ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Clim.
Sec. Climate and Health
This article is part of the Research TopicMajor Global Public Health Concerns: Insights into the Challenges of Climate Change and Emerging Infectious DiseasesView all 5 articles
Impact of climate change on infectious disease transmission: a CiteSpace-and VOSviewer-based visualisation of enteric,respiratory and vector-borne infectious disease studies
Provisionally accepted
Tong Zhang
Jun Liu*- Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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Objective: This study aims to address the research gaps in understanding the connections between climate change and infectious diseases by integrating bibliometric analysis with epidemiological perspectives and systematically identifying research trends and thematic evolution in this field.Methods: We conducted a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of literature published between January 2010 and April 2025, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, CNKI, and Wanfang databases. Analytical methods included keyword co-occurrence mapping and cluster analysis using CiteSpace and VOSviewer.Results: The analysis revealed a steady increase in publication output, accompanied by a notable shift from single-disease studies to complex system assessments. Research patterns showed distinct thematic priorities: vector-borne diseases demonstrated significant growth after 2018; respiratory infections maintained consistent research attention, while enteric diseases received comparatively limited focus. These patterns reflect underlying socioeconomic disparities and regional climatic influences. Conclusion: This study underscores the need for more systematic research on the intersection of climate change and infectious diseases. Future work should develop multi-disease analytical frameworks, advance interdisciplinary methods integrating environmental and data sciences with public health, and strengthen global research networks by improving geographic coverage and data standardization. These efforts will enhance predictive capabilities and intervention strategies against climate-sensitive infectious diseases.
Keywords: visualisation1, CiteSpace2, VOSviewer3, respiratory infectious diseases4, entericinfectious diseases5, vector-borne infectious diseases6, Climate change7
Received: 16 Sep 2025; Accepted: 30 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jun Liu, jun.liu@hnucm.edu.cn
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