Godi Sangha Mitra, Tikka Sai Krishna
Department of Psychiatry, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar, Telangana, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2023 Apr;65(4):469-471. doi: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_678_22. Epub 2023 Apr 11.
A significant body of evidence on the role of TMS in neurology and psychiatry has emerged from Indian studies.
We aimed to assess the existing and emerging trends of research on TMS as a diagnostic or therapeutic tool in India using bibliometric analysis.
A total of 146 publications, retrieved from various databases, were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer. We found a linear positive growth of publications in India in the field of TMS and neuropsychiatry, with about 3000 citations so far. The most researched diagnosis was schizophrenia. NIMHANS, Bengaluru, had the highest number of publications. The journal with the highest number of publications was the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, and that with the highest citations was the Journal of Affective disorders.
The growth of Indian research in the field of TMS corresponds to that of the global one but also suggests the need for more studies to match the research output from other countries.
印度的研究产生了大量关于经颅磁刺激(TMS)在神经病学和精神病学中作用的证据。
我们旨在通过文献计量分析评估印度将TMS作为诊断或治疗工具的现有和新兴研究趋势。
从各种数据库中检索到的146篇出版物使用Microsoft Excel和VOSviewer进行了分析。我们发现印度在TMS和神经精神病学领域的出版物呈线性正增长,迄今为止约有3000次引用。研究最多的诊断是精神分裂症。班加罗尔的国家精神卫生和神经科学研究所(NIMHANS)发表的文章数量最多。发表文章数量最多的期刊是《亚洲精神病学杂志》,被引用次数最多的是《情感障碍杂志》。
印度在TMS领域的研究增长与全球研究增长相对应,但也表明需要更多研究以与其他国家的研究产出相匹配。