Research Overview and Development Trend Analysis of Acupuncture Treatment of Vascular Dementia Based on Bibliometrics / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Objective To summarize the progress of domestic researches on acupuncture treatment for vascular dementia(VaD)with visual analysis method.Methods The literatures related to acupuncture for VaD in Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)were searched,and the co-occurrence mapping of authors,research institutions and keywords of related literatures were generated and analyzed using CiteSpace software.Results A total of 1296 relevant literatures were retrieved,1289 of which met the inclusion criteria,and the annual number of articles were increasing in recent years.A total of 778 authors were included,72 of whom published more than 5 articles,three major cooperation teams were formed which led by Lai Xinsheng,Cheng Hongliang and Liu Cunzhi.350 institutions were included,among which 23 institutions published more than 10 papers.The main research institutions included Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine,Anhui University of Chinese Medicine,First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,etc.A total of 510 keywords were included,among which 41 keywords appeared more than 10 times.Seven natural clusters were formed mainly including"dementia""cognitive impairment""electroacupuncture""SanYinJiao""acupuncture""acupuncture and moxibustion""total effective rate""calcium channel blocker".Conclusion Research on acupuncture treatment of VaD has always been an important position in the field of traditional Chinese medicine research.However,the research lacks systematization and needs to strengthen multidisciplinary cross-collaboration among multiple institutions.Acupuncture of VaD focuses on animal experiments and small clinical studies.In the future,multicenter,large-sample,high-quality clinical studies should be developed,and mechanisms should be investigated based on the determination of efficacy.