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Figure 1. The number of publications about thermal ablation for thyroid nodules per year and the accumulative number between 2000 and 2022.
![Figure 1. The number of publications about thermal ablation for thyroid nodules per year and the accumulative number between 2000 and 2022.](/cms/asset/d110d63e-49ec-44bc-8bfb-0ae30c9c50c8/ihyt_a_2268874_f0001_c.jpg)
Figure 2. An overview of the contributions of each country based on the number of published articles.
![Figure 2. An overview of the contributions of each country based on the number of published articles.](/cms/asset/cf604927-0ade-44b2-8975-6950c0bc4904/ihyt_a_2268874_f0002_c.jpg)
Figure 3. The top 10 institutions with the most published articles in the research field of thermal ablation for thyroid nodules.
![Figure 3. The top 10 institutions with the most published articles in the research field of thermal ablation for thyroid nodules.](/cms/asset/580eaa83-66a9-466b-a476-84f1d8c8f185/ihyt_a_2268874_f0003_c.jpg)
Table 1. The top 10 journals with most publications in the field of thermal ablation for thyroid nodules.
Table 2. The top 10 authors with the most publications in the field of thermal ablation for thyroid nodules.
Figure 4. Analysis of the research hotspots in the field of thermal ablation for thyroid nodules. (a) Keyword co-occurrence of author keywords. (b) Time-overlapping co-occurrence analysis network of author keywords. (c) A list of the top 20 most frequently used keywords. (d) Visualization map of the top 20 keywords with the strongest citation bursts.
![Figure 4. Analysis of the research hotspots in the field of thermal ablation for thyroid nodules. (a) Keyword co-occurrence of author keywords. (b) Time-overlapping co-occurrence analysis network of author keywords. (c) A list of the top 20 most frequently used keywords. (d) Visualization map of the top 20 keywords with the strongest citation bursts.](/cms/asset/b34e0144-0320-46c8-8349-647b54899c34/ihyt_a_2268874_f0004_c.jpg)
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