Bibliometric Analysis On Psychosomatic Medicine Related Literature Of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine which Introduced Psychosomatic Medicine Related Concepts is an emerging research area, it combines the classical theory of traditional Chinese medicine and psychosomatic medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine classical theory has certain characteristics in understanding the relationship between mind and body. Combining with Psychosomatic Medicine theory, the unique methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine make the new research vitality. For certain emerging research, there are no fixed reference in its scientific background of rise, academic areas, research features, the basic characteristics of the study population, etc. meanwhile, its historical development, the initial characteristics of subjects, generation and formation, knowledge of architecture need to be explored from multi-angle, in order to form a more clear understanding.Some physical diseases are believed to have a mental component derived from the stresses and strains of everyday living. This is the case, for example, of lower back pain and high blood pressure, which appear to be partly related to stresses in everyday life.Psychiatry has found it difficult until relatively recently to distinguish somatoform disorders, disorders in which mental factors are the sole cause of a physical illness, from psychosomatic disorders, disorders in which mental factors play a significant role in the development, expression, or resolution of a physical illness. Addressing such factors is the remit of the applied field of behavioral medicine, In modern society, psychosomatic aspects of illness are often attributed to stress making the remediation of stress one important factor in the development, treatment, and prevention of psychosomatic illness. The concept of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is rapidly being replaced with the idea of integrative medicine. Combinations of therapies, often from diverse disciplines-some Complementary and Alternative Medicine, some Western-are being integrated into the mainstream of Western medicine. Modalities that complement and enhance acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine approaches to healing include clinical hypnosis, energy psychology (as part of the general field of energy medicine), and Qigong. By utilizing these modalities, treatments are often more effective and faster than any single modality used alone. For example, depending on presenting history and findings on examination, a practitioner might consider an energy psychology technique followed by simultaneous acupuncture and clinical hypnosis.Integrative medicine is becoming increasingly accepted in the global scheme of health care. Traditional Chinese Medicine is often included among integrative medicine modalities.This study integrated takes Literature of Traditional Chinese Medicine which Introduced Psychosomatic Medicine Related Concepts as data samples, and Bibliometrics, statistics and knowledge of metrology as methods, from various angles, such as static and dynamic literature, makes detailed analysis and research of literature growth, periodicals distribution, author distribution, knowledge changes, etc. to explore the subject development context, understand the research architecture, and discover emerging research content of this area, providing quantitative and objective reference to researchers in this field.The research takes PubMed as the main source of foreign literature (SCIE as a supplement), CNKI as Chinese literature source, and collects relevant literature of this topic up to 2013 in these databases. The result of PubMed is 290, and CNKI is 6074.The study of literature growth shows that both domestic and foreign literature grow exponentially, complying with the law of general research growth, and in a period of rapid development.Taking Bradford Regional Analysis to study the periodicals distribution of Traditional Chinese Medicine which Introduced Psychosomatic Medicine Related Concepts, the results shows that both domestic and foreign literature are in line with Bradford distribution law, the numbers of journal in different partitions present geometric relationships between adjacent partitions. This exhibits certain centralization and decentralization trends.Research of Authors and the partnership between authors shows concentration tendency among foreign authors, in contrast, discrete tendency among domestic authors. The difference points out the different research emphases between the two types of researchers. In addition, the study of research institutions and regional cooperation shows that Chinese involvement of international cooperation in this area is less than other countries.The knowledge bibliometric analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine which Introduced Psychosomatic Medicine Related Concepts shows that the basic knowledge abroad in this field is Modern psychosomatic medicine, taking introduction of complementary and alternative therapies in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a research starting point, which acupuncture therapy is a long-term focus. In contrast, the basic knowledge in domestic is Traditional Chinese Medicine, taking theoretically contact between modern Psychosomatic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine as a research starting point, the research range is wide, which particular focus on academic integration.The differences between domestic and abroad in aspects of quantity, distribution, historical development are related of the specifically and historical differences in basic knowledge, the starting point, the depth and breadth.Although there are many limitations, from the perspective of Bibliometric to describe a research’s occurrence, development, concentration and dispersion trends of knowledge, changes of concerns, literature growth, distribution, etc. and the research can give us a lot of objective and reasonable reference information.