This study tracks and explores the research trends and hotspots of science and technology ethics research of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)in the last decade.Relevant publications in the last decade were retrieved from China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),and CiteSpace 6.1.R6 software was used to generate knowledge maps and conduct analyses of authors,institutions,and keywords from the included 238 articles.Results show from January 1,2013 to January 1,2023,the number of publications in this discipline indicated a fluctuating growth."Ethical review","Chinese Medicine","clinical trials","Traditional Chinese Medicine",and"ethics"were the five keywords with the highest occurrence.Ethical review of TCM research,ethical issues faced by the modernization of TCM,recent development of TCM theory in ethics,and research on traditional Chinese medical ethics are the focuses of this field.Studies related to the principle of"the virtual of great physician"may become the future research direction.
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