Publication trends in acupuncture research: A 20-year bibliometric analysis based on pubMed

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Ma, Yan ^a,b   Dong, Ming ^c   Zhou, Kehua ^d   Mita, Carol ^b   Liu, Jianping ^e   Wayne, Peter M ^b,f  

^a AIR FORCE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d DAEMEN COLLEGE   (United States)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICINE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAZIL; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIZZINESS; DYSPEPSIA; EDEMA; FATIGUE; GERMANY; HERPES ZOSTER; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IRRITABLE COLON; ITALY; JAPAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LABOR PAIN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MENOPAUSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOOD DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; SOUTH KOREA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TINNITUS; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO; ANIMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; TRENDS;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATIONS; PUBMED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85005980988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168123     Document Type: Article

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