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. 2016 Feb 13:15:1.
doi: 10.1186/s40200-016-0221-2. eCollection 2015.

Trends in publication on evidence-based antioxidative herbal medicines in management of diabetic nephropathy

Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy  1   2 , Rasha Atlasi  3 , Bagher Larijani #  2 , Mohammad Abdollahi #  2   4
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Trends in publication on evidence-based antioxidative herbal medicines in management of diabetic nephropathy

Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy et al. J Diabetes Metab Disord. .

Abstract

Background: Recently, popularity and use of herbal medicine in treatment of diabetes have been increased. Since, oxidative stress is known as the main underlying pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications, the purpose of this bibliometric study is to assess the global scientific production analysis and developing its trend in field of antioxidative hypoglycemic herbal medicines and diabetic nephropathy focusing on the scientific publication numbers, citations, geographical distribution in the world and determining the main journal (source) in the field.

Methods: Our search terms were "diabetes", "renal", "nephropathy", "herb", "Chinese medicine", "traditional medicine", and "antioxidant" from Scopus database until January 2015 and analysis of the distribution of words in the publication year, main journal (source) in the field, geographical distribution, documents' type and language, subject area, and h-index of citations were crried out. The Scopus analysis tools and VOSviewer software version 1.6.3 have been used for analysis.

Results: Within 1166 papers were published until year 2015, 78 studies were related to this topic in human. Increasing trend in number of related researches was shown. Fifty eight percent of the published papers were original articles, and the highest number was produced in 2013 with 21 documents. Top subject areas were medicine with global publication share of 71.8 %, and pharmacology was ranked the second (39.7 %). Iran was the first country with global publication. The total citation of the documents were 2518 times and h-index was 24. The highest cited paper was a review article with 336 citation number, and top source was "Journal of Medicinal Plants". Both of top authors and affiliation were from Iran; "Tehran University of Medical Sciences". Also, top author in the co-authorship mapping and clustering assessment was from Iran.

Conclusions: Although, we found an ascending trend of scientific publications in field of antioxidative herbal medicine and diabetic nephropathy with a good position for Iran, the number of publications is insufficient and more researches in this topic is necessary.

Keywords: Antioxidative; Diabetic nephropathy; Herbal medicine; Scientometric analysis.

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Time-trend distribution of document types in antioxidative herbal medicine and diabetic nephropathy
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Chart of citation of published documents in our study
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H-graph of published documents in the studied field
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Map of co-authorship network of the authors published scientific papers in the studied field
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Density view of co-authorship network of the authors published scientific papers in the studied field
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