ReviewCureus2024
Exploring the Research Landscape of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Stroke: A Bibliometric Review.
Review in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Emerging trends and research hotspots of non-invasive brain stimulation for stroke: a bibliometric and visualization study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as an Adjunct to Physiotherapy in Lacunar Stroke.Cureus · 2026Article
- Optimizing tDCS parameters for post-stroke upper limb recovery: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.International journal of surgery protocols · 2025Article
- Dual-target tDCS and dual-task training modulate neuroinflammation and neuroplasticity: transcriptomic and behavioral evidence in stroke rehabilitation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has gained significant attention as a potential therapeutic tool in stroke rehabilitation, promoting neuroplasticity and enhancing motor and cognitive recovery. Despite growing research, the field's evolution and key trends remain underexplored. This study aims to perform a bibliographic analysis of publications related to tDCS and stroke rehabilitation to assess the growth of the field. Published literature was searched in PubMed and Web of Science (WOS) on 10 December 2024. We used the keywords "transcranial direct current stimulation" and "stroke" to collect studies without any time limitation. Articles found in WOS were used to get trends, and a search from PubMed was used to analyze co-occurrences in VOSviewer, version 1.6.20 (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands). A total of 1,598 articles were found in WOS, and 1,300 were found in PubMed. As there was overlapping of subject categories, countries, and affiliations, the total number differed in calculating the percentages. The analysis revealed significant growth in publications on tDCS and stroke rehabilitation, peaking at 137 publications in 2022. Most studies focus on neuroscience (860, or 30.6%), clinical neurology (562, or 20%), and rehabilitation (244, or 8.68%). The United States leads contributions (519, or 22.4%), followed by Germany (249, or 10.7%) and China (179, or 7.7%). Publications are concentrated among major publishers like Elsevier (358, or 22.4%) and key journals such as
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