Curcumin: Total-Scale Analysis of the Scientific Literature
Andy Wai Kan Yeung,
Michal Horbańczuk,
Nikolay T. Tzvetkov,
Andrei Mocan,
Simone Carradori,
Filippo Maggi,
Joanna Marchewka,
Stefania Sut,
Stefano Dall’Acqua,
Ren-You Gan,
Lyubka P. Tancheva,
Timea Polgar,
Ioana Berindan-Neagoe,
Vasil Pirgozliev,
Karel Šmejkal,
Atanas G. Atanasov
Affiliations
Andy Wai Kan Yeung
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Michal Horbańczuk
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Nikolay T. Tzvetkov
Institute of Molecular Biology “Roumen Tsanev”, Department of Biochemical Pharmacology and Drug Design, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Andrei Mocan
Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 23 Ghe. Marinescu Street, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Simone Carradori
Department of Pharmacy, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31,66100 Chieti, Italy
Filippo Maggi
School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Joanna Marchewka
The Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzębiec, 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
Stefania Sut
Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), Agripolis Campus, University of Padova, 35020 Padova, Italy
Stefano Dall’Acqua
Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences University of Padova, 35020 Padova, Italy
Ren-You Gan
Department of Food Science & Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Lyubka P. Tancheva
Department of Behavioral Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Timea Polgar
GLOBE Program Association (GLOBE-PA), Grandville, MI, USA
Ioana Berindan-Neagoe
MEDFUTURE - Research Center for Advanced Medicine, 400037 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Vasil Pirgozliev
The National Institute of Poultry Husbandry, Harper Adams University, Shropshire TF10 8NB, UK
Karel Šmejkal
Department of Natural Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Palackého tř. 1946/1, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic
Atanas G. Atanasov
The Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzębiec, 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland
The current study aimed to provide a comprehensive bibliometric overview of the literature on curcumin, complementing the previous reviews and meta-analyses on its potential health benefits. Bibliometric data for the current analysis were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection database, using the search string TOPIC=(“curcumin*„), and analyzed by the VOSviewer software. The search yielded 18,036 manuscripts. The ratio of original articles to reviews was 10.4:1. More than half of the papers have been published since 2014. The major contributing countries were the United States, China, India, Japan, and South Korea. These publications were mainly published in journals representing the following scientific disciplines: biochemistry, chemistry, oncology, and pharmacology. There was a significant positive correlation between the total publication count and averaged citations per manuscript for affiliations, but not for countries/regions and journals. Chemicals that were frequently mentioned in the keywords of evaluated curcumin publications included curcuminoids, resveratrol, chitosan, flavonoids, quercetin, and polyphenols. The literature mainly focused on curcumin’s effects against cancer, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Cancer types most frequently investigated were breast, colon, colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancers.
