Research hotspots and trends of acupoint and pain based on PubMed: a bibliometric analysis.

Front Neurol · 2024 · PMC11783567 · PMID 39895908

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

The average annual citation frequency (average citations from all literature per year divided by the time span of year) has shown a decreasing trend after 2017, which may be related to the increase in the total number of publications. 3.2.

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