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Introduction The aim of this study was to analyze the 100 top-cited articles about Kienböck's disease and their features. Materials and Methods A search through the Elsevier, Scopus database journal articles about Kienböck's disease yielded 1,025 results. The 100 top-cited articles were identified and filtered again to exclude self-citations. The 100 top-cited articles without self-citations were analyzed for the number of citation, citation density, publishing journal, language, authorship, and geographic origin. The abstracts of the articles were obtained to review and determine the types of articles and levels of evidence. Results The mean of the 100 top-cited articles' absolute number of citations was 63.3 ± 34 (range: 23-199). Citation densities ranged from 1 to 8. A total of 97 (97%) articles were written in English. The leading countries were the United States with 50 (50%) articles followed by Japan with 16 (16%) articles. Forty (40%) articles have been published in the Journal of Hand Surgery American volume. Among the 100 top-cited articles, nine articles were devoted to basic science and 91 articles have dealt with clinical science. There were three articles with level II, 24 articles with level III, 46 articles with level IV, and 18 articles with level V of evidences. Conclusion The current study presents an insight to the classic articles about Kienböck's disease. The 100 top-cited articles have established a foundation that the science on Kienböck's disease has been elaborated. The current study is likely helpful for educational purposes and further research about Kienböck's disease. Level of Evidence Economic and decision analysis/Level IV.
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This study aimed to provide researchers with a better understanding of the research status, progress and problems of Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury. The mapping knowledge domain(MKD) was chosen to visualize the research process, hotspots,and frontiers, thus providing a reference for follow-up research. The relevant articles were retrieved from China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI) from its inception to November 20, 2020, and 683 were finally included for visualization, with a knowledge map covering the keywords, research institutions and authors plotted by Cite Space. Since 2006, the annual number of published articles regarding Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury has steadily declined. The top five keywords sorted by frequency of co-occurrence were tubulointerstitial nephritis(TIN), aristolochic acid(AA), Akebiae Caulis, experimental research, and descriptive research. Akebiae Caulis appeared at the highest frequency of co-occurrence among Chinese medicines and exhibited the highest burst intensity. The burst ended in 2020, when the Chinese medicine with the highest burst intensity changed to Tripterygii wilfordii and its preparations. It could be seen that Akebiae Caulis was the hotspot in the research of Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury, and T. wilfordii became the research frontier. The current research has mainly focused on " organic anion transporters" and " metabolomics". The decline in articles about Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury was attributed to the reduced clinical case reports after the in-depth study of Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury. However, more clinical studies need to be conducted based on the concept and method of pharmacovigilance to construct a pharmacovigilance system of Chinese medicine for actively and passively monitoring and collecting the clinical cases with Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury, figuring out the incidence and characteristics of adverse reactions caused by Chinese medicine, and carrying out comprehensive and multi-dimensional safety research.
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional , Publications , China , Kidney , Research DesignABSTRACT
This study aimed to provide researchers with a better understanding of the research status, progress and problems of Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury. The mapping knowledge domain(MKD) was chosen to visualize the research process, hotspots,and frontiers, thus providing a reference for follow-up research. The relevant articles were retrieved from China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI) from its inception to November 20, 2020, and 683 were finally included for visualization, with a knowledge map covering the keywords, research institutions and authors plotted by Cite Space. Since 2006, the annual number of published articles regarding Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury has steadily declined. The top five keywords sorted by frequency of co-occurrence were tubulointerstitial nephritis(TIN), aristolochic acid(AA), Akebiae Caulis, experimental research, and descriptive research. Akebiae Caulis appeared at the highest frequency of co-occurrence among Chinese medicines and exhibited the highest burst intensity. The burst ended in 2020, when the Chinese medicine with the highest burst intensity changed to Tripterygii wilfordii and its preparations. It could be seen that Akebiae Caulis was the hotspot in the research of Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury, and T. wilfordii became the research frontier. The current research has mainly focused on " organic anion transporters" and " metabolomics". The decline in articles about Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury was attributed to the reduced clinical case reports after the in-depth study of Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury. However, more clinical studies need to be conducted based on the concept and method of pharmacovigilance to construct a pharmacovigilance system of Chinese medicine for actively and passively monitoring and collecting the clinical cases with Chinese medicine-induced kidney injury, figuring out the incidence and characteristics of adverse reactions caused by Chinese medicine, and carrying out comprehensive and multi-dimensional safety research.
