Hitit University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Çorum, Turkey; Hitit University, Traditional and Complementary Medicine Application and Research Center, Çorum, Turkey; Hitit University, Beekeeping and Bee Products Application and Research Center, Çorum, Turkey.
Hitit University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Çorum, Turkey.
Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2018 May;31:47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2018.02.003. Epub 2018 Feb 3.
Apitherapy is the medical use and the application of honey bee products and in recent years there has been a growing interest in studies of this field. We aimed to perform a bibliometric study in the apitherapy literature. We used Web of Science database in this study and our search retrieved a total of 6917 documents of which great majority (82.4%) was original articles. Brazil was found to ranked first on the publication number with 889 papers followed by the USA, China, Japan and Turkey. We measured a productivity score for each country and the most productive countries in apitherapy field were Switzerland (2.978), Croatia (2.074), and Bulgaria (1.840). Propolis was the most used keyword followed by bee venom, flavonoids, apis mellifera and apoptosis. A moderate correlation was detected between number of publications and GDP. To the best of our knowledge our study was the first in this area and we proposed that further studies should be supported in this field.
蜂疗是指医学上使用和应用蜜蜂产品，近年来人们对该领域的研究兴趣日益浓厚。我们旨在对蜂疗文献进行文献计量研究。我们在这项研究中使用了 Web of Science 数据库，我们的搜索共检索到 6917 篇文献，其中绝大多数（82.4%）是原始文章。研究发现，巴西在发表论文数量上排名第一，有 889 篇论文，其次是美国、中国、日本和土耳其。我们对每个国家的生产力得分进行了测量，蜂疗领域最具生产力的国家是瑞士（2.978）、克罗地亚（2.074）和保加利亚（1.840）。研究发现，蜂胶是使用最多的关键词，其次是蜂毒、类黄酮、蜜蜂和细胞凋亡。我们还发现，出版物数量与 GDP 之间存在中度相关性。据我们所知，我们的研究是该领域的首次研究，我们建议应在该领域支持进一步的研究。
