An abundance of publications on medical professionalism have been published in recent years. Our study aimed to analyze the external characteristics of publications on professionalism using bibliometrics, to describe its current developments and trends, and to explore professionalism research hotspots using co-word analysis. We retrieved literature on professionalism published from 2010 to 2019 from the Web of Science database. Histcite and CiteSpace were used to analyze external characteristics of publications, including publication trends and distributions of publications by country/region, institution, author, and journal. Co-word analysis was conducted to analyze research hotspots, using the Bibliographic Item Co-Occurrence Matrix Builder and Graphical Clustering Toolkit. We constructed a strategic diagram to show the state of each research hotspot and the relationship between the various hotspots in this field. Results showed publications on professionalism increased in number year by year as a whole. The USA, including its institutions and authors, maintained the top position worldwide in terms of numbers of publications and citations. Among scholarly journals, Academic Medicine has published more articles and has had higher citations per paper than any other journal. Six research hotspots on professionalism were identified, visualized, and expounded. Of these, the theme of "measurement and evaluation of clinical competence" received the most attention in the field of professionalism. The reporting of quantifiable knowledge on the characteristics and research hotspots of publications could help inform gaps in the field of medical professionalism and provide evidence and guidance for future work for researchers, physicians, and educators.

近年来出版了大量关于医学专业精神的出版物。本研究旨在利用文献计量学分析专业性出版物的外部特征，描述其当前的发展和趋势，并利用共词分析探索专业性研究热点。我们从 Web of Science 数据库中检索了 2010 年至 2019 年发表的关于专业精神的文献。Histcite 和 CiteSpace 用于分析出版物的外部特征，包括按国家/地区、机构、作者和期刊划分的出版物趋势和出版物分布。使用书目项目共现矩阵生成器和图形聚类工具包进行共词分析以分析研究热点。我们构建了一个战略图来展示每个研究热点的状态以及该领域各个热点之间的关系。结果显示，整体而言，专业水平的出版物数量逐年增加。美国，包括其机构和作者，在出版物和引用数量方面保持全球领先地位。在学术期刊中，Academic Medicine发表的文章更多，每篇论文的引用次数比任何其他期刊都高。识别、可视化和阐述了六个专业性研究热点。其中，“临床能力的测量与评价”这一主题在专业领域受到了最多的关注。对出版物特征和研究热点的可量化知识的报告有助于发现医学专业领域的差距，并为研究人员、医生和教育工作者的未来工作提供证据和指导。