Lee In-Seon, Lee Hyangsook, Chen Yi-Hung, Chae Younbyoung
Acupuncture & Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Korean Medicine Convergence Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
J Pain Res. 2020 Feb 11;13:367-376. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S235047. eCollection 2020.
A bibliometric approach using quantitative analytical methods was applied to explore the development of research investigating acupuncture for the treatment of pain. This study also evaluated the current status of acupuncture analgesia with a visualization analysis of journal articles.
Articles on acupuncture for pain control that were published from 2000 to 2019 were retrieved from the Web of Science database. Extracted records were analyzed in terms of year of publication, country, journal, research area, authors, and organizational affiliations. The VOSviewer program was used to visualize trends in research on acupuncture for pain control.
Analyses of 4595 original and review articles revealed that the total number of publications has continually increased over the last 20 years. The country producing the most articles in this field was the United States, followed by China and South Korea. A network analysis based on the cooccurrence of keywords revealed the following three major types of studies: clinical studies, pain management studies, and mechanism studies.
The present study evaluated research on acupuncture for pain control using bibliometric methods and revealed current trends in acupuncture analgesia research, as well as potential future hot spots of research in this field.
采用文献计量学方法，运用定量分析手段探索针刺治疗疼痛研究的发展情况。本研究还通过对期刊文章的可视化分析评估了针刺镇痛的现状。
从科学网数据库中检索2000年至2019年发表的有关针刺控制疼痛的文章。对提取的记录从发表年份、国家、期刊、研究领域、作者及机构隶属关系等方面进行分析。使用VOSviewer程序可视化针刺控制疼痛研究的趋势。
对4595篇原创和综述文章的分析表明，在过去20年里出版物总数持续增加。该领域发文最多的国家是美国，其次是中国和韩国。基于关键词共现的网络分析揭示了以下三种主要研究类型：临床研究、疼痛管理研究和机制研究。
本研究运用文献计量学方法评估了针刺控制疼痛的研究，揭示了针刺镇痛研究的当前趋势以及该领域未来潜在的研究热点。
