Hotspots and Trends in Research on Treating Pain with Electroacupuncture: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis from 1994 to 2022
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Hotspots and Trends in Research on Treating Pain with Electroacupuncture: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis from 1994 to 2022
Abstract
Purpose: Electroacupuncture is widely used to pain management. A bibliometric analysis was conducted to identify the hotspots and trends in research on electroacupuncture for pain.
Methods: We retrieved studies published from 1994-2022 on the topic of pain relief by electroacupuncture from the Web of Science Core Collection database. We comprehensively analysed the data with VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and bibliometrix. Seven aspects of the data were analysed separately: annual publication outputs, countries, institutions, authors, journals, keywords and references.
Results: A total of 2030 papers were analysed, and the number of worldwide publications continuously increased over the period of interest. The most productive country and institution in this field were China and KyungHee University. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine was the most productive journal, and Pain was the most co-cited journal. Han Jisheng, Fang Jianqiao, and Lao Lixing were the most representative authors. Based on keywords and references, three active areas of research on EA for pain were mechanisms, randomized controlled trials, and perioperative applications. Three emerging trends were functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), systematic reviews, and knee osteoarthritis.
Conclusion: This study comprehensively analysed the research published over the past 28 years on electroacupuncture for pain treatment, using bibliometrics and science mapping analysis. This work presents the current status and landscape of the field and may serve as a valuable resource for researchers. Chronic pain, fMRI-based mechanistic research, and the perioperative application of electroacupuncture are among the likely foci of future research in this area.
Keywords: CiteSpace; VOSviewer; bibliometrics; blibliometrix; electroacupuncture; pain.
© 2023 Hu et al.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare no conflicts of interest in this study.
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