Tabatabaei-Malazy Ozra, Atlasi Rasha, Larijani Bagher, Abdollahi Mohammad
Diabetes Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Diabetes Metab Disord. 2016 Feb 13;15:1. doi: 10.1186/s40200-016-0221-2. eCollection 2015.
Recently, popularity and use of herbal medicine in treatment of diabetes have been increased. Since, oxidative stress is known as the main underlying pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications, the purpose of this bibliometric study is to assess the global scientific production analysis and developing its trend in field of antioxidative hypoglycemic herbal medicines and diabetic nephropathy focusing on the scientific publication numbers, citations, geographical distribution in the world and determining the main journal (source) in the field.
Our search terms were "diabetes", "renal", "nephropathy", "herb", "Chinese medicine", "traditional medicine", and "antioxidant" from Scopus database until January 2015 and analysis of the distribution of words in the publication year, main journal (source) in the field, geographical distribution, documents' type and language, subject area, and h-index of citations were crried out. The Scopus analysis tools and VOSviewer software version 1.6.3 have been used for analysis.
Within 1166 papers were published until year 2015, 78 studies were related to this topic in human. Increasing trend in number of related researches was shown. Fifty eight percent of the published papers were original articles, and the highest number was produced in 2013 with 21 documents. Top subject areas were medicine with global publication share of 71.8 %, and pharmacology was ranked the second (39.7 %). Iran was the first country with global publication. The total citation of the documents were 2518 times and h-index was 24. The highest cited paper was a review article with 336 citation number, and top source was "Journal of Medicinal Plants". Both of top authors and affiliation were from Iran; "Tehran University of Medical Sciences". Also, top author in the co-authorship mapping and clustering assessment was from Iran.
Although, we found an ascending trend of scientific publications in field of antioxidative herbal medicine and diabetic nephropathy with a good position for Iran, the number of publications is insufficient and more researches in this topic is necessary.
近年来，草药在糖尿病治疗中的应用日益广泛。由于氧化应激被认为是糖尿病及其并发症的主要潜在病理生理机制，本文献计量学研究旨在评估全球抗氧化降糖草药与糖尿病肾病领域的科研产出分析及其发展趋势，重点关注科学出版物数量、引用情况、全球地理分布以及确定该领域的主要期刊（来源）。
我们从Scopus数据库中检索了截至2015年1月的“糖尿病”“肾脏”“肾病”“草药”“中药”“传统医学”和“抗氧化剂”等关键词，并对出版物年份、该领域的主要期刊（来源）、地理分布、文献类型和语言、学科领域以及引用的h指数进行了分布分析。使用了Scopus分析工具和VOSviewer软件1.6.3版本进行分析。
截至2015年共发表了1166篇论文，其中78项研究与该主题的人体研究相关。相关研究数量呈上升趋势。已发表论文的58%为原创文章，2013年发表数量最多，为21篇。主要学科领域是医学，全球发表份额为71.8%，药理学排名第二（39.7%）。伊朗是全球发表量最多的国家。文献的总引用次数为2518次，h指数为24。被引用次数最多的论文是一篇综述文章，引用次数为336次，主要来源是《药用植物杂志》。顶级作者和所属机构均来自伊朗的“德黑兰医科大学”。此外，合著图谱和聚类评估中的顶级作者也来自伊朗。
尽管我们发现抗氧化草药医学和糖尿病肾病领域的科学出版物呈上升趋势，伊朗处于有利地位，但出版物数量不足，有必要对该主题进行更多研究。
