Trends in research on osteoarthritis of the knee in conventional medicine:a bibliometric analysis based on big data from 1990-2022  

作　　者：Zhu-Ce Shao Shu-Xiong Bi 

机构地区：[1]Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical University,Shanxi Bethune Hospital,Shanxi Academy of Medical Sciences,Tongji Shanxi Hospital,Taiyuan 030032,China.

出　　处：《TMR Integrative Medicine》2023年第6期1-10,共10页TMR整合医学

摘　　要：Background:Osteoarthritis of the knee(KOA)is a chronic degenerative disease.KOA is a growing concern due to its high incidence and the pain and other burdens it places on patients.Traditional medicine is a health care model with a long history that includes nature-based treatments,psycho-psychological types of treatments,and more.Traditional medicine is also more effective in diagnosing and treating KOA,and it has never stopped researching KOA.There are no bibliometric studies analyzing articles on the traditional medical diagnosis and management of KOA.This study aimed to comprehensively analyze and analyze the general trends in the study of KOA in traditional medicine from a bibliometric perspective.Methods:All articles reporting on KOA and traditional medicine from 1 January 1990 to 01 November 2022 were obtained from the Web of Science Core.Some software such as CiteSpace,VOS Viewer and Scimago Graphica were used to analyse the publications,which included authors,citations,journals,references,countries where studies were published,institutions and research keywords.The final visualisations were produced using this data.Results:A total of 769 articles were searched.Peijian Tong was identified as the most contributing and published author in the field,and medicine was identified as the most reputable journal in the field of traditional medicine and osteoarthritis of the knee.China is a global leader in the field and a centre of collaboration in the field,with a major concentration of traditional medicine in Asia,which is consistent with the evidence that traditional medicine originated in Asia.According to the data,“osteoarthritis”,“knee osteoarthritis”,“pain”,and“knee”and“hip”were identified as hot keywords for research in this area.Conclusions:The results of this bibliometric study provide a snapshot of the current state of clinical research in the treatment of KOA in traditional medicine and are well placed to envisage future hotspots and possible trends,and may help to provide researcher

关 键 词：knee osteoarthritis traditional medicine BIBLIOMETRICS visualized study research trends big data 

分 类 号：R684.3[医药卫生—骨科学]