Abstract
BackgroundThere has been tremendous change on neuropathic pain research in the past 20 years in China and around the world. We analyzed the global trend of neuropathic pain research and compared China’s quantity and quality of neuropathic pain-related publications with other developed countries.MethodsUsing terms “neuropathic pain”, we retrieved related publications from the Web of Science (WOS) database and PubMed database. From different aspects, such as the number of papers, total citations, average citations per item, H-index, research types, orientation, institutions, journals and funding, global neuropathic pain publications were classified and analyzed.ResultsFrom 1998 to 2017, 21,733 articles regarding neuropathic pain research were published worldwide. Of these, 9.394% were contributed by authors from Chinese institutions, which followed USA and ranked second. However, the quality indicators of publications, including total citations, average citations per item and H-index, were relatively low in China. High contribution journals and the 10 most-cited articles on neuropathic pain in world and China were also listed, which also can reflect the quality of neuropathic pain. Based on National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), basic research was the main articles type, accounting for 32.91% of China’s neuropathic pain research.ConclusionGlobal neuropathic pain research increased rapidly during the 1998 to 2017 period. The USA was still the leader of neuropathic research. Although China had made great achievements, there was a significant gap in the high-quality studies between China and other leading countries.
Highlights
Neuropathic pain, a pain syndrome caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system, is a major public health concern and becoming the global burden [1–3]
To search for basic research, we identified the species as “other Animals.”
Neuropathic pain related articles in world and in China Based on search criteria, a total of 21,733 articles were published in world from 1998 to2017 in Web of Science (WOS) database
Summary
Neuropathic pain, a pain syndrome caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory system, is a major public health concern and becoming the global burden [1–3]. Bibliometrics is concerned with the analysis of research based on citation counts and patterns. This method can be used to evaluate the influence of an individual research output, such as a journal article, or a. Ye et al The Journal of Headache and Pain (2018) 19:110 collection of research outputs, such as all works by a particular author, research group or institution. We analyzed the global trend of neuropathic pain research and compared China’s quantity and quality of neuropathic pain-related publications with other developed countries
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