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Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018

BACKGROUND: Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Over the years, traditional medicines for stroke treatment have undergone tremendous progress, but few bibliometric studies have been performed. This study explored the trends and issues relating to the application of traditional...

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Autores principales: Huang, Lieyu, Shi, Xuefeng, Zhang, Nan, Gao, Ya, Bai, Qian, Liu, Liming, Zuo, Ling, Hong, Baolin
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-2832-x
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author Huang, Lieyu
Shi, Xuefeng
Zhang, Nan
Gao, Ya
Bai, Qian
Liu, Liming
Zuo, Ling
Hong, Baolin
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Shi, Xuefeng
Zhang, Nan
Gao, Ya
Bai, Qian
Liu, Liming
Zuo, Ling
Hong, Baolin
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description BACKGROUND: Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Over the years, traditional medicines for stroke treatment have undergone tremendous progress, but few bibliometric studies have been performed. This study explored the trends and issues relating to the application of traditional medicine in stroke research. METHODS: A bibliometric search was performed in the Web of Science Core Collection database to identify studies that investigated the application of traditional medicine in stroke management. CiteSpace VI and Excel 2016 were used to analyze information from the retrieved studies. Activity index and attractive index were used to explore the worldwide development modes. RESULTS: A total of 1083 English articles published between 2004 and 2018 were identified. Over the last 15 years, the developments in research occurred in three geographic clusters. The development modes were investigated and classified into 4 categories. In mainland China, the number and impact of research showed an increasing trend over the study period. The United States played a leading role in this topic. Three clusters of institutes and the majority of authors mainly came from South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China. Reperfusion injury and angiogenesis were identified as the potential topics likely to dominate future research in this field. CONCLUSION: The progress of studies on traditional medicine for stroke could be explained by the global attention to traditional medicine, the geospatial proximity for research collabration, and the increasing resources invested. Based on a large amount of existing research, researchers engaged in this topic should objectively consider the influential studies to identify and solve the common issues worldwide.
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spelling pubmed-70768502020-03-19 Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018 Huang, Lieyu Shi, Xuefeng Zhang, Nan Gao, Ya Bai, Qian Liu, Liming Zuo, Ling Hong, Baolin BMC Complement Med Ther Research Article BACKGROUND: Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Over the years, traditional medicines for stroke treatment have undergone tremendous progress, but few bibliometric studies have been performed. This study explored the trends and issues relating to the application of traditional medicine in stroke research. METHODS: A bibliometric search was performed in the Web of Science Core Collection database to identify studies that investigated the application of traditional medicine in stroke management. CiteSpace VI and Excel 2016 were used to analyze information from the retrieved studies. Activity index and attractive index were used to explore the worldwide development modes. RESULTS: A total of 1083 English articles published between 2004 and 2018 were identified. Over the last 15 years, the developments in research occurred in three geographic clusters. The development modes were investigated and classified into 4 categories. In mainland China, the number and impact of research showed an increasing trend over the study period. The United States played a leading role in this topic. Three clusters of institutes and the majority of authors mainly came from South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China. Reperfusion injury and angiogenesis were identified as the potential topics likely to dominate future research in this field. CONCLUSION: The progress of studies on traditional medicine for stroke could be explained by the global attention to traditional medicine, the geospatial proximity for research collabration, and the increasing resources invested. Based on a large amount of existing research, researchers engaged in this topic should objectively consider the influential studies to identify and solve the common issues worldwide. BioMed Central 2020-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7076850/ /pubmed/32033545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-2832-x Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gao, Ya
Bai, Qian
Liu, Liming
Zuo, Ling
Hong, Baolin
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title_full Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018
title_fullStr Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018
title_full_unstemmed Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018
title_short Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018
title_sort bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-020-2832-x
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