ReviewJournal of pain research2021
A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy in the Treatment of Migraine from 2000 to 2020.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mapping the Knowledge Landscape of Acupuncture for Primary Headaches: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2005 to 2025.Pain research & management · 2026Review
- Acupuncture for neurodegenerative diseases: mechanisms, efficacy, and future research directions.American journal of translational research · 2025Review
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Acupuncture Treatment of Postoperative Complications from 2003 to 2023.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- Modulation of temporal and occipital cortex by acupuncture in non-menstrual MWoA patients: a rest BOLD fMRI study.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Article
- The evolving landscape and research trend of calcitonin gene-related peptide in migraine: A bibliometric analysis and visualization.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Migraine-Stroke Association from 2013 to 2023.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Bibliometric and Visual Analysis in the Field of Dry Needling for Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022.Journal of pain research · 2023Review
- Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Global trends in research on cervicogenic headache: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Acupuncture Treatment of Tension-Type Headache from 2003 to 2022.Journal of pain research · 2023Review
- Research Status and Prospects of Acupuncture in Perioperative Medicine Over the Past Decade: A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2023Review
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Acupuncture Therapy in the Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea from 2001 to 2021.Journal of pain research · 2022Review
- The application of acupuncture in cardiopathy: A bibliometric analysis based on Web of Science across ten recent years.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Alternative medicines worth researching? Citation analyses of acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, and osteopathy 1996-2017.Scientometrics · 2021Article
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundMigraine is the second-leading cause of disability worldwide. It is often characterized by attacks of severe, mostly unilateral, pulsating headache associated with symptoms such as photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, vomiting, and cutaneous allodynia. Acupuncture therapy has been used worldwide for the treatment of migraine. However, no visual bibliometric analysis has been conducted on the effects of acupuncture on migraine over the past 20 years. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the current status and trends on the use of acupuncture in the treatment of migraine from 2000 to 2020. PURPOSE: The objective of this study is to identify the current status and emerging trends of the global use of acupuncture on migraine from 2000 to 2020 using CiteSpace and VOSviewer.
methodsWeb of Science databases were searched for publications related to acupuncture therapy for treating migraine between 2000 and 2020. CiteSpace and VOSviewer were used to analyze the number of publications per year, countries, institutions, authors, journals, references, and keywords.
resultsA total of 572 publications were included in the final analysis. The total number of publications has continued to increase with some fluctuations over the past 20 years. The most productive country and institution in this field were the USA, and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, respectively. The most active and cited authors were Liang FR and Linde K, respectively.
conclusionThe present study examined the research-related trend in acupuncture therapy on migraine using bibliometric methods and identified the statement and research frontiers over the past two decades. This may help researchers to identify potential hotspots and new directions for future research in this field.
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