Tabatabaei-Malazy Ozra, Atlasi Rasha, Hasani-Ranjbar Shirin, Abdollahi Mohammad, Dastjerdi Marzieh Vahid, Larijani Bagher
Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Diabetes Metab Disord. 2020 Aug 28;23(2):1783-1791. doi: 10.1007/s40200-020-00622-0. eCollection 2024 Dec.
After the emphasis of the World Health Organization (WHO) on herbal medicines as the primary source for the care and treatment of some diseases, scientific publications increased in this regard. A significant body of basic and clinical researches in the field of herbal medicines are conducted in Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI). This scientometric study is investigated to assess the global scientific production of EMRI in field of herbal medicines and endocrine disorders.
Some of our search terms were "herbal medicine", "Chinese medicine", "traditional medicine", "endocrine", "metabolism", and "emri" from Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and PubMed databases until June 20, 2020. Extracted data including first author, journal name, publication year, type of paper and number of citations were analyzed using analysis tools provided by Scopus, WOS databases, and SPSS version 15.
Overall, 126 studies affiliated to EMRI were published on this topic. The number of these publications showed a non-significant increasing time trend. Majority of the published papers were original articles (>60%) and the two top subject areas were medicine and drug. The documents were cited totally 2900, and 2377 times with an average citation/article 29.59, and 24.76 in Scopus and WOS, respectively. The h-index of documents were 28 and 25, in Scopus and WOS, respectively. The highest cited article was a systematic review study in field of diabetes, and top source was "Daru Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences". Top author was affiliated to EMRI, followed by an author from pharmaceutical reserachers as national co-authorship. The highest international co-authorship was with the US.
A promising scientific productivity is shown in the studied field. However, the number of publications is insufficient, and more evidence-based publications are required on this topic.
世界卫生组织（WHO）强调草药是某些疾病护理和治疗的主要来源后，该领域的科学出版物有所增加。内分泌与代谢研究所（EMRI）开展了大量关于草药的基础和临床研究。本计量学研究旨在评估EMRI在草药和内分泌疾病领域的全球科研产出。
截至2020年6月20日，我们从Scopus、科学网（WOS）和PubMed数据库中检索了一些关键词，如“草药”“中药”“传统医学”“内分泌”“代谢”和“EMRI”。使用Scopus、WOS数据库提供的分析工具以及SPSS 15版本对提取的数据进行分析，包括第一作者、期刊名称、出版年份、论文类型和被引次数。
总体而言，有126项与EMRI相关的研究发表在该主题上。这些出版物的数量呈现出不显著的增长趋势。发表的论文多数为原创文章（>60%），两个主要学科领域是医学和药物。这些文献在Scopus和WOS中分别被引用2900次和2377次，平均每篇论文的被引次数分别为29.59次和24.76次。这些文献在Scopus和WOS中的h指数分别为28和25。被引次数最高的文章是一篇糖尿病领域的系统评价研究，主要来源期刊是《达鲁药学杂志》。第一作者隶属于EMRI，其次是一位来自药物研究机构的作者作为国内共同作者。国际合作最多的是与美国。
在所研究的领域中显示出了有前景的科研生产力。然而，出版物数量不足，在该主题上需要更多基于证据的出版物。
