The visual analysis of treating glaucomatous optic neuropathy in TCM in the past 20 years based on CiteSpace and VOSviewer
Objective:To collect and sort out the relevant literature of TCM in the treatment of glaucomatous optic neuropathy(GON)in the past 20 years,and understand the research hotspots and development trends of TCM in treating GON,so as to provide ideas for the future diagnosis and treatment of GON in the integrated medicine.Methods:The three major databases of CNKI,Wanfang and VIP were searched to include relevant literature from January 2001 to October 2022 on the treatment of GON in TCM.Based on bibliometric methods,VOSviewer,CiteSpace and NoteExpress were used to organize and visualize the data,and construct visual maps for analysis with the authors,institutions and keywords as the starting point,respectively.Results:A total of 931 articles were included.Conclusion:The annual number of articles generally showed an increasing trend.In the field of glaucoma optic neuropathy TCM treatment,research groups represented by PENG Qinghua,LI Xiang,PENG Jun,SUN He,ZHANG Yinjian hove been formed.The cooperation between regional institutions is not close,and there is no obvious cooperative relationship,that is to say,the cooperation between various institutions in the field of GON TCM treatment is not close.The top five keywords in frequency are glaucoma,acupuncture,optic nerve protection,optic nerve atrophy,and primary open-angle type.The modularity value Q = 0.6539(>0.3),and the mean silhouette S= 0.9051(>0.7),suggesting that clustering is more reliable.