Table 5.

Major MeSH terms/MeSH subheadings from the included publications on quorum sensing (2004–2023).

Rank	Major MeSH terms/MeSH subheadings	Frequency	Proportion of frequency (%)	Cumulative percentage (%)
1	Quorum Sensing	790	8.2783	8.2783
2	Quorum Sensing/drug effects	531	5.5643	13.8426
3	Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology	270	2.8293	16.6719
4	Quorum Sensing/physiology	263	2.7559	19.4279
5	Quorum Sensing/genetics	253	2.6512	22.0790
6	Pseudomonas aeruginosa/drug effects	205	2.1482	24.2272
7	Bacterial Proteins/metabolism	182	1.9072	26.1343
8	Biofilms/drug effects	162	1.6976	27.8319
9	Pseudomonas aeruginosa/physiology	126	1.3203	29.1523
10	Biofilms/growth and development	105	1.1003	30.2525
11	Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial	102	1.0688	31.3214
12	Bacterial Proteins/genetics	100	1.0479	32.3693
13	Pseudomonas aeruginosa/metabolism	83	0.8697	33.2390
14	4-Butyrolactone/analogs and derivatives	82	0.8593	34.0983
15	Pseudomonas aeruginosa/genetics	67	0.7021	34.8004
16	Homoserine/analogs and derivatives	65	0.6811	35.4815
17	Acyl-Butyrolactones/metabolism	64	0.6706	36.1522
18	Plant Extracts/pharmacology	58	0.6078	36.7599
19	Trans-Activators/metabolism	58	0.6078	37.3677
20	Biofilms	52	0.5449	37.9126
21	Bacteria/metabolism	51	0.5344	38.4470
22	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	47	0.4925	38.9395
23	Bacterial Physiological Phenomena	43	0.4506	39.3901
24	Signal Transduction	43	0.4506	39.8407
25	Models, Biological	42	0.4401	40.2808
26	Chromobacterium/drug effects	41	0.4296	40.7105
27	Bacteria/drug effects	37	0.3877	41.0982
28	Pseudomonas aeruginosa/pathogenicity	37	0.3877	41.4859
29	Virulence Factors/metabolism	33	0.3458	41.8317
30	Lactones/metabolism	32	0.3353	42.1670
31	Virulence Factors/genetics	31	0.3248	42.4919