Visualization analysis on research hotspots in interdisciplinary field of Chinese medicine / 中草药

ABSTRACT

This paper applies information visualization method to reveal the research hotspots in interdisciplinary field of Chinese medicine. Take 248 core journals of medicine and health class which were indexed in General Contents of Chinese Core Journal (2011ed) to construct CMSCI database, and then base on Chinese Library Classification (4ed) to extract 81 626 keywords from 13 259 papers whose research hotspots focus on Chinese medicine interdisciplinary field during 2004-2012. It then adopts high-frequency words analysis, visualization analysis, and co-word analysis methods to explore the research hotspots in interdisciplinary field of Chinese medicine. The paper reveals that four directions remain to be hotspots with good continuity quality identification and chemical composition of Chinese materia medica (CMM); antitumor by CMM and its active ingredient study; animal model and its application; and therapy of diabetes mellitus by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are hotspots in interdisciplinary field of Chinese medicine during 2004-2012. The paper also recognizes the importance of three experimental methods, such as HPLC, therapy of TCM. and the methods with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapy. The research in interdisciplinary field of Chinese medicine mainly focuses on the interdisciplinary between Chinese medicine and pharmacy, which is the main behavior of the scholars cross the field.