Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Research Group "Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy", UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2020 Mar 25;250:112414. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.112414. Epub 2019 Nov 18.
The research into bioactive natural products originating from medicinal plants, fungi and other organisms has a long history, accumulating abundant and diverse publications. However no quantitative literature analysis has been conducted so far.
Here we analyze the bibliometric data of ethnopharmacology literature and relate the semantic content to the publication and citation data so that the major research themes, contributors, and journals of different time periods could be identified and evaluated.
Web of Science (WoS) was searched to identify relevant publications. The Analyze function of WoS and bibliometric software (VOSviewer) were utilized to perform the analyses.
Until the end of November 2018, 59,576 publications -linked to 'ethnopharmacology' indexed by WoS, published since 1958 in more than 5600 journals, and contributed by over 20,600 institutions located in more than 200 countries/regions, were identified. The papers were published under four dominating WoS categories, namely pharmacology/pharmacy (34.4%), plant sciences (28.6%), medicinal chemistry (25.3%), and integrative complementary medicine (20.6%). India (14.6%) and China (13.2%) were dominating the publication space. The United States and Brazil also had more than 8.0% contribution each. The rest of the top ten countries/regions were mainly from Asia. There were around ten-fold more original articles (84.6%) than reviews (8.4%).
Ethnopharmacological research has a consistent focus on food and plant sciences, (bio)chemistry, complementary medicine and pharmacology, with a more limited scientific acceptance in the socio-cultural sciences. Dynamic global contributions have been shifting from developed countries to economically and scientifically emerging countries in Asia, South America and the Middle East. Research on recording medicinal plant species used by traditional medicine continues, but the evaluation of specific properties or treatment effects of extracts and compounds has increased enormously. Moreover increasing attention is paid to some widely distributed natural products, such as curcumin, quercetin, and rutin.
对源于药用植物、真菌和其他生物的生物活性天然产物的研究历史悠久，积累了丰富多样的出版物。然而，到目前为止，还没有进行定量文献分析。
在这里，我们分析民族药理学文献的计量数据，并将语义内容与出版物和引文数据相关联，以便确定和评估不同时期的主要研究主题、贡献者和期刊。
在 Web of Science (WoS) 中搜索相关出版物。WoS 的分析功能和书目计量软件（VOSviewer）用于进行分析。
截至 2018 年 11 月底，在 WoS 中索引了 59576 篇与“民族药理学”相关的出版物，这些出版物自 1958 年以来在 5600 多种期刊上发表，来自 200 多个国家/地区的 20600 多个机构的贡献。这些论文发表在四个主导的 WoS 类别下，即药理学/药学（34.4%）、植物科学（28.6%）、药用化学（25.3%）和综合补充医学（20.6%）。印度（14.6%）和中国（13.2%）主导着出版空间。美国和巴西的贡献也超过 8.0%。前 10 名的其余国家/地区主要来自亚洲。原始文章（84.6%）的数量约为评论文章（8.4%）的 10 倍。
民族药理学研究一直专注于食品和植物科学、（生物）化学、补充医学和药理学，在社会文化科学方面的科学认可度较低。动态的全球贡献已经从发达国家转移到亚洲、南美洲和中东的经济和科学新兴国家。对记录传统医学中使用的药用植物物种的研究仍在继续，但对提取物和化合物的特定特性或治疗效果的评估却大大增加。此外，人们越来越关注一些分布广泛的天然产物，如姜黄素、槲皮素和芦丁。
