Journal of Pain Research (Nov 2020)
Letter to the Editor Regarding “Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Knee Osteoarthritis from 2010 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis” [Letter]
Abstract
Chengzhun Luo,* Tianyuan Jia,* Changqing Zhu Department of Emergency Medicine, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Changqing ZhuDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 155 Pujian Road, Shanghai 200127, People’s Republic of ChinaTel/Fax +86 21-68383089Email [email protected] Recently, Li et al1 released a paper in the Journal of Pain Research, entitled “Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Knee Osteoarthritis from 2010 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis.” Many of the related results mentioned in the original paper1 are inaccurate due to improper methods being used. Li et al1 stated in methods that “All data in this study were obtained from the Web of Science on 1 March 2020. The data search strategy included the topic ‘knee osteoarthritis’ and ‘acupuncture therapy’, with the publications period of the literature ranging from 2010 to 2019. In addition, the countries, categories and language of publications were not been restricted. View the original paper by Li and colleagues
