Bibliometric Analysis: Insights Into the Podiatric Medicine Landscape of Diabetic Sensory Peripheral Neuropathy and Genomics

Recurring topics included enhancing pre-clinical screening, addressing earlier diagnosis, pain management stratification with medicines optimisation, and reproducibility challenges. Case-controls increasingly replaced larger prospective, longitudinal study designs to improve diagnostic test accuracy and detection of diabetic neuropathy, particularly for neuropathic pain affecting small nerve fibres. Molecular approaches gained prominence signalling a shift from purely clinically derived approaches. The corpus responded to subjectivity and variable diagnostic criteria by prioritising objectivity. Emerging insights into channelopathies and mitochondrial dysfunction may augment current assessment/screening approaches to refine risk stratification and management strategies.