Carneiro Bruno Daniel, Tavares Isaura
Unit of Experimental Biology, Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
Institute for Research and Innovation in Health and IBMC, University of Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.
Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Feb 28;12(5):555. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12050555.
Neuropathic pain is caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system and is one of the most incapacitating pain types, representing a significant non-met medical need. Due to the increase in research in the field and since innovative therapeutic strategies are required, namely in intractable neuropathic pain, neurostimulation has been used. Within this approach, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) that uses a transient magnetic field to produce electrical currents over the cortex emerges as a popular method in the literature. Since this is an area in expansion and due to the putative role of TMS, we performed a bibliometric analysis in Scopus with the primary objective of identifying the scientific production related to the use of TMS to manage neuropathic pain. The research had no restrictions, and the analysis focused on the characteristics of the literature retrieved, scientific collaboration and main research topics from inception to 6 July 2023. A total of 474 articles were collected. A biggest co-occurrence between the terms "neuropathic pain" and "transcranial magnetic stimulation" was obtained. The journal "Clinical Neurophysiology" leads the Top 5 most productive sources. The United States is the most productive country, with 50% of US documents being "review articles", followed by France, with 56% of French documents being "original articles". Lefaucheur, JP and Saitoh, Y are the two most influential authors. The most frequent type of document was "original article". Most of the studies (34%) that identified the neuropathic pain type focused on traumatic neuropathic pain, although a large proportion (38%) did not report the neuropathic pain type. This study allows us to provide a general overview of the field of TMS application for neuropathic pain and is useful for establishing future directions of research in this field.
神经性疼痛由躯体感觉系统的损伤或疾病引起，是最使人丧失能力的疼痛类型之一，代表着一种重大的非代谢性医疗需求。由于该领域研究的增加，且需要创新的治疗策略，特别是在难治性神经性疼痛方面，神经刺激已被应用。在这种方法中，经颅磁刺激（TMS）利用瞬态磁场在皮层产生电流，成为文献中一种流行的方法。由于这是一个不断扩展的领域，且鉴于TMS的假定作用，我们在Scopus上进行了文献计量分析，主要目的是确定与使用TMS治疗神经性疼痛相关的科研成果。该研究没有限制，分析重点是从开始到2023年7月6日检索到的文献的特征、科研合作情况和主要研究主题。共收集到474篇文章。“神经性疼痛”和“经颅磁刺激”这两个术语之间的共现度最高。《临床神经生理学》杂志是产出最多的前5种来源期刊之一。美国是产出最多的国家，美国文献中有50%是“综述文章”，其次是法国，法国文献中有56%是“原创文章”。勒福舒尔（Lefaucheur, JP）和斋藤洋（Saitoh, Y）是两位最具影响力的作者。最常见的文献类型是“原创文章”。大多数确定神经性疼痛类型的研究（34%）关注创伤性神经性疼痛，尽管很大一部分（38%）没有报告神经性疼痛类型。这项研究使我们能够对TMS应用于神经性疼痛的领域提供一个总体概述，并有助于确定该领域未来的研究方向。
