Ding Zuoqi, Li Furong
School of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Editorial Department of Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2020 Oct 6;2020:4821950. doi: 10.1155/2020/4821950. eCollection 2020.
This article aims to analyze the research status of integrative complementary medicine (ICM) and features of highly cited papers in the field to provide reference of the future development of ICM.
Publications in the field of ICM from 2009 to 2018 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection. The top 20 countries/territories, institutions, journals, keywords of highly cited and noncited papers, and characteristics of essential science indicator (ESI) papers, as well as open access (OA) and non-OA papers, were analyzed.
Mainland China had the largest number of ICM publications. The top 20 journals published a total of 31667 papers in 2009-2018, which represented 92.9% of all publications. Keywords of highly cited and noncited papers point to different research directions. 48 ESI highly cited/hot papers were identified, most of which are related to phytochemistry. Furthermore, the average citation rate (percentage of publications that have been cited one or more times) of OA papers was lower than that of total papers and non-OA papers.
China leads in number of publications; however, publication quality in ICM field requires improvement. A few journals accounted for more than half of number of publications and citations, which are important for the development of ICM. Many of the keywords in ICM noncited publications pointed towards broad meaning that poorly reflect the exact research content. Most highly cited ICM studies focused on the identification and evaluation of plant active components. OA may not be an effective approach to increase paper citations in the field of ICM.
本文旨在分析中西医结合与互补医学（ICM）的研究现状以及该领域高被引论文的特征，为ICM的未来发展提供参考。
从科学网核心合集检索2009年至2018年ICM领域的出版物。分析了发表量排名前20的国家/地区、机构、期刊、高被引论文和未被引论文的关键词、基本科学指标（ESI）论文的特征，以及开放获取（OA）论文和非OA论文。
中国大陆的ICM出版物数量最多。20种顶级期刊在2009年至2018年共发表了31667篇论文，占所有出版物的92.9%。高被引论文和未被引论文的关键词指向不同的研究方向。共识别出48篇ESI高被引/热点论文，其中大部分与植物化学有关。此外，OA论文的平均被引率（被引用一次或多次的出版物百分比）低于全部论文和非OA论文。
中国在出版物数量上领先；然而，ICM领域的出版质量有待提高。少数期刊占出版物数量和引用次数的一半以上，这些期刊对ICM的发展很重要。ICM未被引出版物中的许多关键词含义宽泛，不能很好地反映确切的研究内容。大多数高被引的ICM研究集中在植物活性成分的鉴定和评价上。OA可能不是提高ICM领域论文引用率的有效方法。
