Figure 2.

The 25 journals with the strongest citation bursts in terms of the applications of artificial intelligence in peripheral nerve injury and repair from 1994 to 2023 (data from 613 articles retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database).

A burst journal is a journal that is suddenly cited many times during a certain period of time. The figure shows the top 25 burst journals identified according to the 613 articles published from 1994–2023. The red squares represent the years in which the burst took place. J COMP NEUROL (1994–2013) is the earliest journal with the longest focus on relevant hotspots in the field, followed by TRENDS NEUROSCI (1998–2015), and NEUROSCI LETT (2000–2018). Journals in blue font are the “hot” journals from 2019 to 2023, including SCI REP-UK, NAT COMMUN, ELIFE, SENSORS-BASEL, ARXIV PREPRINT ARXIV, IEEE ACCESS, PROC CVPR IEEE, and FRONT NEUROL. “Year” represents the earliest year (1994) in which the cited journal literature appeared. “Strength” represents the frequency of citations. “Begin” and “End” represent the beginning and end of citation bursts, respectively.