Zhao Tingting, Guo Jing, Song Yafang, Chen Hao, Sun Mengzhu, Chen Lu, Geng Hao, Pei Lixia, Sun Jianhua
Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China.
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China.
J Pain Res. 2021 May 25;14:1399-1414. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S306594. eCollection 2021.
Migraine is the second-leading cause of disability worldwide. It is often characterized by attacks of severe, mostly unilateral, pulsating headache associated with symptoms such as photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, vomiting, and cutaneous allodynia. Acupuncture therapy has been used worldwide for the treatment of migraine. However, no visual bibliometric analysis has been conducted on the effects of acupuncture on migraine over the past 20 years. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the current status and trends on the use of acupuncture in the treatment of migraine from 2000 to 2020.
The objective of this study is to identify the current status and emerging trends of the global use of acupuncture on migraine from 2000 to 2020 using CiteSpace and VOSviewer.
Web of Science databases were searched for publications related to acupuncture therapy for treating migraine between 2000 and 2020. CiteSpace and VOSviewer were used to analyze the number of publications per year, countries, institutions, authors, journals, references, and keywords.
A total of 572 publications were included in the final analysis. The total number of publications has continued to increase with some fluctuations over the past 20 years. The most productive country and institution in this field were the USA, and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, respectively. The most active and cited authors were Liang FR and Linde K, respectively. was the most productive, cited, and co-cited journal. The Linde K (2005) had the highest co-citation, citation number and centrality. The keywords "migraine" ranked first in frequency. The common type of migraine (tension-type headache), research method (randomized controlled trial, multicenter, double-blind), acupuncture's role (prophylactic, quality of life, pain), and evaluation (meta-analysis, systematic review) were the hotspots and frontier trends of acupuncture therapy on migraine between 2000 and 2020.
The present study examined the research-related trend in acupuncture therapy on migraine using bibliometric methods and identified the statement and research frontiers over the past two decades. This may help researchers to identify potential hotspots and new directions for future research in this field.
偏头痛是全球第二大致残原因。其通常表现为严重发作，多为单侧搏动性头痛，并伴有畏光、畏声、恶心、呕吐和皮肤痛觉过敏等症状。针灸疗法已在全球范围内用于治疗偏头痛。然而，在过去20年中，尚未对针灸治疗偏头痛的效果进行可视化文献计量分析。因此，本研究旨在探讨2000年至2020年期间针灸治疗偏头痛的现状和趋势。
本研究的目的是使用CiteSpace和VOSviewer确定2000年至2020年全球针灸治疗偏头痛的现状和新趋势。
在科学网数据库中搜索2000年至2020年期间与针灸治疗偏头痛相关的出版物。使用CiteSpace和VOSviewer分析每年的出版物数量、国家、机构、作者、期刊、参考文献和关键词。
最终分析共纳入572篇出版物。在过去20年中，出版物总数持续增加，但有一些波动。该领域产出最多的国家和机构分别是美国和成都中医药大学。最活跃和被引用最多的作者分别是梁繁荣和林德。《循证补充与替代医学》是产出最多、被引用最多和共被引用最多的期刊。林德2005年的研究共被引用次数、引用次数和中心性最高。关键词“偏头痛”出现频率排名第一。常见的偏头痛类型（紧张型头痛）、研究方法（随机对照试验、多中心、双盲）、针灸的作用（预防性、生活质量影响、疼痛缓解）以及评估（荟萃分析、系统评价）是2000年至2020年期间针灸治疗偏头痛的热点和前沿趋势。
本研究使用文献计量方法研究了针灸治疗偏头痛的相关趋势，并确定了过去二十年的研究现状和前沿。这可能有助于研究人员识别该领域未来研究的潜在热点和新方向。
