Zhongguo quanke yixue (Jun 2024)
Bibliometric Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine Services in Community Health Service Institutions
Abstract
Background Community health service institutions play an important role in the protection of people's health, the application of community traditional Chinese medicine services can significantly improve the quality of life for the patients, and alleviate the problems of the accessibility and affordability for the health care. The bliometric analysis on traditional Chinese medicine services in community health service institutions can provide a basis and direction for further improving the capacity of community traditional Chinese medicine services. Objective To explore the development process, research hotspots and frontiers of traditional Chinese medicine services provided by community health service institutions in China based on the bibliometric analysis and scientific knowledge mapping analysis. Methods On January 1, 2023, CNKI, Wanfang Data and VIP were searched for relevant literature from inception to 2022-12-31. Excel software was used for the statistical analysis of annual publication volume, source journals and source institutions, CiteSpace 6.1.R6 software was used for the research collaborative network of institutions, clustering analysis and burst analysis of keywords. Frequency analysis and co-occurrence network analysis of authors and keywords were carried out with VOSviewer software. Results A total of 920 papers were included, as for their sources, 270 journals and 38 universities were involved, represented by Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (80 articles), Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (14 articles) with the highest number of articles. A total of 449 research institutions were involved, and the institution with the highest number of articles was Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (23 articles). SHI Yongxing (27 articles) and BAO Yong (18 articles) were the top 2 authors. Twelve clusters could be formed by the co-occurrence analysis of authors, and there was close collaboration among authors within the same cluster, but a wide collaborative network had not been formed yet. A total of 1 252 keywords were involved in this study, forming 13 clusters labeled with "Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Community", etc. Researches on "constitution of traditional Chinese medicine" and "diabetes mellitus" are expected to become frontiers in this field. Conclusion Traditional Chinese medicine services in community health service institutions in China is in a period of stable development, however, there are still deficiencies in the richness of research methods, formation of collaborative networks with greater influence and scale. It is necessary to strengthen cooperation among community health service institutions, as well as the cooperation between universities and community health service institutions, by combining multidisciplinary research methods.
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