RESEARCH ARTICLE Publication Trends in Acupuncture Research: A 20-Year Bibliometric Analysis Based on PubMed Yan Ma1,2*, Ming Dong3, Kehua Zhou4, Carol Mita5, Jianping Liu6, Peter M. Wayne7 1 Sleep Center, Air Force General Hospital, PLA, Beijing, China, 2 Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, 3 IBM, Software Development Lab, Littleton, MA, United States of America, 4 Department of Health Care Studies & Daemen College Physical Therapy Wound Care Clinic Daemen College, Amherst, NY, United States of America, 5 Reference & Education Services, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, 6 Center for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, 7 Division of Preventive Medicine, Osher Center for a11111 Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America *
[email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Ma Y, Dong M, Zhou K, Mita C, Liu J, Wayne PM (2016) Publication Trends in Objective Acupuncture Research: A 20-Year Bibliometric Acupuncture has become popular and widely practiced in many countries around the world. Analysis Based on PubMed. PLoS ONE 11(12): Despite the large amount of acupuncture-related literature that has been published, broader e0168123. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0168123 trends in the prevalence and scope of acupuncture research remain underexplored. The Editor: Christopher J. Lortie, York University, current study quantitatively analyzes trends in acupuncture research publications in the past CANADA 20 years.