The study was conducted by searching the literature related to the regulation of necroptosis with Chinese medicine from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2021 in CNKI, VIP, Wanfang, Web of Science(WoS), and PubMed. The obtained literature were imported into NoteExpress for eliminating duplicates and screening, and the final included articles were imported into Excel to plot the publication trend. The core authors were identified according to Price's law, and VOSviewer 1.6.17 was used to draw a collaborative view of the core authors and sort the high-frequency keywords. Then CiteSpace 5.8.R3 was employed to analyze keywords clustering, burst, and timeline view. Finally, 98 Chinese articles and 72 English articles were included in the study. The number of publications on the regulation of necroptosis with Chinese medicine has been increasing year by year. China ranked among the top in the world in terms of the number of publications, and Chinese authors played a central role in this field. Specifically, LIU Hua published the most Chinese literature while CHEN X P had the most English publications. The collaborative view of the core authors showed more intra-team cooperation and less inter-team cooperation. The Chinese and English keywords formed ten clusters separately, indicating that the research hotspots of regulation of necroptosis with Chinese medicine mainly focused on disease, prescription, related factors, and mecha-nism. Further, the analysis of Chinese and English keywords revealed that regarding disease treatment, tumor, ischemia-reperfusion injury, neurodegenerative diseases, and inflammatory diseases were studied most. The Chinese medicines that received much attention in this field were curcumin, shikonin and tanshinone. The main protein factors involved were Ripk1, Ripk3, Mlkl, and TNF-α, and Ripk1/Ripk3/Mlkl and p53 signaling pathways were predominant. Moreover, single herbs and herbal monomers were the hotspots of the included articles. In the future, scholars need to expand the study of classical Chinese herbal compounds and explore their mechanism of action in the occurrence and development of various diseases, to provide new ideas and experimental basis for the treatment of clinical diseases with Chinese medicine.
Keywords: Chinese medicine; CiteSpace; VOSviewer; necroptosis; visual analysis.