Department of Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine, Tongren Hospital of Wuhan University (Wuhan Third Hospital), Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
Department of Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine, Tongren Hospital of Wuhan University (Wuhan Third Hospital), Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
World Neurosurg. 2019 Nov;131:e521-e529. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.07.216. Epub 2019 Aug 5.
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS), a common invasive neuromodulation technique, induces pain relief via electrical stimulation of the dorsal column of the spinal cord. To present an overview of research publications on SCS, a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications from 1998 to 2017 was performed.
The relevant data were obtained from the Web of Science and PubMed database. These articles were classified into several categories, such as total number, countries, institutions, authors, and citations reports. The analysis of co-occurrence key words was handled by VOSviewer software.
We found that there existed an increasing trend in the number of publications on SCS between 1998 and 2017. Among these countries, the United States published the largest number of papers in the past 20 years. Case Western Reserve University in the United States contributed the most publications. Among all research categories, neuroscience neurology was the most common area. In addition, regarding article types, basic research comprised a great proportion of the total papers on SCS in the PubMed database. The author V. Reggie Edgerton from the United States was the most-frequent contributor among the authors. The results showed that "spinal cord," "stimulation," and "pain" were the most common key words in the past 20 years.
This bibliometric analysis first provides a basic overview of research publications on SCS published during the last 2 decades. Considering the expanded indications of SCS, there are a lot of things to do, and various countries should increase support to complete high-quality SCS studies.
脊髓刺激（SCS）是一种常见的侵入性神经调节技术，通过对脊髓背柱的电刺激来缓解疼痛。为了对 1998 年至 2017 年 SCS 的研究出版物进行概述，我们对科学出版物进行了文献计量分析。
从 Web of Science 和 PubMed 数据库中获取相关数据。这些文章被分为几类，如总数、国家、机构、作者和引文报告。共现关键词的分析通过 Vosviewer 软件处理。
我们发现，1998 年至 2017 年间，SCS 出版物的数量呈上升趋势。在这些国家中，美国在过去 20 年发表的论文数量最多。美国凯斯西储大学发表的论文最多。在所有研究类别中，神经科学和神经病学是最常见的领域。此外，就文章类型而言，基础研究在 PubMed 数据库中 SCS 总论文中占很大比例。美国的作者 V. Reggie Edgerton 是所有作者中最常被引用的作者。结果表明，“脊髓”、“刺激”和“疼痛”是过去 20 年中最常见的关键词。
这项文献计量分析首次提供了过去 20 年 SCS 研究出版物的基本概述。考虑到 SCS 适应证的扩大，还有很多事情要做，各国应增加支持力度，完成高质量的 SCS 研究。
