Authors: Youliang Huang Mingquan Zhou Qingqiong Deng Juan Zhang Pengbo Zhou XianGang Shang
Publish Date: 2015/08/22
Volume: 105, Issue: 1, Pages: 557-566
Abstract
The aim of this study is to conduct a retrospective bibliometric analysis of articles about traditional Chinese medicine TCM research in PubMed and to learn about the development and perspective of TCM A systematic bibliometric search was performed based on the PubMed database covering related publications between January 1 1995 and December 31 2014 Numbers and type of articles countries and language of publications as well as major journals were analyzed in accordance with bibliometrics methodologies The retrieve results were analyzed and described in the form of texts tables and graphs A total of 42192 articles were identified from the PubMed database among which 4356 were published as original articles The articles were originated from 102 countries and territories China was ranked first with 20121 articles followed by United States with 2207 articles 5774 of the articles are published in English 4364 articles were published by Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi And complementary medicine was the most focused research are involving 30544 articles The publication activity of TCM literature increased rapidly in the past 20 years indicating enhanced attention attracted to TCM and more research input In view of its great advances achieved in scientific studies TCM will continue to play an important role in medical researchThe authors are very grateful to the referees and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions The authors would also like to thank the authors of the original studies included in this analysis This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Grant No 4152028 in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grand No 61170203
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