First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China,
National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China,
Complement Med Res. 2023;30(5):393-407. doi: 10.1159/000530778. Epub 2023 Jun 1.
Acupuncture has gained increasing international attention in recent decades. The act of incorporating acupuncture treatment into the routine treatment of COVID-19 in China drove us to review the 100 most influential articles of the last 20 years to learn about the current status and trends of acupuncture.
Articles related to acupuncture from January 1, 2001, to July 4, 2022, were searched in the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection database. The top 100 most cited publications were selected, and information was extracted. Software such as VOSviewer, GraphPad Prism, Scimago Graphica, and CiteSpace were used to visualize and analyze the extracted data.
The 100 most cited articles were identified, with an average of 218 citations (range: 131-625). The majority of the top 100 articles were from the USA (n = 53). The institution that published the most highly cited papers was Harvard University (n = 16). The most influential team was Klaus Linde's group. Pain was the top-ranked journal in terms of the number of publications. The largest clusters for co-occurrence keyword analysis focused on acupuncture and electroacupuncture analgesia and brain imaging responses to acupuncture stimulation via functional MRI. The two highest strength burst keywords were "randomized controlled trials" and "osteoarthritis," with "randomized controlled trials" being a consistent burst keyword from 2011 to the present.
This study provides insight into articles of historical significance in the field of acupuncture through bibliometric analysis. These data should provide clinicians and researchers with insight into future directions related to acupuncture.
近几十年来,针灸在国际上受到越来越多的关注。中国将针灸治疗纳入 COVID-19 常规治疗的做法促使我们回顾过去 20 年中最有影响力的 100 篇文章,了解针灸的现状和趋势。
检索 Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection 数据库 2001 年 1 月 1 日至 2022 年 7 月 4 日发表的与针灸相关的文章。选择前 100 篇最具影响力的出版物,并提取信息。使用 VOSviewer、GraphPad Prism、Scimago Graphica 和 CiteSpace 等软件对提取的数据进行可视化和分析。
确定了 100 篇最具影响力的文章,平均引用次数为 218 次(范围:131-625)。前 100 篇文章中,美国(n=53)发表的文章最多。发表论文最多的机构是哈佛大学(n=16)。最有影响力的团队是 Klaus Linde 的团队。在发表论文数量方面,Pain 是排名最高的期刊。共现关键词分析的最大聚类集中在针灸和电针镇痛以及功能磁共振成像对针灸刺激的脑成像反应。两个最强的突发关键词是“随机对照试验”和“骨关节炎”,“随机对照试验”是从 2011 年到现在的持续突发关键词。
本研究通过文献计量学分析,为针灸领域具有历史意义的文章提供了深入了解。这些数据应该为临床医生和研究人员提供与针灸相关的未来方向的见解。