Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, Centre for Practice Changing Research Building, 501 Smyth Road, PO BOX 201B, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada.
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, Room 2112, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada.
BMC Complement Med Ther. 2021 Jul 1;21(1):185. doi: 10.1186/s12906-021-03354-7.
Traditional, complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (TCAIM) can be described as diverse medical and healthcare interventions, practices, products, or disciplines that are not considered as part of conventional medicine. Inherent in its definition, TCAIMs are comprised of a wide variety of therapies with highly variable safety and effectiveness evidence profiles. Despite this, the use of many TCAIMs is highly prevalent among patients globally. The present study consists of a bibliometric analysis of TCAIM journals.
A single search of all International Standard Serial Number (ISSNs) of all journals categorized as "complementary and alternative medicine" (code 2707) based on the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) was run on Scopus on April 17, 2021. All publication types were included; no further search limits were applied. The following bibliometric data were collected: number of publications (in total and per year), authors and journals; open access status; journals publishing the highest volume of literature and their impact factors; language, countries, institutional affiliations, and funding sponsors of publications; most productive authors; and highest-cited publications. Trends associated with this subset of publications were identified and presented. Bibliometric indicators of production were calculated, and bibliometric networks were constructed and visualized using the software tool VOSviewer.
A total of 172,466 publications (42,331 open access), were published by 219,680 authors in 143 journals from 1938 to 2021. Since the 1940s, an upward trend with respect to the volume of publications can be observed, with a steep increase observed between the mid-2000s and mid-2010s. The journal that published the largest number of publications was the Journal of Natural Products (n = 15,144). The most productive countries included China (n = 45,860), the United States (n = 29,523), and Germany (n = 10,120); a number of the most common institutional affiliations and funding sponsors also originated from these three countries.
The number of publications collectively published in TCAIM journals follows an upward trend. Given a high prevalence of TCAIM use among patients, increased acceptance of TCAIM among conventional healthcare providers, and growing interest in the research of TCAIM, future work should continue to investigate and track changes in the publication characteristics of the emerging research on this topic.
传统医学、补充医学、替代医学和整合医学（TCAIM）可被描述为多样化的医学和医疗干预措施、实践、产品或学科，它们不被视为常规医学的一部分。根据其定义，TCAIM 由各种具有高度可变安全性和有效性证据特征的疗法组成。尽管如此，全球患者对许多 TCAIM 的使用仍然非常普遍。本研究对 TCAIM 期刊进行了文献计量分析。
于 2021 年 4 月 17 日，在 Scopus 上对基于所有科学期刊分类（ASJC）的所有被归类为“补充和替代医学”（代码 2707）的所有期刊的国际标准序列号（ISSN）进行了单次搜索。纳入了所有出版物类型；未应用其他搜索限制。收集了以下文献计量数据：出版物总数（每年和每年）、作者和期刊；开放获取状态；发表文献数量最多的期刊及其影响因子；出版物的语言、国家、机构隶属关系和资助赞助商；最有成效的作者；以及高被引文献。确定并呈现了与这组出版物相关的趋势。计算了生产指标的文献计量学指标，并使用 VOSviewer 软件工具构建和可视化了文献计量网络。
自 1938 年至 2021 年，共有 172466 篇出版物（42331 篇开放获取）由 219680 位作者在 143 种期刊上发表。自 20 世纪 40 年代以来，可以观察到出版物数量呈上升趋势，2000 年代中期至 2010 年代中期呈急剧上升趋势。发表文献数量最多的期刊是《天然产物杂志》（n=15144）。最有成效的国家包括中国（n=45860）、美国（n=29523）和德国（n=10120）；一些最常见的机构隶属关系和资助赞助商也来自这三个国家。
TCAIM 期刊发表的论文数量呈上升趋势。鉴于患者对 TCAIM 的使用率较高，常规医疗保健提供者对 TCAIM 的接受度增加，以及对 TCAIM 研究的兴趣不断增加，未来的工作应继续调查和跟踪这一主题新兴研究的出版物特征变化。
