Bibliometric and content analysis of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field specialized register of controlled trials

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wieland, L Susan ^a   Manheimer, Eric ^a   Sampson, Margaret ^b   Barnabas, Jabez Paul ^c   Bouter, Lex M ^d   Cho, Kiho ^e   Lee, Myeong Soo ^f   Li, Xun ^g   Liu, Jianping ^g   Moher, David ^h   Okabe, Tetsuro ⁱ   Pienaar, Elizabeth D ^j   Shin, Byung Cheul ^k   Tharyan, Prathap ^c   Tsutani, Kiichiro ⁱ   van der Windt, Daniëlle A ^l   Berman, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^f Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)   (South Korea)

^g BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^h OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^j SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^k Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^l KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Complementary medicine; Data collection; Randomized controlled trials; Registries

Indexed keywords

KAMPO; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; AYURVEDA; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHINESE MEDICINE; CITATION ANALYSIS; COCHRANE COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE FIELD; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA BASE; EMBASE; MEDICINE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REGISTER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLISHING;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LANGUAGE; PUBLISHING; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84886505138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-2-51     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Dickersin K, Manheimer E, Wieland S, Robinson KA, Lefebvre C, McDonald S: Development of the Cochrane Collaboration's CENTRAL Register of controlled clinical trials. Eval Health Prof. 2002, 25: 38-64.
2. Egger M, Juni P, Bartlett C, Holenstein F, Sterne J: How important are comprehensive literature searches and the assessment of trial quality in systematic reviews? Empirical study. Health Technol Assess. 2003, 7: 1-76.
3. Hofmans EA: Acupuncture and Medline. Lancet. 1990, 336: 57
4. Kleijnen J, Knipschild P: The comprehensiveness of Medline and Embase computer searches. Searches for controlled trials of homoeopathy, ascorbic acid for common cold and ginkgo biloba for cerebral insufficiency and intermittent claudication. Pharm Weekbl Sci. 1992, 14: 316-320. 10.1007/BF01977620.
5. Vickers AJ: Bibliometric analysis of randomized trials in complementary medicine. Complement Ther Med. 1998, 6: 185-189. 10.1016/S0965-2299(98)80026-5.
6. Lefebvre C, Manheimer E, Glanville J: Chapter 6: Searching for studies. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. Edited by: Higgins JPT, Green S. 2011, The Cochrane Collaboration, Available from http://www.cochrane-handbook.org (accessed 14 January 2013)
7. Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public: Chapter 5: State of emerging evidence on CAM. Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States. 2005, Washington DC: The National Academies Press, Available from http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11182.html (accessed 14 January 2013)
8. US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: About CAM on PubMed. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health, Available from http://nccam.nih.gov/research/camonpubmed (accessed 14 January 2013)
9. US National Library of Medicine: Search strategy used to create the Complementary Medicine subset on PubMed. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health, Available from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets/comp_med_strategy.html (accessed 14 January 2013)
10. Wieland LS, Manheimer E, Berman BM: Development and classification of an operational definition of complementary and alternative medicine for the Cochrane collaboration. Altern Ther Health Med. 2011, 17: 50-59. *Both authors contributed equally to this work
11. World Health Organization: Traditional medicine, Fact Sheet No. 134. 2008, Geneva: World Health Organization, Available from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en/index.html (accessed 14 January 2013)
12. Cogo E, Sampson M, Ajiferuke I, Manheimer E, Campbell K, Daniel R, Moher D: Searching for controlled trials of complementary and alternative medicine: a comparison of 15 databases. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2011, 2011: 858246-Epub 2011 Jun 23
13. Kim KH, Kong JC, Choi JY, Choi TY, Shin BC, McDonald S, Lee MS: Impact of including Korean randomized controlled trials in Cochrane reviews of acupuncture. PLoS One. 2012, 7: e47619-10.1371/journal.pone.0047619.
14. Okabe T, Tsutani K: Evidence Reports of Kampo Treatment 2010:345 Randomized Controlled Trials (EKAT 2010). 2011, Task Force for Evidence Reports / Clinical Practice Guidelines (ER/CPG-TF), Special Committee for Evidence-based Medicine (EBM), The Japan Society for Oriental Medicine (JSOM), Available from http://www.jsom.or.jp/medical/ebm/ere/pdf.html (accessed 14 January 2013)
15. Barnabas J, Yamuna BGC, Parthasarathy V, Venkatesh S, Tharyan P: 17th International Cochrane Colloquium; 2009 Oct 11-14. Access to evidence from countries in South Asia: the South Asian Database of Controlled Clinical Trials and the South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre's Digital Library. Singapore, Abstract no. P06-8. Available at http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/OJS/cca/index.php?journal=cca&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=8010 (accessed 14 January 2013)
16. Pienaar E: 13th International Cochrane Colloquium; 2005 Oct 22-26. African Trials Register: 5 years later, where are we now. Melbourne, Abstract no. P021. Available at http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/OJS/cca/index.php?journal=cca&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=1232 (accessed 14 January 2013)
17. Siegfried N, Busgeeth K, Clarke M, Pienaar E, Volmink L: 14th International Cochrane Colloquium; 2006 October 23-26. African randomized controlled trials - too hard to find. Dublin, Abstract no. P017. Available at http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/OJS/cca/index.php?journal=cca&page=article&op=view&path&%5B%5D=1972 (accessed 14 January 2013)
18. Barnes PM, Bloom B, Nahin RL: Complementary and alternative medicine use among adults and children: United States. Natl Health Stat Report. 2008, 2007: 1-23.
19. Sampson M, McGowan J, Cogo E, Grimshaw J, Moher D, Lefebvre C: An evidence-based practice guideline for the peer review of electronic search strategies. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009, 62: 944-952. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.10.012.
20. The Cochrane Library: Independent high quality evidence for healthcare decision making. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Available from http://www.thecochranelibrary.com (accessed 14 January 2013)
21. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL): Issue 1, part of The Cochrane Library. 2012, http://www.thecochranelibrary.com ,
22. Clarke M, Clarke T: A project funded in part by a grant from The Cochrane Collaboration's Discretionary Fund. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and the contribution from the specialized registers of Cochrane Review Groups. 2008
23. Tang JL, Zhan SY, Ernst E: Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine. BMJ. 1999, 319: 160-161. 10.1136/bmj.319.7203.160.
24. Sampson M, Daniel R, Cogo E, Dingwall O: Sources of evidence to support systematic reviews in librarianship. J Med Libr Assoc. 2008, 96: 66-69. 10.3163/1536-5050.96.1.66.
25. Wu T, Li Y, Bian Z, Liu G, Moher D: Randomized trials published in some Chinese journals: how many are randomized?. Trials. 2009, 10: 46-10.1186/1745-6215-10-46.
26. Savovic J, Jones HE, Altman DG, Harris RJ, Juni P, Pildal J, Als-Nielsen B, Balk EM, Gluud C, Gluud LL: Influence of reported study design characteristics on intervention effect estimates from randomized, controlled trials. Ann Intern Med. 2012, 157: 429-438.
27. Vickers A, Goyal N, Harland R, Rees R: Do certain countries produce only positive results? A systematic review of controlled trials. Control Clin Trials. 1998, 19: 159-166. 10.1016/S0197-2456(97)00150-5.
28. Pham B, Klassen TP, Lawson ML, Moher D: Language of publication restrictions in systematic reviews gave different results depending on whether the intervention was conventional or complementary. J Clin Epidemiol. 2005, 58: 769-776. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.08.021.
29. MacPherson H, Altman DG: Improving the quality of reporting acupuncture interventions: describing the collaboration between STRICTA, CONSORT and the Chinese Cochrane Centre. J Evid Based Med. 2009, 2: 57-60. 10.1111/j.1756-5391.2009.01008.x.
30. Fei YT, Liu JP: Improving the quality of reporting Chinese herbal medicine trials: an elaborated checklist. J Chinese Integr Med (Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao). 2008, 6: 233-238. 10.3736/jcim20080302.
31. Wu T, Li Y, Liu G, Li J, Wang L, Du L: Chinese clinical trial registry: mission, responsibility and operation. J Evid Based Med. 2011, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-5391.2011.01137.x/pdf. [ Epub ahead of print]
32. Antes G, Dickersin K: Trial registration to prevent duplicate publication. JAMA. 2004, 291: 2432-
33. Errami M, Garner H: A tale of two citations. Nature. 2008, 451: 397-399. 10.1038/451397a.
34. Kitagawa M, Tsutani K: Duplicate publication cases in the field of Kampo (Japanese herbal medicine) in Japan. J Chinese Integr Med (Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao). 2011, 9: 1055-1060. 10.3736/jcim20111003.
35. Kim SY, Hahm CK, Bae CW, Cho HM: Duplicate publications in Korean medical journals indexed in Korea Med. J Korean Med Sci. 2008, 23: 131-133. 10.3346/jkms.2008.23.1.131.
36. Deeks JJ, Higgins JPT, Altman DG: Chapter 9: Analysing data and undertaking meta-analyses. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. Edited by: Higgins JPT, Green S. 2011, The Cochrane Collaboration, Available from http://www.cochrane-handbook.org (accessed 14 January 2013)