The analysis of co-citation clusters revealed the most relevant terms on hepatic glycolipid metabolism research by the way of hierarchical cluster labels, which included #0 non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, #1 gut microbiota, #2 adiponectin, #3 fructose, #4 fgf21, #5 fatty acid, #6 liver x receptor, #7 nr4a, #8 obese mice, and #9 bile acids. Here, FGF21 is linked to alcoholic fatty liver disease.