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Fan Yang,1 Yongqiang Cui,1 Yuejuan Zhao,2 Hongguan Jiao3 1International Cooperation Department, Guang‘anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2GCP Center, Guang ‘anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3School of Information Engineering, International Exchange and Cooperation Office, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Fan Yang, International Cooperation Department, Guang ‘anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-1 381 096 1871, Fax +86-10-88001262, Email michelleone@163.comPurpose: This study aimed to apply the bibliometric analysis to summarize acupuncture therapy for stroke, demonstrated and evaluated the trends, major research hotspots and frontier areas.Materials and Methods: Articles on acupuncture for stroke were selected from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) from the inception of the database up until 2023. CiteSpace software was performed to conduct the collaborative analysis of networks of countries, institutions, authors and cited authors, journals and cited journals, cited references, keywords clustering and burstiness analysis.Results: A total of 1141 articles were retrieved. China was the most productive country (851) and had the greatest centrality (0.43). Beijing Univ Chinese Med (86) contributed to the most publications. Chen LD (31) and Tao J (31) were the most prolific authors, of which all from Fujian Univ Tradit Chinese Med. Wu P (124) from Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Canada, was the most cited author. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (89) was the most productive journal, while Stroke (744) was first cited journals. Stimulation, recovery, ischemic stroke, electroacupuncture, rehabilitation were the most high-frequency keywords. Future research in th

Hongguan Jiao,1 Ran Ding,2 Pukai Jin,3 Junwen Wang,4 Jun Xu,5 Weiyi Tian6 1School of Information Engineering, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Health Preservation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Radiology, Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, Alexandria, VA, USA; 4Institute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 5Information Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 6School of Basic Medicine, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Hongguan Jiao, School of Information Engineering, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-18886094606, Fax +86-851-88233048, Email joe7741@163.comIntroduction: With the wide acceptance of acupuncture, many papers and guidelines recommend that acupuncture is effective for chronic pain (CP). In this study, we applied bibliometric methods to analyze the current research situation of acupuncture intervention in CP, to gain insight into the current situation and future development trend of this field.Material and Methods: Science Citation Index Expanded was searched for publications related to acupuncture for CP between 1900 and 2022. VOSviewer, CiteSpace and Thomson Data Analyzer were used to analyze the annual publication, authors and cited authors and their countries (regions) and institutions, journals and cited journals, cited references, co-occurrence keywords, burst keywords, and the relevant centrality.Results: A total of 1968 papers were retrieved, the annual publications have shown a rapid growth trend in the recent 20 years. Th