maturity of research techniques in this field, but also stimulate more cutting-edge innovations. At the same time, this direct academic exchange between authors can further provide new therapeutic strategies for ischemic cerebrovascular diseases, thus making a significant contribution to the development of neurology.

The researchers have published papers on 169 journals, and we list the top 10 journals (Table 5). Among these journals, 12 journals published at least 15 articles related to cerebral revascularization. World Neurosurgery is the journal with the highest number of articles related to cerebral revascularization (111 articles), followed by Journal of Neurosurgery (72), Neurosurgery (71), Acta Neurochirurgica (49), and Stroke (29). After analyzing the data, around 50% of the publications are from the top 10 journals. The average impact factor (IF) of the top 10 journals is 3.80, and the average H-index is 130.1. Approximately 70% of these journals are published in the United States. A total of 39 journals have been cited more than 100 times. Co-citation analysis of journals is an organic way of linking a large number of various journals that are not externally connected, revealing the interdependence and interaction between journals. This feature can be used to determine the professional scope of certain journals and to help identify the core academic journals in a discipline. In Figures 6A, B, the top three journals jointly cited are Stroke, Neurosurgery, and Journal of Neurosurgery, which have been cited more than 8,000 times in total, and are also the three most distinguished journals in the field of neurosurgery. In addition, the analysis of the core journals in this field will help us more accurately grasp the main publication carriers in the field of cerebral revascularization. This will enable the general public or researchers in other disciplines to quickly grasp the first-hand information in the field of cerebral revascularization. This is of great significance for the development of the discipline and the integration of multidisciplinary exchanges.

A limited number of keywords can clearly describe the information about the main research objects, research questions, use of methods and research conclusion of scientific research achievements, and can reflect the research topics of scientific research achievements to a certain extent. As illustrated in Figure 7A and Table 6, the Citespace analysis reveals that 28 keywords appear more than 40 times. The top five of them are “cerebral revascularization,” “moyamoya disease,” “surgery,” “extracranial intracranial bypass,” and “occlusion.” “internal carotid artery” appears 86 times as the keyword with the most centrality, followed by “occlusion,” “revascularization,” “blood flow” and “stroke.” In Figure 7B, the keywords are essentially categorized into three distinct groups: red, blue, and green. The most important keywords in the red cluster are “cerebral revascularization,” “surgery,” “occlusion,” and “bypass.” This cluster focuses mostly on various surgical application approaches for cerebral revascularization. The most important keywords in the blue cluster are “revascularization,” “moyamoya disease,” and “disease.” By a comprehensive literature review, it is discovered that neurosurgical treatment of moyamoya disease is an effective method for curing the disease (Jang et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2017). The majority of the disease occurs at the end of the internal carotid artery, which is also the cerebral blood supply’s hub. Consequently, surgical treatment can restore cerebral blood circulation and slow the progression of the condition. The most important keywords in the green cluster are “extracranial intracranial bypass,” “stroke,” and “sta-mca bypass.” Extracranial intracranial bypass is an established surgical technique for cerebral revascularization, whose objective is to improve distal cerebral circulation, hence minimizing the damage caused by cerebral stroke (Thanapal et al., 2018). Although the construction of bypass necessitates the temporary blockage of receptor arteries, proper perioperative management reduces the risk of intraoperative cerebral ischemia associated with temporary vascular occlusion (Horn et al., 2008).

Figures 8A, B depict the time zone view and timeline view of keywords, respectively. Table 7 displays the first nine clusters of related high-frequency words. The terms “moyamoya disease,” “Pial synangiosis,” “angioplasty,” “cerebral blood flow,” and “stroke-acute” appear in a number of articles pertaining to cerebral revascularization and also appear in big clusters in our computer analysis. Moyamoya disease is currently the main disease studied by numerous researchers in the field of cerebral revascularization (Fujimura et al., 2016). Pial synangiosis is a safe and long-lasting approach of cerebral revascularization, which is a viable treatment for adult moyamoya disease (Jecko et al., 2016). Angioplasty can enhance the blood flow of the external carotid artery (ECA), which includes the STA, and improve the cerebral blood flow of patients with cerebral vascular disease or cerebral vascular reconstruction failure treated by STA-MCA bypass (Leung et al., 2016). These investigations are based on the reconstruction of cerebral blood circulation, and neurosurgery is used to augment cerebral blood supply, which significantly improves the short-term effectiveness and long-term prognosis of stroke patients. Through keyword clustering analysis, we can accurately grasp the trend fluctuation of the importance of various keywords, and find out the attention status and trend of the topics reflected by these keywords in the current scientific research work, so that scholars can analyze and study the related topics again, which is conducive to highlighting key topics and grasping key research problems.

Keywords burst can accurately reflect the new trend of research in this field in a period of time. The weight of major keywords is analyzed according to the order of keywords given in the literature and transformed into time series data to study the correlation between keywords from the perspective of time change, which provides a feature description method with similar distribution rule for scientific research topic analysis. Table 8 lists, in chronological order, the top 25 terms with the greatest citation growth. The intensity of the bursts reflects the intensity of oscillations in keyword frequency over this period. From 1999 to 2008, “internal carotid artery” and “giant aneurysm” were the top two keywords, while from 2009 to 2022, the top two keywords changed into “hyperperfusion” and “vascular disorder.” In contrast, the bursts of phrases such as “blood flow reactivity,” “acetazolamide test,” “surgical revascularization,” “indirect bypass,” and “synangiosis” were very brief. Therefore, these are likely the most pertinent phrases in the field of cerebrovascular disease at various times.

In summary, we believe that the analysis of keywords in various disciplines should be done from the perspective of data mining and time series. According to the importance and centrality size of keywords in scientific achievements, the popularity of keywords is studied from two perspectives: numerical value and trend, respectively. This can provide decision-making techniques and solutions for problems related to the research field. In the field of cerebral revascularization, we should first focus on the major diseases “moyamoya disease,” “Pial synangiosis” and “stroke-acute.” Secondly, we should be proficient in the operation of cerebral revascularization techniques such as “extracranial intracranial bypass,” “angioplasty,” and “microvascular anastomosis.” In addition, the new direction of future research based on “hyperperfusion” and “vascular disorder” can provide a theoretical basis for in-depth research in the field of cerebral revascularization.

With the advancement of science and technology, it has become increasingly difficult to find the information most relevant to a scholar’s research from the vast amount of data. With the development of scientometrics, citation information is often listed in literature searches, so as to improve the efficiency of literature retrieval. 134 articles and 42 references were cited more than 30 times using VOSviewer analysis. The assessment of cited papers and co-cited references pertinent to investigations on cerebral revascularization is depicted in Figures 9A, B. William E. Boden, Satoshi Kuroda, and RM. Scott are the authors most frequently cited by academia (Table 9). The article “Niacin in Patients with Low HDL Cholesterol Levels Receiving Intensive Statin Therapy” written by William E. Boden was published in New England Journal of Medicine in 2011 and has been cited 1,925 times. Random assignment was used to assign 3,414 people to the niacin therapy group or the placebo group. Each day, the niacin group received at least 1,500 cc of niacin with delayed release. After 3 years of follow-up, the trial was terminated due to lack of efficacy. However, after 2 years of statistical analysis, it was determined that niacin could improve the risk index of atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, enhance the effect of cerebral revascularization, and reduce the mortality of cerebrovascular disease (Investigators et al., 2011). In addition, Japanese researcher Satosh Kuroda noted in a 2008 Lancet Neurology article titled “Moyamoya disease: current concepts and future perspectives” that extracranial intracranial artery bypass surgery includes anastomosis and indirect bypass between the STA and the middle cerebral artery (Kuroda and Houkin, 2008), which can help prevent further ischemic attacks and restore cerebral blood circulation (Miyamoto et al., 2014). In addition, research on cerebral revascularization is always evolving, and the works of these researchers are regularly acknowledged. Four of the top 10 most-cited literature were published in Stroke, while two were published in the two most-respected journals in the field of cerebral revascularization: New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet Neurology. At the same time, we should pay attention to the role of cited literature in the field of cerebral revascularization. These literature are scientific achievements with significant research prospects in this field. In addition, we should dig deeper into the co-citation links of the scientific literature, which can not only describe the current research status of the discipline, but also trace the dynamic development process of the discipline.

In this study, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of the literature related to cerebral revascularization over a 20-year period and included 854 publications in the WOSCC database. The results indicate that research in the field of cerebral revascularization has increased significantly since 2008, and the number of published publications has stabilized since 2013, remaining between 40 and 50 each year. The United States has the biggest output and proportion in the field of cerebral revascularization, followed by Japan and China, according to an analysis of published countries. In the analysis of national centrality, the United States remains the first, followed by Japan, and the majority of European nations. This also demonstrates that the field of cerebral revascularization in neurosurgery in the United States is the most advanced in the world and has close ties to other nations. In the analysis of research institutes, it is discovered that the United States and Japan have the leading research institutes in the field of cerebral revascularization, for instance, the University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Los Angeles, and Tohoku University. In the examination of the top 10 publications, however, the Capital Medical University of China ranks the third. Although the United States ranks the first globally in terms of country/institution and centrality analysis, it cannot dismiss the contributions of Asian nations such as Japan and China to cerebral revascularization research. All these demonstrate that the current international distribution of this research topic is uneven.

Michael T. Lawton is not just the most prolific author in the subject of cerebral revascularization, but also one of the five most-cited researchers. He has conducted extensive study on intracranial aneurysms and cerebrovascular abnormalities during his career in neurosurgery (Gandhi et al., 2019; Hendricks et al., 2022). For MCA surgical therapy for recurrent and resistant aneurysms, he presented the fourth generation of bypass technology (Burkhardt et al., 2018), M2-M2 Side-Side Reimplantation, to mend narrowed blood vessels. The left lateral fissure was opened by the left pterional approach, and it was determined that one branch of the lower and higher M2 trunks was near and parallel, with a diameter of approximately 2 mm, and was therefore suitable for lateral anastomosis (in situ anastomosis). The cerebral blood supply was restored by first anastomosing the ventral vascular wall and then constantly suturing the dorsal vascular wall using the two fixed point continuous suture method. The M2-M3 lateral anastomosis was not blocked, nor was the aneurysm of the M2 upper trunk visible. The anastomosis transferred the blood flow of the M2 lower trunk to the M2 upper trunk, and the M2 upper trunk’s blood supply was optimal. Simultaneously, he estimated that preoperative embolization could decrease the incidence rate of high-risk cerebral arteriovenous malformations (Lawton and Lang, 2019). In. Sekhar, who has the most cited articles in the field of cerebral revascularization, is also a highly influential author. In response to Dr. Ravina K’s publication on three vessel anastomosis (Sekhar et al., 2020), he convincingly argued that this technology can be utilized to treat bilateral cerebral vascular reconstruction. Peter Vajkoczy are also prominent researchers in the field of cerebral revascularization. Using STA-MCA bypass and minimally invasive cerebral sclerosis vascular anastomosis, he successfully reconstructed cerebral blood circulation in the treatment of moyamoya disease (Lucia et al., 2022). He considered that the STA-MCA bypass was preferable to the MIS-EDS system. When paired with direct bypass, STA-MCA bypass was suggested as an additional cerebral revascularization technology option. Due to their extensive clinical expertise, these authors enjoy a solid reputation in the field of cerebral revascularization research. In addition, the effective application of these cerebral revascularization techniques cannot be achieved without two important institutions: universities and hospitals. Among them, the primary stage of research and development is based on the continuous innovation of university teams. For example, the development of the three-vessel anastomosis technique was based on animal experiments by selecting Y-bypass and A3 or A4 blood vessels of two distal anterior cerebral arteries (ACA) for side-to-side anastomosis (Ravina and Russin, 2020). Of course, the maturity of difficult neurosurgical techniques was first based on the university platform. Finally, all these techniques will be applied to clinical practice, thus rapidly resolving the symptoms of neurological deficits in patients with acute cerebral ischemia. Thus, the high level of skill of academics and the research and development, university groups, and large hospitals play an important role in the field of cerebral revascularization.

In general, the impact factor of a journal is calculated in terms of years (Liu et al., 2016). The calculation formula is IF = (nk−1 + nk−2)/(Nk−1 + Nk−2), where “k” represents a specific year, Nk−1 + Nk−2 represents the number of articles published in the journal during the previous 2 years, and nk−1 + nk−2 represents the number of articles cited in the journal during the previous 2 years, i.e., IF. Typically, we believe that the journal’s influencing variables are directly tied to the quality of the articles. Stroke is the journal with the greatest impact factor in the ranking of published journals. Stroke, which was established in 1970, is the official journal of the American Stroke Association. It is a journal dedicated to cerebral circulation, and its primary acceptance fields include clinical and fundamental research in the field of cerebral circulation. Currently, the magazine is an extremely authoritative publication in the field of neurology. World Neurosurgery is the journal that contains the greatest number of publications on cerebral revascularization, which is published in the United States by Elsevier Company. It focuses mostly on research in clinical neurology surgery. In recent years, this journal’s impact factors have increased, indicating that neurosurgery’s effect is growing increasingly pervasive. In addition, the majority of journals, such as Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Operational Neuroscience, and Neurological Focus, belong to the category of professional disciplines. Some comprehensive journals, such as the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience and the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, have also published research on cerebral revascularization. Revascularization of the brain is a promising area of neurosurgical research. Numerous research publications in this topic have been published in various high-quality journals, which also suggests that this field has gained considerable attention from scholars worldwide. In addition, the publication of research in the field of cerebral revascularization in multidisciplinary publications is beneficial to attracting the attention of a greater number of researchers, thereby facilitating the expansion of interdisciplinary cooperation.

Analysis of keyword co-occurrence permits us to comprehend the new hot spots and frontiers in a sector (Gao et al., 2021). In this study’s keyword analysis, we identified several significant research hot spots in the field of cerebral revascularization over the past two decades, including “cerebral revascularization,” “moyamoya disease,” “surgery,” “extracranial intracranial bypass,” “occlusion,” “revascularization,” “superficial temporal artery,” “aneurysm,” “stroke,” and “internal carotid artery” (Table 6). We subsequently reviewed the relevant literature and discovered that, in recent years (Gunawardena et al., 2019; Kan et al., 2021), “extracranial intracranial bypass” or “STA-MCA bypass” is the most important neurosurgical treatment in the field of cerebral revascularization, and the majority of them have significant effects on the treatment and prognosis of moyamoya disease, for instance, the safety of STA-MCA bypass in the treatment of moyamoya disease (Liu et al., 2017), the hemodynamic problems of STA-MCA bypass in the treatment of moyamoya disease (Jeffree and Stoodley, 2009), the significance of Color Doppler monitoring of STA-MCA bypass in the treatment of moyamoya disease (Kawamata et al., 2011; Feghali et al., 2019). However, we employed keyword clustering analysis to determine the tight association within the cerebral revascularization research field. # 00 Moyamoya disease is the most closely linked keyword in the overall research category, and it is also the most extensively researched disease in the subject of cerebral revascularization. The others are # 01 Pial synangiosis, # 02 Angioplasty, # 03 cerebral blood flow, # 04 Stroke-acute, # 05 Microvascular anastomosis, # 06 Superficial temporal artery, # 07 Cardiopulmonary bypa, and # 08 Anterior cerebral artery.

However, the acquisition of the aforementioned keywords requires additional keyword data, and the update frequency may not be optimal. Therefore, we examine the explosive situation of keywords over time using keyword bursts. “internal carotid artery” and “giant aneurysm” were the most popular study topics in the field of cerebral revascularization from 1999 to 2008. With the progression of time, “hyperperfusion” and “vascular disorder” have become the most prominent areas of study. Similarly, while “blood flow reactivity,” “acetazolamide test,” “surgical revascularization,” “indirect bypass,” and “synangiosis” are somewhat connected to cerebral revascularization, they lack a continuous explosive trend. In conclusion, we feel that hyperperfusion and vascular disorder will be the primary focus and direction of future research in this subject. The decline in neurological function after cerebral revascularization may be associated with transient over perfusion of the superficial temporal artery/middle cerebral artery bypass (Yang et al., 2018), and the timing and location of over perfusion are also indirect interference factors of post-operative neurological function defect (Mukerji et al., 2015). In ischemic cerebrovascular illness, cerebral hyperperfusion is a common consequence after superficial temporal artery/middle cerebral artery bypass (Tashiro et al., 2018). Despite opposition to the use of “low flow” in this bypass, the flow rate of perfusion has not been precisely specified (Kaku et al., 2012). Perioperative injection of edaravone, a free radical scavenger for adult moyamoya disease, can decrease the likelihood of cerebral vascular hyperperfusion and transitory neurological deficit related to hyperperfusion (Uchino et al., 2016). In addition, the incidence of cerebral hyperperfusion has been estimated to range from 0.3 to 1.2% (Meyers et al., 2000), and it is regarded as a complication after carotid endarterectomy. Notably, transcranial Doppler (TCD), the only clinical device that can adequately assess cerebral hyperperfusion, provides a cerebral blood flow monitoring technology (Feghali et al., 2019). In addition, a number of studies indicate that, when performing superficial temporal artery/middle cerebral artery bypass surgery in elderly patients with moyamoya disease (Kim et al., 2022; Tsunoda et al., 2022), we must focus on strict blood pressure control and reduce the harmful cascade reaction caused by over perfusion during cerebral revascularization. Based on the findings of this study, hyperperfusion and vascular disorder will become future focal points and new research avenues in this sector.

There are some potential limitations to this study. First, the bibliometric data for this study were obtained solely from the WOSCC database; no search for relevant content on other research platforms was conducted. Second, other types of articles, such as corrections and retractions, were uncovered throughout the search process and may have indirectly influenced the outcomes of the analysis. Due to the novelty and cutting-edge nature of this type of research, it may be possible to overlook the most recent research findings when updating the articles.