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Traditional herbal medicine: overview of research indexed in the scopus database

Authors

  • Hassan Musa Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
  • Taha Musa Biomedical Research Institute, Darfur University College, Nyala, Sudan
  • Olayinka Oderinde Department of Chemical Sciences (Chemistry Unit), Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Idris Musa School of Medicine, Darfur University College, Nyala, Sudan
  • Omonike Shonekan Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Tosin Akintunde Department of Sociology, School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
  • Abimbola Onasanya Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Jericho, PMB 5054 Ibadan Nigeria

Keywords:

Traditional herbal medicine, Bibliometric analysis, Scopus, Research productivity

Abstract

Traditional herbal medicine has been playing an essential role in primary health care globally. The aim of this work is to present an overview of traditional herbal medicine research productivity over the past years. The data was accessed from the Scopus database (www.scopus.com), while VOSviewer.Var1.6.6, Bibliometrix, and R studio were used for further analysis of the obtained data. The results showed that researches on traditional herbal medicine increased annually after 1990, followed by a corresponding increase in global citations during the period, with a total of 22,071 authors contributing to all the publications. Yiling Wang of Shanghai Institute of Drug Control, Shanghai, China was the most productive author (TNP = 303), while Journal of “Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine”, and “Journal of Ethnopharmacology” were the top ranked journals, respectively. Also, China, Japan, and India were found to be the top Corresponding Author's Countries for researches on traditional herbal medicine, as Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and China Medical University were top affiliations. Moreover, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, and Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan were top funding agencies, with more than 100 documents. The bibliometric research study has revealed an annual increasing trend in traditional herbal medicine, while also revealing that the topmost ranked authors and funding agencies were from Asia especially China. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13596-022-00670-2. Keywords: Traditional herbal medicine, Bibliometric analysis, Scopus, Research productivity

Author Biographies

Hassan Musa, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Biomedical Research Institute, Darfur University College, Nyala, Sudan

Taha Musa, Biomedical Research Institute, Darfur University College, Nyala, Sudan

Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine Engineering, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009 China

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